Versatile Actor in Genre Roles

 

Actor Donald Sutherland has passed at 88. Father to actor Kiefer Sutherland, his career ranged over theater, television (and an Emmy Award for Citizen X) to film from the 1960s to 2023.  Among his early films were well known war films such as The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H, and Kelly's Heroes. He also did other genres successfully like comedy with Start the Revolution Without Me and National Lampoon's Animal House, scifi with Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), horror with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the classic Don't Look Now, and suspense with Klute and the great Eye of the Needle. He was the main villain in the blockbuster Hunger Games films and excelled in dramas like Outbreak, The Day of the Locust,  JFK, and his greatest role in the Oscar winning Ordinary People.  He is probably the best actor never to have received an Oscar nomination although he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award in 2017.