Donald Sutherland
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 17, 1935
- Died
- June 20, 2024
- Birthplace
- Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
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.
Filmography
OZI: Voice of the Forest 2024
as Mr. Smiley (voice)
Miranda's Victim 2023
as Judge Wren
Mr. Harrigan's Phone 2022
as Mr. Harrigan
Moonfall 2022
as Holdenfield
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass 2021
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Alone 2020
as Edward
Citizen Jane Fonda 2020
as Self (archive footage)
The Burnt Orange Heresy 2020
as Jerome Debney
Reach for the Stars 2019
as Self
Ad Astra 2019
as Thomas Pruitt
The Physics of Sorrow 2019
as (voice)
Backdraft 2 2019
as Ronald Bartel
American Hangman 2019
as Judge Straight
Measure of a Man 2018
as Dr. Kahn
The Green Fog 2018
Actor
The Leisure Seeker 2018
as John Spencer
Basmati Blues 2017
as Gurgon
Milton's Secret 2016
as Grandpa Howard
Re-Visitors from Outer Space, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod 2016
as Self
- Point and Shoot
Point and Shoot 2016
as Man
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 2015
as President Coriolanus Snow
Forsaken 2015
as Rev. Clayton
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... 2015
as Self
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 2015
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Pirate's Passage 2015
as Captain Charles Johnson (voice), Producer, Writer
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 2014
as President Coriolanus Snow
The Calling 2014
as Father Price
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2014
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013
as President Coriolanus Snow
Jappeloup 2013
as John Lester
The Best Offer 2013
as Billy Whistler
- The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden 2012
as Self
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games 2012
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Assassin's Bullet 2012
as Ambassador Ashdown
Dawn Rider 2012
as Pop
The Hunger Games 2012
as President Coriolanus Snow
Treasure Island 2012
as Flint
The Man on the Train 2011
as The Professor
Jock the Hero Dog 2011
as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
Horrible Bosses 2011
as Jack Pellit
The Eagle 2011
as Aquila
The Mechanic 2011
as Harry McKenna
The Con Artist 2010
as Kranski
Astro Boy 2009
as President Stone (voice)
The Eastmans 2009
as Dr. Charles Eastman
Stonehenge: Decoded 2008
as Narrator (voice)
Fool's Gold 2008
as Nigel Honeycutt
Puffball 2007
as Lars
Days of Darkness 2007
as Donald Sutherland
Trumbo 2007
as Self
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia 2007
as Narrator
Reign Over Me 2007
as Richter Raines
Sleepwalkers 2007
as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
Beerfest 2006
as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
Land of the Blind 2006
as Thorne
Fierce People 2006
as Ogden C. Osborne
Ask the Dust 2006
as Hellfrick
Operation Dirty Dozen 2006
as Self (uncredited)
Fellini dice... 2006
as Self
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' 2006
as Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That 2005
as Self
Lord of War 2005
as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
Pride & Prejudice 2005
as Mr. Bennet
American Gun 2005
as Carl Wilk
Sir! No Sir! 2005
as Self
An American Haunting 2005
as John Bell
Aurora Borealis 2005
as Ronald Shorter
Cold Mountain 2003
as Reverend Monroe
Path to War 2003
as Clark Clifford
Baltic Storm 2003
as Lou Aldryn
The Italian Job 2003
as John Bridger
Five Moons Plaza 2003
as Rosario Sarracino
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar 2003
as Self - Casanova
The Magic of Fellini 2002
as Self (archive footage)
Big Shot's Funeral 2001
as Tyler
Uprising 2001
as Adam Czerniaków
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2001
as Dr. Sid (voice)
The Big Heist 2001
as Jimmy Burke
The Autobiography of Malcolm X 2001
as Narrator (voice)
Panic 2000
as Michael
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows 2000
as Self
The Art of War 2000
as Douglas Thomas
Space Cowboys 2000
as Jerry O'Neill
- Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' 2000
as Self
The Hunley 1999
as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Instinct 1999
as Ben Hillard
Behind the Mask 1999
as Dr. Bob Shushan
Virus 1999
as Captain Robert Everton
Free Money 1998
as Judge Rausenberg
Without Limits 1998
as Bill Bowerman
Fallen 1998
as Lt. Stanton
The Assignment 1997
as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
Shadow Conspiracy 1997
as Jacob Conrad
Natural Enemy 1996
as Ted Robards
Hollow Point 1996
as Garrett Lawton
A Time to Kill 1996
as Lucien Wilbanks
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream 1996
as Narrator
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class 1995
as Self (archive footage)
Outbreak 1995
as General Donald McClintock
Citizen X 1995
as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
Disclosure 1994
as Bob Garvin
The Puppet Masters 1994
as Andrew Nivens
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All 1994
as William Marsden
The Lifeforce Experiment 1994
as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
A Century of Cinema 1994
as Self
La Classe américaine 1993
as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Six Degrees of Separation 1993
as Flan
Younger and Younger 1993
as Jonathan Younger
Bethune: The Making of a Hero 1993
as Dr. Norman Bethune
Red Hot 1993
as Kirov
Benefit of the Doubt 1993
as Frank
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas 1992
as Narrator (voice)
The Railway Station Man 1992
as Roger Hawthorne
The Setting Sun 1992
as John Williams
Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1992
as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Shadow of the Wolf 1992
as Henderson
Quicksand: No Escape 1992
as Murdoch
JFK 1991
as X
Scream of Stone 1991
as Ivan
Backdraft 1991
as Ronald Bartel
Buster's Bedroom 1991
as O'Connor
Eminent Domain 1991
as Josef Borski
Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video 1990
as Self (archive footage)
A Dry White Season 1989
as Ben du Toit
Lock Up 1989
as Warden Drumgoole
Lost Angels 1989
as Dr. Charles Loftis
Apprentice to Murder 1988
as John Reese
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe 1988
as Narrator (voice)
The Trouble with Spies 1987
as Appleton Porter
The Rosary Murders 1987
as Father Robert Koesler
The Wolf at the Door 1986
as Paul Gauguin
Revolution 1985
as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Heaven Help Us 1985
as Brother Thadeus
Ordeal by Innocence 1984
as Dr. Arthur Calgary
Crackers 1984
as Westlake
The Winter of Our Discontent 1983
as Ethan Hawley
Max Dugan Returns 1983
as Brian Costello
- Fellini nel cestino
Fellini nel cestino 1983
as Self
Night of 100 Stars 1982
as Self
A War Story 1981
as Narrator (voice)
Threshold 1981
as Dr. Thomas Vrain
Gas 1981
as Nick the Noz
Eye of the Needle 1981
as Faber
Ordinary People 1980
as Calvin Jarrett
Nothing Personal 1980
as Roger Keller
- North China Factory
North China Factory 1980
as Narrator (voice)
Bear Island 1979
as Frank Lansing
A Man, a Woman and a Bank 1979
as Reese Halperin
Murder by Decree 1979
as Robert Lees
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
as Matthew Bennell
The First Great Train Robbery 1978
as Robert Agar
Animal House 1978
as Dave Jennings
Blood Relatives 1978
as Steve Carella
The Disappearance 1977
as Jay Mallory
The Kentucky Fried Movie 1977
as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
Bethune 1977
as Dr. Norman Bethune
The Eagle Has Landed 1976
as Liam Devlin
Fellini's Casanova 1976
as Giacomo Casanova
1900 1976
as Attila Mellanchini
The Cinema According to Bertolucci 1976
as Self
ABCinema 1975
as Self
The Day of the Locust 1975
as Homer Simpson
End of the Game 1975
as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
S*P*Y*S 1974
as Bruland
Alien Thunder 1974
as Sgt. Dan Candy
The Awful Manners 1974
as Man walking (uncredited)
Don't Look Now 1973
as John Baxter
Lady Ice 1973
as Andy Hammon
Steelyard Blues 1973
as Jesse Veldini, Executive Producer
FTA 1972
as Self, Writer, Producer
'Klute' in New York 1971
as Self
Johnny Got His Gun 1971
as Christ
Klute 1971
as John Klute
Little Murders 1971
as Rev. Dupas
Alex in Wonderland 1970
as Alex Morrison
Act of the Heart 1970
as Father Michael Ferrier
Kelly's Heroes 1970
as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
M*A*S*H 1970
as Hawkeye Pierce
Start the Revolution Without Me 1970
as Charles / Pierre
The Sunshine Patriot 1968
as Benedeck
Joanna 1968
as Lord Peter Sanderson
The Split 1968
as Dave Negli
Oedipus the King 1968
as Chorus Leader
Interlude 1968
as Lawrence
Sebastian 1968
as Ackerman
Billion Dollar Brain 1967
as Scientist at Computer
The Shuttered Room 1967
as Zebulon (voice)
The Dirty Dozen 1967
as Vernon Pinkley
Lee Oswald: Assassin 1966
as Charles Givens
Promise Her Anything 1966
as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
The Bedford Incident 1965
as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
Fanatic 1965
as Joseph
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors 1965
as Bob Carroll
The Castle of the Living Dead 1964
as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
Hamlet at Elsinore 1964
as Fortinbras
The World Ten Times Over 1963
as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
- For King and Country: Out There
For King and Country: Out There 1963
as Canadian
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