“It is with a heavy heart that I have to inform you that my father Donald Sutherland has passed away,” his son, fellow actor Kiefer Sutherland, posted on Instagram. “Personally, I consider him to be one of the most important actors in film history.”

“He was never discouraged by a role, whether it was good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved and you can never ask for more than that. A fulfilling life,” he said.

The Canadian actor has played a variety of roles during his long and productive career, including the quick-witted Dr. Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H, a detective in Klute opposite Jane Fonda, a podman in the 1978 horror remake of The Body Snatchers, a convicted felon in The Dirty Dozen, a pyromaniac in Backdraft opposite Ron Howard, a supervisor of a vampire hunter in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, an 18th century Venetian explorer in Fellini's Casanova in 1976 with director Frederico Fellini, a pot-smoking professor in I Think I'm Kicked by a Horse, a grieving father in Ordinary People, a legendary safecracker in the 2003 remake of The Italian Job, and the authoritarian villain President Snow in the Hunger Games series, to name a few.