Trivia

Was an invaluable source for film historians Kevin Brownlow and Garson Kanin.

While some directors who worked with W.C. Fields came to despise him, Sutherland got along famously with him and became a lifelong friend.

Was reported to have said of Stan Laurel that he would sooner direct a tarantula.

His father Al Sutherland was a theatrical manager and producer and mother Julie Ring a vaudeville headliner. His great-grandfather J. H. Ring was a prominent English playwright, his aunt Blanche Ring a major American stage star, and his uncle Thomas Meighan a popular film actor.

Was one of the original Keystone Cops.

Got his start in movies as an actor for Mack Sennett. He went on to do stunt work, then become assistant director to Charles Chaplin on A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923). His directorial debut came in 1925, and in 1927 he made a name for himself as the director on W.C. Fields' It's the Old Army Game (1926).

Was longtime friends with director Malcolm St. Clair, going back to when both were Keystone Cops.

American parents.

Nephew of Charlotte Greenwood.