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