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Donald Sutherland’s Milestones
| Acted with the Perth Repertory Theatre in Scotland | |
| Played Scrooge in a radio production of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" | |
| Suffered a series of potentially crippling diseases during childhood, including polio, rheumatic fever and hepatitis | |
| 1949 | Became Canada's (Nova Scotia) youngest radio announcer and disc jockey at age 14 |
| 1952 | Made stage debut in "The Male Animal" at the Hart House Theatre in Toronto |
| 1958 | Moved to England to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art |
| 1960 | Began acting in British TV and repertory theater |
| 1963 | London stage debut, "August for the People" |
| 1964 | First significant film role, "Il Castello dei Morti Vivi/Castle of the Living Dead" |
| 1966 | US TV debut in the ABC series "Court Martial" |
| 1967 | Breakthrough supporting role, "The Dirty Dozen" with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson |
| 1968 | Received strong notices as a flamboyant wealthy young man in "Joanna" |
| 1970 | Portrayed a prototypical hippie in the WWII comedy-drama "Kelly's Heroes" |
| 1970 | Soared to stardom as the original Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H" |
| 1971 | Delivered an outstanding performance as detective opposite then-girlfriend Jane Fonda in "Klute" |
| 1971 | Played Jesus Christ in Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun" |
| 1971 | Reteamed with Elliott Gould (from "M*A*S*H") for Alan Arkin's "Little Murders" |
| 1972 | Feature debut as co-producer and co-writer for the anti-Vietnam war film "F.T.A."; featured a series of anti-war skits and songs (with Fonda) performed outside army bases |
| 1973 | Executive produced "Steelyard Blues" (also starred with Fonda) |
| 1973 | Starred opposite Julie Christie in Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now" |
| 1974 | Re-teamed with Gould in "S.P.Y.S." |
| 1975 | Evoked pity as the hick in love with an aspiring, selfish would-be starlet (Karen Black) in John Schlesinger's "The Day of the Locust" |
| 1976 | Delivered a romantic turn as the title role of "Fellini's Casanova" |
| 1976 | Played a bestial fascist in Bernardo Bertolucci's "1990" |
| 1978 | Delivered arguably his best performance since "Klute" as scientific-minded public health inspector confronting unspeakable horrors in Phillip Kaufman's remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" |
| 1979 | Teamed with Sean Connery for the stylish "The Great Train Robbery" |
| 1980 | Came to see the falseness of his life as he struggled to overcome the death of his son in the Academy award-winning "Ordinary People" co-starring Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton; Robert Redford's directorial debut |
| 1981 | Broadway debut as Humbert Humbert in Edward Albee's stage adaptation of "Lolita" |
| 1981 | Founded McNichol Pictures Inc. (also president) |
| 1981 | Played a German agent in the thriller, "Eye of the Needle" |
| 1983 | Appeared in "Max Dugan Returns" along with son Kiefer in his film debut (also debut of Matthew Broderick) |
| 1983 | Returned to TV after a 15-year absence in the CBS movie "John Steinbeck's 'The Winter of Our Discontent'" |
| 1987 | Portrayed middle-aged Paul Gauguin in "Wolf at the Door"; also provided voice of Gauguin in PBS' "Paul Gauguin: The Savage Dream" (1989) |
| 1989 | Cast as a teacher in the South African apartheid drama "A Dry White Season" |
| 1991 | Cast as a mad firebug in Ron Howard's "Backdraft" |
| 1991 | Played a mysterious Washington intelligence officer in Oliver Stone's "JFK" |
| 1992 | Mentored Kristy Swanson in the feature, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" |
| 1993 | Offered a captivating performance as a snobbish but charming, upscale New Yorker living through the eyes of other people in "Six Degrees of Separation"; film is based on a 1990 play by John Guare |
| 1994 | Narrator for The Learning Channel's "Great Books" series |
| 1994 | Portrayed a corporate honcho in Barry Levinson's adaptation of Michael Crichton's "Disclosure" |
| 1995 | Came aboard "Outbreak" late to play the icy General McClintock |
| 1995 | Offered an award winning performance as Colonel Fetisov in the HBO movie "Citizen X" |
| 1996 | Second film with son Kiefer, as the alcoholic mentor of Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) in "A Time to Kill" |
| 1997 | Cast as a coldly manipulative CIA agent in "The Assignment" |
| 1998 | Played University of Oregon track coach, Bill Bowerman in Robert Towne's "Without Limits" about track sensation Steve Prefontaine |
| 1998 | Stalked the hidden enemy in the supernatural thriller "Fallen" |
| 2000 | Acted on stage in "Enigma Variations" |
| 2001 | Had lead role as an Irish thief who plans to rob an airport terminal in the A&E original "The Big Heist" |
| 2001 | Starred as a painter in the Off-Broadway play "Ten Unknowns" by Jon Robin Baitz |
| 2003 | Cast in Anthony Minghella's war epic "Cold Mountain" |
| 2003 | Had memorable role in F. Gary Gray's remake of the "Italian Job" |
| 2005 | Cast as Speaker of the House, Nathan Templeton in Rod Lurie's ABC drama "Commander in Chief"; earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2005 | Cast as the patriarch in Joe Wright's adaptation of the Jane Austen classic "Pride and Prejudice" |
| 2005 | Co-starred with Mira Sorvino in the Lifetime movie "Human Trafficking"; earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Best Actor in a TV movie |
| 2006 | Co-starred with Colin Farrell in the Robert Towne-directed adaptation of "Ask the Dust" |
| 2006 | Played a Virginia firearms-shop owner in Aric Avelino's film debut "American Gun" |
| 2007 - 2008 | Cast as Patrick 'Tripp' Darling III on ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money"; earned a Golden Globe (2008) nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Series |
| 2007 | Played an aging aristocratic billionaire in Griffin Dunne's "Fierce People" |
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