Editing Donald Sutherland (section)

=== 1970–1979: Stardom and praise ===
[[File:Klute-Jane-Fonda-Donald-Sutherland-The_Los_Angeles_Times_Thu_Jun_24_1971_(cropped).jpg|thumb|Sutherland and [[Jane Fonda]] starring in the film ''[[Klute]]'' (1971)]]
Sutherland then appeared in two war films, playing the lead role as [[Hawkeye Pierce]] in the [[Robert Altman]]–directed comedy ''[[M*A*S*H (film)|M*A*S*H]]'' in 1970;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rosenbaum |first=Jonathan |date=7 September 2011 |title=M*A*S*H |url=http://chicagoreader.com/film/mash-2/ |access-date=22 June 2024 |website=Chicago Reader |language=en-US |archive-date=28 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828115339/https://chicagoreader.com/film/mash-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and, again in 1970, as [[hippie]] tank commander "Oddball" in ''[[Kelly's Heroes]]'' alongside [[Clint Eastwood]], [[Telly Savalas]] and [[Don Rickles]]. His health was threatened by [[spinal meningitis]] contracted during the filming of the latter film.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Greenstreet |first=Rosanna |date=16 March 2012 |title=Q&A: Donald Sutherland |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/16/donald-sutherland-actor |access-date=21 June 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |quote=I died in Yugoslavia in 1968 for a few seconds. In a coma: spinal meningitis, bacterial. Saw the blue tunnel. MGM flew me to London and Charing Cross hospital for six weeks, then back to the film ''Kelly's Heroes'', with my brain a boiled cauliflower. |archive-date=21 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621142324/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/16/donald-sutherland-actor |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title='Hunger Games' Antihero Donald Sutherland on the Finale—and Snow's Love for Katniss |work=[[The New York Observer|Observer]] |date=11 November 2015 |first=Thelma |last=Adams |url=https://observer.com/2015/11/the-rebel-actor-donald-sutherland-enters-the-arena-again/ |access-date=30 November 2023 |quote=In 1968 [''[[sic]]''], while shooting ''Kelly's Heroes'' in Yugoslavia opposite Clint Eastwood, he "contracted spinal meningitis. They didn't have the antibiotics and I died. I saw the blue tunnel and, like, crap, if you're ever with anyone who is in a coma, talk to them. They can hear you. I could hear everything. I heard them making my funeral arrangements."|archive-date=11 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211205017/https://observer.com/2015/11/the-rebel-actor-donald-sutherland-enters-the-arena-again/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Sutherland starred with [[Gene Wilder]] in the 1970 comedy ''[[Start the Revolution Without Me]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Screen: 'Start the Revolution Without Me' Bows |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/118766219 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=5 February 1970 |page=31|archive-date=22 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240622055052/https://www.proquest.com/docview/118766219/53A0EE6E6F824E8DPQ/1 |id={{ProQuest|118766219}} |url-status=live }}</ref> During the filming of the [[Academy Award]]-winning detective thriller ''[[Klute]]'' (1971), Sutherland had an intimate relationship with co-star [[Jane Fonda]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 June 1971 |title=Jane Fonda in Sex, Suspense Thriller |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/65529949/ |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=The Los Angeles Times |pages=63 |archive-date=22 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240622124204/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/65529949/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Mark|last=Cousins|title=Donald Sutherland – Jane Fonda, "Klute", and "Don't Look Now|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/03/19/sutherland_scene_by_scene_2_article.shtml|work=BBC|date=19 March 2001|access-date=4 April 2008|archive-date=30 November 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061130052527/http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/03/19/sutherland_scene_by_scene_2_article.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> Sutherland and Fonda went on to co-produce and star together in the [[Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|anti–Vietnam War]] documentary ''[[F.T.A.]]'' (1972), consisting of a series of sketches performed outside army bases in the [[Pacific Rim]] and interviews with U.S. troops who were then on active service. As a follow-up to their appearance in ''Klute'', Sutherland and Fonda performed together in ''[[Steelyard Blues]]'' (1973), a "freewheeling, [[Age of Aquarius|Age-of-Aquarius]], romp-and-roll caper" from the writer [[David S. Ward]].<ref>Big Rental Films of 1973", Variety, 9 January 1974, p 60</ref>

Sutherland found himself as a [[leading man]] throughout the 1970s in films such as the [[Venice]]-based [[psychological horror]] film ''[[Don't Look Now]]'' (1973), co-starring [[Julie Christie]], a role which saw him nominated for the [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|BAFTA Award for Best Actor]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=BAFTA Awards |url=https://awards.bafta.org/award/1974/film/actor |access-date=22 June 2024 |website=awards.bafta.org |archive-date=28 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428212529/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1974/film/actor |url-status=live }}</ref> He took a leading role in the [[war film]] ''[[The Eagle Has Landed (film)|The Eagle Has Landed]]'' (1976) acting opposite [[Michael Caine]] and [[Robert Duvall]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Canby |first=Vincent |date=26 March 1977 |title='Eagle Has Landed' on Screens With Lively Splash of Adventure |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/26/archives/eagle-has-landed-on-screens-with-lively-splash-of-adventure.html |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=22 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240322172552/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/26/archives/eagle-has-landed-on-screens-with-lively-splash-of-adventure.html |url-status=live }}</ref> That same year he starred in [[Federico Fellini]]'s film ''[[Fellini's Casanova|Federico Fellini's Casanova]]'' (1976) playing [[Giacomo Casanova]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Il CASANOVA DI FEDERICO FELLINI (1976) |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/9b826806-43fa-5dce-b5d2-a80606a9f517/il-casanova-di-federico-fellini |access-date=22 June 2024 |website=BFI |language=en |archive-date=22 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240622051725/https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/9b826806-43fa-5dce-b5d2-a80606a9f517/il-casanova-di-federico-fellini |url-status=live }}</ref> A year later, he had parts as a clumsy waiter in the comedy ''[[The Kentucky Fried Movie]]'' and as a contract killer in the thriller ''[[The Disappearance (film)|The Disappearance]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Lawrence |last=Van Gelder |date=11 August 1977 |title='Kentucky Fried' A Yolky Film |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/11/archives/kentucky-fried-a-yolky-film.html |access-date=26 June 2024 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |date=25 September 1981 |title=SUTHERLAND IN 'DISAPPEARANCE' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/25/movies/sutherland-in-disappearance.html |access-date=26 June 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

[[File:Novecento - Sutherland-De Niro-Depardieu.jpg|left|thumb|Sutherland, [[Robert De Niro]], and [[Gérard Depardieu]] in [[Bernardo Bertolucci|Bertolucci]]'s 1976 epic film ''[[1900 (film)|1900]]'']]
Sutherland took the role of a [[health inspector]] in the science fiction/horror film ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)|Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'' (1978) alongside [[Brooke Adams (actress)|Brooke Adams]], [[Leonard Nimoy]], and [[Jeff Goldblum]].<ref>{{Cite web |access-date=22 June 2024 |title=Pod people: the legacy of Invasion of the Body Snatchers |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/pod-people-legacy-invasion-body-snatchers |date=22 October 2021 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114174328/https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/pod-people-legacy-invasion-body-snatchers |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Janet Maslin]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote of his performance, "Mr. Sutherland is by turns personable and opaque, affecting in a way that he hasn't been since ''Klute''".<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/22/archives/screen-body-snatchers-return-in-all-their-creepy-glory.html|title= Screen: 'Body Snatchers' Return in All Their Creepy Glory|work= The New York Times|date= 22 December 1978|accessdate= 22 June 2024|last1= Maslin|first1= Janet}}</ref> He helped launch the internationally popular Canadian television series ''[[Witness to Yesterday]]'', with a performance as the [[Montreal]] doctor [[Norman Bethune]], a physician and humanitarian, largely talking of Bethune's experiences in revolutionary China.<ref name="CBCBethune">{{cite news|title=Donald Sutherland as Norman Bethune|url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/donald-sutherland-as-norman-bethune|publisher=CBC|date=25 October 2017|access-date=25 October 2017|archive-date=21 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170721163508/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/donald-sutherland-as-norman-bethune|url-status=live}}</ref> Sutherland also had a role as pot-smoking Professor Dave Jennings in ''[[Animal House|National Lampoon's Animal House]]'' in 1978, making himself known to younger fans as a result of the film's popularity. When cast, he was offered either $40,000 upfront or two per cent of the film's gross earnings. Thinking the film would certainly not be a big success, he chose the upfront payment.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Riley |first=Jenelle |date=5 November 2014 |title=Donald Sutherland Reflects on Long Run of Success, Looks to 'Snowy' Future |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/features/donald-sutherland-the-hunger-games-1201347477/ |access-date=22 June 2024 |website=Variety |language=en-US |archive-date=31 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131010444/https://variety.com/2014/film/features/donald-sutherland-the-hunger-games-1201347477/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="bi-Animal House">{{cite news |last1=Pallotta |first1=Frank |title=The Huge 'Animal House' Blunder That Cost Donald Sutherland Millions |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/animal-house-mistake-that-cost-donald-sutherland-millions-2014-3 |access-date=20 June 2024 |work=Business Insider |publisher=Insider |archive-date=28 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728050216/https://www.businessinsider.com/animal-house-mistake-that-cost-donald-sutherland-millions-2014-3 |url-status=live }}</ref> The film eventually grossed $141.6 million.<ref>{{cite web | title = ''National Lampoon's Animal House'' | website = Box Office Mojo | url = http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=animalhouse.htm | access-date = 25 October 2017 | archive-date = 19 June 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170619213514/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=animalhouse.htm | url-status = live }}</ref> Also, in 1978 Sutherland starred in the [[Heist film|heist]] [[comedy film]] ''[[The First Great Train Robbery]]'', alongside [[Sean Connery]].<ref name="abcau-best">{{cite news |last1=Neal |first1=Matt |title=From The Hunger Games to M*A*S*H, here are seven of Donald Sutherland's most celebrated performances |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-22/donald-sutherland-seven-films/104005764 |access-date=21 June 2024 |work=ABC News |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=21 June 2024 |language=en-AU |archive-date=22 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240622030715/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-22/donald-sutherland-seven-films/104005764 |url-status=live }}</ref> Sutherland's performance as Attila, an [[Italian fascism|Italian fascist]] in [[Bernardo Bertolucci]]'s 1976 epic film ''[[1900 (film)|1900]]'', received praise from critics such as [[A. O. Scott]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' for his portrayal of a sadistic, "over-the-top villainy" villain.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Scott |first1=A. O. |author1-link=A. O. Scott |title=A Five-Hour Crash Course in Italian History That's Also Great Filmmaking |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/movies/1900-movie.html |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=6 May 2020 |archive-date=2 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002083838/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/movies/1900-movie.html |url-status=live }}</ref>