Actor Donald Sutherland has died.

[Tommy Carcetti]

Link to tweet

He was 88. He played a lot of memorable roles, although I think the first one that got my attention was his "Mr. X" character from JFK. Mainly because he was playing a CIA agent and physically resembled the father of a family friend, who was a former CIA agent.

(Yes, JFK might have been nearly pure fiction, and Oliver Stone turned out to be a despot ass-kisser, but Stone's movies of the late 80s and 90s were entertaining as hell.)

[Aristus]

1. NO!

He's been one of my favorite actors for almost as long as I can remember. I remember he really creeped me out in "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers", but then he won my heart as the sympathetic father in "Ordinary People". Since then, I've enjoyed everything I've seen him in. He was one of a kind.

[Probatim]

6. He scared this living hell out of me in the Body Snatchers.

Damn that movie was something else.

[LakeArenal]

45. My childhood fear. After that movie, I never watch tv with my feet on the floor.

Afraid to be snatched by my ankles.
Even if that didn’t happen in the movie.

[Probatim]

61. We grew up watching Chiller Theater with Bill Cardille (in the Pittsburgh area).

My younger brother would be scared shitless for most of the movies. Our younger sister was fearless and would try to scare him during the movies. I was somewhere the middle.

We watched the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers on a Saturday night and the later version probably on prime time TV. Both were creepy as hell.

The movie that scared me the most on Chiller Theater was The Flesh Eaters. To this day, I get a little squirrely when something brushes against me in the water - maybe a bit more than squirrely when it's murky water.

[dexdah]

101. Yes, The Flesh Eaters--wild!

[MyOwnPeace]

107. And a 'thumbs up!' for 'Chilly Billy'..........

Chiller Theater and Studio Wrestling!

[John1956PA]

111. The first years, in monochrome with the laboratory setting, were terrific.

Mr. Cardile hit the right tone for that era. As the format changed over the years and regular supporting characters arrived, he took on more of a comical demeanor.

[Dave Bowman]

65. Scared me to death too and that was probably the 1st

movie I saw him in. Great actor.

[MustLoveBeagles]

120. Same here

[marble falls]

2. An actor that really could play a character well by going over the top where no other actor would dare go.

[FalloutShelter]

3. Great Actor.

Pass gently Donald.

[Mr.WeRP]

4. RIP

The first film of his I remember is Invasion of the Body Snatchers

[sheshe2]

5. Rest in peace.

We are grateful for all you have given us.

[KT2000]

7. RIP Mr. Sutherland

He was so unique and recognizable but convincing in all his roles. How did he do that?

[LW1977]

8. Kelly's Heros role was epic

[RockRaven]

9. RIP Homer Simpson and Hawkeye Pierce

No, not that Homer Simpson or that Hawkeye Pierce who you know from episodic television, the ones from The Day of the Locust (1975) and M*A*S*H (1970) respectively.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Great actor. R.I.P.

[mnhtnbb]

11. Oh, that hits hard.

Such a wonderful actor. He left a marvelous record of his work.

Condolences to his family.

[PJMcK]

12. The movie M*A*S*H

Sutherland, along with the screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr., created the character of Hawkeye Pierce. A great actor!

[twodogsbarking]

38. The movie wouldn't make it by the censors today but it was great for the time.

RIP and thanks.

[Wounded Bear]

13. Sad to hear. Incredible actor in tons of roles...

[EYESORE 9001]

14. He first caught my attention in M*A*S*H

One hell of an introduction to an actor’s work, must say. I’ve been a fan ever since.

[Sneederbunk]

15. Ordinary People

[DENVERPOPS]

78. Me too

I thought that was his best performance ever......And the actress who played his wife was incredible at making us hate her......

Mary Tyler Moore.....I knew I would think of her name.......Timothy Hutton and Judd Hirsh also did a stellar job with their roles.....

[highplainsdem]

16. Just saw his son's tweet and was going to post it. Such sad news. He was a great actor.

[debm55]

17. RIP , Mr. Sutherland

[Liberal In Texas]

18. Another great one has passed.

RIP

[KS Toronado]

19. Been a fan ever since M*A*S*H* & Kelly's Heroes

[DFW]

20. From Klute to The Italian Job

I don’t recall one role he didn’t make look like it was written for him. A true master of his art.

[shelshaw]

21. Wrong Donald

[Botany]

22. One of the good ones

[underpants]

39. Funny story

He was the only established star in that movie. Lamppon offered his a percentage of the gross. He turned it down because no one knew how it would do. No main stars. Belushi was on SNL but TV didn’t equal box office then. Lampoon’s first movie.

He took something like $80K for 3 scenes I think in just a few days.

[Xavier Breath]

91. He said not taking the points

ended up costing him something like $14 million. In the immortal words of Frank Barone: holy crap!

[yardwork]

43. I'm not kidding.... this is my job.

I said that line to my kids many times when they were growing up.

[bif]

23. I just watched him in a movie yesterday.

"The Man on the Train." Weird movie but he was great as always.

[Ohio Joe]

24. RIP

[maveric]

25. He was a flag bearer for Canada. 2010 Winter Olympics.

He great in Klute too.

[dweller]

26. IMBD lists him in 135 film titles

2 of my favorites …. KLUTE and STEELYARD BLUES

Going to miss him 😔

Edit: interesting how Wiki lists him as a ‘Canadian actor and anti war activist’ first , then later points out that he was listed on an NSA watchlist for anti war activity at request of CIA …



✌🏻

[ZZenith]

27. Oddball!

[bedazzled]

34. I ADORE him in that role!

He played a great bad guy, too, in "Eye of the Needle"

[Bayard]

28. Huge talent.....

Saw him in M.A.S.H first, then so many other great roles.

Poor Sutherland family! Just lost their mom a few years ago.

[Joinfortmill]

29. Oh, man. R.I.P. Great actor.

[Easterncedar]

30. Start the Revolution Without Me

With Gene Wilder. So much fun.

I am sad about this. He was great.

[ms liberty]

31. The original Hawkeye Pierce, among other amazing roles. I'm heartbroken.

[Abolishinist]

32. Aw, and in the last month I've rewatched M*A*S*H

and also A Few Good Men, which his son Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland is in.

I'm adding Klute and Don't Look Now to my Watchlist.

[SharonAnn]

108. Klute is an excellent film. not as well known as some of his other roles.

[Abolishinist]

109. Thanks for the rec,

I'm looking forward to watching both of them!

[Coventina]

33. So very sad. RIP you talented, gifted soul!!

I always had him cast in my imaginary production of a serious version of "Hogan's Heroes."
I thought he'd make a great Col. Klink, bringing interesting complexity to the role.

Sgt. Shultz would be played by John Goodman, of course!

Hogan would be Harrison Ford, DUH!!

Louie Anderson would be Burkhalter

Ralph Fiennes would be Hochstetter

Denzel Washington would be Kinch, that's a no brainer!!

The bumbling Col. Crittendon would be Mr. Bean, of course!

Newkirk would be Alan Cumming

LeBeau is a tough one, never had a perfect vision on that one.

Carter would be Robert Downey Jr. (he, Cumming, and Fiennes would obviously be younger, relative to the rest of the cast. Which all of them would be younger, obviously, at the time I was mentally casting this production!!)


I'm realizing that if I were to cast it now, it would have to be all different actors....

[Beartracks]

103. Just take my money!!

What a cast!

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[Coventina]

112. You're too kind!

[ancianita]

35. The last movie I saw him in was Moonfall, a great movie; he played a secret keeper for NASA.

[Tommy Carcetti]

62. That's an absolutely insane movie...

…and yet also thoroughly entertaining.

I forgot he was in that.

[ancianita]

64. He was in it because it is so amazing & plausible that I've never looked at the moon the same way since.

It holds up on repeat watches. I mean, Roland Emmerich, right??

[bedazzled]

36. OMG Space Cowboys!

He was so sexy in that!

[edbermac]

37. RIP Sergeant Oddball

[marked50]

81. Yep, my favorite too. I quote this all the time.

[bdamomma]

123. Wow!!

some great actors in that movie. I will have to do a binge on Mr. Sutherlands best movies.

[Mr. Evil]

40. My favorite DS movies...

M*A*S*H
Kelly's Heroes
The Dirty Dozen
Space Cowboys
Eye Of The Needle (for those of you that have not seen this one, it's a thriller set during WWII - excellent movie)

R.I.P. Donald. "Woof woof! That's my other dog imitation."

[captain queeg]

63. I saw part of the Eye of the Needle, was trying to remember the title.

I didn’t watch the whole thing but in the first part he played an evil part very convincing.

[Mr. Evil]

95. Yup...

He was definitely the bad guy. Kate Nelligan also did an excellent job in the lead female role.

[WheelWalker]

68. Agree about eye of the needle. Really great film.

Just watched it this weekend fact.

[rockbluff botanist]

41. Another good one has left us

His Invasion of the Body Snatchers gave me nightmares and still does and I'm not a kid like I was then!

He had the most arresting features and those icy blue eyes were stunning. He was the progenitor of some awesome talent, too.

Mr. Sutherland, you will be missed.

[crickets]

42. ,

[Tarzanrock]

44. Klute was his best role.

I've always thought that Klute was his best role.

[John1956PA]

46. Mr. Sutherland and Julie Christie starred in "Don 't Look Now" (1973).

Director Nicolas Roeg deliverers a chilling masterpiece wherein ghastly events are afoot in off-season Venice, Italy. The intimate scene between the two stars is legendary. Mr. Sutherland stated that the scene was filmed over a weekend in England when he was afflicted with a flu virus. One of Mr. Sutherland's five children is named Roeg.

[Blaukraut]

84. One of my favorite movies.

Saw it as a kid (my parents let me watch just about anything) and it has left a permanent impression on me.
RIP, Mr. Sutherland. You were amazing.

[John1956PA]

86. I feel the same about the movie.

Roeg was ingenious with the nuances (e.g. the uncovering of the gargoyle statue which was a foreshadowing). The plot contains some random threads which may or may not connect (e.g., the Bishop steps on and crumbles the so-called valuable mosaic pieces which the church purchased from the quarry owned by the Bishop's brother. Mr. Sutherland's character (John Baxter) realizes the church is an architectural fraud and, lo and behold, bad things start to happen to him. Who has the means to orchestrate mishaps? Hint: Someone who hears of lots of dirty deeds by way of the confessional box. Altogether, a multi-level film which continues to captivate upon reflection.

[MustLoveBeagles]

121. I saw this movie recently

Odd but compelling film. He was great as always.

[LakeArenal]

47. Great actor of my time. Seems like a nice human as well.

💐

[orleans]

48. very sad to see him go. he was a fantastic actor! here's a couple things that might be a bit obscure that he did

don't look now was billed as a "psychic thriller"

music video with kate bush: cloudbusting

[Tarzanrock]

49. Eye of the Needle

Eye of the Needle comes to mind as well.

[allegorical oracle]

117. That one's on my favs list, too. He goes from ruthless cold murder to being in love....

[leftyladyfrommo]

50. He and Paul Newman were my all time

favorites.

All those fabulous actors are dying. Sigh.

[Skittles]

98. OMG Paul

life long crush on that stud

[iluvtennis]

51. Rest in Peace Donald Sutherland and May your Memory be a Blessing. n/t

[Ellipsis]

52. "Woof, Woof" Oddball you will be missed.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

53. The Hawkeye Pierce!

He was great in MASH!

[PortTack]

54. Awhhh...great actor...makes me sad

[TexasBushwhacker]

55. That face, that voice

He was absolutely made to be an actor.

[Harker]

56. He and I go back to "Castle of the Living Dead", 1964.

A lot of fun, and some remarkable acting.

[nuxvomica]

82. I remember him from "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" (1965)

I loved that movie so much as a kid that I made an audio recording of it off the TV.

[Harker]

85. I missed that one somehow.

Another with Christopher Lee!

[John1956PA]

92. Is that the movie with the four vignette's?

The characters were riding on a train, and the fortune teller used tarot cards to conjure up some chilling stories.

[John1956PA]

93. Also, I have to add: "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) wherein his character was allowed . . .

. . to pose as a general traveling incognito.

[nuxvomica]

99. Yes. The tarot deck was the "house of horrors"

The tarot reader (Peter Cushing) would use the deck to predict each passenger's future encounter with the supernatural. There were five stories: a werewolf story, a voodoo story, an evil plant, a disembodied hand, and a vampire story. The last one starred Sutherland. I think the whole movie is available for free on Youtube.

[John1956PA]

100. I saw that movie in the theater in the mid-1960s.

I was about eleven years old. I looked it up on the Web some time ago. It is an okay feature.

[Ford_Prefect]

57. Klute, Little Murders, Kelly's Heroes, Space Cowboys, and of Course MASH.

He was in so many more.... I will miss his sly, dry delivery.

[chowder66]

58. Damn it!!

What a loss. R.I.P. to a truly great talent.

[Talitha]

59. Damn....

[Niagara]

60. Damn. Rest in Paradise, Donald.

[greatauntoftriplets]

66. Such a loss.

One of the acting greats and a good man who believed in humanity.

I'm going to watch "Don't Look Now" in his memory.

[dflprincess]

67. That was the best scene in "JFK"

Of course, any scene he was in in any movie was good. Sorry to see him go,

[lpbk2713]

69. Never heard of it.

It cracks me up every time I see this.

[geardaddy]

70. Such a loss

He was truly one of the greatest actors.

[Xavier Breath]

71. He had so many great roles true, but he'll always be Hawkeye Pierce to me.

I remember that great interview they had with him on 60 Minutes a few years ago.

[forgotmylogin]

72. RIP

With all due respect, I hate that as I get older I'm always most interested knowing at what age a celebrity died, adding it to my personal actuarial table that determines how much gas I might have left on this rock....

[Cha]

73. What a Sweet Tribute to his Father

from Kiefer. 💕

TY RIP Donald Sutherland

[Martin68]

74. Enjoyed his movies including Kelly's Heroes, Don't Look Now, and Ordinary people.

[Martin68]

75. The last two we saw in the theater when they came out.

Als, he was great in The Stuntman.

[oasis]

76. Goodbye to one of the finest actors

in films. Rest in peace.

[larwdem]

77. President snow

[liberalmuse]

79. RIP

I loved his work and he was one of the rare actors I crushed on. Very sad news.

[WarGamer]

80. the amount of talent between Donald and Kiefer...

And really great guys, too.

[Different Drummer]

83. Hopefully, TCM will plan a fitting tribute to him.

[BigmanPigman]

88. I was thinking the same thing.

[TSExile]

87. He was incredible in "Ordinary People".

He should have been Oscar-nominated for the role (not that he would have edged out DeNiro, but still)...Agree that TCM should have a Donald Sutherland movie marathon. All love to Kiefer and the rest of the family...

[Lulu KC]

89. My husband just told me

My response was, "He's so young!" RIP, young man.

[bearsfootball516]

90. As a fairly younger person (31 years) I haven't watched MASH, Body Snatchers, etc

I remember him from his role as President Snow in the Hunger Games trilogy, a role that he absolutely nailed beautifully. He managed to send chills down your spine every time he spoke, despite never having to raise his voice.

[WestMichRad]

94. R.I.P. Mr. Sutherland

Absolutely nailed the many roles he played. One of my favorites was Hawkeye Pierce in MASH, a movie I’ve enjoyed several times.

He was never nominated for an Academy Award, but received an honorary award from them in 2017. To which he said “I don’t deserve this, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.”

[LaMouffette]

96. So very sad to hear the news! I recently saw him in "The Leisure Seekers" (2017) with Helen Mirren. It was brilliant.

Extremely poignant story about a couple in their twilight years. I recommend it highly, but be prepared to cry.

RIP, Donald Sutherland, and thank you for all of your amazing films!

[TNNurse]

97. So many roles to remember.

Glad someone mentioned Hawkeye Pierce in MASH.

[area51]

102. RIP

[Beartracks]

104. Always loved seeing him in a film.

RIP, Mr. Sutherland.








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[Dem2theMax]

105. One of the very best.

His passing is a great loss. But what a body of work to leave behind.

Saw him once at LAX. He was wearing a very long, black trench coat. You couldn't miss him. I didn't dare go up and say hello or ask for an autograph. I just admired him from afar.

RIP Donald Sutherland.

[Skittles]

106. righteous age

well done Donald - he was truly one of a kind

[DemocraticPatriot]

110. My favorite Donald Sutherland role is as "Oddball" in 'Kelly's Heroes',

second as the father in 'Ordinary People'.


Seems that I missed a lot of his movies, although I recognize the titles--
and never have seen ANY of the 'Hunger Games' films,
still have no idea what that was about.

After having watched Alan Alda for centuries as "Hawkeye" on the M*A*S*H television series,
I could not adjust to Sutherland in the role in the original film, when I finally saw it....

I did enjoy one of the latter films he did, co-starring as the father of his son Kiefer--- a civil war times period piece,
can't remember the title now...


Rest in peace, Donald.

[calimary]

113. Aw DAMN. Another one gone.

One of the greats. Gone. Dammit.

[C Moon]

114. He was great in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, too.

[allegorical oracle]

115. Loved, loved, loved him...my favs were perhaps lesser known...

The Great Train Robbery...he rode in a casket with a dead cat...
The Eye of the Needle...he was a ruthless Nazi spy...

Love it when an actor has loads of scope -- and he certainly did.

Very sad.

[BobTheSubgenius]

116. RIP Donald.

One of the greatest character actors of our time, and I'll miss him. Great comedic actor, charming rogue, sinister protagonist, he was always convincing whatever the role.

Something about that family always interested me. His second wife, and mother of Keifer and his twin sister Rachel, was the daughter of Tommy Douglas, who was voted the Greatest Canadian ever by a nationwide poll that went on for months. Tommy Douglas was the man most responsible for bringing universal health care to Canada. His slogan was "Beware the little man with a big idea."

Illustrious family, for sure. In a very Canadian way.

[Beringia]

118. He had a sweet temperament

Memorable for me is Ordinary People and Klute

[MustLoveBeagles]

119. RIP 😔

He was one of a kind

[bdamomma]

122. RIP

He was a great actor, Kiefer has a lot to be proud of his dad's achievements.

Can't forget" Invasion of the Body Snatchers".