 and he seemed to have a future playing strange villainous types. And in fact, he was cast a few years later in a sort of Dirty Dozen knockoff with Clint Eastwood called Kelly's Heroes. His character was named Sergeant Oddball, a kind of hippie transported into a World War II flick. It was funny, but Sutherland was more versatile than that. He could have gotten stuck playing weirdos, but then he landed the lead in Robert Altman's 1970 film M.A.S.H., and it made him a star.