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Birth of Donald Sutherland

17 July 1935

Donald Sutherland was born on 17 July 1935 in Saint John. A Canadian actor, Sutherland had a career of more than six decades and appeared in about two hundred films and television shows. He first became widely known in The Dirty Dozen and M*A*S*H, and then in Klute, Don't Look Now, Ordinary People, JFK and Pride and Prejudice. In his later years, he played President Snow in The Hunger Games films. He won Emmy and Golden Globe awards for his television work, and received an honorary Academy Award in 2017. He was the father of the actor Kiefer Sutherland.

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