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Hollywood is mourning the loss of life of Emmy and Golden Globe winner Donald Sutherland. The actor died Thursday, June 20, in Miami after an extended sickness, CAA confirmed to Selection. He was 88.
Donald’s son Kiefer Sutherland additionally confirmed the information in a social media publish. “With a heavy coronary heart, I inform you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has handed away,” he wrote by way of X on Thursday. “I personally assume some of the necessary actors within the historical past of movie. By no means daunted by a job, good, dangerous or ugly. He liked what he did and did what he liked, and one can by no means ask for greater than that. A life properly lived.”
As a part of his publish, Kiefer included a throwback picture of himself as a baby hanging out along with his dad.
For practically 60 years, the Canadian-born actor discovered success on the large and small display. His on-screen credit embrace M*A*S*H, Delight & Prejudice, Klute and The Starvation Video games movie collection the place he performed President Snow.
Most just lately, he appeared as Decide Parker on the collection Lawmen: Bass Reeves and within the Swimming With Sharks collection in 2022.
“I’ve unimaginable respect for my father’s work,” Keifer informed The Canadian Press in 2016 when praising his dad. “I imagine he’s not solely some of the prolific, however I feel he’s one of many nice necessary actors within the English language.”
In reality, the father-son duo had the chance to share the identical display collectively within the 2015 western movie Forsaken. “I used to be nervous,” Keifer beforehand mentioned in regards to the alternative. “It’s one thing that I’ve needed to do since I began work.”
When Kiefer was rising up, he was raised by his mom, Shirley Douglas. In an interview with PEOPLE, he defined that he couldn’t watch lots of his dad’s earlier motion pictures as a result of they have been rated R. It wasn’t till he turned 18 when Kiefer found his dad’s true abilities.
“I keep in mind feeling actually dangerous as a son that I wasn’t conscious of not solely how prolific my father was as an actor however what he had actually contributed to the artwork of cinema,” he informed the publication in 2016.
Fortuitously, he obtained to witness his father be acknowledged for his profession together with the second Donald obtained the 2017 Honorary Oscar award from the Academy’s Board of Governors.
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