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