Donald Sutherland has died at the age of 88.
CAA verified to Deadline on Thursday, June 20, that Sutherland — regarded for his roles M*A*S*H, The Hunger Video games, Animal House and far more — died immediately after a “long sickness.”
The Emmy winner is survived by wife Francine Racette and sons Kiefer, 57, Roeg, 50, Rossif, 45, Angus, 41, and daughter Rachel, 57. (Donlad shares Kiefer and Rachel with ex-wife Shirley Douglas and his other sons withRacette).
Kiefer, an actor like his father, shared an emotional tribute to Sutherland on Thursday.
“With a weighty heart, I explain to you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has handed absent,” Kiefer wrote via Instag
ram, sharing a throwback childhood image. “I personally feel a single of the most essential actors in the history of movie.”
Kiefer ongoing, “Never daunted by a function, excellent, poor or unsightly. He loved what he did and did what he beloved, and one can hardly ever question for more than that. A lifestyle properly lived.”
Donald got his significant split in 1967 when he starred in The Dirty Dozen, three years before becoming a member of the forged of M*A*S*H. Donald played Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce in the 1970 Oscar-nominated war movie.
Donald also appeared in the likes of Klute, Path to War, 2005’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and The Starvation Online games. In the dystopian collection, which debuted in 2012, Donald brought President Coriolanus Snow to existence. (The Starvation Games was adapted from Suzanne Collins’ ideal-advertising YA novels.)
“I was at my dermatologist, and she questioned me what I was undertaking next,” Donald previously told Variety in November 2014. “I told her I was about to do a thing called The Hunger Games. She gasped and commenced contacting anyone into the area, and they all came working. That was my initial inkling it might be a thing huge.”
Donald’s tyrannical Snow appeared in The Hunger Games and its 3 sequels, Catching Fire, Mockingjay Element 1 and Mockingjay Aspect 2. Inspite of a lot of admirers loving to dislike Snow, he refused to see the character as a villain.
“He doesn’t get rid of any one except it’s crucial,” Donald observed to Variety at the time. “He maintains a limited control, but he’s not a war felony like so numerous presidents and people today throughout the environment who have killed millions.”
Snow was later on the issue of Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes about the character’s early a long time in Panem. Tom Blyth joined the franchise as a young Coriolanus Snow, aiming to pay out homage to Sutherland’s portrayal.
“For me in terms of like nodding towards the other movies, or layering that in it, it was all about the arc. I needed him to be vastly different at the beginning from Coriolanus that we see later on on, as performed by Donald,” Blyth, 29, told GamesRadar in November 2023. “As the movie progresses, in those people three functions that are distinct, he will get a lot more and more close to the foreseeable future president. By the finish, I wanted his posture and his voice to just start off to get closer to what he’s like afterwards on, and I hope that persons can see that in the film.”
