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Donald Sutherland Wiki Biography

Donald McNichol Sutherland, a Canadian actor who has worked on more than 50 films in both leading and supporting roles, was born on 17 July 1935 in Saint John, New Brunswick Canada, of English, German and Scottish lineage He has played a diverse range of roles in his lengthy career, and he has a combined number of more than 150 shows and films under his belt. His versatile roles and huge number of movies and shows is the reason for his huge net worth.

A famous and experienced Canadian actor, how rich is Donald Sutherland? Sources estimate that Sutherland has a net worth of $40 million dollars, mostly accumulated through his vast career as an actor during which he has appeared in that huge number of movies and shows.

Donald Sutherland struggled through a lot of health issues during his childhood, including poliomyelitis, rheumatic fever and hepatitis. Although born in Saint John, he spent his teenage years in Nova Scotia where he got his first job at athe early age of 14, working at a local radio station. He attended Bridgewater High School before going to Victoria College at the University of Toronto, from where he graduated with a double major degree in engineering and in drama. He soon lost interest in pursuing a career in engineering and went to Britain to study at gthe London Academy of Music and Art. He then joined the Perth Repertory theatre located in Scotland, and was cast in small roles in some British movies and shows. He left Britain and went to try his luck Hollywood after getting a breakthrough in the movie “The Dirty Dozen”. He was then featured in two consecutive war based films named “MASH” and “Kelly’s Heroes”. During the shooting of “Klute” Sutherland and Jane Fonda came closer to each other romantically and later starred together in various movies including “Steelyard Blues”. Between 1980 to 2000 he starred in various award winning movies and shows and reached a rare level of popularity, thus increasing his net worth significantly.

Sutherland’s recent works include “Cold Mountain”, “The Italian job” and “Pride and Prejudice”. Sutherland also appeared in the TV shows “Commander in Chief” and “Dirty Sexy Money”. He has a distinct voice which has been used various times on radio commercials and television ads, including commercials for Volvo, Simply Orange and Delta Airlines.

Donald has numerous awards, including stars on both Canada’s and Hollywood’s Walks of Fame.

In his personal life, Sutherland has married three time, firstly to Lois Hardwick(1959-66), then to Shirley Douglas(1966-70) – their son is actor Kiefer Sutherland – and he has been married to Francine Racette, whom he met during the shooting of “Alien Thunder”, since 1972; they have three sons named Rossif, Angus and Roeg, all named after famous directors Sutherland has worked with. He showed his support for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama through his blog on the website called Huffington post. He currently owns a mansion in Georgeville, Quebec.

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Donald Sutherland Quick Info

Donald Sutherland Trademarks

1. More often than not sports a beard
2. Rich, mellifluous voice
3. Offbeat grin and bold blue eyes
4. Towering height and slender frame
5. Adds a touch of eccentricity (sometimes much more than a touch) to each role
6. Blond hair

Donald Sutherland Quotes

• Jennifer Lawrence is as good an actress as you’re going to find anywhere. In The Hunger Games (2012), she’s playing a character who’s a genius in the Shavian sense that Joan of Arc was a genius. And she does it with such clarity. It’s incredible to see how clearly that character develops.
• [on Julie Christie] Julie has such a wonderful film presence and fulfills everything I admire in a performer in that she — more specifically than almost anyone else — works for the director and recognizes that the film is created by the director in the way Jeanne Moreau did for Louis Malle.
• [on Jane Fonda] Jane’s person is more specific than most of us. She’s well disciplined and knows what she wants and where she’s going and works objectively to apply all her information to that intention. With Jane, the character and force is embodied in her persona and it’s a lovely, delicate and self-deprecating human.
• [on his early roles] Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!
• Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house I was living in. From what I understood, he was having an affair with the wife of the man he was designing the house for. That man was very tall. So Wright, short and vain, designs the house in such a way that a tall person couldn’t live in it without severe cranial damage. I hit my head *all* the time.
• When you’re working for a good director, you become subjective and submissive. You become his concubine. All that you’re seeking is his pleasure.
• I was up for a great part but they told me: “Sorry, you’re the best actor but this part calls for a guy-next-door type. You don’t look as if you’ve ever lived next door to anyone.”
• Pauline Kael reviewed The Day of the Locust (1975): “There’s nothing specifically wrong with Donald Sutherland’s performance. It’s just awful.” That was the most destructive, stupid piece of criticism I’ve ever received. I stopped reading reviews after that.

Donald Sutherland Important Facts

• $40,000
• $100,000
• £1,000
• Was considered for the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
• Has English, German and Scottish ancestry.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7024 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 26, 2011.
• He was an ardent fan of the Montreal Expos baseball team ever since it was founded. In the beginning of the 1983 season, when it looked like the team would finally be good enough to win the National League title, he ordered his agent not to accept any offers during the season, so that he could follow the team without distractions, even to the point of attending all of their games on their road trips. (The Expos failed to meet expectations and finished third).
• Member of the ‘Official Competition’ jury at the 69th Cannes International Film Festival in 2016.
• Has worked with eight directors who have won a Best Director Oscar: John Schlesinger, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Redford, Ron Howard, Oliver Stone, Barry Levinson, Clint Eastwood and Anthony Minghella.
• He replaced Richard Harris as the IRA terrorist Liam Devlin in The Eagle Has Landed (1976) after it was discovered that Harris had attended a fundraiser for the Provisional IRA in the United States.
• Has played a grieving father in both Don’t Look Now (1973) and Ordinary People (1980).
• Has been in four movies where aliens took over human beings: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Puppet Masters (1994), Virus (1999), and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001). In Virus (1999), they made human-robot hybrids. In the Final Fantasy movie, they were spirits from another planet that took over and killed the humans.
• When polled by the American Film Institute, Sutherland chose Great Expectations (1946) as his favorite film.
• As of 2014, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: MASH (1970), Ordinary People (1980) and JFK (1991). Ordinary People (1980) won in the category.
• Has rarely worked more than once with the same film director, which is something quite uncommon for an actor with a long career. The only exceptions he made (so far) are appearing in four films directed by Christian Duguay, two films by Nicolas Roeg, two films by Robert Towne, two films by Hugh Hudson and three films by Francis Lawrence.
• He was awarded a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario in 2000.
• He and his son Kiefer Sutherland have both played artist Paul Gauguin.
• Received his double major in Engineering and Drama from the University of Toronto. He had originally intended to become an engineer before trying acting.
• In the “making of” documentary for The Dirty Dozen (1967) Special Edition DVD, Sutherland says the was one of the “last dozen”, meaning he was not going to have many lines. However when they were preparing to film the scene where Major Reisman (‘Lee Marvin’ (I) (qV)) had to convince Colonel Breed (Robert Ryan) that a general was among them, it was supposed to be Posey (Clint Walker). However, Walker refused to do the scene so director Robert Aldrich picked Sutherland to do the scene. After that, Sutherland’s role was expanded rather more. The Dirty Dozen (1967) is credited with helping Sutherland get more attention from filmmakers, thus launching his career. According to Sutherland, sometime later, Aldrich asked him to be in another movie but Sutherland declined. He says in the documentary that turning down Aldrich was one of his greatest regrets as an actor as he felt he owed Aldrich for helping to launch his career.
• Partook in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver as the voice-over narrator describing the history of Canada and was also one of the flag bearers of the Olympic flag.
• Was offered the role of Wyatt Earp in Doctor Who (1963): The Gunfighters but was not free so John Alderson took the role.
• His son, Kiefer Sutherland, appeared in Stand by Me (1986), based on a short story by Stephen King. Donald later appeared in Salem’s Lot (2004). Donald has himself appeared in two Michael Crichton adaptations: The Great Train Robbery (1979) and Disclosure (1994), while is other son Rossif Sutherland appears in Timeline (2003).
• Lives in Santa Monica, California.
• Is a huge fan of the television series 24 (2001), and never misses an episode. He declined an offer to play Jack Bauer’s father, Philip Bauer, in the series’ sixth season.
• Achieved cinematic fame in two completely different and contrasting war films. One was the cynical, edgy, sarcastic Korean War comedy MASH (1970), and the other was the gritty, action packed, violent World War II action film The Dirty Dozen (1967).
• Although several sources list that he and Francine Racette were married in 1974, Donald stated in a May 2000 London Daily Mail article that they did not marry until August 1990. They met in 1974 and lived together for 16 years.
• Prefers to shoot the opening scenes of a movie last in order to better set the tone of the movie to the audience.
• Originally wanted to be a sculptor, but decided to be an actor after witnessing people praise a drawing of Churchill that he thought was awful (he realized he could not make art to please other people). He had never attended a theater performance, and still had not when he received his first role. Thus he was behind the proscenium arch before ever having been in front of it.
• He was so shocked by his own performance as the sadistic, perverse fascist leader in 1900 (1976), that he was unable to watch the film for years.
• Is distantly related to the former Governor of Vermont, Howard Dean.
• His great-grandmother through male line was a third cousin of President Rutherford Birchard Hayes.
• He and Kiefer Sutherland are both Emmy Award winners. He won in 1996 for Citizen X (1995), and ten years later, Kiefer won for 24 (2001).
• Between 1958 and 1960, he went to England and studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
• He and Alan Alda both play Republicans with Presidential aspirations on television. Alda appears on The West Wing (1999), Sutherland appears on Commander in Chief (2005).
• Has played together with his son Kiefer Sutherland in two movies: Max Dugan Returns (1983) and A Time to Kill (1996) where they play enemies.
• Has starred on the television series Commander in Chief (2005) with Leslie Hope. During the first season of 24 (2001), Leslie Hope played the wife of his son, Kiefer Sutherland.
• Grandfather of Sarah Sutherland, father of Kiefer Sutherland and Camelia Kath.
• Had a near-death experience in 1979 when he was sick with meningitis. Doctors told him he had died for a time, and he claims to have had an out-of-body experience.
• He was awarded the OC (Officer of the Order of Canada) by the Governor General of Canada on December 18, 1978 for his services to drama.
• Made two guest appearances on The Saint (1962), playing two different characters.
• Has two roles in common with Alan Alda. Sutherland played Flan in Six Degrees of Separation (1993), the role Alda played in an audio-book publication. Sutherland also played Hawkeye Pierce in MASH (1970), the role Alda played on M*A*S*H (1972).
• He was originally cast as Franklyn Madson in Dead Again (1991), but was eventually replaced by Derek Jacobi.
• As with son Kiefer Sutherland, named after director Warren Kiefer, he named his other son, Roeg Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland’s half-brother, after Don’t Look Now (1973) director Nicolas Roeg.
• Being very tall, Sutherland has long since had a habit of slouching over so he could meet other actors eye to eye.
• Has appeared in The Day of the Locust (1975) as a character named Homer Simpson, and then later made a guest appearance on The Simpsons (1989).
• Has appeared throughout MASH (1970) wearing glasses and a fishing bucket hat. This look was later mirrored by his son, Kiefer Sutherland, in Article 99 (1992).
• Even though he receives top billing in The Day of the Locust (1975), he does not appear in the film for the first 42 minutes.
• Has two children with Shirley Douglas: Kiefer Sutherland and Rachel Sutherland.
• In 2003, twice played a character who dies who was the father of a young woman, in Cold Mountain (2003) and The Italian Job (2003). Both actresses (Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron) were nominated for Best Actress (although Theron was nominated for Monster (2003) and not her role in The Italian Job (2003).
• Former son-in-law of Tommy Douglas.
• Both Sutherland and Alan Alda, who took up the role of Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H (1972) suffered from polio as children.
• He was featured in the computer game “Conspiracy” (digitised video and sound).
• Has three sons with Francine Racette: Roeg Sutherland, Rossif Sutherland and Angus Sutherland.
• In addition to an on-screen small role as a computer scientist in Billion Dollar Brain (1967), he also provided the mechanical voice for the eponymous “brain”.
• Has dubbed (uncredited) the role taken by English actor William Devlin in The Shuttered Room (1967).
• Turned down starring in The Sweet Hereafter (1997) because the salary was too low. His role eventually went to Ian Holm.
• Radio interview with Michael Enright on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “This Morning” [February 29, 2000].
• Was a member of the “UC Follies” comedy troupe in Toronto, Ontario.
• Attended and graduated from Bridgewater High School in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.
• At age 14, his first part-time job was as a news correspondent for local radio station, CKBW.
• Grew up in the town of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, where he also graduated from high school.

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