Donald Sutherland: Canadian actor dies at 88 [Video]

Donald Sutherland, the New Brunswick-born acting legend with the distinct baritone voice and prolific stage and screen career that inspired sons Kiefer and Rossif to pursue the craft, has died.

He died at age 88, Kiefer Sutherland said in a social media post 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 loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that,” the younger Sutherland wrote on X. “A life well lived.”

At six-foot-four, with big blue eyes and a deep, dulcet voice, the elder Sutherland was a striking and unmistakable presence in film, television and radio for more than 50 years.

His varied film roles included snarky surgeon Hawkeye Pierce in “MASH,” Julie Christie’s troubled husband in the thriller “Don’t Look Now,” and a Washington intelligence officer in Oliver Stone’s “JFK.”

On TV, he …