Donald Sutherland
Born: 1935-07-17 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 2024-06-20
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2024
- Murder in a Small Town ... (In Memory Of)
- Ozi: Voice of the Forest as Crocodile (voice)
2023
- Lawmen: Bass Reeves as Judge Isaac Parker
- Miranda's Victim as Judge Wren
2022
- Moonfall as Holdenfield
- Swimming with Sharks as Redmond
- Mr. Harrigan's Phone as Mr. Harrigan
2021
- JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as Self - Narrator (voice)
- JFK: Destiny Betrayed as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
- Alone as Edward
- The Burnt Orange Heresy as Jerome Debney
- The Undoing as Franklin Reinhart
2019
- American Hangman as Judge Straight
- The Physics of Sorrow as (voice)
- Ad Astra as Thomas Pruitt
- Backdraft 2 as Ronald Bartel
- Reach for the Stars as Self
2018
- Trust as J. Paul Getty Sr.
- The Leisure Seeker as John Spencer
- Measure of a Man as Dr. Kahn
2017
- Basmati Blues as Gurgon
2016
- Milton's Secret as Grandpa Howard
- Ice as Pieter Van De Bruin
- Point and Shoot as Man
2015
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as President Coriolanus Snow
- Forsaken as Rev. Clayton
- The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
- Pirate's Passage as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
- Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... as Self
2014
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as President Coriolanus Snow
- The Calling as Father Price
- Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
2013
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as President Coriolanus Snow
- Crossing Lines as Michael Dorn
- The Frame as President Coriolanus Snow
- The Best Offer as Billy Whistler
- Jappeloup as John Lester
2012
- The Hunger Games as President Coriolanus Snow
- Dawn Rider as Pop
- Assassin's Bullet as Ambassador Ashdown
- The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
- Treasure Island as Captain Flint
- Treasure Island as Captain Flint
- The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden as Self
2011
- The Eagle as Aquila
- The Mechanic as Harry McKenna
- Horrible Bosses as Jack Pellit
- Jock the Hero Dog as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
- The Man on the Train as The Professor
- Moby Dick as Father Mapple
2010
- The Pillars of the Earth as Earl Bartholomew
- The Con Artist as Kranski
2009
- Astro Boy as President Stone (voice)
- The Eastmans as Dr. Charles Eastman
2008
- Fool's Gold as Nigel Honeycutt
- Stonehenge: Decoded as Narrator (voice)
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Puffball as Lars
- Dirty Sexy Money as Patrick "Tripp" Darling III
- Reign Over Me as Richter Raines
- Days of Darkness as Donald Sutherland
- Sleepwalkers as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
- Trumbo as Self
- Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia as Narrator
2006
- Fierce People as Ogden C. Osborne
- Ask the Dust as Hellfrick
- Beerfest as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
- Land of the Blind as Thorne
- America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Narrator (voice)
- Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' as Self
- Fellini dice... as Self
- Operation Dirty Dozen as Self (uncredited)
2005
- Pride & Prejudice as Mr. Bennet
- Lord of War as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
- American Gun as Carl Wilk
- Commander in Chief as Nathan Templeton
- Aurora Borealis as Ronald Shorter
- Human Trafficking as Agent Bill Meehan
- Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Self
- An American Haunting as John Bell
- Sir! No Sir! as Self
2004
- Frankenstein as Captain Walton
- Salem's Lot as Richard Straker
2003
- Cold Mountain as Reverend Monroe
- Baltic Storm as Lou Aldryn
- The Italian Job as John Bridger
- Path to War as Clark Clifford
- Five Moons Plaza as Rosario Sarracino
- Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self - Casanova
2002
- The Magic of Fellini as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Uprising as Adam Czerniaków
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as Dr. Sid (voice)
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
- Big Shot's Funeral as Tyler
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Narrator (voice)
- Uprising as Adam Czerniaków
- History vs. Hollywood as Self
- The Big Heist as Jimmy Burke
- Queen Victoria's Empire as Narrator (voice)
2000
- Space Cowboys as Jerry O'Neill
- The Art of War as Douglas Thomas
- Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self
- Panic as Michael
- Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' as Self
- Backstory as Self
1999
- The Hunley as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
- Instinct as Ben Hillard
- Virus as Captain Robert Everton
- Behind the Mask as Dr. Bob Shushan
1998
- Without Limits as Bill Bowerman
- Free Money as Judge Rausenberg
- Fallen as Lt. Stanton
1997
- The View as Self
- Shadow Conspiracy as Jacob Conrad
- The Assignment as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
- Scene by Scene as Self
1996
- A Time to Kill as Lucien Wilbanks
- Hollow Point as Garrett Lawton
- Natural Enemy as Ted Robards
- Hearst Castle: Building the Dream as Narrator
1995
- Citizen X as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
- Outbreak as General Donald McClintock
- Roger Moore: A Matter of Class as Self (archive footage)
1994
- Disclosure as Bob Garvin
- The Puppet Masters as Andrew Nivens
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as William Marsden
- The Lifeforce Experiment as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as William Marsden
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
- Red Hot as Kirov
- Bethune: The Making of a Hero as Dr. Norman Bethune
- Younger and Younger as Jonathan Younger
- La Classe américaine as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Benefit of the Doubt as Frank
- Six Degrees of Separation as Flan
1992
- HBO First Look as Self
- The Setting Sun as John Williams
- Shadow of the Wolf as Henderson
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power as Narrator (voice)
- Quicksand: No Escape as Murdoch
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
- The Railway Station Man as Roger Hawthorne
- The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas as Narrator (voice)
1991
- JFK as X
- Eminent Domain as Josef Borski
- Backdraft as Ronald Bartel
- Scream of Stone as Ivan
- Buster's Bedroom as O'Connor
1990
- Romy Award as Self
- Kate Bush: Sensual World as Self (archive footage)
1989
- The Simpsons as Hollis Hurlbut (voice)
- Lock Up as Warden Drumgoole
- Lost Angels as Dr. Charles Loftis
- A Dry White Season as Ben du Toit
1988
- American Experience as Narrator (voice)
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- Apprentice to Murder as John Reese
- People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe as Narrator (voice)
1987
- The Trouble with Spies as Appleton Porter
- The Rosary Murders as Father Robert Koesler
1986
- The Wolf at the Door as Paul Gauguin
1985
- Heaven Help Us as Brother Thadeus
- Revolution as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
- Friday People
1984
- Crackers as Westlake
- Ordeal by Innocence as Dr. Arthur Calgary
1983
- Max Dugan Returns as Brian Costello
- The Winter of Our Discontent as Ethan Hawley
- Fellini nel cestino as Self
1982
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
1981
- Eye of the Needle as Faber
- A War Story as Narrator (voice)
- Gas as Nick the Noz
- Threshold as Dr. Thomas Vrain
1980
- Nothing Personal as Roger Keller
- Ordinary People as Calvin Jarrett
- North China Factory as Narrator (voice)
1979
- Bear Island as Frank Lansing
- Murder by Decree as Robert Lees
- A Man, a Woman and a Bank as Reese Halperin
1978
- Animal House as Dave Jennings
- Blood Relatives as Carella
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Matthew Bennell
- The First Great Train Robbery as Robert Agar
- End of the Game as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
1977
- The Disappearance as Jay Mallory
- The Kentucky Fried Movie as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
- Bethune as Dr. Norman Bethune
1976
- 1900 as Attila Mellanchini
- The Eagle Has Landed as Liam Devlin
- Fellini's Casanova as Giacomo Casanova
- The Cinema According to Bertolucci as Self
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Abicinema as Self
- The Day of the Locust as Homer Simpson
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Alien Thunder as Sgt. Dan Candy
- The Awful Manners as Man walking (uncredited)
- S*P*Y*S as Bruland
1973
- Steelyard Blues as Jesse Veldini
- Lady Ice as Andy Hammon
- Don't Look Now as John Baxter
1972
- FTA as Self
1971
- Little Murders as Rev. Dupas
- Johnny Got His Gun as Christ
- 'Klute' in New York as Self
- Klute as John Klute
1970
- M*A*S*H as Hawkeye Pierce
- Alex in Wonderland as Alex Morrison
- Start the Revolution Without Me as Charles / Pierre
- Kelly's Heroes as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
- Act of the Heart as Father Michael Ferrier
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- The Name of the Game as Jerry Trevor
- The Split as Dave Negli
- The Champions as David Crayley
- Sebastian as Ackerman
- Interlude as Lawrence
- The Sunshine Patriot as Benedeck
- Joanna as Lord Peter Sanderson
- Oedipus the King as Chorus Leader
1967
- The Dirty Dozen as Vernon Pinkley
- Billion Dollar Brain as Scientist at Computer
- The Shuttered Room as Zebulon (voice)
- Man in a Suitcase as Willard
1966
- Promise Her Anything as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Charles Givens
- Gideon's Way as Philip Guest
- The Bedford Incident as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
- Fanatic as Joseph
- Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as Bob Carroll
1964
- Theatre 625 as Priest
- Hamlet at Elsinore as Fortinbras
- The Castle of the Living Dead as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
1963
- For King and Country: Out There as Canadian
- The World Ten Times Over as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Saint as John Wood
- Man of the World as Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)
- Studio Four as Switchboard Operator
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- The Avengers as Jessel
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Ethan Hawley
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee