Goodbye to Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland, a Canadian actor considered one of Hollywood’s brightest stars (despite never being awarded an Oscar), has died at the age of 88 in Miami, Florida. In addition to having taken part in the filming of historical feature films such as “That Dirty Dozen” (1967), “MASH” (1970), “The Day of the Locust” (1975), “Novecento” (by Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976), “The Casanova di Federico Fellini” (1976), “Animal House” (1978), “An arid white season” (1989) and many others, the artist was also linked to the world of music, both from a “family” point of view How professional.

In addition to being the father of Kiefer, himself a well-known actor for both film and television productions, and a musician, with three albums under his belt (“Down in a Hole” in 2016, “Reckless & Me” in 2019 and “Bloor Street” ” of 2022), Sutherland had the leading role in the video for “Cloudbusting”, Kate Bush’s 1985 single from the “Hounds of Love” album of the same year.

In the clip (directed by Julian Doyle and created by Terry Gilliam with Bush herself) the actor plays the role of the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, inventor of the “cloudbuster”, a machine designed to cause precipitation according to principles considered today pseudo-scientific.