Donald Sutherland Biography
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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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