However his profession has spanned so many beloved tasks that he grew to become a family identify for a number of generations.
His cinematic legacy covers a breadth of style, from dramatic roles in “JFK” and “Backdraft” to comedies like “Idiot’s Gold,” the 2008 romance caper starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. He additionally famously revealed his cheekier aspect within the 1978 comedy traditional “Animal Home.”
In “The Starvation Video games” franchise, he portrayed the villainous Panem President Coriolanus Snow, dealing with off in opposition to Jennifer Lawrence as younger heroine Katniss Everdeen. He additionally performed the function of loving father within the 2005 adaptation of “Satisfaction & Prejudice,” which starred Keira Knightley.
A franchise primarily based on a younger grownup guide sequence, “The Starvation Video games” could have appeared an unlikely function for Sutherland. However the actor advised the BBC in 2015 that he hoped the blockbuster hit would encourage younger individuals to be extra politically concerned.
He described the eagerness of younger followers who confirmed as much as premieres as “extraordinary.”
“I’ve been satisfied for the final 30 years that they weren’t considering politically in any respect,” he advised the BBC. “The aim of everyone concerned on this was attempt to get them engaged.”
Sutherland additionally took on roles for the smaller display, profitable an Emmy for HBO’s “Citizen X.” The 1995 made-for-television film depicted the hunt for a serial killer within the Soviet Union, primarily based on a real-life prison case.
His tv work in recent times included reveals comparable to “Lawmen: Bass Reeves,” “Commander in Chief” and “Crossing Strains.”
Though Sutherland was by no means nominated for an Academy Award, he’s been nominated for 9 Golden Globes — together with for Finest Actor in 1980’s acclaimed Robert Redford directed movie, “Atypical Folks” — and gained twice, for “Citizen X” and 2002’s HBO authentic film “Path to Battle.”
Rob Lowe, who co-starred with Sutherland within the mini-series “Salem’s Lot,” provided condolences to the actor’s household. He wrote in a put up on X that society misplaced “one in all our best actors.”
“It was my honor to work with him a few years in the past, and I’ll always remember his charisma and talent,” Lowe wrote. “In order for you a grasp class in performing, watch him in ‘Atypical Folks’.”
Sutherland has 5 youngsters, daughter Rachel and sons Roeg, Rossif, Angus, and Kiefer. He starred alongside Kiefer — an completed actor in his personal proper because the star of the “24” TV franchise and flicks comparable to “The Misplaced Boys” and “Younger Weapons” — within the movie “Forsaken,” a western that centered across the relationship between a father and son.
In a 2016 interview with NBC’s “TODAY” present, he stated that after they checked out one another throughout their scenes they every noticed behind the eyes of an actor and into the eyes of father and son.
“It informs the scenario and it is imagined to,” he stated. “It is what we wished.”
Kiefer solely had reward for his father, saying it was nearly like “dishonest” relatively than performing.
“I’ve all the time felt that not solely is my father one of the crucial prolific actors within the English language, however he is additionally one of the crucial vital,” he advised the “TODAY” present. “He is somebody I’ve wished to work with for my complete profession.”
Sutherland by no means gained an Oscar for any of his roles, however the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences did bestow an honorary award upon the actor in 2017. Stars comparable to Colin Farrell, Jennifer Lawrence and Whoopi Goldberg delivered speeches paying tribute to his influence on them personally in addition to the business.
Farrell described Sutherland’s characters as “distinctive, unforgettable and completely distinctive.”