Metrograph

Metrograph Sutherland Tales

A Canadian national who started his screen career in the UK Donald Sutherland emerged as a bona fide star at the tail end of the ’60s a period that was unusually receptive to eccentric leading men. A looming presence at 6′4″ with a long lean face equally suited to comedy and pathos and a unique reedy delivery Sutherland brought a contemporary counterculture sensibility to two period war films of 1970—Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H and Brian G. Hutton’s Kelly’s Heroes—and he hasn’t been long out of work since racking up a list of credits that’s rich with classic films and unforgettable performances. At the age of 87 he’s still going strong so we’re taking a look back over some of the turns in the long strange trip that has been Sutherland’s career.