RIP Donald Sutherland

[AchtungNight]

I enjoyed his work in several films, including MASH, Buffy, and Hunger Games.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Awww... he was a great actor. For some reason, I remember him best from Novecento. RIP.

 

[gunhilltrain]

An interesting actor, and his roles were often offbeat. Maybe that's why he didn't reach the top of the A list, but he was always working.

 

[Two21B]

Dude was as solid as they come. "JFK," "Backdraft," "Murder by Decree." Chills. "What would you like to do to the whole world, Ronald?" "Burn it all." He'll be missed.

 

[SimonDoom]

A versatile actor with a somewhat oddball quality. He could be a good villain, as when he played a German spy in Eye of the Needle. I remember him in the remake of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (which also co-starred Leonard Nimoy). MASH, of course.

 

[lilshymynx]

A versatile actor with a somewhat oddball quality. He could be a good villain, as when he played a German spy in Eye of the Needle. I remember him in the remake of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (which also co-starred Leonard Nimoy). MASH, of course.

Speaking of oddballs... Kelly's Heroes....as Sgt. Oddball

 

[gunhilltrain]

Speaking of oddballs... Kelly's Heroes....as Sgt. Oddball

"I only ride them, I don't know what makes them work."

 

[ElectricBlue]

Yep: Kelly Heroes, MASH, Don't Look Now were the early iconic roles I remember. He was a ton of fun in Space Cowboys, too.

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

An interesting actor, and his roles were often offbeat. Maybe that's why he didn't reach the top of the A list, but he was always working.

He kept getting hit with the neg-a-tive waves. That's why he never made A-list.

RIP

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

Dude was as solid as they come. "JFK," "Backdraft," "Murder by Decree." Chills. "What would you like to do to the whole world, Ronald?" "Burn it all." He'll be missed.

He was the bad guy in Backdraft? He was, wasn't he!

I legitimately think that watching that as a kid may have had an influence on my firebug phase.

(No one at all is surprised that teenage me was a firebug.)

 

[alohadave]

He was the bad guy in Backdraft? He was, wasn't he!

He was a firebug that the arson investigators consulted with. Analogous to Hannibal Lector.

 

[OffNSFW]

Terrific in Ordinary People. But (and I know I'm dating myself here) I was a teenager in the '90s and remember him best, like so many celebrities, for his guest role on the Simpsons.

 

[lovecraft68]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

That shriek at the end when he's pointing at Veronica is still chilling.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

 

[visioneer]

A wonderfully talented actor who will be missed. Many of his memorable roles have been mentioned, to which I will add his role as the detective in the noirish film "Klute" (1971).

 

[gunhilltrain]

He was the bad guy in Backdraft? He was, wasn't he!

I legitimately think that watching that as a kid may have had an influence on my firebug phase.

(No one at all is surprised that teenage me was a firebug.)

I was sort of the opposite; I wanted to be a firefighter; I wanted to put fires out, not start them. That goes back long before Backdraft; it goes back to watching the fire department in my neighborhood in the 1960's. The kinds of equipment and apparatus they had was fascinating, (A shout-out to FDNY Engine 90 and Ladder 33, almong others.) The I read Report from Engine 82 around 1971. But, physically, I knew I'd never been able to handle the job.

Ladder 20 in Manhattan was one of the first units on the scene of the 1911 Triangle factory fire.

https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/slides/132.html#screen

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

I was sort of the opposite; I wanted to be a firefighter; I wanted to put fires out, not start them. That goes back long before Backdraft; it goes back to watching the fire department in my neighborhood in the 1960's. The kinds of equipment and apparatus they had was fascinating, (A shout-out to FDNY Engine 90 and Ladder 33, almong others.) The I read Report from Engine 82 around 1971. But, physically, I knew I'd never been able to handle the job.

Ladder 20 in Manhattan was one of the first units on the scene of the 1911 Triangle factory fire.

https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/slides/132.html#screen

Not sure what your physical condition is, but rural areas are always looking for volunteer firefighters and the tasks are generally less demanding. I've volunteered with them before, it's interesting work.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Not sure what your physical condition is, but rural areas are always looking for volunteer firefighters and the tasks are generally less demanding. I've volunteered with them before, it's interesting work.

Well, I'm 69 now and I live in a big city, but even when I was young I was rather skinny. Dragging or carrying anything heavy would have been difficult. Plus, I'm a bit clumsy, which is also not a good trait for that job.

I knew a guy who was a volunteer in Hawthorne, NJ. Through "mutual aid," he'd often be called into the adjacent city of Paterson. New Jersey cities have many big fires; Paterson had a seven-alarm fire earlier this month.