It's often difficult to limit a veteran actor's career down to a handful of key roles, and Donald Sutherland's seven ... as Buffy's mentor Merrick. His gravitas among a predominantly young cast ...

Actor Donald Sutherland was a dad to five children: Kiefer, Rachel, Roeg, Rossif and Angus Stephanie Kaloi is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Few names in Hollywood have both the longevity and consistency as Donald Sutherland ... the Vampire Slayer film, where ...

She had no idea of her true calling until a mysterious man named Merrick (Donald Sutherland) approached her and told her that she is the Slayer; one woman called to defend the world from vampires.

Donald Sutherland, whose ability to both charm and unsettle, both reassure and repulse, was amply displayed in scores of film roles as diverse as a laid-back battlefield surgeon in “M*A*S*H,” ...