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Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, to Dorothy Isobel (McNichol) and Frederick McLea Sutherland, who worked in sales and electricity. He has Scottish, as well as German and English, ancestry. Sutherland worked several different jobs - he was a radio DJ in his youth - and was almost set on becoming an engineer after ...
- Actor, Producer, Writer
- July 17, 1935
- 1 min
- 30 November 1954
- How Did We Get Here?
- Sitting For Sutherland
- “Mortal Affront”
- “Something I Never Expected to See”
- The Fate of The Sutherland
- Conclusion
- The Author
- Endnotes and Further Reading
The scene is familiar to students of Churchill’s life. It is his eightieth birthday. In London, both Houses of Parliament have assembled in Westminster Hall to celebrate the occasion. They present him with the gift of a portrait, paid for by parliamentary subscription. They intend it to remain with him for his lifetime, and then to hang in the Pala...
In June 1954 the cumbersomely named “Churchill Joint Houses of Parliament Gift Committee” decided on the presentation of a portrait and who should receive the commission. Their first choice of Sir Herbert Gunn was rejected because he was too expensive. Gunn’s portrait of King George VIsuggests a work by him would have been more conventional, and fl...
Things started off hopefully enough. On 1 September Clementine Churchill wrote her daughter Mary: “Mr. Graham Sutherland is a ‘Wow’… [One] can hardly believe that the savage cruel designs which he exhibits come from his brush. Papa has given him 3 sittings & no one has seen the beginnings of the portrait except Papa & he is much struck by the power...
Churchill’s doctor Lord Moranworried that Sutherland would give up and “paint the legend.” Sir Winston, Moran said, “is always acting. Try to see h im when he has got the greasepaint off his face.”3Sutherland felt he had solved the problem after he was able to observe and sketch Churchill playing a combative game of bezique, his guard temporarily d...
Sutherland had an explanation. In 1961 he would tell Lord Beaverbrook: “For better or worse, I am the kind of painter who is governed entirely by what he sees. I am at the mercy of my sitter. What he feels, or shows at the time, I try to record.”7 And 1954 was a bad time to have Churchill as a sitter. Four years later David McFall, working on Sir W...
The public never saw the portrait again. That is not to say that there was no demand for it. On 4 May 1960 the bursar of Churchill College wrote asking for various items they might display, including the Sutherland. There came a prompt and chilly response from Anthony Montague Browne, Churchill’s private secretary. “The suggestion about Graham Suth...
It is unrealistic to hold Sutherland culpable for Churchill’s disappointment. He delivered his commission. A painter, not a photographer, he worked within his brief and certainly within his style. Everyone knew Sutherland’s work at the time. It should have been clear, especially given his 1951 portrayal of Lord Beaverbrook, that he was no purveyor ...
Mr. Turrell has recently retired from a lifetime career in Information Technology. A longtime Churchill bibliophile and collector, he was formerly associate editor of Finest Hour.
1 Robert Rhodes James, ed., Winston S. Churchill, His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, 8 vols. (New York: Bowker, 1974), VIII, 8608. 2 Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970, 587. 3 Roger Berthoud, Graham Sutherland: A Biography (London: Faber & Faber, 1982), 189. 4 Jonathan Black, Winston Church...
And pay, for Christ's sake. Anyway, you can call me Mr. Sutherland for now. Don't hesitate to reach me when you're ready. We're always close by. To me this has very important hints: Call this number if you need to get in touch with Mr. Wellick. .... Don't hesitate to reach me when you're ready. We're always close by.
Apr 19, 2024 · Donald Sutherland, Canadian character actor who was equally adept at portraying heinous villains and benevolent family patriarchs. His notable films included M*A*S*H (1970), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Ordinary People (1980), and the Hunger Games series. Learn more about Sutherland’s life and career.
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Donald Hoffman, also known as Mr. Sutherland, is the bodyguard of Tyrell and Joanna Wellick. He was portrayed by Jeremy Holm. Mr. Sutherland was born in 1973. He lives in NYC. He has had a list of clients, all of them eccentric in one form or another. One was a first chair violinist who performed at Carnegie Hall. The client would masturbate in the car. On March 2, when Terry Colby is arrested ...
In more recent years, Sutherland was known for his role as Reverend Monroe in the Civil War drama Cold Mountain (2003), in the drama thriller Baltic Storm (2003), in the remake of The Italian Job (2003), in the TV series Commander in Chief (2005–2006), in the movie Fierce People (2005) with Diane Lane and Anton Yelchin, and as Mr. Bennet in ...
Donald McNichol Sutherland is a Canadian actor whose film career spans over seven decades. He has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Critics Choice Award. He has been cited as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. In 2017, he received an Academy Honorary Award.
