The legendary actor, who has been 85 years old since yesterday, is known to everyone from Mash, Kelly’s Heroes, or The Needle in a Haystack, but few know that Donald Sutherland was featured in a video game – only once.

It is common nowadays for a well-known movie star to form a video player character through dubbing and/or MOCAP, but in the classic period of video games, in the eighties or nineties, it became a rarity. That’s why it’s interesting that the legendary actor Donald Sutherland, who celebrated his 85th birthday yesterday, only appeared once in 1992 in a video game, not just in the form of dubbed sound, but in the form of recorded scenes.

The KGB is a genius Cryo Interactive, a French detective adventure game in which we control a young KGB officer from the Soviet secret service, Maxim Rukov. This incredibly atmospheric, extremely exciting event, mixed with murders, assassinations, corruption and a conspiracy within the KGB, takes place in the Soviet Union, which was falling apart before the regime change and was living in its final days, in 1991, including Moscow’s darkest Carry.

And how does Donald Sutherland come here? The game, which was originally released for Amiga and PC discs, also had a later CD-ROM release, which included video inserts showing Maxim Rukov, who had passed away years earlier, and also KBG’s father, Mikhail Stevanovich Rukov, who was was killed along with his wife during an assassination attempt in Afghanistan. Rukov sees his father appearing regularly through a kind of “visions,” where he advises on the investigation, where he just scolds or just tries to encourage him. The game was extremely difficult anyway, it took a very strong concentration and logical skills to get to the end, so the advice and encouragement of Father Donald Sutherland were quite out of place. In the videos you can see a walkthrough of the original Amiga version (this did not include the Sutherland videos yet) and below you can play videos of the star dressed in Soviet military uniforms. (The low video resolution was due to the level of technology typical of the early 1990s.)