Donald Sutherland didn’t disappear into roles, and that was a good thing

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The long list of his roles and accomplishments shows a man who understood emotion well.

Actor Donald Sutherland worked constantly and, unlike some actors of his generation, never really seemed like he belonged to a single era.

As an actor, he could do it all. His turn as the titular private detective opposite Jane Fonda in Alan Pakula’s 1971 Klute rides a tricky knife’s edge – is he a good guy? Does that term have a meaning in this case? He had already been at it for more than 40 years when he showed up in Joe Wright’s 2005 Pride And Prejudice, in what seemed like a minor part: Mr Bennet, put-upon father to five daughters in yet another adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel.

That movie does not represent the start of a Sutherland-aissance, since his career did not need reviving. But his early performances had been set in an age when institutions were not to be trusted, and movies were suspicious of anyone in power. He felt “it could wake up an electorate that had been dormant since the 1970s”, so he wrote a letter to director Gary Ross, expressing his passion for the project.

 

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