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10 Essential Donald Sutherland Performances
The New Hollywood icon was an unusually grounded movie star.
The list below is likely as informed by the blind spots it doesn’t acknowledge as the consensus favorites it does; no one who’s seen a healthy number of Sutherland’s most acclaimed movies will be surprised by the selections, which are disproportionately drawn from his most popular era (the ’70s, of course) with a handful of powerful showings from later years filling out the rest. Possibly to avoid being typecast forever as a jocular jokester, Sutherland chased his breakout performance in M*A*S*H with a character who was nearly the polar opposite in temperament: a repressed, humorless, taciturn private detective scouring New York City for clues to what happened to a missing friend. Thank goodness Joe Wright didn’t listen when Sutherland insisted that he was all wrong for the role of Mr. Bennet, the comically wearied but affectionate girl dad of the director’s hit Jane Austen adaptation starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen.
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