
Donald Sutherland
Known for Acting · 250 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 (54)

The Simpsons
1989
as Hollis Hurlbut (voice)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

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

The View
1997
as Self

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest

American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)

The Avengers
1961
as Jessel

The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest

Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self

BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Charles Givens

Screen Two
1985
as Roger Hawthorne

The Saint
1962
as John Wood / Jim McCleery

Theatre 625
1964
as Priest / Union Captain

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Romy Award
1990
as Self

The Name of the Game
1968
as Jerry Trevor

The Oscars
1953
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest

Ciné regards
1978
as Self

Crossing Lines
2013
as Michael Dorn

The Champions
1968
as David Crayley

Gideon's Way
1965
as Philip Guest

HBO First Look
1992
as Self

The Undoing
2020
as Franklin Reinhart

Lawmen: Bass Reeves
2023
as Judge Isaac Parker

Commander in Chief
2005
as Nathan Templeton

The Pillars of the Earth
2010
as Earl Bartholomew

Ice
2016
as Pieter Van De Bruin

Dirty Sexy Money
2007
as Patrick "Tripp" Darling III

Man in a Suitcase
1967
as Willard / Keith Earle

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
as Narrator (voice)

Trust
2018
as J. Paul Getty Sr.
Studio 4
1962
as Switchboard Operator

The Frame
2013
as President Coriolanus Snow

Man of the World
1962
as Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)

History vs. Hollywood
2001
as Self

Scene by Scene
1997
as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Ethan Hawley

Frankenstein
2004
as Captain Walton

Swimming with Sharks
2022
as Redmond

Salem's Lot
2004
as Richard Straker
Friday People
1985

Human Trafficking
2005
as Agent Bill Meehan

Moby Dick
2011
as Father Mapple

Treasure Island
2012
as Captain Flint

Backstory
2000
as Self

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

Uprising
2001
as Adam Czerniaków

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as William Marsden

Queen Victoria's Empire
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Movies (196)

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

Moonfall
2022
as Holdenfield

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

The Hunger Games
2012
as President Coriolanus Snow

The Dirty Dozen
1967
as Vernon Pinkley

Billion Dollar Brain
1967
as Scientist at Computer

The Mechanic
2011
as Harry McKenna

The Italian Job
2003
as John Bridger

Horrible Bosses
2011
as Jack Pellit

A Time to Kill
1996
as Lucien Wilbanks

Instinct
1999
as Ben Hillard

Lord of War
2005
as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)

Outbreak
1995
as General Donald McClintock

Fallen
1998
as Lt. Stanton

Cold Mountain
2003
as Reverend Monroe

The Eagle
2011
as Aquila

Animal House
1978
as Dave Jennings

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

Backdraft
1991
as Ronald Bartel

The Best Offer
2013
as Billy Whistler

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978
as Matthew Bennell

Disclosure
1994
as Bob Garvin

Ad Astra
2019
as Thomas Pruitt

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
as Merrick Jamison-Smythe

Fool's Gold
2008
as Nigel Honeycutt

JFK
1991
as X

Lock Up
1989
as Warden Drumgoole

Reign Over Me
2007
as Richter Raines

M*A*S*H
1970
as Hawkeye Pierce

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

Forsaken
2015
as Rev. Clayton

Astro Boy
2009
as President Stone (voice)

Ordinary People
1980
as Calvin Jarrett

The Setting Sun
1992
as John Williams

Alone
2020
as Edward

Uprising
2001
as Adam Czerniaków

The Eagle Has Landed
1976
as Liam Devlin

Don't Look Now
1973
as John Baxter

Citizen X
1995
as Col. Mikhail Fetisov

Hollywood Invasion
2011
as archive footage

Beerfest
2006
as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)

Fellini dice...
2006
as Self

1900
1976
as Attila Mellanchini

OZI: Voice of the Forest
2024
as Mr. Smiley

The Leisure Seeker
2018
as John Spencer

The Art of War
2000
as Douglas Thomas

Space Cowboys
2000
as Jerry O'Neill

FTA
1972
as Self

Backdraft 2
2019
as Ronald Bartel

Mr. Harrigan's Phone
2022
as Mr. Harrigan

Klute
1971
as John Klute

Virus
1999
as Captain Robert Everton

Eye of the Needle
1981
as Faber

The First Great Train Robbery
1978
as Robert Agar

The Wolf at the Door
1986
as Paul Gauguin

An American Haunting
2005
as John Bell

Ordeal by Innocence
1984
as Dr. Arthur Calgary

Jappeloup
2013
as John Lester

Fanatic
1965
as Joseph

Panic
2000
as Michael

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

Reach for the Stars
2019
as Self

The Assignment
1997
as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields

Measure of a Man
2018
as Dr. Kahn

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

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

Six Degrees of Separation
1993
as Flan

A Dry White Season
1989
as Ben du Toit

Path to War
2003
as Clark Clifford

Johnny Got His Gun
1971
as Christ

The Calling
2014
as Father Price

The Puppet Masters
1994
as Andrew Nivens

Land of the Blind
2006
as Thorne

Fierce People
2006
as Ogden C. Osborne

Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self

Big Shot's Funeral
2001
as Tyler

Murder by Decree
1979
as Robert Lees

The Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976
as Self

Shadow Conspiracy
1997
as Jacob Conrad

Younger and Younger
1993
as Jonathan Younger

Dawn Rider
2012
as Pop

The Bedford Incident
1965
as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay

The Rosary Murders
1987
as Father Robert Koesler

The Burnt Orange Heresy
2020
as Jerome Debney

Citizen Jane Fonda
2020

Assassin's Bullet
2012
as Ambassador Ashdown

Red Hot
1993
as Kirov

Ask the Dust
2006
as Hellfrick

The Trouble with Spies
1987
as Appleton Porter

Apprentice to Murder
1988
as John Reese

Heaven Help Us
1985
as Brother Thadeus

The Day of the Locust
1975
as Homer Simpson

The Awful Manners
1974
as Man walking (uncredited)

The Con Artist
2010
as Kranski

The Man on the Train
2011
as The Professor

Start the Revolution Without Me
1970
as Charles / Pierre

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

Bethune
1977
as Dr. Norman Bethune

Promise Her Anything
1966
as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)

Oedipus the King
1968
as Chorus Leader

Miranda's Victim
2023
as Judge Wren

Revolution
1985
as Sgt. Maj. Peasy

Crackers
1984
as Westlake

Basmati Blues
2017
as Gurgon

Shadow of the Wolf
1992
as Henderson

Steelyard Blues
1973
as Jesse Veldini

Scream of Stone
1991
as Ivan

Jock the Hero Dog
2011
as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)

The Railway Station Man
1992
as Roger Hawthorne

Gas
1981
as Nick the Noz

The Hunley
1999
as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard

Pirate's Passage
2015
as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)

Nothing Personal
1980
as Roger Keller

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

Quicksand: No Escape
1992
as Murdoch

Days of Darkness
2007
as Donald Sutherland

Aurora Borealis
2005
as Ronald Shorter

Benefit of the Doubt
1993
as Frank
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 250 credits spanning from 1944 to 2024, Donald Sutherland has appeared in 196 films and 54 TV shows.
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- 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
- Moonfall (2022) — as Holdenfield
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) — as President Coriolanus Snow
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