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Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland

Acting1935Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Biography

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.

Acting History

2024
Murder in a Small Town
TVIn Memory Of1 eps
2023
Miranda's Victim
as Judge Wren
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
TVas Judge Isaac Parker8 eps
2022
Moonfall
as Holdenfield
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
as Mr. Harrigan
Swimming with Sharks
TVas Redmond6 eps
2021
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)4 eps
2020
Alone
as Edward
The Burnt Orange Heresy
as Jerome Debney
The Undoing
TVas Franklin Reinhart6 eps
2019
American Hangman
as Judge Straight
Backdraft 2
as Ronald Bartel
Ad Astra
as Thomas Pruitt
2018
Measure of a Man
as Dr. Kahn
The Leisure Seeker
as John Spencer
Trust
TVas J. Paul Getty Sr.10 eps
2017
Basmati Blues
as Gurgon
2016
Milton's Secret
as Grandpa Howard
Ice
TVas Pieter Van De Bruin6 eps
2015
Pirate's Passage
as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
Forsaken
as Rev. Clayton
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as President Coriolanus Snow
2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
as President Coriolanus Snow
The Calling
as Father Price
2013
The Best Offer
as Billy Whistler
Jappeloup
as John Lester
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as President Coriolanus Snow
The Frame
TVas President Coriolanus Snow1 eps
Crossing Lines
TVas Michael Dorn34 eps
2012
Treasure Island
as Captain Flint
The Hunger Games
as President Coriolanus Snow
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Assassin's Bullet
as Ambassador Ashdown
Treasure Island
TVas Captain Flint2 eps
2011
The Mechanic
as Harry McKenna
The Eagle
as Aquila
The Man on the Train
as The Professor
Horrible Bosses
as Jack Pellit
Jock the Hero Dog
as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
The Graham Norton Show
TVas Self1 eps
Moby Dick
TVas Father Mapple4 eps
Romy Award
TVas Self1 eps
2010
The Con Artist
as Kranski
The Pillars of the Earth
TVas Earl Bartholomew8 eps
2009
Astro Boy
as President Stone (voice)
The Eastmans
as Dr. Charles Eastman
2008
Stonehenge: Decoded
as Narrator (voice)
Fool's Gold
as Nigel Honeycutt
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TVas Self - Guest1 eps
2007
Sleepwalkers
as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
Puffball
as Lars
Reign Over Me
as Richter Raines
Trumbo
as Self
Days of Darkness
as Donald Sutherland
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
TVas Narrator (voice)3 eps
Dirty Sexy Money
TVas Patrick "Tripp" Darling III23 eps
2006
Ask the Dust
as Hellfrick
Fierce People
as Ogden C. Osborne
Beerfest
as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
Operation Dirty Dozen
as Self (uncredited)
The View
TVas Self1 eps
2005
Lord of War
as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
American Gun
as Carl Wilk
Aurora Borealis
as Ronald Shorter
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Bennet
Commander in Chief
TVas Nathan Templeton18 eps
HBO First Look
TVas Self1 eps
Human Trafficking
TVas Agent Bill Meehan2 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TVas Self - Guest1 eps
2004
Frankenstein
TVas Captain Walton2 eps
Salem's Lot
TVas Richard Straker2 eps
2003
Five Moons Plaza
as Rosario Sarracino
Cold Mountain
as Reverend Monroe
Path to War
as Clark Clifford
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
as Self - Casanova
The Italian Job
as John Bridger
Baltic Storm
as Lou Aldryn
2002
The Magic of Fellini
as Self (archive footage)
2001
Uprising
as Adam Czerniaków
The Big Heist
as Jimmy Burke
Uprising
TVas Adam Czerniaków2 eps
History vs. Hollywood
TVas Self1 eps
Scene by Scene
TVas Self1 eps
Queen Victoria's Empire
TVas Narrator (voice)4 eps
2000
Space Cowboys
as Jerry O'Neill
The Art of War
as Douglas Thomas
Panic
as Michael
Backstory
TVas Self1 eps
1999
The Hunley
as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Behind the Mask
as Dr. Bob Shushan
Instinct
as Ben Hillard
Virus
as Captain Robert Everton
American Experience
TVas Narrator (voice)1 eps
1998
Free Money
as Judge Rausenberg
Without Limits
as Bill Bowerman
Fallen
as Lt. Stanton
Inside the Actors Studio
TVas Self1 eps
1997
Shadow Conspiracy
as Jacob Conrad
The Assignment
as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
1996
Hollow Point
as Garrett Lawton
A Time to Kill
as Lucien Wilbanks
Natural Enemy
as Ted Robards
The Simpsons
TVas Hollis Hurlbut (voice)1 eps
1995
Outbreak
as General Donald McClintock
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
as Self (archive footage)
Citizen X
as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
1994
Disclosure
as Bob Garvin
The Puppet Masters
as Andrew Nivens
The Lifeforce Experiment
as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
TVas William Marsden2 eps
1993
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
as Dr. Norman Bethune
Red Hot
as Kirov
Younger and Younger
as Jonathan Younger
La Classe américaine
as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
1992
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Shadow of the Wolf
as Henderson
The Setting Sun
as John Williams
Golden Globe Awards
TVas Self - Presenter1 eps
1991
Eminent Domain
as Josef Borski
JFK
as X
Backdraft
as Ronald Bartel
Buster's Bedroom
as O'Connor
1990
Kate Bush: Sensual World
as Self (archive footage)
1989
A Dry White Season
as Ben du Toit
Lock Up
as Warden Drumgoole
Lost Angels
as Dr. Charles Loftis
1987
The Rosary Murders
as Father Robert Koesler
The Trouble with Spies
as Appleton Porter
1986
The Wolf at the Door
as Paul Gauguin
1985
Revolution
as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Heaven Help Us
as Brother Thadeus
1984
Ordeal by Innocence
as Dr. Arthur Calgary
Crackers
as Westlake
1983
Max Dugan Returns
as Brian Costello
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TVas Ethan Hawley1 eps
1981
A War Story
as Narrator (voice)
Gas
as Nick the Noz
Threshold
as Dr. Thomas Vrain
1980
Ordinary People
as Calvin Jarrett
North China Factory
as Narrator (voice)
Nothing Personal
as Roger Keller
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TVas Self1 eps
1979
Bear Island
as Frank Lansing
Murder by Decree
as Robert Lees
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
as Reese Halperin
1978
Animal House
as Dave Jennings
Blood Relatives
as Carella
End of the Game
as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
1977
Bethune
as Dr. Norman Bethune
The Disappearance
as Jay Mallory
The Kentucky Fried Movie
as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
The Oscars
TVas Self2 eps
1976
1900
as Attila Mellanchini
The Eagle Has Landed
as Liam Devlin
Fellini's Casanova
as Giacomo Casanova
Spécial cinéma
TVas Self1 eps
1975
Abicinema
as Self
The Day of the Locust
as Homer Simpson
1974
Alien Thunder
as Sgt. Dan Candy
S*P*Y*S
as Bruland
The Awful Manners
as Man walking (uncredited)
Film '72
TVas Self1 eps
1973
Lady Ice
as Andy Hammon
Don't Look Now
as John Baxter
Steelyard Blues
as Jesse Veldini
Steelyard Blues
Executive Producer
1972
FTA
as Self
FTA
Writer
FTA
Producer
1971
Klute
as John Klute
Little Murders
as Rev. Dupas
The Mike Douglas Show
TVas Self4 eps
1970
Alex in Wonderland
as Alex Morrison
Act of the Heart
as Father Michael Ferrier
Kelly's Heroes
as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
M*A*S*H
as Hawkeye Pierce
The Dick Cavett Show
TVas Self - Guest1 eps
1969
The Champions
TVas David Crayley1 eps
The Name of the Game
TVas Jerry Trevor1 eps
1968
The Split
as Dave Negli
Joanna
as Lord Peter Sanderson
Oedipus the King
as Chorus Leader
Interlude
as Lawrence
Sebastian
as Ackerman
Man in a Suitcase
TVas Keith Earle1 eps
1967
Billion Dollar Brain
as Scientist at Computer
The Shuttered Room
as Zebulon (voice)
The Dirty Dozen
as Vernon Pinkley
The Avengers
TVas Jessel1 eps
1966
Promise Her Anything
as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
Theatre 625
TVas Union Captain1 eps
Gideon's Way
TVas Philip Guest1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
TVas Charles Givens1 eps
1965
The Bedford Incident
as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
Fanatic
as Joseph
The Saint
TVas Jim McCleery1 eps
1964
Hamlet at Elsinore
as Fortinbras
The Castle of the Living Dead
as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
1963
The World Ten Times Over
as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
1962
Man of the World
TVas Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)1 eps
Studio 4
TVas Switchboard Operator1 eps

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
7/17/1935
Day of Death
6/20/2024
Place of Birth
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada