Kiefer Sutherland took to social media to recollect his late father, the legendary actor Donald Sutherland, who died on June 20 at 88 years previous after a protracted sickness. The “24” and “The Misplaced Boys” actor remembered his father as a performer who cherished his craft and an actor who was one among Hollywood’s most necessary stars.
“With a heavy coronary heart, I inform you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has handed away,” Donald wrote in a press release on his social media platforms. “I personally suppose one of the crucial necessary actors within the historical past of movie. By no means daunted by a task, good, dangerous or ugly. He cherished what he did and did what he cherished, and one can by no means ask for greater than that. A life properly lived.”
Kiefer is one among Donald’s 4 sons (his brothers are Roeg, Rossif and Angus). The late actor additionally had a daughter, Rachel. Kiefer adopted in his father’s footsteps as an actor, and the father-son duo starred collectively in tasks a number of instances all through the years, together with the films “Max Dugan Returns” (1983), “Forsaken” (2015) and “A Time to Kill” (1996).
Donald turned a countercultural icon as an actor after showing in motion pictures corresponding to “The Soiled Dozen,” “MASH,” “Klute” and “Don’t Look Now.” He later linked to a youthful era of moviegoers by starring reverse Jennifer Lawrence as President Snow in “The Starvation Video games” franchise. Donald additionally made his mark on tv, profitable a supporting actor Emmy for HBO’s “Citizen X” in 1995 and incomes a nomination 2006 for the Lifetime miniseries “Human Trafficking.”
A personal celebration of life in honor of Donald might be held by the household at a later date.