
Donald Sutherland
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2024
Ozi: Voice of the Forest as Crocodile (voice)
2023Lawmen: Bass Reeves as Judge Isaac Parker
2023Miranda's Victim as Judge Wren
2022Mr. Harrigan's Phone as Mr. Harrigan
2022Swimming with Sharks as Redmond
2022Moonfall as Holdenfield
2021JFK: Destiny Betrayed as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020The Undoing as Franklin Reinhart
2020Alone as Edward
2020The Burnt Orange Heresy as Jerome Debney
2019Reach for the Stars as Self
2019Ad Astra as Thomas Pruitt
2019The Physics of Sorrow as (voice)
2019Backdraft 2 as Ronald Bartel
2019American Hangman as Judge Straight
2018Measure of a Man as Dr. Kahn
2018Trust as J. Paul Getty Sr.
2018The Leisure Seeker as John Spencer
2017Basmati Blues as Gurgon
2016Ice as Pieter Van De Bruin
2016Milton's Secret as Grandpa Howard
2016Point and Shoot as Man
2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as President Coriolanus Snow
2015Forsaken as Rev. Clayton
2015Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... as Self
2015The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
2015Pirate's Passage as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
2014The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as President Coriolanus Snow
2014The Calling as Father Price
2014Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as President Coriolanus Snow
2013Crossing Lines as Michael Dorn
2013The Frame as President Coriolanus Snow
2013Jappeloup as John Lester
2013The Best Offer as Billy Whistler
2012The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden as Self
2012The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
2012Assassin's Bullet as Ambassador Ashdown
2012Dawn Rider as Pop
2012The Hunger Games as President Coriolanus Snow
2012Treasure Island as Captain Flint
2012Treasure Island as Captain Flint
2011The Man on the Train as The Professor
2011Jock the Hero Dog as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
2011Horrible Bosses as Jack Pellit
2011Moby Dick as Father Mapple
2011The Eagle as Aquila
2011The Mechanic as Harry McKenna
2010The Con Artist as Kranski
2010The Pillars of the Earth as Earl Bartholomew
2009Astro Boy as President Stone (voice)
2009The Eastmans as Dr. Charles Eastman
2008Stonehenge: Decoded as Narrator (voice)
2008Fool's Gold as Nigel Honeycutt
2007Puffball as Lars
2007Dirty Sexy Money as Patrick "Tripp" Darling III
2007Days of Darkness as Donald Sutherland
2007Trumbo as Self
2007Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia as Narrator
2007Reign Over Me as Richter Raines
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007Sleepwalkers as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
2006America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Narrator (voice)
2006Fierce People as Ogden C. Osborne
2006Beerfest as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
2006Land of the Blind as Thorne
2006Ask the Dust as Hellfrick
2006Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' as Self
2006Fellini dice... as Self
2006Operation Dirty Dozen as Self (uncredited)
2005Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Self
2005Human Trafficking as Agent Bill Meehan
2005Commander in Chief as Nathan Templeton
2005Pride & Prejudice as Mr. Bennet
2005Lord of War as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
2005American Gun as Carl Wilk
2005Sir! No Sir! as Self
2005An American Haunting as John Bell
2005Aurora Borealis as Ronald Shorter
2004Frankenstein as Captain Walton
2004Salem's Lot as Richard Straker
2003Cold Mountain as Reverend Monroe
2003Path to War as Clark Clifford
2003Baltic Storm as Lou Aldryn
2003The Italian Job as John Bridger
2003Five Moons Plaza as Rosario Sarracino
2003Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self - Casanova
2002The Magic of Fellini as Self (archive footage)
2001Big Shot's Funeral as Tyler
2001Uprising as Adam Czerniaków
2001Uprising as Adam Czerniaków
2001Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
2001Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as Dr. Sid (voice)
2001Queen Victoria's Empire as Narrator (voice)
2001The Big Heist as Jimmy Burke
2001The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Narrator (voice)
2001History vs. Hollywood as Self
2000Panic as Michael
2000Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self
2000The Art of War as Douglas Thomas
2000Backstory as Self
2000Space Cowboys as Jerry O'Neill
2000Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' as Self
1999The Hunley as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
1999Instinct as Ben Hillard
1999Behind the Mask as Dr. Bob Shushan
1999Virus as Captain Robert Everton
1998Free Money as Judge Rausenberg
1998Without Limits as Bill Bowerman
1998Fallen as Lt. Stanton
1997The Assignment as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
1997The View as Self
1997Scene by Scene as Self
1997Shadow Conspiracy as Jacob Conrad
1996Natural Enemy as Ted Robards
1996Hollow Point as Garrett Lawton
1996A Time to Kill as Lucien Wilbanks
1996Hearst Castle: Building the Dream as Narrator
1995Roger Moore: A Matter of Class as Self (archive footage)
1995Outbreak as General Donald McClintock
1995Citizen X as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
1994Disclosure as Bob Garvin
1994The Puppet Masters as Andrew Nivens
1994Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1994Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as William Marsden
1994Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as William Marsden
1994The Lifeforce Experiment as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
1993La Classe américaine as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993Six Degrees of Separation as Flan
1993Younger and Younger as Jonathan Younger
1993Bethune: The Making of a Hero as Dr. Norman Bethune
1993Red Hot as Kirov
1993Benefit of the Doubt as Frank
1992The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas as Narrator (voice)
1992The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power as Narrator (voice)
1992The Railway Station Man as Roger Hawthorne
1992The Setting Sun as John Williams
1992Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
1992HBO First Look as Self
1992Shadow of the Wolf as Henderson
1992Quicksand: No Escape as Murdoch
1991JFK as X
1991Scream of Stone as Ivan
1991Backdraft as Ronald Bartel
1991Buster's Bedroom as O'Connor
1991Eminent Domain as Josef Borski
1990Kate Bush: Sensual World as Self (archive footage)
1990Romy Award as Self
1989The Simpsons as Hollis Hurlbut (voice)
1989A Dry White Season as Ben du Toit
1989Lock Up as Warden Drumgoole
1989Lost Angels as Dr. Charles Loftis
1988American Experience as Narrator (voice)
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1988Apprentice to Murder as John Reese
1988People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe as Narrator (voice)
1987The Trouble with Spies as Appleton Porter
1987The Rosary Murders as Father Robert Koesler
1986The Wolf at the Door as Paul Gauguin
1985Revolution as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
1985Heaven Help Us as Brother Thadeus
1985Friday People
1984Ordeal by Innocence as Dr. Arthur Calgary
1984Crackers as Westlake
1983The Winter of Our Discontent as Ethan Hawley
1983Max Dugan Returns as Brian Costello
1983Fellini nel cestino as Self
1982Night of 100 Stars as Self
1981A War Story as Narrator (voice)
1981Threshold as Dr. Thomas Vrain
1981Eye of the Needle as Faber
1981Gas as Nick the Noz
1980Ordinary People as Calvin Jarrett
1980Nothing Personal as Roger Keller
1980North China Factory as Narrator (voice)
1979Bear Island as Frank Lansing
1979A Man, a Woman and a Bank as Reese Halperin
1979Murder by Decree as Robert Lees
1978Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Matthew Bennell
1978The First Great Train Robbery as Robert Agar
1978Animal House as Dave Jennings
1978End of the Game as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
1978Blood Relatives as Carella
1977The Disappearance as Jay Mallory
1977The Kentucky Fried Movie as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
1977Bethune as Dr. Norman Bethune
1976The Eagle Has Landed as Liam Devlin
1976Fellini's Casanova as Giacomo Casanova
19761900 as Attila Mellanchini
1976The Cinema According to Bertolucci as Self
1975Abicinema as Self
1975The Day of the Locust as Homer Simpson
1975Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1974Spécial cinéma as Self
1974S*P*Y*S as Bruland
1974Alien Thunder as Sgt. Dan Candy
1974The Awful Manners as Man walking (uncredited)
1973Don't Look Now as John Baxter
1973Lady Ice as Andy Hammon
1973Steelyard Blues as Jesse Veldini
1972FTA as Self
1971'Klute' in New York as Self
1971Johnny Got His Gun as Christ
1971Klute as John Klute
1971Little Murders as Rev. Dupas
1970Alex in Wonderland as Alex Morrison
1970Act of the Heart as Father Michael Ferrier
1970Kelly's Heroes as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
1970M*A*S*H as Hawkeye Pierce
1970Start the Revolution Without Me as Charles / Pierre
1968The Sunshine Patriot as Benedeck
1968Joanna as Lord Peter Sanderson
1968The Split as Dave Negli
1968The Champions as David Crayley
1968The Name of the Game as Jerry Trevor
1968The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1968Oedipus the King as Chorus Leader
1968Interlude as Lawrence
1968Sebastian as Ackerman
1967Billion Dollar Brain as Scientist at Computer
1967Man in a Suitcase as Willard
1967Man in a Suitcase as Keith Earle
1967The Shuttered Room as Zebulon (voice)
1967The Dirty Dozen as Vernon Pinkley
1966Promise Her Anything as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
1965BBC Play of the Month as Charles Givens
1965The Bedford Incident as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
1965Fanatic as Joseph
1965Gideon's Way as Philip Guest
1965Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as Bob Carroll
1964The Castle of the Living Dead as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
1964Theatre 625 as Priest
1964Theatre 625 as Union Captain
1964Hamlet at Elsinore as Fortinbras
1963The World Ten Times Over as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
1963For King and Country: Out There as Canadian
1962The Saint as John Wood
1962The Saint as Jim McCleery
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962Man of the World as Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)
1962Studio 4 as Switchboard Operator
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961The Avengers as Jessel
1953The Oscars as Self
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Ethan Hawley
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter







