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.
Known for
Credits
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
as Mr. Bennet
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
as President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
as President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
as President Coriolanus Snow
The Mechanic (2011)
as Harry McKenna
The Italian Job (2003)
as John Bridger
Lord of War (2005)
as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
The Hunger Games (2012)
as President Coriolanus Snow
A Time to Kill (1996)
as Lucien Wilbanks
Moonfall (2022)
as Holdenfield
Outbreak (1995)
as General Donald McClintock
Fallen (1998)
as Lt. Stanton
Cold Mountain (2003)
as Reverend Monroe
JFK (1991)
as X
Fool's Gold (2008)
as Nigel Honeycutt
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
as Vernon Pinkley
Disclosure (1994)
as Bob Garvin
Horrible Bosses (2011)
as Jack Pellit
Animal House (1978)
as Dave Jennings
Lock Up (1989)
as Warden Drumgoole
M*A*S*H (1970)
as Hawkeye Pierce
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
as Matthew Bennell
Astro Boy (2009)
as President Stone (voice)
The Eagle (2011)
as Aquila
Space Cowboys (2000)
as Jerry O'Neill
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
as Dr. Sid (voice)
Backdraft (1991)
as Ronald Bartel
Ad Astra (2019)
as Thomas Pruitt
The Best Offer (2013)
as Billy Whistler
Forsaken (2015)
as Rev. Clayton
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Don't Look Now (1973)
as John Baxter
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
as Liam Devlin
1900 (1976)
as Attila Mellanchini
Virus (1999)
as Captain Robert Everton
Reign Over Me (2007)
as Richter Raines
Instinct (1999)
as Ben Hillard
The Art of War (2000)
as Douglas Thomas
Beerfest (2006)
as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
Klute (1971)
as John Klute
Ask the Dust (2006)
as Hellfrick
Uprising (2001)
as Adam Czerniaków
Free Money (1998)
as Judge Rausenberg
Ordinary People (1980)
as Calvin Jarrett
The Assignment (1997)
as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
Citizen X (1995)
as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
as Robert Agar
Alone (2020)
as Edward
Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)
as Mr. Harrigan
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
as Christ
Heaven Help Us (1985)
as Brother Thadeus
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
Backdraft 2 (2019)
as Ronald Bartel
Revolution (1985)
as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Path to War (2003)
as Clark Clifford
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
as Flan
Bear Island (1979)
as Frank Lansing
Eye of the Needle (1981)
as Faber
Fierce People (2006)
as Ogden C. Osborne
The Puppet Masters (1994)
as Andrew Nivens
The Leisure Seeker (2018)
as John Spencer
Fellini's Casanova (1976)
as Giacomo Casanova
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)
as William Marsden
Land of the Blind (2006)
as Thorne
The Calling (2014)
as Father Price
OZI: Voice of the Forest (2024)
as Mr. Smiley
Oedipus the King (1968)
as Chorus Leader
A Dry White Season (1989)
as Ben du Toit
An American Haunting (2005)
as John Bell
American Gun (2005)
as Carl Wilk
Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
as Scientist at Computer
Big Shot's Funeral (2001)
as Tyler
The Bedford Incident (1965)
as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
The Split (1968)
as Dave Negli
Murder by Decree (1979)
as Robert Lees
Max Dugan Returns (1983)
as Brian Costello
Dawn Rider (2012)
as Pop
Natural Enemy (1996)
as Ted Robards
Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
as Dr. Arthur Calgary
Measure of a Man (2018)
as Dr. Kahn
Without Limits (1998)
as Bill Bowerman
Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
as Jacob Conrad
The Con Artist (2010)
as Kranski
The Day of the Locust (1975)
as Homer Simpson
The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)
as Jerome Debney
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
as Bob Carroll
Lost Angels (1989)
as Dr. Charles Loftis
Crackers (1984)
as Westlake
La Classe américaine (1993)
as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Invasion (2011)
as archive footage
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Shadow of the Wolf (1992)
as Henderson
Jappeloup (2013)
as John Lester
Basmati Blues (2017)
as Gurgon
The Wolf at the Door (1986)
as Paul Gauguin
Panic (2000)
as Michael
Baltic Storm (2003)
as Lou Aldryn
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
Miranda's Victim (2023)
as Judge Wren
The Hunley (1999)
as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Hollow Point (1996)
as Garrett Lawton
Lady Ice (1973)
as Andy Hammon
S*P*Y*S (1974)
as Bruland
Aurora Borealis (2005)
as Ronald Shorter
Alien Thunder (1974)
as Sgt. Dan Candy
The Rosary Murders (1987)
as Father Robert Koesler
Eminent Domain (1991)
as Josef Borski
Little Murders (1971)
as Rev. Dupas
Puffball (2007)
as Lars
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
as Fortinbras
Sir! No Sir! (2005)
as Self
Fanatic (1965)
as Joseph
Younger and Younger (1993)
as Jonathan Younger
Milton's Secret (2016)
as Grandpa Howard
Red Hot (1993)
as Kirov
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2015)
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000)
as Self
Nothing Personal (1980)
as Roger Keller
Assassin's Bullet (2012)
as Ambassador Ashdown
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games (2012)
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Days of Darkness (2007)
as Donald Sutherland
The Shuttered Room (1967)
as Zebulon (voice)
FTA (1972)
as Self
The Setting Sun (1992)
as John Williams
Steelyard Blues (1973)
as Jesse Veldini
Benefit of the Doubt (1993)
as Frank
Threshold (1981)
as Dr. Thomas Vrain
The Big Heist (2001)
as Jimmy Burke
American Hangman (2019)
as Judge Straight
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
as Charles / Pierre
Jock the Hero Dog (2011)
as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
Gas (1981)
as Nick the Noz
Pirate's Passage (2015)
as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
Reach for the Stars (2019)
as Self
Trumbo (2007)
as Self
The Physics of Sorrow (2019)
as (voice)
Scream of Stone (1991)
as Ivan
Promise Her Anything (1966)
as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
The Eastmans (2009)
as Dr. Charles Eastman
Apprentice to Murder (1988)
as John Reese
The Man on the Train (2011)
as The Professor
The Disappearance (1977)
as Jay Mallory
Behind the Mask (1999)
as Dr. Bob Shushan
Blood Relatives (1978)
as Carella
Sebastian (1968)
as Ackerman
Citizen Jane Fonda (2020)
Actor
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979)
as Reese Halperin
A War Story (1981)
as Narrator (voice)
The Railway Station Man (1992)
as Roger Hawthorne
Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1993)
as Dr. Norman Bethune
Alex in Wonderland (1970)
as Alex Morrison
The Magic of Fellini (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Quicksand: No Escape (1992)
as Murdoch
The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)
as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003)
as Self - Casanova
Joanna (1968)
as Lord Peter Sanderson
The Trouble with Spies (1987)
as Appleton Porter
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... (2015)
as Self
Fellini nel cestino (1983)
as Self
Five Moons Plaza (2003)
as Rosario Sarracino
Fellini dice... (2006)
as Self
Buster's Bedroom (1991)
as O'Connor
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)
as Self
The Winter of Our Discontent (1983)
as Ethan Hawley
End of the Game (1978)
as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2014)
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Abicinema (1975)
as Self
'Klute' in New York (1971)
as Self
The Cinema According to Bertolucci (1976)
as Self
Sleepwalkers (2007)
as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
The Sunshine Patriot (1968)
as Benedeck
Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
The Awful Manners (1974)
as Man walking (uncredited)
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' (2006)
as Self
Bethune (1977)
as Dr. Norman Bethune
Act of the Heart (1970)
as Father Michael Ferrier
Interlude (1968)
as Lawrence
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream (1996)
as Narrator
For King and Country: Out There (1963)
as Canadian
Stonehenge: Decoded (2008)
as Narrator (voice)
The World Ten Times Over (1963)
as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
Operation Dirty Dozen (2006)
as Self (uncredited)
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' (2000)
as Self
Virus: Ghost in the Machine (1999)
as Self
The Lifeforce Experiment (1994)
as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
North China Factory (1980)
as Narrator (voice)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2001)
as Narrator (voice)
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe (1988)
as Narrator (voice)
Point and Shoot (2016)
as Man
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas (1992)
as Narrator (voice)
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden (2012)
as Self
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia (2007)
as Narrator