Donald Sutherland
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Donald McNichol Sutherland (July 17, 1935 – June 20, 2024) was a Canadian actor whose film career spanned over 6 decades. He was nominated for eight Golden Globe Awards, winning two for his performances in the television films Citizen X (1995) and Path to War (2002); the former also earned him a Primetime Emmy Award. An inductee of the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Canadian Walk of Fame, he also received a Canadian Academy Award for the drama film Threshold (1981). Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. In 2017, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his contributions to cinema. In 2021, he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries for his work in the HBO miniseries The Undoing (2020). Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films including The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Fellini's Casanova (1976), 1900 (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Animal House (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Ordinary People (1980), and Eye of the Needle (1981). He later went on to star in many other films where he appeared either in leading or supporting roles such as A Dry White Season (1989), JFK (1991), Outbreak (1995), A Time to Kill (1996), The Assignment (1997), Without Limits (1998), Big Shot's Funeral (2001), The Italian Job (2003), Cold Mountain (2003), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Aurora Borealis (2006) and The Hunger Games franchise (2012–2015). He was the father of actors Kiefer Sutherland, Rossif Sutherland, and Angus Sutherland.
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Credits
Ad Astra (2019)
as Thomas Pruitt
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
as President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
as President Coriolanus Snow
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
as Mr. Bennet
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
as President Coriolanus Snow
The Italian Job (2003)
as John Bridger
The Hunger Games (2012)
as President Coriolanus Snow
A Time to Kill (1996)
as Lucien Wilbanks
M*A*S*H (1970)
as Hawkeye Pierce
Space Cowboys (2000)
as Jerry O'Neill
Fallen (1998)
as Lt. Stanton
Moonfall (2022)
as Holdenfield
Horrible Bosses (2011)
as Jack Pellit
Lord of War (2005)
as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
The Mechanic (2011)
as Harry McKenna
Instinct (1999)
as Ben Hillard
JFK (1991)
as X
Disclosure (1994)
as Bob Garvin
Beerfest (2006)
as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
Ordinary People (1980)
as Calvin Jarrett
Uprising (2001)
as Adam Czerniaków
Outbreak (1995)
as General Donald McClintock
Forsaken (2015)
as Rev. Clayton
The Eagle (2011)
as Aquila
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
as Dr. Sid (voice)
Astro Boy (2009)
as President Stone (voice)
Lock Up (1989)
as Warden Drumgoole
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
as Matthew Bennell
Backdraft (1991)
as Ronald Bartel
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
Cold Mountain (2003)
as Reverend Monroe
The Wolf at the Door (1986)
as Paul Gauguin
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
as Liam Devlin
Klute (1971)
as John Klute
Don't Look Now (1973)
as John Baxter
An American Haunting (2005)
as John Bell
Fool's Gold (2008)
as Nigel Honeycutt
Animal House (1978)
as Dave Jennings
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
as Vernon Pinkley
OZI: Voice of the Forest (2024)
as Mr. Smiley (voice)
The Best Offer (2013)
as Billy Whistler
FTA (1972)
as Self
The Art of War (2000)
as Douglas Thomas
Panic (2000)
as Michael
Alone (2020)
as Edward
Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)
as Mr. Harrigan
Red Hot (1993)
as Kirov
Virus (1999)
as Captain Robert Everton
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Eye of the Needle (1981)
as Faber
1900 (1976)
as Attila Mellanchini
The Leisure Seeker (2018)
as John Spencer
Jappeloup (2013)
as John Lester
ABCinema (1975)
as Self
Reign Over Me (2007)
as Richter Raines
Citizen X (1995)
as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
Treasure Island (2012)
as Flint
The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
as Robert Agar
Fanatic (1965)
as Joseph
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
as Christ
Measure of a Man (2018)
as Dr. Kahn
Backdraft 2 (2019)
as Ronald Bartel
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Assignment (1997)
as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)
as Jerome Debney
Younger and Younger (1993)
as Jonathan Younger
Fellini dice... (2006)
as Self
The Puppet Masters (1994)
as Andrew Nivens
Miranda's Victim (2023)
as Judge Wren
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
as Bob Carroll
The Cinema According to Bertolucci (1976)
as Self
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
as Flan
Bethune (1977)
as Dr. Norman Bethune
The Bedford Incident (1965)
as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
Gas (1981)
as Nick the Noz
Revolution (1985)
as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Fellini's Casanova (1976)
as Giacomo Casanova
S*P*Y*S (1974)
as Bruland
Murder by Decree (1979)
as Robert Lees
Citizen Jane Fonda (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
as Dr. Arthur Calgary
Free Money (1998)
as Judge Rausenberg
The Setting Sun (1992)
as John Williams
Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
as Jacob Conrad
The Day of the Locust (1975)
as Homer Simpson
The Man on the Train (2011)
as The Professor
Fierce People (2006)
as Ogden C. Osborne
The Con Artist (2010)
as Kranski
Days of Darkness (2007)
as Donald Sutherland
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2015)
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Big Shot's Funeral (2001)
as Tyler
A Dry White Season (1989)
as Ben du Toit
Reach for the Stars (2019)
as Self
The Calling (2014)
as Father Price
Shadow of the Wolf (1992)
as Henderson
Ask the Dust (2006)
as Hellfrick
Baltic Storm (2003)
as Lou Aldryn
Sir! No Sir! (2005)
as Self
Path to War (2003)
as Clark Clifford
Land of the Blind (2006)
as Thorne
The Awful Manners (1974)
as Man walking (uncredited)
Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
as Scientist at Computer
Bear Island (1979)
as Frank Lansing
For King and Country: Out There (1963)
as Canadian
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
as Charles / Pierre
Re-Visitors from Outer Space, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod (2016)
as Self
Crackers (1984)
as Westlake
Little Murders (1971)
as Rev. Dupas
End of the Game (1975)
as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
La Classe américaine (1993)
as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lee Oswald: Assassin (1966)
as Charles Givens
American Hangman (2019)
as Judge Straight
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
Scream of Stone (1991)
as Ivan
Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1993)
as Dr. Norman Bethune
Assassin's Bullet (2012)
as Ambassador Ashdown
The Split (1968)
as Dave Negli
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games (2012)
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003)
as Self - Casanova
Blood Relatives (1978)
as Steve Carella
American Gun (2005)
as Carl Wilk
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe (1988)
as Narrator (voice)
Dawn Rider (2012)
as Pop
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000)
as Self
The Shuttered Room (1967)
as Zebulon (voice)
Hollow Point (1996)
as Garrett Lawton
Benefit of the Doubt (1993)
as Frank
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)
as William Marsden
Basmati Blues (2017)
as Gurgon
Lady Ice (1973)
as Andy Hammon
Heaven Help Us (1985)
as Brother Thadeus
Five Moons Plaza (2003)
as Rosario Sarracino
The Eastmans (2009)
as Dr. Charles Eastman
Without Limits (1998)
as Bill Bowerman
A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979)
as Reese Halperin
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
as Fortinbras
Puffball (2007)
as Lars
Jock the Hero Dog (2011)
as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
Buster's Bedroom (1991)
as O'Connor
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream (1996)
as Narrator
Threshold (1981)
as Dr. Thomas Vrain
Stonehenge: Decoded (2008)
as Narrator (voice)
Operation Dirty Dozen (2006)
as Self (uncredited)
Eminent Domain (1991)
as Josef Borski
Nothing Personal (1980)
as Roger Keller
Lost Angels (1989)
as Dr. Charles Loftis
The Green Fog (2018)
Actor
Oedipus the King (1968)
as Chorus Leader
The Rosary Murders (1987)
as Father Robert Koesler
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2014)
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Sebastian (1968)
as Ackerman
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas (1992)
as Narrator (voice)
Natural Enemy (1996)
as Ted Robards
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' (2006)
as Self
The Hunley (1999)
as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Trumbo (2007)
as Self
Aurora Borealis (2005)
as Ronald Shorter
A Century of Cinema (1994)
as Self
Milton's Secret (2016)
as Grandpa Howard
Apprentice to Murder (1988)
as John Reese
Max Dugan Returns (1983)
as Brian Costello
Pirate's Passage (2015)
as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
Alex in Wonderland (1970)
as Alex Morrison
The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)
as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)
as Self
The Trouble with Spies (1987)
as Appleton Porter
Steelyard Blues (1973)
as Jesse Veldini
The Big Heist (2001)
as Jimmy Burke
North China Factory (1980)
as Narrator (voice)
The World Ten Times Over (1963)
as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
The Railway Station Man (1992)
as Roger Hawthorne
The Winter of Our Discontent (1983)
as Ethan Hawley
'Klute' in New York (1971)
as Self
Alien Thunder (1974)
as Sgt. Dan Candy
Promise Her Anything (1966)
as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
Behind the Mask (1999)
as Dr. Bob Shushan
The Disappearance (1977)
as Jay Mallory
Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
The Sunshine Patriot (1968)
as Benedeck
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... (2015)
as Self
A War Story (1981)
as Narrator (voice)
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' (2000)
as Self
The Magic of Fellini (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2001)
as Narrator (voice)
Act of the Heart (1970)
as Father Michael Ferrier
Joanna (1968)
as Lord Peter Sanderson
The Lifeforce Experiment (1994)
as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
Quicksand: No Escape (1992)
as Murdoch
The Physics of Sorrow (2019)
as (voice)
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden (2012)
as Self
Sleepwalkers (2007)
as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
Interlude (1968)
as Lawrence
Fellini nel cestino (1983)
as Self
Point and Shoot (2016)
as Man
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia (2007)
as Narrator