nomination. Such things shouldn’t matter. But the argument gave cinema watchers an opportunity to run through the performances that deserved to have been so honoured.
His first screen roles were in British films and television. He can be seen in the enjoyable anthology Dr Terror’s House of Horror from 1965 and opposite Christopher Lee in the historical shocker Castle of the Living Dead from 1964. His breakthrough came as one of 12 hoodlums sent on a commando raid in Robert Aldrich’s The Dirty Dozen.
Everything came together in Don’t Look Now, a film rich in mystery that, infuriatingly for the cast, generated absurd rumours that a famous sex scene between Sutherland and Julie Christie was “unsimulated”.