Donald Sutherland (1934 - )

• actor
• born July 17, 1934, Saint John, New Brunswick
• educated University of Toronto (engineering, drama); LAMDA, London; RADA, London
• gaunt leading man with British repertory stage experience
• played in several 1960s horror films before starring as surgeon Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman's breakthrough film, M*A*S*H (1970)
• important performances include:
  • the reserved detective in Klute (1971), opposite Jane Fonda
  • Jesus Christ in Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
  • a death-obsessed parent in Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973)
  • the father in Robert Redford's Ordinary People (1980)
  • a South African schoolteacher and anti-apartheid activist in A Dry White Season (1989)
• divorced from actresses Lois Hardwick and Shirley Douglas
• his son by Douglas, actor Kiefer Sutherland, was named after Warren Kiefer, the screenwriter on his first film, Castle of the Living Dead (1964).
• filmography

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