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Salary
Animal House (1978): $40,000
Steelyard Blues (1973): $100,000
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965): £ 1,000

Trivia
Grew up in the town of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia where he also graduated from high school.
His first part-time job was as a news correspondent for local radio station, CKBW.
Graduated from University of Toronto.
Was a member of "UC Follies" comedy troupe in Toronto.
. Radio interview with 'Michael Enright' (QV) on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "This Morning". [29 February 2000]
Turned down starring in The Sweet Hereafter because the salary was too low. His role eventually went to Ian Holm.
Dubbed (uncredited) the part taken by English actor William Devlin in The Shuttered Room.
In addition to an on-screen bit part as a computer scientist in Billion Dollar Brain, he also provided the mechanical voice for the eponymous "brain".
Has three sons with Francine Racette: Roeg Sutherland (b. 1974); Rossif Sutherland (b. 1978) and Angus Redford Sutherland (Angus Sutherland) (b. 1979).
He was featured in the computer game Conspiracy (digitised video and sound).
Both Sutherland and Alan Alda, who took up the role of Hawkeye in the TV version of M*A*S*H suffered from polio as children.
Former son-in-law of Tommy Douglas
In 2003, twice played a character who dies who was the father of a young woman, in Cold Mountain and The Italian Job. Both actresses (Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron) were nominated for Best Actress (although Theron was nominated for Monster and not her role in The Italian Job.
Father, with Shirley Douglas, of Kiefer Sutherland and Rachel Sutherland.
Even though he receives top billing in The Day of the Locust, he doesn't appear in the film for the first 42 minutes.
Appears throughout MASH wearing glasses and a fishing bucket hat. This look was later mirrored by his son, Kiefer Sutherland, in Article 99.
By the time he was 14, he had become a radio DJ.
Appeared in The Day of the Locust as a character named Homer Simpson, and then later made a guest appearance on The Simpsons.
He and MASH co-star Elliott Gould both own apartments in the same Manhattan high-rise luxury building.
Being very tall, Sutherland has long since had a habit of slouching over so he could meet other actors eye to eye.
As with son Kiefer Sutherland, named after director Lorenzo Sabatini, he named his other son, Roeg Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland's half-brother, after Don't Look Now director Nicolas Roeg.
He was originally cast as Franklyn Madson in Dead Again, but was eventually replaced by Derek Jacobi.
Has two roles in common with Alan Alda. Sutherland played Flan in Six Degrees of Separation, the role Alda played in an audio-book publication. Sutherland also played Hawkeye Pierce in MASH, the role Alda played in M*A*S*H.
Made two guest appearances on The Saint, playing two different characters.
Is an Officer of the Order of Canada
Had a near death experience in 1979 when he was ill with meningitis. Doctors told him he had died for a time and he claims to have had an out of body experience.
Grandfather of Sarah Jude Sutherland, daughter of Kiefer Sutherland and Camelia Kath.
Currently stars on the TV series Commander in Chief with Leslie Hope. During the first season of 24, Leslie Hope played the wife of his son, Kiefer Sutherland.
Played together with his son Kiefer Sutherland in two movies: Max Dugan Returns and A Time to Kill where they play enemies
He and Alan Alda both play Republicans with Presidential aspirations on television. Alda appears on The The West Wing, Sutherland on Commander in Chief.
Between 1958 & 1960 he went to England and studied acting at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA)
He and Kiefer Sutherland are both Emmy winners. He won in 1996 for Citizen X, and ten years later, Kiefer won for 24.
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