Donald Sutherland is dead to me.

Born during the Great Depression... How does a body live that long?

Great actor! He was always good in everything

He was 88!

Just saw. Absolutely robbed of an Oscar nomination for "JFK" - he probably would have won that year (Jack Palance won.) Tommy Lee Jones was nominated instead for his portrayal of mincing queen Clay Shaw in the same film.

This is one of the finest pieces of purely vocal acting ever. He effectively embodies the nation's conscience.

[quote]Was the sex simulated?

What sex?

Are they sure he's not just asleep?

Don't look now, r5.

Great career, great guy 👍🏻

He had a great ass but it couldn’t live forever.

Oh, man! Great actor. Long career. RIP, Mr Sutherland

Loved him in Ordinary People. RIP.

Aww, I will always have a soft spot for him because of the original BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.

I was obsessed with that movie as a middle school gayling when it came out.

Klute

He wrote a memoir that is coming out in November. What a shame he didn’t live to see it released.

Talented man with a sexy voice. Rest in peace, sir.

He always spoke of flatulence. So odd for such a revered actor to go on talk shows and speak about it as if he were a middle-schooler.

RIP to a great actor.

R15, he and Alan Rickman win the "tall, beautiful hands, sexy voice but a sort of weird face" award.

How did he die?

I liked him. He did evil bastards as well as he played good guys.

Gosh. Dabney and now Sutherland.

Donald was one of the actors who was simply never bad. Even in bad films.

Nice moment. Kiefer acknowledging his father after winning a Best Actor Emmy for 24 in 2006:

[quote] How did he die?

AIDS, Rose.

I never knew he was Canadian.

Good actor, RIP.

R18 battling an oil rig fire.

Kiefer's tribute just posted on X:

Wonderful actor, he seemed like nice guy and good egg. RIP Donald.

R26 again:

Let's try it again, shall we?

Well it's great that he was able to work right up till the end, R25.

RIP!

Awww sad, but 88 is a hella long time. We lost the good Donald.

I spent a few days in his birthplace, Saint John, Canada, and although the town was on the grim side, the people were really nice.

Apparently he never got an Oscar nomination. Appalling.

He wasn't even nominated for this role.

And due to a quirk of filming, this scene was shot separately. MTM did her part, but Sutherland had to reshoot his scenes later while talking to Redford offscreen reading MTM's lines.

Buck would have never died!

Julie Christie is 84. All the stars from the 1970s are dying, or near death. It breaks my heart.

It's shocking that Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen, DeNiro, Pacino, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn are still with us. I have a sinking feeling, though, that they're going to start falling like dominos within the next couple years.

R25 well, it's great that he was able to work right up until the end.

One of the most memorable film endings ever.

Very versatile actor with a remarkable list of credits. I remember seeing him in 1965s Die! Die! My Darling

[quote] I have a sinking feeling, though, that they're going to start falling like dominos within the next couple years.

R35 do you suppose that's how aging fans of early cinema felt when their silent film stars began dying off in the '60s and '70s?

Jack (Nicholson)? You in danger, girl.

When old people die it makes me think of how many years I have left to live. It isn’t long and I’m wasting what little there is posting on this site.

R34 you stole my line, you fat whore!

damn it!

Incredible talent, it’s a shame he never won a competitive Oscar. And so many cult films! Don’t Look Now is probably my favorite.

IMO he was sexy as hell. Second only to the (also departed) Max von Sydow in terms of massive celebrity crushes I had that no one else seemed to share.

That voice, that bum, that talent.

RIP Mr. Sutherland

It amazed me how the 1970s afforded him leading man status when the ‘60s confined him to playing mentally deficient “monster” roles for the same looks. Robert Duvall was always playing mutants and aliens on TV during the same period.

[quote]IMO he was sexy as hell.

I totally agree. I first saw him in "Eye of the Needle" as a young'un and he was so sexy. Glad I'm not alone.

I loved him in Klute and Don't Look Now. RIP

Klute and MASH are probably his iconic roles, but to people with an interest in military history, he’ll always be Oddball, the proto-hippy Sherman tank commander, in Kelly’s Heroes.

Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths- Bob Seger and Amanda Bynes.

He could play anything anyone anywhere. Even his accents were adequate.

"Eye of the Needle" was a great but minor film and it typifies much of his work. A great example of his talent.

This loss makes me cry.

Buck would've never been snubbed by the Academy for Ordinary People!

So this wipes out the cast of Dirty Dozen, right?

Damn. The wrong Donald died.

[quote] How did he die?

He was body-snatched, Rose.

[Quote] Buck would've never been snubbed by the Academy for Ordinary People!

Except HE WAS!

We were just talking about Karen Black in Day of The Locust but his performance as Homer Simpson (yes, that's where they got the name) was amazing. The hands!

[quote]Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths- Bob Seger and Amanda Bynes.

Is Bob Seger ill?

I thought he was sexy, too. Bedroom eyes to match that voice.

Definitely the wrong Donald died.

R43 I'm with you on both of those guys.

I'm heartbroken about this; I'm a big fan of Sutherland's. He was robbed of Oscars for JFK and Ordinary People!! I met him once in Toronto in the early 2000s when he was doing a play. He stopped and very graciously signed a Kelly's Heroes poster (hanging framed in my office as I type), while his little fox terrier got its leash tangled around my legs. He was kind and good-humored.

A true unsung talent.

R45, you can thank Dustin Hoffman (or I suppose, Mike Nichols) for that. The decade of the unattractive 'every man' leading man was ushered in when he was cast in The Graduate.

Here is his memoir, out in November

Always think of him in “invasion of the body snatchers”

It makes me wonder what the Academy had against him. We talk about how they've snubbed Glenn Close, but Donald never even received any nominations!

They could've at least given him an Honorary Oscar.

Ah, my mistake he received an Honorary Oscar in 2017.

SylviaFowler (sic) is "heartbroken."

What kind of twats are squatting here lately?

Animal House—no stunt ass for him

R65 Sylvia's been one of us here at the DL for a while.

How 'bout you just shut the fuck up.

Leave our Sylvia alone!

so sad...I volunteer to console Kiefer

It is a scandal Donald Sutherland never go an Oscar nomination. He certainly deserved one for Klute among several others. Gene Hackman won that year and that was a legitimate win. I wouldn't have been surprised if either Topol, Finch, or Sutherland won, had Sutherland been nominated. The other nominee were:

George C, Scott - The Hospital (not deserved)

Topol - Fiddler On The Roof (deserved)

Walter Matthau - Kotch (not deserved)

Peter Finch - Sunday, Bloody Sunday (deserved)

R64 but they didn't give it to him in the proper show.

Why not condole him instead, r69?

He was such an amazing actor. His performances were always outstanding. I’ll never understand how he never won an Oscar.

I had forgotten about Day of the Locust.

For anyone who hasn't seen it please take a look. Much thanks to the poster upthread.

Kiefer has his father's voice.

Fuck Man I LOVED this dude. Had such a crush on him too. Boo.

is Kiefer still sober? what is he doing these days?

He was single-handedly responsible for tanking Edward Albee's stage adaptation on LOLITA on Broadway. He was a difficult, difficult person. It's probably why he never got a nomination.

Kiefer is still in the closet. I don't know about sober.

Impossible to not like him after playing one of the most likeable fathers in film history.

R73 he probably came closest to being nominated with Ordinary People, JFK, maybe Klute. He would’ve lost all three of these nominations anyway. He had a prolific body of work, and never stopped working his entire career. That, in and of itself, is a reward as an actor.

What I loved about Sutherland is that he never bitched about not being nominated for an Oscar, and never stopped being a great actor. One of my favorite roles that he played was as the serial arsonist in " Backdraft". He is only on for a few minutes but his performance lingers throughout that lousy film. And that is him in a nutshell- the better actor no matter the part or the rest of the show. Loved watching him, and will miss his talent.

He is earth- shaking in " Ordinary People" and as the film ages his performance just gets better, and Mary's - sad to say- feels more like her.

R75. He has his father’s eyes.

[Quote] Bob Seger and Amanda Bynes.

That couple and their torrid relationship!

I'm gonna have to watch ordinary people. I don't think I ever saw it

R85 you’re in for a treat. OP is DL legendary.

R70 His performance in Klute was fine but not outstanding. The person robbed of an Oscar nomination that year was Malcolm McDowall for A Clockwork Orange.

Not one of his better known roles but he was great in the show Dirty Sexy Money.

Kiefer Sutherland was born in the United Kingdom. He has dual citizenship : UK and Canada. Kiefer is not a U.S. citizen

I'm glad that these 1970s actors' deaths are getting a lot of media attention. I wouldn't have predicted that, but it's nice to see. I guess movies from that era are still very much a part of our culture. Ryan O'Neal and James Caan's deaths also got a lot more attention than anyone would have guessed.

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My late mum loved that show, r88. I should have made the time to watch with her.

His 70s political stance probably didn't help his oscar chances.

[quote] His 70s political stance probably didn't help his oscar chances.

I don’t see how that hurt his chances. He was no more of a radical lefty than his contemporaries (especially compared to someone like Jane Fonda).

Ya—that wasn’t why he didn’t get nominated. His best work just fell through the cracks in various years (a tale as old as the Oscars). Being just outside the top 5 is not a snub —it just means you were a few votes short. His honorary Oscar is legit, in the sense it wasn’t done as a cheesy make-up prize like some others.

I wonder why Donald was never on 24. Kiefer went out of his way to bring in actors from Canada and the UK on it and in one case (Alberta Watson) it was a very bad decision.

I don't know r93. He was Canadian and I remember him being outspoken regarding draft dodgers. he wasn't the offspring of a Hollywood legend.

Cool guy. I met him at Peet’s coffee on Montana in Santa Monica. He waited in line for the bathroom like anyone else. He had long flowing gray hair and was wearing a long jacket like he came off the lord of the rings set. I do t think it was for a role. He probably went around like that at that time (2004)

He was a great actor, effortlessly good in anything he did, elevating even small roles or roles in bad movies. He was always completely convincing (reminds me of the what is an actor thread).

Have no idea if he was difficult but maybe one reason he wasn’t nominated was that he didn’t overact nor chose oscar baiting roles. He did his thing and allowed other actors to shine as well.

Goodbye Klute, god damn you!

Buck never would have been in The Hunger Games.

Does this mean we get some relief from those tiresome "Buck wouldn't " posts?

Based on current trends, that’s a no.

He's funny in the underappreciated Little Murders directed by Alan Arkin which reunited Sutherland with his MASH costar Elliott Gould

[quote] Does this mean we get some relief from those tiresome "Buck wouldn't " posts?

Oh, and how do I hurt you? By embarrassing you in front of a friend?

0k r103. 0ther lines are not overdone.

When Vietnam vets and their MAGA underlings still carp about traitor commie Jane Fonda 55 years later, I’ve never heard a peep against Sutherland and he was on that trip to North Vietnam too.

Both Donald and Kiefer are rumored to be well hung .

R105 that knock against Fonda was retired a long time ago…ship sailed 40 years ago.

A few years ago a veteran at a book signing spit in Jane's face.

I was just thinking him in “Day of the Locust” the other day. I was inspired by the Karen Black thread in here.

What Sutherland’s character does to Adore Loomis is horrifying but man, that kid was a shithead, perfectly played by Jackie Earle Haley.

It was 2005 but the point is they still hate Jane.

His memoir, Made Up, But Still True, is due to be published in November.

More people hate her now, albeit without knowing why .

R87 - I respectfully disagree. His performance in Klute was nuanced. It wasn't a broad role like Scott or grumpy old man-ish in like Matthau. Very much like many of his roles. He seems to slip into his roles and become very convincing.

R108 one single bad dude? Yea yea.

I guess the ship didn’t sail 40 years ago, did it R114?

Richard E. Grant said Sutherland's success as an actor gave him hope that he could also get work. Something about how if a man with a long face from a tiny town in Canada could become an actor then maybe a guy with a long face from Eswatini could do it. I guess we can thank Donald Sutherland for Withnail and I.

Kelly's Heroes is one of my favorite movies. He was great in it.

And you're still a venomous fishwife, R78.

Sylvia Fowler. Addison Dewitt. What's with these old queens?

The still rule the worl…the DL.

Go with it 🤷🏻‍♂️

R42, at times like this, we're all Buck.

Great summary.... what a career.

I guess this means the book tour is out of the question?

The story we'll always remember of this day will be

[quote]Donald Sutherland, never-Oscar®-nominated Canadian actor who received a pity prize because everyone else kept dying, finally died today, 45 years after his best-known work....

Damn it. I liked him so much.

RIP.

R107 some still refer to her as Hanoi Jane

R39 perhaps not as many stars of the silent screen dd not have a career that spanned 3 generations

Loved him in MASH.

R113 Sutherland performance is passive and lowkey, and John Klute feels like a supporting role.

Was he a supporter of the lgbt community?

What "edgy", attention-seeking cunt wrote that, r124?

Here is Sutherland accepting his Governors Award

Locust...

[quote] His performance in Klute was fine but not outstanding.

[87] It was considerably more than that.

He took a blank slate of a character and give him an eccentric intensity that conveyed layers that would not have been otherwise there.

His response to Fonda seducing him was remarkable.

[quote] I wonder why Donald was never on 24. Kiefer went out of his way to bring in actors from Canada and the UK on it and in one case (Alberta Watson) it was a very bad decision.

[95] Donald was offered the role of Jack's father, which went to James Cromwell (who later - justifiably - trashed the part and the producers).

The role was misguided from conception.

Jack's father should have been someone who could challenge Jack - an authority figure who is disappointed in the erratic, violent son who destroyed his family.

Instead, he was made into a standard 24 bad guy.

His performance in "Without Limits" remains underrated.

Because of the absence of triumphalism that is at the core of most sports films, "Without Limits" was unique.

Sutherland gave what was - at the time - an increasingly rare glimpse of his true talent as Bowerman.

The actor benefited from a fully fleshed-out role and he gave the character - a man advocating for the way to win but blindsided by Prefontaine's attitude - a weight and poignancy.

The ending really is touching and rests entirely on Sutherland's shoulders.

[Quote] He took a blank slate of a character and give him an eccentric intensity that conveyed layers that would not have been otherwise there.

Not everyone saw it that way Kiefer

Variety

Produced handsomely in New York, but directed tediously by Alan J. Pakula, the film is a suspenser without much suspense. Donald Sutherland shares above-title billing in a line-throwing, third-banana trifle of a part.

He was a great actor. One thinks he did a turn in "Pride and Prejudice" as the father just because he knew he could bring a certain kookiness to that part.

I loved him in that, actually.

Not his best-known role but he was really good in Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

This made me sad.

And yes, I think he was unconventional but very sexy.

He was definitely unconventional looking. But I wouldn't call him ugly, at all. He's not Adam-Driver level ugly.

That was sad to watch, r140. Thank you.

[quote]He was definitely unconventional looking. But I wouldn't call him ugly, at all.

He was definitely not ugly by the standards of what is acceptable to straight women. I, on the other hand, never thought of him as ugly, but rather just not attractive.

He was quite the womanizer in his day.

DS was one of my heroes growing up. My only reservation about him is how he reacted to Robert Altmans revolutionary director style. I wish the two could have made more movies together. RIP Oddball.

Donald Sutherland was so hot in the 1970s.

North Vietnam will declare a day of mourning for their ally

R134 gets it.

I decided we needed to watch a Donald Sutherland movie tonight in honor of his passing. I came upon Citizen X which was an HBO movie. The movie was excellent and DS turned an a very good if not great performance.

The movie might have been titled “Don’t Look Now,” but viewers’ eyes were wide open for one steamy scene.

That’s because the 1973 supernatural horror film starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, who died Thursday at age 88, included one of the most controversial sex sequences in Hollywood history.

The nookie was so realistically shot, many audience members at the time believed it was genuine. Some still do.

Carol fondly remembers Sutherland and talks about his performance opposite Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People@1:35

Great Interview with Anderson Cooper

He never even realized that you can't save French toast!

What a stupid obit. The guy was a movie star long before he touched TV.

[quote]News of Donald Sutherland’s death was posted on a private Facebook group for production crew members. This comment underneath possibly says more than any trade eulogy could.

R38 Holy shit Kiefer was an ugly baby.

Everybody look now.

Donald Sutherland Didn’t Disappear Into Roles, and That Was a Good Thing

Kiefer was adorable!

Nice words from Ron Howard

Note from Fonda.

[quote]R35 It's shocking that Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen, DeNiro, Pacino, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn are still with us.

How dare you - -

While stoned, I watched "Eye of the Needle" and it was really suspenseful and scary. I would recommend it.

That IS a good movie! Kate Nelligan was poised for a great career, but turned out to be a massive cunt that everyone hated working with.

He didn’t stay strong. He didn’t fight.

R160, Oops! I forgot La Dunaway and Dustin Hoffman.

The 70s stars partied hard and did drugs, but they're still here. Why do you think they've lived longer than previous generations?

Of course it was OP. Have you ever been on a movie set? Especially in the 70's.

Donald and MTM had an affair while making Ordinary People.

Don’t look now

Scared the shit outta me

R167 receipts?

Man I woke up the other day needed to post about Donald Sutherland. He was on my mind for some reason. I did a post with his picture in a conversation that didn't even relate.

I'm always working things into conversations let that. Right before celebrities die. Idk why. Anyway liked him in Dirty Dozen.

Actor DONALD SUTHERLAND has no problems remembering the rampant sexual energy in his relationship with JANE FONDA.

Recently watching a clip from the 1971 film KLUTE, in which he co-stars with Jane, Donald was able to recall every small detail of what he did with the actress before that scene. He says, "Oh gosh...I suppose we'd made love probably an hour or two before that, and three or four hours after. "We had wonderful, wonderful year and a half. She was terrific."

Three-times married Donald, whose affair with Jane heralded the break-up of his second marriage, goes misty-eyed in the forthcoming BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION programme SCENE BY SCENE. He adds, "We just had a extraordinary love affair. It allowed me to have a terrific sensual and sexual, loving life after it, with no regrets and just a great deal of joy. And the wish that she has happiness to the end of her life."

Oh wow...yeah, they probably be bonded over their stance on Vietnam

I was outside a theatre on Broadway in the late 1970s and he was talking with fans outside the theatre, signing autographs, etc. He was a beautiful man in a black suit with a very long thin white scarf. He had gorgeous coloring, a slim muscular build and he just oozed sexiness and warmth. I didn't bother him, but my friends and I, both women in our late 20s, were just thrilled and watched him for a while.

I watched "Klute" last night. It was better than I remembered, and I remembered it being pretty damn good.

Wow R164 even 40+ years ago film trailers were giving away the entire plot of the movie.

R167- I bet you Buck did NOT approve.

[quote]Donald and MTM had an affair while making Ordinary People.

That happens on many, many movie sets. Everybody in the 1970s was sleeping with their co-stars. It was a wonderful and free time to be making movies and it showed onscreen.

Hugh Grant has discussed how the atmosphere on film sets has changed considerably since he was starting out, because of the presence of mobile phones in people’s lives.

During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday night (27 March), the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves star said he feels that film sets are “weird” because people aren’t as close as they used to be.

“You know, in the old days, by the end of the second week, you were all getting drunk in the evening and having dinner and falling in love with each other and all that,” he told Colbert.

“And all that stopped because of telephones. Really everyone goes home and looks at Twitter. It’s so sad.”

Colbert then suggested: “So, if there weren’t telephones on set, there’d be more affairs going on?”

“Yeah, I think so,” Grant replied. “You know, [Quentin] Tarantino bans telephones from sets and quite right too, and the people there, they do all shag each other – or so I’m told.”

As someone who’s worked as a PA on movie sets, if you think two people are sleeping together, they probably are. People who work in film (or any kind of arts) tend to be sexually open and libertine.

That being said, I’ve never understood any of the “it was totally real!” nonsense regarding the Don't Look Now sex scene with Julie Christie. There’s tons of meticulous cuts and stagings taking place during that scene, it’s very well done as a stylized piece of filmmaking but doesn’t look “real” at all.

I would take Tarantino and Hugh Grant's judgment with a huge grain of salt. Good luck trying to get people to turn in their phones. This sounds like a policy that's good for only a couple of people. Then Tarantino's assistant would be allowed to hold onto Tarantino's phone and let him know what kinds of calls & texts he's getting -- if and only if he (Tarantino) actually applies the no-phone rule to himself.

15 Great Donald Sutherland Performances to Stream

He did LOLITA on Broadway with Blanche Baker.

It was not a success.

Shirley Stoler played Charlotte Haze.

[Italic]The cast must fend for itself. In the title role, here a minor figure, the 24-year-old Miss Baker does a clever job of impersonating the downy nymphet; she deserves a more substantial stage vehicle soon. The others - who also include Clive Revill imitating Peter Sellers's movie characterization of Clare Quilty - fare badly. One feels especially sorry for Mr. Sutherland, a very fine actor who here is asked to yuk at his own bad jokes, to affect prissy hand gestures and to flounce about like a broken puppet.

My late husband met Mr. Sutherland in line at LAX several years ago. He came up and asked my husband where the line ended. My husband said "You know, you look just like Donald Sutherland.", and he replied (with that devilish grin) "That's probably because I am." My husband said "My wife just loves you", and he was so appreciative that "anyone knew who he was". Totally humble encounter, and he was just charming.

[quote]That being said, I’ve never understood any of the “it was totally real!” nonsense regarding the Don't Look Now sex scene with Julie Christie. There’s tons of meticulous cuts and stagings taking place during that scene, it’s very well done as a stylized piece of filmmaking but doesn’t look “real” at all.

The Greatest Sex Scene In Horror | DON'T LOOK NOW (1973)

R185, it was a great scene, so erotic but it added nothing to the movie and was out of place.

Backdraft was on last night with a lot of familiar faces and Donald’s bit part was the best.

Following last year’s release in Canada of a domestic stamp featuring Donald Sutherland, he let it be known he’d be thrilled if people wrote a postcard to him with one of his stamps on it. I did so, and took the opportunity to thank him for his performances, mentioning in particular two or three that were very fine but perhaps less celebrated. Imagine my delight when I received a charming postcard from him in return.

Wow, that is really cool R188.

R186 I didn't find it the least bit erotic. Bibi Andersson's monologue in Person 1965 is.

Persona^^^

[Quote] I respectfully disagree. His performance in Klute was nuanced

from the opening scene he says very little. he's taciturn throughout.