RIP Donald Sutherland

Was in the process of rereading Ken Follett's Eye of the Needle this morning. Went to work and learned of Sutherland's death. He played the lead in the film version. Good flick, btw, but drags a bit in the final third or so.
Great actor.

 

I find Milton just as boring as you find Milton. A teacher tellling it like it is.

RIP.

 

Sutherland was much closer to the book version.

 

While he had much more prominent roles, many of which have been mentioned here, he was fantastic in “Citizen X.”

It’s a 1995 made-for-HBO movie with Stephen Rea, Max Von Sydow and Jeffrey DeMunn about the worst serial killer in Soviet history. It’s available on Max.

 

Ordinary People.

 

Then you’d better not see “Don’t Look Now”.

RIP to an actor who enhanced almost everything he was in.

 

Definitely one of those actors who made you lean forward when he was on the screen. "Interesting" is probably the best word I can use to describe him. Whatever role he played, you always KNEW there was something going on behind the lines he'd read. Never f-king even NOMINATED for an Oscar? Are you KIDDING ME? He did receive an honorary Oscar in 2017 - which says to me, the Academy knew they screwed up.
If you are looking for a Sutherland project that you may have missed. Track down "Dirty Sexy Money" - an ABC show from the 2000s that he was brilliant in. Great cast.

 

Sutherland apparently cared deeply about Canadian politics.

 

Was just coming here to post that.
I’ll watch Beerfest tonight.

 

Doesn’t it run in the family?

 

"Pinkley ... you wanna be a general?"

 

Sutherland played it closer to the version in the book, which I always thought was better than the movie and the TV series. The book is funny from first page to last, especially the chapter where Trapper grew his hair long in the summer and the boys thought he looked like Jesus Christ. They put in a loin cloth, tied him to a cross and took him by helicopter to neighboring bases for a series of second comings. They did collections and paid for the houseboy to go to college in the U.S.
His comment: "Always knew I'd make good but I never thought I'd get to the top so fast."
That chapter never made it to the TV show or the movie.
Sutherland and Gould were fantastic together.