Donald Sutherland has died at 88.
“With a major heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has handed away,” Kiefer Sutherland introduced on X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday.
“I individually think one particular of the most critical actors in the record of film. By no means daunted by a function, good, undesirable or unappealing. He cherished what he did and did what he loved, and a person can under no circumstances question for a lot more than that. A existence properly lived.”
The award successful actor starred in a slew of strike videos this sort of as “The Hunger Game titles,” “The Soiled Dozen,” and “Animal House.”
In accordance to Deadline, he died on Thursday in Miami after a extended ailment.
Sutherland, who bought an Honorary Oscar in 2017, was the father of Emmy-profitable “24” actor Kiefer Sutherland, 57, and veteran CAA Media Finance exec Roeg Sutherland.
Born on July 17, 1935, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Donald Sutherland experienced a profession spanning above 60 decades, with far more than 200 movie and Television credits.
Sutherland gained a Golden World for the tv motion picture “Path to War,” and he received an Emmy Aand a Golden Globe for his effectiveness in the miniseries “Citizen X.” His comprehensive tv credits also involve “ Trust,” “Dirty Hot Cash,” “and The Pillars of the Earth.”
Sutherland is survived by his wife Francine Racette sons Roeg, Rossif, Angus, and Kiefer daughter Rachel and 4 grandchildren.
The Write-up attained out to Sutherland’s rep for remark.
