Biografia

Blond hair

Adds a touch of eccentricity (sometimes much more than a touch) to each role

Towering height and slender frame

Offbeat grin and bold blue eyes

Rich, mellifluous voice

Being very tall, Sutherland had a habit of slouching over so he could meet other actors eye to eye.

Preferred to shoot the opening scenes of a movie last in order to better set the tone of the movie to the audience.

Received his double major in Engineering and Drama from the University of Toronto. He had originally intended to become an engineer before trying acting.

Partook in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver as the voice-over narrator describing the history of Canada and was also one of the flag bearers of the Olympic flag.

Both Sutherland and Alan Alda, who took up the role of Hawkeye Pierce on MASH (1972) suffered from polio as children.

Pauline Kael reviewed Il giorno della locusta (1975): "There's nothing specifically wrong with Donald Sutherland's performance. It's just awful." That was the most destructive, stupid piece of criticism I've ever received. I stopped reading reviews after that.

I was up for a great part but they told me: "Sorry, you're the best actor but this part calls for a guy-next-door type. You don't look as if you've ever lived next door to anyone."

When you're working for a good director, you become subjective and submissive. You become his concubine. All that you're seeking is his pleasure.

Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house I was living in. From what I understood, he was having an affair with the wife of the man he was designing the house for. That man was very tall. So Wright, short and vain, designs the house in such a way that a tall person couldn't live in it without severe cranial damage. I hit my head *all* the time.

[on his early roles] Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!