RIP: Donald Sutherland, 88

[thewayne]

A very long and storied career, Sutherland pioneered the role of Hawkeye Pierce in the film M*A*S*H and Alan Alda later went up to him and said 'Thank you for giving me my career!'. He was Buffy's Watcher in the film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a plotter alongside Sean Connery in The Great Train Robbery, for me his most memorable role was as Sgt. Oddball in Kelly's Heroes, a WW II heist movie by Clint Eastwood: 'There you go with the negative vibes again, Moriarity!' And, of course, President Snow in The Hunger Games.

Quite the list of awards, including Prime Time Emmys, a Razzie, the French Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, but no Oscar. Still, he was recognized around the world.

Quite the career and lots of good work to look back on.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/donald-sutherland-dead-obituary-1033141/

Comments

[captainsblog]

The initial offer made to the star by Animal House director Jon Landis– who’d already done Landis a solid when he spent one day working on Kentucky Fried Movie as a favour – was either his day rate of $25,000 or 2% of Animal House‘s total gross. Hardly expecting the raucous comedy to take flight at the box office, Sutherland settled for the former.

In the end, for playing professor Dave Jennings, Sutherland netted $35,000 in total for his contributions to the movie. Unfortunately for him, he missed out on one of the most lucrative paydays of his career when Animal House went on to earn more than $130million from Stateside cinemas alone.

[thewayne]

Huh.  Just shows to go ya!

[disneydream06]

I just saw that news.
Very sad. :(
Hugs, Jon

[silveradept]

Unfortunate that we have not yet found the secret to making sure we live as long as we want to.