Donald Sutherland: a life in pictures

Dr Terror’s House of Horrors, 1965

Donald Sutherland was born on 17 July 1935 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. He moved to Britain in 1957 and started working on TV and in British horror films

The Dirty Dozen, 1967

This war film was Sutherland’s breakthrough and after it he moved to Hollywood. Here he is with the other eleven, including Telly Savalas, John Cassavetes and Charles Bronson

M*A*S*H, 1970

Robert Altman’s black comedy Korean War film about life in the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital saw Sutherland nominated for the Golden Globe for best actor, for his role as surgeon Hawkeye Pierce, pictured her with co-star Elliott Gould

Donald Sutherland in January 1970

Kelly’s Heroes 1970

One of Sutherland’s defing roles was as the hippie tank commander Oddball in this comedy crime caper starring Clint Eastwood

Sutherland with then wife Shirley Douglas, son Kiefer (on his knee), Thomas Douglas (Shirley’s son from a previous relationship) and daughter Rachel, photographed at home in California on 5 May 1970, the year the couple divorced

Klute, 1971

Jane Fonda won the Oscar for best actress for her role alongside Sutherland in this gritty crime thriller. During filming, the pair started an affair

Sutherland and Fonda went on tour with other performers across the Pacific Rim, staging anti-Vietnam war shows outside army bases. The shows were filmed and released as the documentary FTA. Here they are in Manila on 3 December 1971

Steelyard Blues, 1973

Fonda and Sutherland worked together again in this oddball crime comedy. Due to pair’s anti-establishment anti-war stance, the movie was not given much publicity. Despite that Sutherland was nominated for a Bafta for Best Actor

Don’t Look Now, 1973

Sutherland was nominated for a Bafta for best actor (together with Steelyard Blues) for his portrayal of a bereaved father in Nicholas Roeg’s creepy classic

Il Casanova di Federico Fellini

, 1976Donald Sutherland was cast as the 18th century libertine in Federico Fellini’s adaptation of the autobiography of Casanova

The Eagle Has Landed, 1976

Pictured with Jenny Agutter in the second world war thriller

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978

Pictured with Brooke Adam in the horror remake

Ordinary People, 1980

Sutherland, pictured here with Mary Tyler Moore was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actor in Robert Redford’s directorial debut

Sutherland with his wife Francine Racette at a reception for The Kennedy Center Nominees at The White House on 7 December 1980. They were married in 1972 and had three sons, Rossif, Angus and Roeg

JFK, 1991

Pictured with Kevin Costner

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, 1992

This comedy horror movie written by Joss Whedon received a lukewarm reception. The television reboot five years later was a different story. Here Sutherland discusses a scene with Kristy Swanson (Buffy) and director Fran Rubel Kuzui

Citizen X, 1995

Sutherland’s first big win; a Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy. Pictured here with co-star Stephen Rea

Without Limits, 1998

Sutherland, pictured here with co-star Billy Crudup, was nominated for a Golden Globe for best supporting actor in this biopic

Path to War, 2002

Sutherland won his second Golden Globe for best supporting actor in this TV movie about the Vietnam War seen through the eyes of Lyndon B Johnson, played by Michael Gambon

Cold Mountain, 2003

Pictured with Nicole Kidman and James Gammon in Anthony Minghella’s American Civil War drama

Pride and Prejudice, 2005

Talulah Riley, Carey Mulligan, Donald Sutherland, Keira Knightley and Rosamund Pike

The Hunger Games, 2012

Sutherland as President Snow, with Wes Bentley in the hugely popular and successful franchise

Forsaken, 2015

With his son Kiefer Sutherland

Donald Sutherland on 11 May 2016 at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in France, where he was a member of the jury

Donald Sutherland arrives for the opening ceremony of the 11th edition of the Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, in 2019