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Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, (1967), MASH (1970), and Kelly's Heroes (1970), as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), JFK and Ordinary People (1980). Sutherland is now filming The Hunger Games. He is the father of actor Kiefer Sutherland. Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Dorothy Isobel (née McNichol; 1892–1956) and Frederick... MORE

Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, (1967), MASH (1970), and Kelly's Heroes (1970), as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), JFK and Ordinary People (1980). Sutherland is now filming The Hunger Games. He is the father of actor Kiefer Sutherland. Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Dorothy Isobel (née McNichol; 1892–1956) and Frederick McLea Sutherland (1894–1983), who worked in sales and ran the local gas, electricity, and bus company. He spent most of his childhood in Hampton, New Brunswick, along the Kennebecasis River. His teenage years were spent in Nova Scotia. He got his first part time job at age 14 as a news correspondent for local radio station CKBW in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. He then studied at Victoria College, University of Toronto, where he met his first wife Lois Hardwick (not the child star of the same name), and graduated with a double major in engineering and drama. He had at one point been a member of the "UC LESS