Donald Sutherland
If you ask me, Donald Sutherland is a very serious candidate for the GOAT actor of the 20th century.
In terms of performances (obviously), in terms of figure/physique (which, for me, plays a huge role and encapsulates quality and meanings in an unconscious way), in terms of movie choices (which shows an artistic subjectivity on a second level), and in terms of personal/political stance (because it adds a moral factor that plays a role when we talk about the overall mythology of an actor of such scale).
And in terms of pure personal taste, for me, Sutherland of the '70s, that is, his classic interpretative period associated with New Hollywood and a series of pioneering directors of European cinema. For my personal taste, he is in the top 5 along with Burt Lancaster, Henry Fonda, Robert Duvall, and William Hurt (I like noble/melancholic looking actors, I admit).
For me, Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now is a 10/10 movie and a 10/10 performance, and Sutherland's cinematic work reached near perfection again with Robert Altman's MASH*, Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, and John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust. These are, in my opinion, 5 movies that everyone who loves cinema, and especially 70s cinema, must have seen. Zero (0) Oscar nominations for all these, by the way, in case you hadn't read something funny on the internet today.
If you have already seen them and want to delve a little deeper into Sutherland's (anyway large) filmography, then an alternative list of films with him as the lead is Alan Pakula's Klute (awesome classic 70s paranoia thriller), the underrated Casanova by Federico Fellini, the beloved cult Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the humanly touching Ordinary People, the super-honest Eye of the Needle, and the TV movie Citizen X.
A great loss overall, but a life full in every aspect. I would like to be more optimistic that new actors of such quality and temperament are emerging, but reality isn't helping either. In any case, RIP.
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He definitely was in a lot of good movies, I don't think I have seen all the ones you talk about, I will have to check them out.
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Kelly's Heroes was also a good film of his with he "negative vibes "line a classic.
A power actor, I have not been able to see even 5% of his vast filmography but I know that in the future if I see something of him I will focus on Dont look now that I notice the vehemence in recommendations with that 10 and in others of his golden age that I see are the 70s. In my aso I have seen his participation in Hunger Games and yes, he is a face that transmits elite, and a villain face, he has a lot of presence and class, in hubger games I just saw him a few months ago because I had never been able to see that saga and if something encouraged me to see all those films was this actor, I think he could have gotten more but I know I can enjoy his acting ability in those other films that you named
WoW surprised the news of his physical departure, I did not expect that and I'm just reading, he was already quite old, he will be forever eternal in his works with a face and voice that command respect RIP