{"id":157990,"date":"2024-06-20T15:57:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T19:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=157990"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:57:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T19:57:32","slug":"donald-sutherland-passes-age-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=157990","title":{"rendered":"Donald Sutherland passes, age 88"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Donald Sutherland in Kelly’s Heroes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We tend not to post articles about the deaths of celebrities unless they were veterans, such as yesterday’s Willie Mays post. Donald Sutherland has passed at the age of 88. Sutherland was a Canadian, and was not a veteran of their military or ours. I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>mentioning his death though, because Donald Sutherland played some of the best characters in 1960s military movies.<\/p>\n

One of Sutherland’s early theatrical roles was as Private Vernon Pinkley (#2) in 1967’s\u00a0The Dirty Dozen<\/em>. You’ll recall Lee Marvin played the commanding officer of a ragtag group of misfit soldiers. The film had several actors that were either stars or soon would be. Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Telly Savalas, and George Kennedy are just some of the men who shared the screen with Sutherland. It was Sutherland who stole the show though with his quirky portrayal of the goofy private. This was best exemplified when Lee Marvin’s Major Reisman forces Pinkley to pretend to be a general and conduct an inspection of some troops. It was Sutherland who delivered the excellent line, “Very pretty, Colonel, Very pretty, But, can they fight?” Watch below.<\/p>\n