Donald Sutherland
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Donald Sutherland (born July 17, 1935) is a Canadian actor. He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and was raised in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.
Sutherland got his start at age 14 at CBC Radio in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He studied in Toronto at Victoria College where he was expelled from residence for throwing a sink out the window. He then went to London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), then he started gaining some popularity as an actor in horror films and thrillers.
Sutherland's great success arrived with The Dirty Dozen and Robert Altman's M*A*S*H. With Jane Fonda, Sutherland co-produced F.T.A., a movie containing quite explicit messages against the Vietnam War. In the 1970s he found himself in demand as a leading man in films like Klute and The Eagle Has Landed, and gained some of the best notices of his career for his role in Ordinary People in 1980. He also played Norman Bethune (Canadian physician and humanitarian and a hero in China) in two separate biographical films more than ten years apart.
He was formerly married to Shirley Douglas, an actress and the daughter of Canadian democratic socialist statesman Tommy Douglas. Kiefer Sutherland, their son, is a director and prominent actor himself.
Filmography
- Castle of the Living Dead (1964)
- Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
- Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
- The Bedford Incident (1965)
- Promise Her Anything (1966)
- The Dirty Dozen (1967)
- The Sunshine Patriot (1968)
- The Split (1968)
- Interlude (1968)
- Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
- M*A*S*H (1970)
- Kelly's Heroes (1970)
- Alex in Wonderland (1970)
- Act of the Heart (1970)
- Little Murders (1971)
- Klute (1971)
- Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
- F.T.A. (1972)
- Steelyard Blues (1973)
- Lady Ice (1973)
- Don't Look Now (1973)
- Alien Thunder (1973)
- S*P*Y*S (1974)
- The Day of the Locust (1975)
- End of the Game (1976)
- The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
- Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976)
- 1900 (1976)
- Blood Relatives (1977)
- The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
- The Disappearance (1977)
- Bethune (1977)
- National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- Murder by Decree (1979)
- A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979)
- The Great Train Robbery (1979)
- Bear Island (1979)
- Ordinary People (1980)
- Nothing Personal (1980)
- Threshold (1981)
- Gas (1981)
- Eye of the Needle (1981)
- The Winter of Our Discontent (1983)
- Max Dugan Returns (1983)
- Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
- Crackers (1984)
- Revolution (1985)
- Heaven Help Us (1985)
- The Wolf at the Door (1986)
- The Trouble with Spies (1987)
- The Rosary Murders (1987)
- Apprentice to Murder (1988)
- Lost Angels (1989)
- Lock Up (1989)
- A Dry White Season (1989)
- Buster's Bedroom (1990)
- Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)
- Scream of Stone (1991)
- Long Road Home (1991)
- JFK (1991)
- Eminent Domain (1991)
- Backdraft (1991)
- The Railway Station Man (1992)
- Quicksand: No Escape (1992)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
- Younger and Younger (1993)
- Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
- Shadow of the Wolf (1993)
- Benefit of the Doubt (1993)
- The Puppet Masters (1994)
- Punch (1994)
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)
- The Lifeforce Experiment (1994)
- Disclosure (1994)
- Outbreak (1995)
- Hollow Point (1995)
- Citizen X (1995)
- A Time to Kill (1996)
- The Assignment (1997)
- Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
- Free Money (1998)
- Fallen (1998)
- Without Limits (1998)
- Behind the Mask (1999)
- Virus (1999)
- Instinct (1999)
- The Hunley (1999)
- Toscano (1999)
- The Setting Sun (1999)
- Panic (2000)
- Space Cowboys (2000)
- The Art of War (2000)
- Threads of Hope (voice) (2000)
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (voice) (2001)
- Uprising (TV) (2001)
- Da wan (2001)
- Queen Victoria's Empire (TV) (voice) (2001)
- Path to War (tv) (2002)
- The Italian Job (2003)
- Piazza delle cinque lune (2003)
- Baltic Storm (2003)
- Cold Mountain (2003)
- Salem's Lot (TV) (2004)
- Frankenstein (TV) (2004)
- Aurora Borealis (2004)
External link
- Donald Sutherland (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000661/) at the Internet Movie Databasees:Donald Sutherland
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Categories: 1935 births | Canadian actors | Cinema actors | People from New Brunswick | People from Nova Scotia | Final Fantasy voice actors | Anti-Vietnam War | M*A*S*H actors
