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If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

Kiefer Sutherland

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Kiefer Sutherland
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: December 21
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Songwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Director
Television Producer
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Saint Mary's Hospital
London
Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland
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