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ourarts and media correspondent david sillito looks back at his career. tonight s movie has been mash. in 1970, a sprawling, darkly comic film about the korean war came out. i m drjekyll, actually, this is my friend mr hyde. the hero, a cynical, rebellious, heavy drinking, womanising surgeon. everybody was telling me, don t do it. at the end of it, it ll ruin you. we did it in five weeks and it was wonderful. born in canada, he d studied engineering before switching to acting and working in theatre in britain. four captains, there, hamlet, like a soldier to the stage. mash. ..a thinly veiled satire of vietnam, led to klute. would you mind not doing that? ..with jane fonda. it was the first of three films together. ..and an off screen relationship. at a moment when a dark and maverick mood was making itself felt in hollywood, donald sutherland, with that piercing gaze, wasjust the sort of complex leading man it was looking for. take don t look now. a disturbing, ghostly story