2024-07-05 05:55:27
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Text: Fede Gayardo
Canadian actor Donald Sutherland, known for films such as “Mash” and “The Hunger Games,” has died in Miami at the age of 88, his son Kiefer Sutherland confirmed.
In a post on social media X, the artist’s son considered that his father “was one of the most important actors in the history of cinema. He was never intimidated by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that.”
His death was announced on Thursday, but the family has not yet revealed the cause of his death.
The character of Hawkeye Pierce in “Mash” earned Donald Sutherland an important place in the cinematic memory of film buffs worldwide.
He also went on to portray the hippie tank commander in “Kelly’s Heroes” and the drugged-out professor in “Animal House.”
During his long career, the actor also showed his talent in more formal, but still eccentric, roles in films by renowned directors such as Robert Redford’s “Ordinary People” and Oliver Stone’s “JFK.”
Among his most recent works is “The Hunger Games,” where despite his advanced age he showed that “I love to work with passion” until his last days, as he once said.
“I love working. I love working with passion (…) I love the feeling that my hand fits into the glove of some other character. I feel an enormous freedom: time stops for me. I’m not as crazy as I used to be, but I’m still a little bit crazy,” Sutherland told Charlie Rose in 1998, quoted by the AP news agency.
The actor has spent the past 10 years working mostly on television, most notably on HBO’s “Path to War,” where he played Clark Clifford, President Lyndon Johnson’s Secretary of Defense.
Her autobiography, “Made Up, But Still True,” will be published next November.