Career

Born in Paducah, Kentucky, Sutherland worked on stage and in motion pictures from the 1910s through the 1950s, when he also acted on television, including several episodes of "Perry Mason". He was also a was part of the original cast of the 1939 hit play Arsenic and Old Lace. Sutherland"s first wife was American actress Faye Cusick.

Sutherland died on August 29, 1968 at the age of 79, and was interred in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.