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