Jane Fonda remembers the late Donald Sutherland: “Brilliant actor”

Jane Fonda mourns the loss of the “brilliant” and “complex” Donald Sutherland.

Following Sutherland’s death at the age of 88 on Thursday, June 20, the Oscar winner posted a photo of the two together on the set of their 1971 hit on Instagram. KluteThe crime drama earned Fonda the first of her two Oscars for best actress. Sutherland played the eponymous detective and Fonda a call girl who helps him in a missing person case.

Fonda, 86, wrote that she was “stunned by the death” of her co-star and called him “fascinating.”

“We loved working together,” she continued. “In this photo we are on the Klute Set with director Alan Pakula. Donald was a brilliant actor and a complex person who shared many adventures with me.”

Sutherland and Fonda were together at the time when they were in Klute. Before The Dirty Dozen Star was married to Lois Hardwick and Shirley Douglas. He is survived by his wife since 1972, Francine Racette, as well as five children and five grandchildren.

In her tribute, Fonda detailed the adventures she and Sutherland experienced: the 1971 Roadshow FTA, “an anti-Vietnam War tour in which she performed for 60,000 active duty soldiers, sailors and Marines in Hawaii, Okinawa, the Philippines and Japan in 1971.” Her performances were the subject of a 1972 documentary, also titled FTA

Sutherland and Fonda later starred in the crime comedy by author David S. Ward. Steelyard Blues.

The Grace and Frankie The star concluded her post with the words: “I am heartbroken.”

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Sutherland’s admirers and collaborators, including Helen Mirren, Ron Howard, Timothy Hutton, Tom Blyth and Edgar Wright, posted their own memories of the late star on social media. His son and fellow actor Kiefer, 57, shared a heartfelt tribute on X (formerly of Twitter).

“It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away,” Kiefer wrote next to an old photo of himself as a child with his father. “Personally, I consider him to be one of the most important actors in film history. He was never discouraged by a role, whether it was good, bad or ugly.”

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