Talk:Donald Sutherland/Archive 1

Vietnam
Didn't Donald Sutherland travel to North Vietnam in the early 1970's with Tom Hayden and some others to bring home American and Canadian POW's that the NVA released into their custody? Can anyone who knows more about this write a bit on it? Thanks. -Anarcho_Hipster

Kristine Sutherland?
Any relation? Her article says she takes her name from him. How?--SidiLemine 13:04, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * According to IMDB, she named her cat Donald after Donald Sutherland. Therefore, when she was choosing a professional name, she used Sutherland. --PhantomS 23:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, you'll find this information available in the Kristine Sutherland thread now. Dalponis (talk) 12:27, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Beerfest
Not sure how to do this, but it should be added to his filmography that he appeared in "Beerfest", even though he appeared for only one scene and is uncredited, he played a character that was very important to the storyline. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nativetexan1984 (talk • contribs) 07:10, 13 January 2007 (UTC).

A Time to Kill
Donald Sutherland also played a significant role as Lucien Wilbanks in 1996's "A Time to Kill" which was directed by Joel Schumacher.

On role in FF:SW
His role as Dr. Sid in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is not mentioned here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.105.221.52 (talk) 09:53, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Filmography
Why is this section on a separate article? Even Mickey_Rooney has his films as part of his article. What do you think? Thanks Kvsh5 (talk) 20:56, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Fellini's Casanova
I think that this movie should be mentioned somewhere... Fellini won three Academy Awards, after all...

McNichol vs. McNicol
Is the spelling of his first name correct? Is the spelling of the family name of his mother correct? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.77.148.150 (talk) 09:45, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Hawkeye
I took the Benjamin Franklin out of the name because it was never used in the movie.SChaos1701 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:28, 2 May 2009 (UTC). The 1995 film Citizen X is missing. which he also stared, unless it's under a different name? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.147.193.62 (talk) 23:28, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

A family photo
Hi, My name is Pam Wicks, I live in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Recently my in laws passed away who lived in St Johns, Ontario (Fonthill). My mother in law was a good friend of Albert and Margaret Gibson. After they passed away my mother in law received most of their pictures. I found one that is "Capt. Edward Sutherland" Born in England in 1795 Died at Hillside Panch, the home of his daughter & son in law Isabel & William Milburn in the year 1885. Is buried at hillside on top of the hill over looking the ranch. Location is 14 minutes east of the town of Santa Margarita, in San Luis Phispo County, Calfornia". This is written on the back of the photo. I remember Mrs Margaret Gibson telling us she was a relative of Donald Sutherland. I have this photo and would love to get it to the family. If this message could get to Mr Sutherland and than he could advise what to do with this photo.. Thanks in advance for your help

Pam Wicks pgwicks@Hotmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.238.210.66 (talk) 21:30, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Age
He just turned 80 on July 17, 2015. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.34.211 (talk) 16:37, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Adding wikilinks to personal life section
To avoid the potential for edit warring, can I get some consensus if adding wikilinks to words already existing and adding specific wikilinks for a concept like "Canada's universal health care system" as I did so here are a positive contribution to the article? I'm willing to give up on adding "social democratic" as a descriptor for Sutherland's father-in-law, even though the referenced source states "and then [Sutherland] met Shirley Douglas, the daughter of Tommy Douglas, a socialist politician who was the architect of Canada's welfare state" but the rest is simply linking existing words in the section for the information of readers. , feel free to weigh in too. 70.27.185.204 (talk) 23:13, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I have already answered on your Talk page. Frankly, your edit reads like a advertisement for Tommy Douglas on a page devoted to Donald Sutherland. Certainly we do not need to know any political party for Sutherland's father-in law, the link will tell anyone interested that. No-one wants to edit war - certainly not me, but let's stick to the subject. Why not create a proper account for yourself, rather than editing behind an anon IP ? Regards, David J Johnson (talk) 23:22, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
 * It had nothing to do with Douglas' political party, it was describing his political beliefs with the addition to two words. Two words are hardly an "advertisement". As for staying on topic, let's: How is adding wikilinks to already existing words in the article not constructive? Per MOS:LINK it is recommended to add links to allow for "relevant connections to the subject of another article that will help readers understand the article more full". I feel that non-Canadian readers would benefit from linking the words "Canada's universal health care system" to Medicare (Canada) which describes the system and the word "father" in "'father' of [said system]" to Father of medicare given that those phrases were already existing in the article. Linking saves time for expanding the definitions of these terms in an article about Donald Sutherland, the actor. Finally, to answer your last point, I am choosing to edit from an IP because I can. Users are not required to have an account to edit Wikipedia, hence it being "The Free Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Edit". I have made many positive contributions to Wikipedia through this IP and several others, my being an unregistered user doesn't make my contributions any less valid than yours. 70.27.185.204 (talk) 00:47, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Crossing Lines - link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_Lines  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lauralea (talk • contribs) 22:11, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Straw Hat Player days
I was in the same company as an actor with Donald Sutherland back in 1954, during the summer stock season in Gravenhurst, Muskoka (North of Toronto). As I remember, he didn't act, he painted the scenery. It's pinned in my memory as Roger Bannister ran the 4 minute mile during the season. Here's a link to his earliest days: JohnClarknew (talk) 03:07, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

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sequence of events

 * Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films including [list of movies from 1967 to 1981]. He subsequently established himself as one of the most respected, prolific and versatile character actors of Canada. He later went on to star in many other films where he appeared either in leading or supporting roles such as [list of movies from 1989 to 2015].

So at some point between 1981 and 1989 he rose to fame, and after rising to fame he established himself as etc.? —Tamfang (talk) 05:24, 7 November 2019 (UTC)


 * It currently says he gained prominence for playing a character in the hunger games. Gained prominence, as in "to become important or famous". Yes, that absolutely unknown before 2012 actor Donald Sutherland. He got a star on the walk of fame 2 years before the series even came out, he absolutely did not "gain prominence" because of that movie. He was already kinda well known at that point. Just a tad.
 * This article is terribly written. 68.199.45.160 (talk) 18:42, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
 * re: "gained prominence for playing a character in the hunger games" agreed, that edit is BS. He was very famous well before HG. 2403:4800:3449:7401:1194:90CE:1C8A:602C (talk) 09:33, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

Married or not?
A 1981 New York Times article calls Francine his longtime companion (not wife), and according to a 1995 L.A. Times article he and Francine still weren't married. In a 1999 L.A. Times article Francine is suddenly referred to as his wife, but I couldn't find any wedding announcement. It's possible this couple has never married. They certainly weren't married in 1972. Yours6700 (talk) 00:24, 21 October 2023 (UTC)