Biography
In the asset of the Hollywood actor, who in 2015 turned 80 years old, there are prestigious Golden Globe and Emmy Prizes. The number of roles played in the theater and movies reached hundreds. Donald Sutherland gave the world cinema several dozen excellent cash films, including the Hits "Mash", the Twentieth Century, "Kazanova", "Hungry Games". And also - the talented son of Khifer Sutherland, by the number of prestigious awards of the left far behind.Childhood and youth
Donald McNaychel Sutherland was born in the Canadian New Brunswick province in the summer of 1935. Children's and youthful years have passed in St. John. In the cores actor flows English, Scottish and German blood.
In the family of Sutherland of artists or representatives of another type of art, there was no: father - a commander, mother - housewife. Acting was not a cherished children's dream of Donald, although the circle of interests of the teenager was wide: sport, reading, journalism. At the age of 14, the guy got a youth reporter on a radio station, but soon cooled to work and after graduation he moved to Toronto.
Donald Sutherland became a municipal university student by choosing the Engineering Faculty. The future artist studied successfully, but soon noted that the specialty of the engineer was not interested in him. All the thoughts of Donald occupied classes at the university theater mug and performances on the fans of the amateur theater. Only on stage Sutherland felt inspiration and completeness of life.
At the request of the parents, Donald Sutherland received engineering education, realizing that it would not be useful for him. After graduating from one faculty, he entered the second - the Faculty of Art, where he was soon handed over the second diploma.
Sutherland focused on the theater. The actor spoke with a droupe of the youth comedy theater. Feeling that "grew up" for a professional game, in 1956 she went to Britain and became a student of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Soon the Canadians saw in the frames of English theaters.
Films
The game in the provincial theaters Donald Sutherland combined with shooting on television. British theatrians rated a talented young artist, and by 25 years he became an actor, who was in a hurry to hurried by the famous London director.
Donald Sutherland's cinematic biography has developed slowly. Like most colleagues, the actor began with episodes and secondary roles in low-budget projects. The appearance played an important meaning: the growth of 1.93 meters "suggested" by directors, in which sterlend could be the most organic.
In 1964, Donald Sutherland starred in Horror "Live Dead Castle". The following year appeared in the horror films "Melci, dear" and "Horror House of Dr. Terror". In 1967, Canadian was involved in the fighter of director Robert Oldrich "Dirty dozen".
Star role went to the actor after 3 years: Donald Sutherland played a key character in Oscar-winged black comedy "MASH" ("Military Field Hospital"). Film crimits called the picture the most vivid anti-war project in Hollywood's history. After the release of the film, Sutherland woke up famous, his name was among the nominees to prestigious filmmakers.
The number of cash projects in which Donald Sutherland starred is growing rapidly, and the name of Canadian will learn millions of viewers on both sides of the Atlantic. The comedic fighter "Kelly Heroes", in which the actor starred in a brilliant tandem with the clint of Nista, the detective "kick", where Sutherland appeared on the screen starring with Jane Stock, the anti-war drama "Johnny took a gun" - everywhere Canadian artist in the foreground.
In 1971, the premiere of the British-Italian mystical thriller "And now not see", where Donald Sutherland and Julie Christi played the main characters. The picture fell into the top 100 best English films of the century, and Triller took a place in the top ten. The fact that the tape of the director Nicholas Rouge is a bestseller without the statute of limit, confirmed the survey of the British magazine Time Out in 2011. The respondents surveyed the greatest number of votes thriller.
The second half of the 1970s enriched the filmography of Canadians with several bright projects. In the drama "Kazanova Federico Fellini", shot by the legend of world cinema Fellini, Sutherland played Kazanov. In his reading, a women's-minded Venicean is a tragic character who believes that fame brought scientific and philosophical treatises, and not numerous novels.
In 1976, the historical melodrama "The Twentieth Century" of another famous Italian - Bernardo Bertolucci came out. Donald Sutherland appeared in a star company with Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu. The tape was recognized as the best European film of the year, although the harvest of "loud" awards was not collected. It is noteworthy that the fascist of Attilla played by Sutzerland is the absolute opposite of Casanov, but the change of the role for the starry actor is an easy task.
In the same year, the artist starred in the screening of the novel of the British writer Jack Higgins "Eagle landed." Donald got the image of the terrorist Ira. And in 1977, Sutherland brilliantly coped with the image of the key hero of the comedy "Solyanka in Kentuksky".
These film projects paid off at the box office, but did not bring the actor weighty awards: he nominated tens times, but before the awards almost reached. For example, the fantastic horror "Invasion of the Thief of Body" of 1978 brought Sutherland another nomination for the Saturn Prize, and the work in the "Ordinary people" drama made him a nominee for the Golden Globe. At the same time, the last painting received 4 Oscar awards and $ 54 million cash collections in America.
In the mid-1980s, Donald Sutherland, together with Sean Penn, starred in the comedy thriller "hackers" and the comedy "Problem with Spies". The actor works hard and removed in 2-3 cash projects per year, but the recession is planned in his career. The only exception is the drama "threshold". Sutherland for the best male role was presented with Emmy.
The new round of popularity happened in the 1990s. In the filmography of the artist, successful works in the projects "Reverse traction", "Creek Stone" and "Six Degrees of Exchange" appeared. The paintings warmly met the audience and film critics. For the work in the mini-series "Citizen X, Donald Sutherland first became the winner of the Golden Globe Prize. A generous cashier gathered the horror movie "Virus", where the artist reincarnated in Captain Robert Everton, a cunning and greedy drunkard. The project starred Jamie Lee Curtis and William Baldwin.
The 2000s were marked by several rating films, including the "Cold Mountain", where Donald Sutherland played Rev. Monroe, the drama "Pride and Prejudice" (Mr. Bennet) and the mini-series "Path to War". The last tape is a biographical drama, in which Sutherland reincarnated to Clark Clifford, adviser to Lindon Jones.
But the greatest success of Canadza brought the role of President Coriolan Snow in the Antiutopia "Hungry Games". In the Russian rental "Hungry Games" bypassed "Harry Potter" rating and the Lord of the Rings.
Personal life
Donald Sutherland was looking tirelessly: three times the actor was married to the actresses. The first spouse star was colleague Lois Hardwick. After a couple of years, the actors realized that the families did not work out and apart would be better. In civil marriage with the actress Shirley Douglas, the son of Kifer was born from the artist. But this union collapsed.
In 1972, Donald Sutherland took into his wife Canadian actress Francin Delta, who gave him three children - the sons of the Russian, Angus and Roag. With Francin Hollywood Starzhil found a strong family and reliable rear.
From the stars of fame, Kiefer, who appeared with the Father in the paintings "Max Dygan returns" and "time to kill".
Sometimes the press meets false information about the relationship of Donald Sutherland and the Australian model of Alissa Sutherland. But two celebrities combines only the surname.
Donald Sutherland now
In 2015, the premiere of Western "Abandoned" took place in Canada, where Donald Sutherland, his son Santherland and Demi Moore were starred. Donald played the priest and the father of the hired murderer of Clayton, whose role was to get Cefera Sutherland.
The hero of Kiphefer returned home after 10 years in prison to establish relationships with his father. In the world rental film was released in February 2016.
Filmography
- 1965 - "Horror House of Dr. Terror"
- 1970 - "Kelly Heroes"
- 1973 - "And now not look"
- 1976 - "Kazanova Federico Fellini"
- 1976 - "Twentieth Century"
- 1977 - "Salonka in Kentyksky"
- 1978 - "Invasion of kidnappers bodies"
- 1980 - "Ordinary People"
- 1982 - "Threshold"
- 1986 - "Killings on Roskov"
- 1991 - "Reverse Tract"
- 1995 - "Citizen X"
- 1999 - "Virus"
- 2003 - "Cold Mountain"
- 2005 - "Pride and Prejudice"
- 2014 - "Hungry Games: Flames will flash"
- 2015 - "Abandoned"