#in this Saint ep he's playing a slightly unnerving weirdo who may or may not he dangerous

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A pre-Hollywood Donald Sutherland guests as Jim McCleery - self described "artist, genius, designer of book jackets" - out for revenge in The Saint: The Happy Suicide (3.23, ITC, 1965)

#fave spotting #donald sutherland #the saint #the happy suicide #1965 #a real genuine movie star!! #as some old tv fans will be aware‚ but movie fans may not know‚ Don spent a couple of years in the UK before his big breakthrough #he worked the same rentayank game as fellow Canadians Shane Rimmer and Paul Maxwell‚ and it looked very likely he'd end up in a similar #career path; he did a few guest spots in various ITV shows (The Avengers‚ The Champions‚ Man in a Suitcase) and popped #up in a couple of brit horror films (Dr Terror's House of Horrors and Die Die My Darling); this was a fairly early role #by the end of the decade Sutherland was making the films that would catapult him to stardom: MASH and Kelly's Heroes made him a #known face and led to further projects which would eventually make him a true legend and an international treasure #in this Saint ep he's playing a slightly unnerving weirdo who may or may not he dangerous #this would be a recurring theme in his british tv appearances