NFT RIP Donald Sutherland

[MightyGiants]

Kiefer Sutherland
@RealKiefer
With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.




https://x.com/RealKiefer/status/1803837822677225581

[ozzie]

UGH, another great lost to us.
R.I.P. and let's hope you soak up nothing but positive waves.

[MightyGiants]

What were people's favorite movies with him in it?

Mine-  MASH

Runner Up-  Kelly's Heros

[AZGiantFan]

Backdraft
Italian Job

[spiderblue43]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

JFK

Don't Look Now

Klute

Animal House

Ordinary People..etc

Oddball and Hawkeye my favorite characters.

[Painter]

Although really too many to count, including a couple of Trump projections, The Con Man, and The Burnt Orange Heresy, my most memorable was a really scary one called, Don't Look Now with Julie Christie.

As he and I are kinda close in age, no doubt I'd wish him an RIP even he wasn't a truly memorable actor.

[Jolly Blue Giant]

May he R.I.P.

My favorite movies/shows he played:

- The Undoing (HBO mini-series with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant - 2020)

- M.A.S.H. of course

- Space Cowboys

- National Lampoon's "Animal House" (the professor)

- Italian Job

- "Lawmen: Bass Reeves", very recent. He was the judge in the series

to name a few 

[spiderblue43]

"You and those negative waves"

"I'm not joking.This is my job"

"Try not to drool so much"

"The organizing principle of any society..is for war"

"What your name, soldier?  Number two".

[DaveBrown74]

I love it when actors or other creative types are not only able to continue to work into their very old age, right up to the end, but are able to do it at a very high level. There are only a very small handful of those, and Sutherland is at or very near the top of that list with people like Clint Eastwood.

Sutherland was a wonderful actor with tremendous range, and I always felt he seemed to have a certain warmth and humaneness about him. I loved a lot of his work.

[LennG]

Just a magnificent actor.

Just saw him in "Eye of the Needle" song he was great as a bad guy spy.

Obviously his best role was Hawkeye Pierce in MASH.
I just loved him in Kelly's Heros and Don't Look Now. He could do it all.
May he RIP

[AZGiantFan]

For me, what made his role in Backdraft special were the scenes with him, the convicted arsonist, and De Niro, the fire investigator.  Especially the scene where De Niro opens him up in front of the parole board.

[ozzie]

My favorites of all his many roles:
Oddball (Kelly's Heroes)
Pinkley (Dirty Dozen)
John Bridger (The Italian Job)