Donald Sutherland, a veteran actor known for roles in M*A*S*H, Klute and The Hunger Games, has died, according to a statement from his agency CAA.

Sutherland died on Thursday in Miami after a long illness, according to his agency.

Actor Donald Sutherland appears at the premiere of the film The Burnt Orange Heresy at the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy, on September 7, 2019. (Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

“With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away,” Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland’s son, wrote in a post on Instagram on Thursday.

“I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly.

“He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.”

Tall and known for his intensity on screen, Sutherland earned an Emmy for his role as a Soviet official in the fact-based HBO movie Citizen X, as well as a pair of Golden Globes.

His career spanned more than 50 years and 140 film credits, including recent roles in the limited series Trust as oil tycoon J Paul Getty and HBO’s The Undoing.

Sutherland’s big break came when he was cast as one of The Dirty Dozen in the star-studded 1967 film, which became a major hit.

He followed that with another war movie, Kelly’s Heroes, before playing the wisecracking doctor Hawkeye Pierce in the movie version of M*A*S*H and opposite Jane Fonda in her Oscar-winning portrayal of a high-class “call girl” in the crime mystery Klute. Fonda and Sutherland also had an off-screen relationship around the time that they made the film.

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