
Donald Sutherland
Known for Acting · 246 credits
- Born
- 1935-07-17
- Died
- 2024-06-20
- Place of birth
- Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
- Also known as
- Don Sutherland · Donald McNicol Sutherland, OC
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.
Known For
TV Shows (53)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

The Simpsons
1989
as Hollis Hurlbut (voice)

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

The View
1997
as Self

The Avengers
1961
as Jessel

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Presenter

American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)

The Saint
1962
as John Wood / Jim McCleery

The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest

BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Charles Givens

Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self

The Name of the Game
1968
as Jerry Trevor

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self

Screen Two
1985
as Roger Hawthorne

Theatre 625
1964
as Priest / Union Captain

The Oscars
1953
as Self

The Champions
1968
as David Crayley
Film '72
1971
as Self

Crossing Lines
2013
as Michael Dorn

Commander in Chief
2005
as Nathan Templeton

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest

HBO First Look
1992
as Self

Ice
2016
as Pieter Van De Bruin

Dirty Sexy Money
2007
as Patrick "Tripp" Darling III

Trust
2018
as J. Paul Getty Sr.

Gideon's Way
1965
as Philip Guest

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
as Narrator (voice)
Romy Award
1990
as Self

The Undoing
2020
as Franklin Reinhart

The Pillars of the Earth
2010
as Earl Bartholomew

Lawmen: Bass Reeves
2023
as Judge Isaac Parker

The Frame
2013
as President Coriolanus Snow

Man in a Suitcase
1967
as Willard / Keith Earle

Scene by Scene
1997
as Self

Man of the World
1962
as Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Ethan Hawley
Studio 4
1962
as Switchboard Operator

Salem's Lot
2004
as Richard Straker

Treasure Island
2012
as Captain Flint

Moby Dick
2011
as Father Mapple

Human Trafficking
2005
as Agent Bill Meehan

JFK: Destiny Betrayed
2021
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Swimming with Sharks
2022
as Redmond

History vs. Hollywood
2001
as Self

Frankenstein
2004
as Captain Walton
Friday People
1985

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as William Marsden

Backstory
2000
as Self

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

Uprising
2001
as Adam Czerniaków

Queen Victoria's Empire
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Movies (193)

Pride & Prejudice
2005
as Mr. Bennet

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
as President Coriolanus Snow

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
as President Coriolanus Snow

The Hunger Games
2012
as President Coriolanus Snow

The Italian Job
2003
as John Bridger

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
as President Coriolanus Snow

The Mechanic
2011
as Harry McKenna

Lock Up
1989
as Warden Drumgoole

Outbreak
1995
as General Donald McClintock

Lord of War
2005
as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)

Moonfall
2022
as Holdenfield

A Time to Kill
1996
as Lucien Wilbanks

The Dirty Dozen
1967
as Vernon Pinkley

Horrible Bosses
2011
as Jack Pellit

JFK
1991
as X

Disclosure
1994
as Bob Garvin

Cold Mountain
2003
as Reverend Monroe

Animal House
1978
as Dave Jennings

Fallen
1998
as Lt. Stanton

Kelly's Heroes
1970
as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)

Astro Boy
2009
as President Stone (voice)

Fool's Gold
2008
as Nigel Honeycutt

M*A*S*H
1970
as Hawkeye Pierce

Backdraft
1991
as Ronald Bartel

Beerfest
2006
as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001
as Dr. Sid (voice)

The Best Offer
2013
as Billy Whistler

1900
1976
as Attila Mellanchini

Space Cowboys
2000
as Jerry O'Neill

The Eagle
2011
as Aquila

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978
as Matthew Bennell

Ad Astra
2019
as Thomas Pruitt

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
as Merrick Jamison-Smythe

The First Great Train Robbery
1978
as Robert Agar

Instinct
1999
as Ben Hillard

Ordinary People
1980
as Calvin Jarrett

Don't Look Now
1973
as John Baxter

Virus
1999
as Captain Robert Everton

Reign Over Me
2007
as Richter Raines

The Eagle Has Landed
1976
as Liam Devlin

Citizen X
1995
as Col. Mikhail Fetisov

Shadow of the Wolf
1992
as Henderson

The Art of War
2000
as Douglas Thomas

Alone
2020
as Edward

The Assignment
1997
as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields

American Gun
2005
as Carl Wilk

OZI: Voice of the Forest
2024
as Mr. Smiley

Forsaken
2015
as Rev. Clayton

Uprising
2001
as Adam Czerniaków

Mr. Harrigan's Phone
2022
as Mr. Harrigan

Big Shot's Funeral
2001
as Tyler

Eye of the Needle
1981
as Faber

Backdraft 2
2019
as Ronald Bartel

Klute
1971
as John Klute

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow

The Split
1968
as Dave Negli

Revolution
1985
as Sgt. Maj. Peasy

Johnny Got His Gun
1971
as Christ

Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self

Ask the Dust
2006
as Hellfrick

Path to War
2003
as Clark Clifford

Miranda's Victim
2023
as Judge Wren

Hollow Point
1996
as Garrett Lawton

Fellini's Casanova
1976
as Giacomo Casanova

Six Degrees of Separation
1993
as Flan

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow

Panic
2000
as Michael

Red Hot
1993
as Kirov

Free Money
1998
as Judge Rausenberg

The Kentucky Fried Movie
1977
as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")

Crackers
1984
as Westlake

The Puppet Masters
1994
as Andrew Nivens

The Leisure Seeker
2018
as John Spencer

Billion Dollar Brain
1967
as Scientist at Computer

Bear Island
1979
as Frank Lansing

Max Dugan Returns
1983
as Brian Costello

Ordeal by Innocence
1984
as Dr. Arthur Calgary

The Bedford Incident
1965
as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay

Oedipus the King
1968
as Chorus Leader

Trumbo
2007
as Self

The Day of the Locust
1975
as Homer Simpson

Murder by Decree
1979
as Robert Lees

Heaven Help Us
1985
as Brother Thadeus

Younger and Younger
1993
as Jonathan Younger

Shadow Conspiracy
1997
as Jacob Conrad

A Dry White Season
1989
as Ben du Toit

Fierce People
2006
as Ogden C. Osborne

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965
as Bob Carroll

Without Limits
1998
as Bill Bowerman

La Classe américaine
1993
as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)

Measure of a Man
2018
as Dr. Kahn

The Wolf at the Door
1986
as Paul Gauguin

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
2021
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Lost Angels
1989
as Dr. Charles Loftis

Land of the Blind
2006
as Thorne

An American Haunting
2005
as John Bell

Jappeloup
2013
as John Lester

The Calling
2014
as Father Price

Little Murders
1971
as Rev. Dupas

Baltic Storm
2003
as Lou Aldryn

Start the Revolution Without Me
1970
as Charles / Pierre

The Disappearance
1977
as Jay Mallory

The Burnt Orange Heresy
2020
as Jerome Debney

Steelyard Blues
1973
as Jesse Veldini

Puffball
2007
as Lars

FTA
1972
as Self

The Con Artist
2010
as Kranski

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
as Self (archive footage)

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow

Quicksand: No Escape
1992
as Murdoch

Lady Ice
1973
as Andy Hammon

Benefit of the Doubt
1993
as Frank

Bethune: The Making of a Hero
1993
as Dr. Norman Bethune

Days of Darkness
2007
as Donald Sutherland

A Man, a Woman and a Bank
1979
as Reese Halperin

Natural Enemy
1996
as Ted Robards

The Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976
as Self

Interlude
1968
as Lawrence

Basmati Blues
2017
as Gurgon

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
as Self
About Donald Sutherland
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 n… With 246 credits spanning from 1944 to 2024, Donald Sutherland has appeared in 193 films and 53 TV shows.
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- Pride & Prejudice (2005) — as Mr. Bennet
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) — as President Coriolanus Snow
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) — as President Coriolanus Snow
- The Hunger Games (2012) — as President Coriolanus Snow
- The Italian Job (2003) — as John Bridger
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