'He loved what he did': actor Donald Sutherland dies after long illness

Donald Sutherland, whose acting career spanned six decades and included films such as Don't Look Now, M*A*S*H and The Hunger Games, has died in Miami after a long illness, aged 88, his representatives said.

- Andrew Pulver

His son, the actor Kiefer Sutherland, also shared the news on X.

"With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away," he wrote. "I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly.

He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived."

Sutherland appeared in more than 190 films and TV shows and embodied an off-kilter appeal that served him brilliantly in a series of classic 1970s movies, which gradually evolved into a veteran gravitas in the latter stages of his career. He did not win a major award for any of his film roles and was never nominated for a conventional Oscar - but he did win two Golden Globes for best supporting actor for the TV movies Citizen X (in 1996) and Path to War (in 2003). Sutherland received an honorary Oscar in 2017.