Veteran actor Donald Sutherland died Thursday, June 20, at the age of 88, according a statement from his agency CAA.
His career spanned more than 60 years and nearly 200 film and TV credits, including recent roles in the limited series “Trust” as oil tycoon J. Paul Getty and HBO’s “The Undoing.”
Sutherland’s big break came when he was cast as one of “The Dirty Dozen” in the star-studded 1967 film. He followed that with another war movie, “Kelly’s Heroes,” before playing the wisecracking doctor Hawkeye Pierce in the movie version of “M*A*S*H.”
Another one of his major roles was opposite Jane Fonda in her Oscar-winning portrayal of a high-class “call girl” in the crime mystery “Klute.” Younger filmgoers might remember Sutherland as the evil President Snow in “The Hunger Games” movies.
“With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away,” Kiefer Sutherland, Sutherland’s son, wrote in a post on Instagram. “I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly.”
Brian Lowry and Elizabeth Wagmeister contributed to this report.
