Donald McNichol Sutherland OC (born July 17, 1935) is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning over 50 years.[1] He is currently working in the American television series, Dirty Sexy Money. Sutherland's most notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, in 1967, and M*A*S*H and Kelly's Heroes in 1970, and an overly optimistic health inspector in Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1978. In the early to mid-1960s, Sutherland began to get small parts in British films and TV, landing notable roles in horror films with Christopher Lee, such as Castle of the Living Dead (1964) and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) and twice appearing in the The Saint, firstly in the 1965 episode The Happy Suicide[3] and then, more auspiciously, in a story called Escape Route at the end of 1966.[4] The episode was directed by the show's star, Sir Roger Moore, who later recalled that Sutherland "asked me if he could show it to some producers as he was up for an important part... they came to view a rough cut at the studio and he got The Dirty Dozen.[5] Thus, Sutherland was on course for the first of the three war films which would be his initial great successes: The Dirty Dozen in 1967, with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson; in 1970, as the lead Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in Robert Altman's M*A*S*H (film); and, again in 1970, as tank commander Sgt. Oddball in Kelly's Heroes, with Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas. Sutherland had an intimate relationship (on and off screen) with actress Jane Fonda during the filming of the Academy award-winning detective thriller Klute.[6] Sutherland and Fonda went on to coproduce and star together in the anti-Vietnam war film F.T.A. (1972), consisting of a series of sketches performed outside army bases in the Pacific Rim and interviews with American troops who were then on active service. Sutherland found himself in demand as a leading man throughout the 1970s in films such as the Venice-based psychological horror Don't Look Now (1973), the war film The Eagle Has Landed (1976), and as the ever-optimistic health inspector in the sci-fi/horror Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) alongside Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum. He also received acclaim for his performance in the 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci Italian Fascism epic 1900 and for his role as the torn father in the Academy award-winning family drama Ordinary People (1980) alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton. He played the part of fellow Canadian countryman Norman Bethune—a physician, humanitarian, and hero in China—in two separate biographical films in 1977 and 1990. A prolific actor, some of Sutherland's better-known roles in the 1980s and 1990s were the South African apartheid drama A Dry White Season (1989), alongside Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon; the firefighter thriller Backdraft (1991), alongside Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro; and as the snobbish NYC art dealer in Six Degrees of Separation (1993), with Stockard Channing and Will Smith. In the 1991 Oliver Stone film JFK, Sutherland played a mysterious Washington intelligence officer who spoke of links to the military-industrial complex in relation to Kennedy's assassination. He also guest-starred in an episode of The Simpsons, "Lisa the Iconoclast" (interestingly, he had previously played a character named Homer Simpson in The Day of the Locust). He starred as Wilhelm Reich in the video to Kate Bush's 1985 single, Cloudbusting. In 1995, Sutherland was cast as the evil Maj. Gen. Donald McClintock in Wolfgang Petersen's thriller movie Outbreak, also starring Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, and Rene Russo. Donald was later cast in 1997 (for only the second time in his career) with his son Kiefer in Joel Schumacher's award-winning crime thriller "A Time to Kill," based on the bestselling book written by John Grisham. Kiefer was nominated for portraying the best villain, awarded by MTV. In more recent years, Sutherland has been noted for his role as Reverend Monroe in the civil war drama Cold Mountain (2003); in the remake of The Italian Job (2003); in the TV series Commander in Chief (20052006); and in Pride and Prejudice (2005), starring alongside Keira Knightley. He earned an Emmy nomination in 2006 for his performance in the TV movie "Human Trafficking." Sutherland currently stars as Tripp Darling in the prime time serial Dirty Sexy Money for ABC.Sutherland's distinctive voice has also been used in many radio and television commercials, including those for Volvo automobiles. He is also the spokesperson for Simply Orange orange juice. Most recently he played multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycut in the Warner Bros. film Fools Gold

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2. Elizebeth Soren says:

   October 28, 2010 at 11:38 pm

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