Donald Sutherland has died
Donald Sutherland has died
The star of films including The Hunger Games and Animal House has died after a long illness.
I liked him as the king of the Matrix in the third Matrix movie
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Canadian actor Donald Sutherland, star of films including The Hunger Games and Don't Look Now, has died at 88 after a long illness.
The news was met with an outpouring of support and tributes.Cary Elwes, a co-star in the 2001 television film Uprising, said he was "devastated" by Sutherland's death.
His earliest high-profile roles were in war films including 1967's The Dirty Dozen, and Kelly's Heroes and MAS*H from 1970.Jane Fonda was Sutherland's co-star in Alan J Pakula's 1971 thriller, Klute, about a detective whose hunt for a missing person is assisted by a high-priced call girl.They dated for two years.
The 1970s also saw him play an IRA member in The Eagle Has Landed, a pot-smoking college professor in National Lampoon's Animal House and the lead in the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.In the 1980s, Sutherland played the father of a suicidal teenager in the Oscar-winning Ordinary People.
He turned to television in the 2000s, appearing in such series as Dirty Sexy Money and Commander-in-Chief.Despite his numerous roles, he was never nominated for an Oscar.
He also channelled his beliefs into some of his roles, including The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, where he played the tyrannical President Snow.Sutherland told the BBC in 2015 that he hoped the film's socio-political message would help young fans become more aware of the world around them.
The original article contains 607 words, the summary contains 229 words. Saved 62%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!