Donald Sutherland, Klute and Hunger Games Actor, Dead at 88

Donald Sutherland, a staple of the New Hollywood film movement and the Hunger Games franchise, died in Miami on Thursday after a long illness, Deadline confirmed with CAA. The actor was 88. Born July 17, 1935, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Sutherland rose to fame at a time when iconoclastic directors began to rethink what a Hollywood film could be, leading him to star in a number of instant classics. Following his big break into the industry with a supporting role in the 1967 war film The Dirty Dozen, Sutherland led Robert Altman’s anti-authoritarian war comedy, M*A*S*H, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination in 1970. Just one year later, he starred opposite Jane Fonda in Alan J. Pakula’s acclaimed psychological thriller Klute, playing an unemotional murder detective.

With around 200 film and TV credits, Sutherland continued to work at the same breakneck pace throughout his career, landing roles in Italian art-house films 1900 and Fellini’s Casanova, science-fiction horror Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and the political epic JFK, among others. He won an Emmy for his role in Citizen X, was ice cold as President Snow in The Hunger Games, and snagged a Critics Choice Award for The Undoing.