A Donald Sutherland Poll

don't look now

I have a deep fondness for "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors"

DLN or The Day of the Locust

he's fine in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Ordinary People and Eye of the Needle too.

his turn in Animal House always confused me a bit, he was still a relatively big star at that point for such a smallish part. guess he just thought it was funny(or he did it for the money, duh)

"Don't underestimate how great I am in JFK. Not only do I recite this list of dubious facts, but I give Kevin Costner a look of steely contempt before walking away from him."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/60/Mrx_jfk.jpg/200px-Mrx_jfk.jpg

DLN or Body Snatchers

could he be the greatest actor of the last 40 years not to get a SINGLE Oscar nod?

Favorites:

Klute
Invasion fo the Body Snatchers
Ordinary People (the best perf in the film)
Six Degrees of Separation
Without Limits
Pride & Prejudice

JFK, obviously.

Tempting though it is to vote Kentucky Fried Movie.

He's been in a right load of crap since the mid 80's hasn't he? Don't Look Now just edges out M*A*S*H for me.

DLN or Animal House

Tempting though it is to vote Kentucky Fried Movie.

"donald sutherland as...THE CLUMSY WAITER!"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1b/Sutherland_before_scream.jpg/350px-Sutherland_before_scream.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/47/Sutherland_screams.jpg/350px-Sutherland_screams.jpg

Oddball: Hi, man.
Big Joe: What are you doing?
Oddball: I'm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know.
Big Joe: What's happening?
Oddball: Well, the tank's broke and they're trying to fix it.
Big Joe: Well, then, why the hell aren't you up there helping them?
Oddball: I only ride 'em, I don't know what makes 'em work.
Big Joe: Christ!
Oddball: Definitely an antisocial type. Woof, woof, woof! That's my other dog imitation.

Crapgame: Hey, Oddball, this is your moment of glory. And you're chickening out!
Oddball: To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on three tigers.

several great roles + several great cameos = omg how do i pick just one

Worst I've seen is probably Revolution.

He was pretty bad in Lost Angels too.

i just watched little murders the other night and he is really funny in it.

no "cloudbusting"?

REmember read1ing somewhere about when the teen asks DSutherland in AnimalHouse if he could buy some weed, the smile that he gives back is the right kind of creepy for the role.

God,can I write? No.

i love love love day of the locust. going to see it this weekend at the egyptian!

his turn in Animal House always confused me a bit, he was still a relatively big star at that point for such a smallish part. guess he just thought it was funny(or he did it for the money, duh)

I don't think AH was an expensive production that would have thrown a lot of money at him.
I think he just liked the opportunity to be naked and talk about weed.

Klutes quite good.

There's a scene in Free Money where he's interacting with Brando and I have to assume they shot their scenes seperately cuz he's on one side of a desk earnestly bringing his a-game ("I'm working with BRANDO!") and Brando's doing a senile Yosemite Sam on the other.

x-post I WANT TO VOTE FOR CLOUDBUSTING!!

tie between Day of the Locust and Body Snatchers and JFK

I voted 'Klute'
Jane Fonda smoking in the tub is nice image.

i gave the dirty dozen some love

I loved him semi-hosting the Oscars a few years ago from that offstage table, where he could sit with a smile on his face, possibly unencumbered by pants.

I think I appreciated him most as the pyro in Backdraft, just because the rest was so bad, and otherwise would add Space Cowboys, A Dry White Season, and The Wolf at the Door to the list of mentionables. It's a toss-up for me between Eye of the Needle, Ordinary People, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Animal House.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgwjHBUW9MY

The soliloquy from Little Murders.

'… that's all right – really it is …'

tombot otm

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Holy crap, that man did a lot of work.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/47/Sutherland_screams.jpg/350px-Sutherland_screams.jpg

The greatness of this image simply cannot be overstated.

I'm a little disappointed nobody voted for backdraft, since he does give that film the one solitary quarter ounce of sack it has with his lunatic rambling about the animal nature of fire or whatever. he's every crazy man ever, he can take all the world's psychoses and make them each his own

which one of you noize/IRE comedy motherfuckers put in for FINAL FANTASY

does gz*us still lurk?

at least there were no votes for lockup

"Just call me X" robbed!

I think this thread should now become a list of why each Sutherland role is great in its own way, because they all are

go watch The Day of the Locust, bitches.

that is not really what I meant

Day of the Locust is great

Thirded!

THE DOUBLE-SIDED KANDINSKY!!!!

Citizen X 0
whut?!

Don on doing that scene with Julie Christie in front of unblimped Arriflexes

http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/donald-sutherland-on-his-famous-dont-look-now-sex-scene.html

85 today

reposting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgwjHBUW9MY

I have a deep fondness for "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors"

― Tom D., Tuesday, 18 September 2007 14:44 (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Bears repeating. Happy birthday, Donald!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/donald-sutherland-canada-post-stamp-1.7001587

Seriously? Casanova but not Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Maybe the title's just too long.

Casanova is on there twice for some reason!

Ditto Ordinary People (for me, once is once too often). I will try to buy a sleeve of these.

Although--long story, think I described it on another thread at the time--I did see him speak after a film once and lost some respect for him.

JFK snubbed yet again!

Title's too long. (That too occurred to me later.)

should it have just been K?

Bought a sleeve of 10 for $10. They also had Denys Arcand stamps.

RIP

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He played the Logan Roy of the family in the 2000s series Dirty Sexy Money, which was kind of a network-TV version of Succession and relished it.

"Hunger Games actor" in the obituaries a rare American version of that thing where every UK actor who ever did Harry Potter gets that tag in the obituary.

I assume in the UK it's "Kate Bush video actor"

just saying, Castle of the Living Dead, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, and Die! Die! My Darling! are all available on Tubi

Watching this tonight, after the footie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8RJnHFppUo

love love love you donald!!!! forever and ever!!!

https://collectionimages.npg.org.uk/large/mw58689/Donald-Sutherland.jpg

RIP the One True Hawkeye Pierce

Frank, were you on this religious kick at home, or did you crack up over here?

RIP. Good excuse to rewatch Kelly’s Heroes.

in Castle of the Living Dead, he plays two minor characters, a police sergeant and a witch, and near the end has a bit of dialogue with himself

His Peter Pantsless sleazy lecturer in Animal House was so funny

And I have been thinking about his Hawkeye all day ;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXteg4mSyd8

I assume in the UK it's "Kate Bush video actor"

"Hunger Games star".

xp love the whistle!

Sutherland's letter to Gary Ross re Hunger Games:

Dear Gary Ross:

Power. That's what this is about? Yes? Power and the forces that are manipulated by the powerful men and bureaucracies trying to maintain control and possession of that power?

Power perpetrates war and oppression to maintain itself until it finally topples over with the bureaucratic weight of itself and sinks into the pages of history (except in Texas), leaving lessons that need to be learned unlearned.

Power corrupts, and, in many cases, absolute power makes you really horny. Clinton, Chirac, Mao, Mitterrand.

Not so, I think, with Coriolanus Snow. His obsession, his passion, is his rose garden. There's a rose named Sterling Silver that's lilac in colour with the most extraordinarily powerful fragrance — incredibly beautiful — I loved it in the seventies when it first appeared. They've made a lot of offshoots of it since then.

I didn't want to write to you until I'd read the trilogy and now I have so: roses are of great importance. And Coriolanus's eyes. And his smile. Those three elements are vibrant and vital in Snow. Everything else is, by and large, perfectly still and ruthlessly contained. What delight she [Katniss] gives him. He knows her so perfectly. Nothing, absolutely nothing, surprises him. He sees and understands everything. He was, quite probably, a brilliant man who's succumbed to the siren song of power.

How will you dramatize the interior narrative running in Katniss's head that describes and consistently updates her relationship with the President who is ubiquitous in her mind? With omniscient calm he knows her perfectly. She knows he does and she knows that he will go to any necessary end to maintain his power because she knows that he believes that she's a real threat to his fragile hold on his control of that power. She's more dangerous than Joan of Arc.

Her interior dialogue/monologue defines Snow. It's that old theatrical turnip: you can't 'play' a king, you need everybody else on stage saying to each other, and therefore to the audience, stuff like "There goes the King, isn't he a piece of work, how evil, how lovely, how benevolent, how cruel, how brilliant he is!" The idea of him, the definition of him, the audience's perception of him, is primarily instilled by the observations of others and once that idea is set, the audience's view of the character is pretty much unyielding. And in Snow's case, that definition, of course, comes from Katniss.

Evil looks like our understanding of the history of the men we're looking at. It's not what we see: it's what we've been led to believe. Simple as that. Look at the face of Ted Bundy before you knew what he did and after you knew.

Snow doesn't look evil to the people in Panem's Capitol. Bundy didn't look evil to those girls. My wife and I were driving through Colorado when he escaped from jail there. The car radio's warning was constant. 'Don't pick up any young men. The escapee looks like the nicest young man imaginable'. Snow's evil shows up in the form of the complacently confident threat that's ever-present in his eyes. His resolute stillness. Have you seen a film I did years ago? 'The Eye of the Needle'. That fellow had some of what I'm looking for.

The woman who lived up the street from us in Brentwood came over to ask my wife a question when my wife was dropping the kids off at school. This woman and her husband had seen that movie the night before and what she wanted to know was how my wife could live with anyone who could play such an evil man. It made for an amusing dinner or two but part of my wife's still wondering.

I'd love to speak with you whenever you have a chance so I can be on the same page with you.

They all end up the same way. Welcome to Florida, have a nice day!

https://i.imgur.com/RlxeKyt.jpeg

So cosseted. So private.

That's great--one of my favourite videos ever. Where did you find that?

a post on bluesky

Man I really wanna go hang out in Donald Sutherland's suite.

My little obit.

Nice. He is great in that JFK scene.

My brother's most cherished Donald Sutherland memory is his appearance on Peter Gzowski's CBC TV show 90 Minutes Live in January 1977 (maybe promoting 1900 or Casanova?). Among other guests such as John Candy and Patsy Gallant was bodybuilder/heavy rocker Thor, who closed the show with a typically theatrical musical performance bending steel and bursting hot water bottles by inflating them with his breath.
Cut to an aghast Sutherland watching slack-jawed on the couch.