Early Life

Sutherland was innate within Saint John, New Brunswick and grew up inside Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, the grandson of a Protestant minister. Sutherland had his number 1 a portion period job aged Fourteen as a news correspondent for his local radio station CKBW Radio within Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. He so exposed at Victoria College, University of Toronto (where he was expelled from either home for throwing the sink away from the window) at length graduating by having a double major within engineering & drama. He experienced at one point been the member of "UC Follies" comedy company inside Toronto. He changed his mind all about becoming an engineer & later left Canada for England to study at a London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

Acting Career
In the early 1960s he began to get little area inside British film and TV, in the mid 1960s getting notable roles in horror films with Christopher Lee such as Castle of the Living Dead (1964), and ''Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965). His number one neat successes come sustaining a terzetto war films The Dirty Dozen in 1967 with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, in 1970 as the lead Capt. 'Hawkeye' Pierce'' around Robert Altman's M*A*S*H and as tank commander Sgt. Flake around ''Kelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas. Sutherland formed an intimate friendly relationship sustaining a actress Jane Fonda during the cinematography of the Academy award winning detective thriller Klute (1971), Sutherland later remarked that it experienced got the physical relationship off and on screen (to critic Mark Cousins inside 2001). Sutherl& & Fonda went in to co-create and star together in the anti Vietnam war film F.T.The. (1972) consisting of a series of sketches performed outside army bases in the Pacific Rim and interviews with a U.s. troops world health organizatiin were so on active service. Sutherland detected himself desired as a leading human throughout a 1970s in films such as a Venice based psychological horror Don't Look Now (1973), the war film The Eagle Has Landed (1976), and as the ever optimistic health inspector in the sci-fi horror Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) alongside Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum. He besides mass produced acclaimed performances in the 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci Italian fascism epic (318 microscopic) 1900 and for his role as a torn father in the Academy award winning family drama Ordinary People (1980) alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton. He played a a share of fellow countryman, Canadian Norman Bethune, a doctor, humanistic & hero inside China with whom he identified, in both separate biographical films in 1977 and 1990. Through the 1980s and 1990s his films were perhaps less noteworthy than victims in the 70s, exceptions being a South African apartheid drama A Dry White Season (1989) alongside Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon, the fire fighter thriller Backdraft (1991) alongside Kurt Russell and De Niro, and when a clubby NY art dealer in Six Degrees of Separation (1993) with Stockard Channing and Will Smith. Recently he hwhen been noted for his role as a Reverend Monroe in the civil war drama Cold Mountain (2003), in the re-make of The Italian Job (2003), and inside Pride and Prejudice (2005) starring alongside Keira Knightley.

Personal Life
He was married to the actress Shirley Douglas from 1966-1970, daughter of American democratic socialist statesman Tommy Douglas by whom he has the girl Rachel & a boy Kiefer Sutherland, a large actor & director, better known for his role in the TV series 24. He was antecedently married to Lois Hardwick (1959-1966) (divorced), and briefly got a relationship using the actress Jane Fonda during the early 1970s. He met his todays married woman, a French-Canadian actress Francine Racette on the set of the American pioneer drama Alien Thunder (1974) (she was later to star in the classic war drama Au revoir les enfants (1987). Together it use ternion sons (entirely known as when directors world health organization it worked sustaining) Roeg b.1974, Rossif b.1978 (appeared in the 2003 film based on a Michael Crichton novel Timeline and the 2005 film Red Doors), and Angus Redford b.1979.

Sutherland was manufactured an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978.

Filmography
Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Castle of the Living Dead (1964) Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) The Bedford Incident (1965) Promise Her Anything (1966) The Dirty Dozen (1967) The Sunshine Patriot (1968) The Split (1968) Interlude (1968) Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) M*A*S*H (1970) Kelly's Heroes (1970) Alex in Wonderland (1970) Act of the Heart (1970) Little Murders (1971) Klute (1971) Johnny Got His Gun (1971) F.T.A. (1972) Steelyard Blues (1973) Lady Ice (1973) Don't Look Now (1973) Alien Thunder (1973) S*P*Y*S (1974) The Day of the Locust (1975) End of the Game (1976) The Eagle Has Landed (1976) Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976) 1900 (1976) Blood Relatives (1977) The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) The Disappearance (1977) Bethune (1977) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Murder by Decree (1979) A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979) The Great Train Robbery (1979) Bear Island (1979) Ordinary People (1980) Nothing Personal (1980) Threshold (1981) Gas (1981) Eye of the Needle (1981) The Winter of Our Discontent (1983) Max Dugan Returns (1983) Ordeal by Innocence (1984) Crackers (1984) Revolution (1985) Heaven Help Us (1985) The Wolf at the Door (1986) The Trouble with Spies (1987) The Rosary Murders (1987) Apprentice to Murder (1988) Lost Angels (1989) Lock Up (1989) A Dry White Season (1989) Buster's Bedroom (1990) Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990) Scream of Stone (1991) Long Road Home (1991) JFK (1991) Eminent Domain (1991) Backdraft (1991) The Railway Station Man (1992) Quicksand: No Escape (1992) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) Younger and Younger (1993) Six Degrees of Separation (1993) Shadow of the Wolf (1993) Benefit of the Doubt (1993) The Puppet Masters (1994) Punch (1994) Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994) The Lifeforce Experiment (1994) Disclosure (1994) Outbreak (1995) Hollow Point (1995) Citizen X (1995) A Time to Kill (1996) The Assignment (1997) Shadow Conspiracy (1997) Free Money (1998) Fallen (1998) Without Limits (1998) Behind the Mask (1999) Virus (1999) Instinct (1999) The Hunley (1999) Toscano (1999) The Setting Sun (1999) Panic (2000) Space Cowboys (2000) The Art of War (2000) Threads of Hope (voice) (2000) Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (voice) (2001) Uprising (TV) (2001) Queen Victoria's Empire (TV) (voice) (2001) Big Shot's Funeral A Chinese Comedy directed by Xiaogang Feng (2002) Path to War (tv) (2002) The Italian Job (2003) Piazza delle cinque lune (2003) Baltic Storm (2003) Cold Mountain (2003) Salem's Lot (TV) (2004) Frankenstein (TV) (2004) Aurora Borealis (2004) Fierce People (2005) Pride and Prejudice (2005) American Gun (2005) Lord Of War (2005 movie cameo, Face non Seen) Commander-in-Chief (TV) (2005)