Veteran Actor Donald Sutherland Has Died at 88

Donald Sutherland, the seasoned actor whose career stretched backmost to the precocious 1960s and included an array of classics crossed a wide assortment of genres (The Dirty Dozen, MASH, The Day of the Locust, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Ordinary People... and that’s conscionable the archetypal decennary oregon truthful of his movie work; helium was besides a TV and signifier performer), has died astatine the property of 88.

The quality was confirmed by Variety via Sutherland’s agency. While cinephiles of each stripes appreciated Sutherland’s work—he brought an quality and dignity to each his characters, positive a wide scope (intimidating, mischievous, world-weary...) of nuances depending connected the role—genre fans volition ever particularly admit his enactment successful sci-fi, horror, and fantasy. Titles successful those realms include, of course, his stint playing President Coriolanus Snow crossed 4 Hunger Games movies, arsenic good arsenic Don’t Look Now, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie), Space Cowboys, Ad Astra, and Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, among galore others. He is besides the begetter of Kiefer Sutherland, besides a prolific actor.

What’s your favourite Donald Sutherland role? (Hard to choose, but Mr. X successful JFK is 1 of excavation for sure). Share your apical choices successful the comments below.

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