If an actor lives long enough, he’s sure to get stuck in a project of dubious artistic and commercial quality that might not make the top line of their obituary. But even when Canadian icon, and too many more to list here – the silver-tongued actor brought a magnificent dignity and committed professionalism to his surroundings.Seeing Donald Sutherland’s name pop up in the opening credits was a kind of implicit promise from the producers to the audience: You are in good, sturdy hands.
Born in Saint John, N.B., in 1935, Sutherland’s first foray into the world of media was when he snagged a part-time job as a correspondent for a local radio station at the precocious age of just 14. Soon enough, he would move onto balancing career ambitions in both engineering and drama, eventually favouring the latter by heading to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1957.
As a performer, he seemed to strike gold with an almost supernatural regularity. If you were so cruel as to scratch three-quarters of his screen work from the record, you would still be left with enough out-and-out masterpieces to power an entire wing of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences museum., both boldly representative of and sneakily subverting the academics who molded a generation.
“They ask me at the border why I don’t take American citizenship. I could still be Canadian, they say. You could have dual citizenship. But I say: No, I’m not dual anything. I’m Canadian,” Sutherland once wrote in The Globe and Mail. “There’s a maple leaf in my underwear somewhere. There used to be a beaver there, too, but I’m 80 now and beavers are known to take off when you’re in your 80s.”
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