Donald Sutherland
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 17, 1935
- Died
- June 20, 2024 (aged 88)
- Birthplace
- Saint 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.
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Filmography
OZI: Voice of the Forest
Movie · as Mr. Smiley (voice)
Miranda's Victim
Movie · as Judge Wren
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
TV · as Judge Isaac Parker · 8 eps
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Movie · as Mr. Harrigan
Moonfall
Movie · as Holdenfield
Swimming with Sharks
TV · as Redmond · 6 eps
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 4 eps
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Movie · as Jerome Debney
Alone
Movie · as Edward
Citizen Jane Fonda
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Undoing
TV · as Franklin Reinhart · 6 eps
Reach for the Stars
Movie · as Self
American Hangman
Movie · as Judge Straight
Backdraft 2
Movie · as Ronald Bartel
Ad Astra
Movie · as Thomas Pruitt
The Physics of Sorrow
Movie · as (voice)
Measure of a Man
Movie · as Dr. Kahn
The Leisure Seeker
Movie · as John Spencer
The Green Fog
Movie
Trust
TV · as J. Paul Getty Sr. · 10 eps
Basmati Blues
Movie · as Gurgon
Milton's Secret
Movie · as Grandpa Howard
Point and Shoot
Movie · as Man
Re-Visitors from Outer Space, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod
Movie · as Self
Ice
TV · as Pieter Van De Bruin · 6 eps
Pirate's Passage
Movie · as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Movie · as President Coriolanus Snow
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
Movie · as Self
Forsaken
Movie · as Rev. Clayton
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Movie · as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Movie · as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Calling
Movie · as Father Price
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Movie · as President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Movie · as President Coriolanus Snow
The Best Offer
Movie · as Billy Whistler
Jappeloup
Movie · as John Lester
Crossing Lines
TV · as Michael Dorn · 34 eps
The Frame
TV · as President Coriolanus Snow · 1 ep
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Movie · as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games
Movie · as President Coriolanus Snow
Dawn Rider
Movie · as Pop
Assassin's Bullet
Movie · as Ambassador Ashdown
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden
Movie · as Self
Treasure Island
Movie · as Flint
Treasure Island
TV · as Captain Flint · 2 eps
The Mechanic
Movie · as Harry McKenna
The Eagle
Movie · as Aquila
The Man on the Train
Movie · as The Professor
Horrible Bosses
Movie · as Jack Pellit
Jock the Hero Dog
Movie · as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
Moby Dick
TV · as Father Mapple · 4 eps
The Con Artist
Movie · as Kranski
The Pillars of the Earth
TV · as Earl Bartholomew · 8 eps
Astro Boy
Movie · as President Stone (voice)
The Eastmans
Movie · as Dr. Charles Eastman
Fool's Gold
Movie · as Nigel Honeycutt
Stonehenge: Decoded
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Reign Over Me
Movie · as Richter Raines
Puffball
Movie · as Lars
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
Movie · as Narrator
Trumbo
Movie · as Self
Sleepwalkers
Movie · as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
Days of Darkness
Movie · as Donald Sutherland
Dirty Sexy Money
TV · as Patrick "Tripp" Darling III · 23 eps
The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Ask the Dust
Movie · as Hellfrick
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
Movie · as Self
Beerfest
Movie · as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
Fierce People
Movie · as Ogden C. Osborne
Land of the Blind
Movie · as Thorne
Fellini dice...
Movie · as Self
Operation Dirty Dozen
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
An American Haunting
Movie · as John Bell
Pride & Prejudice
Movie · as Mr. Bennet
Aurora Borealis
Movie · as Ronald Shorter
American Gun
Movie · as Carl Wilk
Sir! No Sir!
Movie · as Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Movie · as Self
Lord of War
Movie · as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
Commander in Chief
TV · as Nathan Templeton · 18 eps
Human Trafficking
TV · as Agent Bill Meehan · 2 eps
Frankenstein
TV · as Captain Walton · 2 eps
Salem's Lot
TV · as Richard Straker · 2 eps
Cold Mountain
Movie · as Reverend Monroe
Five Moons Plaza
Movie · as Rosario Sarracino
Path to War
Movie · as Clark Clifford
The Italian Job
Movie · as John Bridger
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Movie · as Self - Casanova
Baltic Storm
Movie · as Lou Aldryn
The Magic of Fellini
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Movie · as Dr. Sid (voice)
Uprising
Movie · as Adam Czerniaków
The Big Heist
Movie · as Jimmy Burke
Big Shot's Funeral
Movie · as Tyler
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
History vs. Hollywood
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Queen Victoria's Empire
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 4 eps
Uprising
TV · as Adam Czerniaków · 2 eps
Panic
Movie · as Michael
Space Cowboys
Movie · as Jerry O'Neill
The Art of War
Movie · as Douglas Thomas
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
Movie · as Self
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Movie · as Self
Backstory
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Instinct
Movie · as Ben Hillard
Virus
Movie · as Captain Robert Everton
The Hunley
Movie · as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Behind the Mask
Movie · as Dr. Bob Shushan
Free Money
Movie · as Judge Rausenberg
Without Limits
Movie · as Bill Bowerman
Fallen
Movie · as Lt. Stanton
Shadow Conspiracy
Movie · as Jacob Conrad
The Assignment
Movie · as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
The View
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Scene by Scene
TV · as Self · 1 ep
A Time to Kill
Movie · as Lucien Wilbanks
Natural Enemy
Movie · as Ted Robards
Hollow Point
Movie · as Garrett Lawton
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
Movie · as Narrator
Outbreak
Movie · as General Donald McClintock
Citizen X
Movie · as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Disclosure
Movie · as Bob Garvin
The Puppet Masters
Movie · as Andrew Nivens
The Lifeforce Experiment
Movie · as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Movie · as William Marsden
A Century of Cinema
Movie · as Self
Inside the Actors Studio
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
TV · as William Marsden · 2 eps
Six Degrees of Separation
Movie · as Flan
Benefit of the Doubt
Movie · as Frank
Younger and Younger
Movie · as Jonathan Younger
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Movie · as Dr. Norman Bethune
Red Hot
Movie · as Kirov
La Classe américaine
Movie · as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Movie · as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Shadow of the Wolf
Movie · as Henderson
Quicksand: No Escape
Movie · as Murdoch
The Railway Station Man
Movie · as Roger Hawthorne
The Setting Sun
Movie · as John Williams
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
HBO First Look
TV · as Self · 1 ep
JFK
Movie · as X
Backdraft
Movie · as Ronald Bartel
Scream of Stone
Movie · as Ivan
Buster's Bedroom
Movie · as O'Connor
Eminent Domain
Movie · as Josef Borski
Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Romy Award
TV · as Self · 1 ep
A Dry White Season
Movie · as Ben du Toit
Lock Up
Movie · as Warden Drumgoole
Lost Angels
Movie · as Dr. Charles Loftis
The Simpsons
TV · as Hollis Hurlbut (voice) · 1 ep
Apprentice to Murder
Movie · as John Reese
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
American Experience
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
The Rosary Murders
Movie · as Father Robert Koesler
The Trouble with Spies
Movie · as Appleton Porter
The Wolf at the Door
Movie · as Paul Gauguin
Revolution
Movie · as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Heaven Help Us
Movie · as Brother Thadeus
Friday People
TV · 1 ep
Screen Two
TV · as Roger Hawthorne · 1 ep
Crackers
Movie · as Westlake
Ordeal by Innocence
Movie · as Dr. Arthur Calgary
Max Dugan Returns
Movie · as Brian Costello
Fellini nel cestino
Movie · as Self
The Winter of Our Discontent
Movie · as Ethan Hawley
Eye of the Needle
Movie · as Faber
Threshold
Movie · as Dr. Thomas Vrain
A War Story
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Gas
Movie · as Nick the Noz
Ordinary People
Movie · as Calvin Jarrett
Nothing Personal
Movie · as Roger Keller
North China Factory
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Murder by Decree
Movie · as Robert Lees
Bear Island
Movie · as Frank Lansing
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
Movie · as Reese Halperin
The First Great Train Robbery
Movie · as Robert Agar
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Movie · as Matthew Bennell
Animal House
Movie · as Dave Jennings
Blood Relatives
Movie · as Steve Carella
Ciné regards
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Movie · as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
The Disappearance
Movie · as Jay Mallory
Bethune
Movie · as Dr. Norman Bethune
1900
Movie · as Attila Mellanchini
The Eagle Has Landed
Movie · as Liam Devlin
Fellini's Casanova
Movie · as Giacomo Casanova
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Movie · as Self
The Day of the Locust
Movie · as Homer Simpson
End of the Game
Movie · as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
ABCinema
Movie · as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 1 ep
S*P*Y*S
Movie · as Bruland
Alien Thunder
Movie · as Sgt. Dan Candy
The Awful Manners
Movie · as Man walking (uncredited)
Spécial cinéma
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Don't Look Now
Movie · as John Baxter
Steelyard Blues
Movie · as Jesse Veldini
Lady Ice
Movie · as Andy Hammon
FTA
Movie · as Self
Klute
Movie · as John Klute
Little Murders
Movie · as Rev. Dupas
Johnny Got His Gun
Movie · as Christ
'Klute' in New York
Movie · as Self
Film '72
TV · as Self · 3 eps
M*A*S*H
Movie · as Hawkeye Pierce
Kelly's Heroes
Movie · as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
Alex in Wonderland
Movie · as Alex Morrison
Start the Revolution Without Me
Movie · as Charles / Pierre
Act of the Heart
Movie · as Father Michael Ferrier
The Split
Movie · as Dave Negli
Joanna
Movie · as Lord Peter Sanderson
The Sunshine Patriot
Movie · as Benedeck
Interlude
Movie · as Lawrence
Sebastian
Movie · as Ackerman
Oedipus the King
Movie · as Chorus Leader
The Champions
TV · as David Crayley · 1 ep
The Name of the Game
TV · as Jerry Trevor · 1 ep
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Dirty Dozen
Movie · as Vernon Pinkley
Billion Dollar Brain
Movie · as Scientist at Computer
The Shuttered Room
Movie · as Zebulon (voice)
Man in a Suitcase
TV · as Willard, Keith Earle · 1 ep
Promise Her Anything
Movie · as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
Lee Oswald: Assassin
Movie · as Charles Givens
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Movie · as Bob Carroll
Fanatic
Movie · as Joseph
The Bedford Incident
Movie · as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
Gideon's Way
TV · as Philip Guest · 1 ep
BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Charles Givens · 1 ep
The Castle of the Living Dead
Movie · as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
Hamlet at Elsinore
Movie · as Fortinbras
Theatre 625
TV · as Priest, Union Captain · 1 ep
The World Ten Times Over
Movie · as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
For King and Country: Out There
Movie · as Canadian
The Saint
TV · as John Wood, Jim McCleery · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Man of the World
TV · as Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited) · 1 ep
Studio 4
TV · as Switchboard Operator · 1 ep
The Avengers
TV · as Jessel · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 4 eps
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Ethan Hawley · 1 ep
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter · 5 eps