Donald Sutherland is a Canadian actor whose net worth now is $40 million. Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick (Canada) on July 17th, 1935. He studied engineering and drama at the University of Toronto, and later in 1958, he moved to London to pursue his studies at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
First roles
At the age of thirteen, he participated in an Italian horror film and then, as an actor in the early 1960s in small roles in movies and television, later to get some notable roles in horror films with Christopher Lee as Castle of the Living Dead Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors.
First successes
He later achieved his first successes with The Dirty Dozen (1967), but where he achieved fame and stardom, was as an American soldier in Korea, in the hit comedy M * A * S * H (1970) along with Elliot Gould directed by Robert Altman. Later, that same year he worked in another successful film: Kelly’s Heroes along with Clint Eastwood.
The following year, he performed one of his best roles in Klute (1971) with Jane Fonda, and filmed in Venice the remarkable Do Not Look Now, a modern classic. The 1970s saw him busy with important roles as in the psychological horror trilogy Threat in the Shadow of 1973, or the award-winning The Eagle Has Landed (1976), where he shared the scene with Robert Duvall, and Michael Caine.
With Fellini and Bertolucci
In 1976, he started working with the Italian director Federico Fellini to put the skin of the famous Italian seducer Giacomo Casanova in the film Casanova. That same year and taking advantage of his Italian stay, Sutherland performed in the super production Novecento (or 1900), an epic film about Italian fascism, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, and where he received good reviews for his work.
In 1978, participated in the successful science fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a remake from the original one made in 1956, next to Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy and his friend Robert Duvall.
1980s and 1990s.
Beginning in the 1980s, he was applauded for his portrayal of a devastated father by the loss of his son at Robert Redford’s Academy Award-winning Oscars Ordinary People. In 1981, marked Sutherland’s return to the theatrical scenes. The event took place on Broadway, and the chosen play was an adaptation of Edward Albee’s well-known Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
In 1985, Donald Sutherland worked in the film Revolution along with Al Pacino, although the film did not have success, and it did not receive good critics. In 1989, he was awarded for his performance in the drama A Dry White Season, which took place during Apartheid in South Africa, sharing the scene with Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon.
Private life
He has been married three times. Between 1959 and 1966 with Lois Hardwick; Later with Shirley Douglas from 1967 to 1970 with whom he had two children, Rachel and Kiefer Sutherland (actor and director, known mainly by his character in the television series 24). He is currently married to actress Francine Racette, with whom he has had three children.
