Hollywood actor Donald Sutherland, known for roles in M*A*S*H, Klute and The Hunger Games, has died after a long illness. The 88-year-old died on Thursday in Miami, his agency CAA confirmed. “With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away,” his son Kiefer Sutherland wrote in a post on Instagram on Thursday. “I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly.
He followed that with another war movie, Kelly’s Heroes, before playing the wisecracking doctor Hawkeye Pierce in the movie version of M*A*S*H and opposite Jane Fonda in her Oscar-winning portrayal of a high-class “call girl” in the crime mystery Klute. Reflecting his ability to play all sorts of roles, Sutherland’s 1970s resume included a remake of the horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers and a memorable turn as a pot-smoking professor in the National Lampoon comedy Animal House.