Kiefer Sutherland has damaged his silence after the death of his father, Donald Sutherland.
“With a significant coronary heart, I notify you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has handed absent,” Kiefer, 57, wrote via X on Thursday, June 20. “I personally believe one of the most significant actors in the historical past of film”
Kiefer included that his father’s performing talent and means to assimilate to any position was an inspiration.
“Never daunted by a function, superior, bad or hideous,” the 24 star ongoing. “He liked what he did and did what he liked, and a single can never ever request for a lot more than that. A everyday living properly lived.”
In addition to the touching tribute, Kiefer shared a throwback image of him and his father. The black-and-white picture showed the father-son duo from when Kiefer was a boy or girl and the pair gathered intently as they smiled for the camera.
Donald’s trigger of death was not mentioned, but Deadline reported that the 88-calendar year-previous endured from a “long ailment.” According to the outlet, a non-public celebration of everyday living will be held by the Sutherland spouse and children.
In addition to Kiefer, Donald is also the father of sons Roeg, Rossif, and Angus and daughter Rachel. (Donald shares Kiefer and Rachel with ex-wife Shirley Douglas and his other sons with wife Francine Racette.)
Practically a 10 years ago, Kiefer opened up about having the possibility to work with his dad in the Western film Forsaken, the place they enjoy father and son on screen.
“Working with him is a thing I have wished to do for 30 a long time,” Kiefer gushed to People in February 2016.
When Kiefer was escalating up, he was elevated by his mom. He stated that he could not watch a whole lot of his dad’s previous movies given that they had been rated R and he waited until finally he was 18 to watch them. (Donald starred in a range of films including Animal Residence, The Hunger Games and far more).
“I remember sensation truly terrible as a son that I was not conscious of not only how prolific my father was as an actor but what he experienced truly contributed to the art of cinema,” Kiefer recalled to the outlet.
Kiefer followed in his father’s footsteps to go after acting and discovered success on the action Tv set sequence 24. When Donald and Kiefer weren’t near when his son was escalating up, the pair strengthened their bond.
“I was not current much as a father when Kiefer was youthful,” Donald reflected in a 2001 interview with The Everyday Report. “He even appears to be like like me — only shorter — but I am extremely very pleased of him and I normally will be.”
