Donald Sutherland dies as son Kiefer pays heartfelt tribute to Hunger Games star

Sutherland is perhaps best known as the womanising Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce Jr in the 1970 film version of M*A*S*H

Donald Sutherland attending the UK Premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2. Picture: Daniel Leal/PA Wire

Kiefer Sutherland has called his father Donald Sutherland “one of the most important actors in the history of film” following the Canadian actor’s death aged 88.

The star of Ordinary People, M*A*S*H, The Hunger Games film series and Six Degrees Of Separation died on Thursday in Miami, Florida, following a “long illness”, his agent CAA said.