As Kiefer Sutherland Returns to TV with Touch, Snakkle Looks Back at the Actor’s Impressive Career!

After landing his first major role in the Canadian movie The Bay Boy, Kiefer scored a small role in his first Hollywood production as Bill in Max Dugan Returns with Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, and his dad, Donald Sutherland. Speaking of whom, Kiefer says his dad might be persuaded to reunite with him on his new series, Touch. “Working on episodes five and six now but I have conveyed to [creator] Tim (Kring) that my father is someone I would love to work with. We don’t have a script or a story for that, but it certainly is open.”

Kiefer costarred with fellow up-and-coming actor Keanu Reeves in The Brotherhood of Justice, a TV movie about a group of good students who try to fight school violence by forming a gang. Kiefer’s feathered hair is quite the offensive move! Well played…

Sporting bleached hair and a mean switchblade, Kiefer played bully Ace Merrill in Rob Reiner’s instant classic coming-of-age drama, Stand by Me. He hit all the right notes menacing River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, and chubby Jerry O'Connell. Jennifer Aniston wasn't always so sexy... Click through these more modest Before They Were Stars photos of the smokin' hot actress!

Sutherland went from Ace bad to vampire terrifying playing David, the mohawked ringleader of Santa Carla’s vampire population in the '80s classic The Lost Boys.

The Brat Pack classic Young Guns put Kiefer in Billy the Kid’s (Emilio Estevez) posse along with Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, and Casey Siemaszko.

Kiefer Sutherland met Julia Roberts while shooting this thriller about medical students playing chicken with death. The pair became an item and even got engaged, but in 1991 Roberts pulled the plug on the ceremony and ran away with Jason Patric. Ouch!

Sutherland played a Southern Marine who messes up the “code red” punishment of Private Santiago under the command of Jack Nicholson’s terrifyingly brazen Col. Nathan R. Jessup.

A remake of the French-Dutch thriller of the same name, The Vanishing had Kiefer losing his girlfriend (Sandra Bullock) at a gas station, and she’s never to be found again. Three years later, he obsessively gets to the bottom of her disappearance.

Not many caught Kiefer in Truth or Consequences, N.M., a drug bust gone bad drama, but it’s worth it for his impressive facial hair alone.

After a bit of a lull in his career and a stint as a rodeo rider, Sutherland was wooed to TV with the groundbreaking real-time drama 24. The character of Jack Bauer exploded into the zeitgeist as a cult hero and reigned supreme around the globe as the poster man of patriotic U.S. badassery. It won him an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and two SAGs too. Here's an awesome video interview with Regina King of the hit TV show Southland!

During his TV hiatuses, Sutherland often took film roles, including this primarily voice-only role as The Caller who stalks Colin Farrell from a phone booth.

Sutherland took a break from CTU to play an FBI agent trying to prevent Secret Service agent Michael Douglas from possibly assassinating the President in The Sentinel.

Kiefer dipped his toe into the world of Web series creation, executive producing and starring in the 10-part drama The Confession, with John Hurt. Of a possible sequel, Kiefer tells us, “I would love to do a second part of The Confession. There certainly is a story there that Brad Mirman, who wrote it, and I discussed. John Hurt and I would love to do that. I think the real challenge from a production aspect was that The Confession was quite high end and the real difficulty is trying to figure out how to galvanize and pull in an audience.”

Sutherland signed up with controversial filmmaker Lars von Trier to costar in the end-of-the-world drama Melancholia. Check out these 2012 Oscar Nominees Before They Were Stars photos!

A little more than a year after 24 ended its run, Kiefer Sutherland found himself wooed back to the small screen by Heroes creator Tim Kring’s compelling new mystical father-and-son drama Touch. Kiefer plays Martin Bohm, the father of a seemingly severely autistic young boy who actually may be able to predict the future through numbers and symbols. On how he knew Touch was the right project to do, Kiefer reveals, “It was funny. I was doing a play on Broadway. I had a film I knew I was going to do, so I read Touch almost reluctantly. I wasn’t completely ready to go back to television yet. I was enjoying some different opportunities, but I think it was around page 30 and I remember thinking, 'Oh s***,' because I knew I would be so remiss if I didn’t take the opportunity this was.”