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Outspoken against the Vietnam War, Sutherland, Fonda and others founded the Free Theater Associates in 1971. Banned by the Army because of their political views, they performed in venues near military bases in Southeast Asia in 1973.
Later he thrilled audiences as the dictatorial President Coriolanus Snow in “The Hunger Games” franchise.
In 2002, he appeared in HBO’s “Path to War,” in which he played President Lyndon Johnson’s Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, an ironic role given his public stance against the Vietnam War.

He won an Emmy in 1995 for the TV film “Citizen X” and was nominated for seven Golden Globes (including for his performances in “M.A.S.H.” and “Ordinary People”), winning two — again for “Citizen X” and for “Path to War.”
Born in St. John, New Brunswick, Donald McNichol Sutherland was the son of a salesman and a mathematics teacher. Raised in Nova Scotia, he was a disc jockey with his own radio station at the age of 14.
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