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 Game titles, Animal House and far more — died just after a “long illness.”
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 coronary heart, I notify you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away,” Kiefer wrote via Instag
ram, sharing a throwback childhood image. “I personally believe just one of the most important actors in the background of film.”
Kiefer ongoing, “Never daunted by a purpose, very good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he liked, and one particular can by no means request for extra than that. A life well lived.”
Donald acquired his big split in 1967 when he starred in The Dirty Dozen, three a long time before signing up for 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 Hunger Games. In the dystopian sequence, which debuted in 2012, Donald introduced President Coriolanus Snow to life. (The Hunger Games was tailored from Suzanne Collins’ very best-advertising YA novels.)
“I was at my dermatologist, and she questioned me what I was doing following,” Donald previously told Variety in November 2014. “I advised her I was about to do one thing called The Starvation Video games. She gasped and started off contacting everyone into the room, and they all came managing. That was my to start with inkling it may be anything huge.”
Donald’s tyrannical Snow appeared in The Hunger Games and its three sequels, Catching Hearth, Mockingjay Component 1 and Mockingjay Part 2. Inspite of many lovers loving to dislike Snow, he refused to see the character as a villain.
“He doesn’t eliminate any individual except it is important,” Donald observed to Variety at the time. “He maintains a tight command, but he’s not a war criminal like so numerous presidents and people during the world who have killed hundreds of thousands.”
Snow was later on the subject matter of Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes about the character’s early several years in Panem. Tom Blyth joined the franchise as a young Coriolanus Snow, aiming to shell out homage to Sutherland’s portrayal.
“For me in conditions of like nodding toward the other films, or layering that in it, it was all about the arc. I needed him to be vastly different at the starting from Coriolanus that we see later on on, as played by Donald,” Blyth, 29, told GamesRadar in November 2023. “As the film progresses, in all those 3 functions that are distinct, he will get far more and a lot more close to the future president. By the conclude, I wished his posture and his voice to just start to get nearer to what he’s like later on, and I hope that men and women can see that in the motion picture.”
