Donald Sutherland's rich career

That inscrutable look in his eyes – that must have been one of Donald Sutherland's biggest assets in Hollywood. Today, the man with the snow-white hair radiates a certain grandeur. The aging actor often plays likeable characters these days – and that wasn't always the case.

In Robert Aldrich's 1967 war film "The Dirty Dozen," Sutherland (right) plays a member of a small band of felons assigned to join US troops fighting the German army in 1944. The film was a huge commercial success.

Three years later, Sutherland played a cynical US surgeon in Robert Altman's black comedy war film about a medical unit at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M.A.S.H) during the Korean War. The feature film inspired a popular TV series of the same name. The Canadian actor was convincingly charismatic on the screen: A star was born.

The 1973 British-Italian thriller "Don't look now" is seen as the actor's biggest success, a film that made Donald Sutherland immortal. Sutherland plays a man who travels to Venice with his wife, and tries to come to grips with the recent death of his young daughter.

Leading European directors were next in line: in 1976, Sutherland played in Bernardo Bertolucci's epic historical drama "1900" — and he portrayed the infamous 18th century adventurer in Federico Fellini's "Casanova," infusing the role with heartfelt dejection and despair.

A year later, the actor shocked the audience in the subtle science fiction horror film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Humans are snatched by aliens in the form of plant pods, then duplicated and replaced. In the final shot, Sutherland, who plays a health inspector, emits a shrill scream — terrifying proof that, he, too, has become one of THEM.

Since the 1990s, Donald Sutherland has performed in several films every year, increasingly choosing poignant supporting roles. In 1991, he played alongside Kevin Costner in Oliver Stone's conspiracy thriller "JFK." Sutherland depicted the enigmatic Mr. X.

At the 2017 Venice Film Festival, Sutherland presented his newest coup: a road movie also starring Helen Mirren, entitled "The Leisure Seeker." It's about an elderly couple who go on a last journey in their faithful old motor home.