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 Mr. Smiley
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: Destiny Betrayed as Self - Narrator (voice)
- JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
- The Undoing as Franklin Reinhart
- Alone as Edward
- The Burnt Orange Heresy as Jerome Debney
- Citizen Jane Fonda
2019
- Ad Astra as Thomas Pruitt
- Backdraft 2 as Ronald Bartel
- American Hangman as Judge Straight
- Reach for the Stars as Self
- The Physics of Sorrow as (voice)
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
- Ice as Pieter Van De Bruin
- Milton's Secret as Grandpa Howard
- 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
- Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... as Self
- Pirate's Passage as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
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
- Crossing Lines as Michael Dorn
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as President Coriolanus Snow
- The Frame as President Coriolanus Snow
- The Best Offer as Billy Whistler
- Jappeloup as John Lester
2012
- The Hunger Games as President Coriolanus Snow
- Treasure Island as Captain Flint
- The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
- Assassin's Bullet as Ambassador Ashdown
- The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden as Self
- Dawn Rider as Pop
2011
- The Mechanic as Harry McKenna
- Horrible Bosses as Jack Pellit
- The Eagle as Aquila
- Moby Dick as Father Mapple
- Jock the Hero Dog as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
- The Man on the Train as The Professor
- Hollywood Invasion as archive footage
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
- Dirty Sexy Money as Patrick "Tripp" Darling III
- Reign Over Me as Richter Raines
- Trumbo as Self
- Sleepwalkers as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
- Puffball as Lars
- Days of Darkness as Donald Sutherland
- Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia as Narrator
2006
- America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Narrator (voice)
- Ask the Dust as Hellfrick
- Beerfest as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
- Fierce People as Ogden C. Osborne
- Land of the Blind as Thorne
- Operation Dirty Dozen as Self (uncredited)
- Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' as Self
- Fellini dice... as Self
2005
- Pride & Prejudice as Mr. Bennet
- Commander in Chief as Nathan Templeton
- Lord of War as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
- Human Trafficking as Agent Bill Meehan
- American Gun as Carl Wilk
- An American Haunting as John Bell
- Aurora Borealis as Ronald Shorter
- Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Self
- Sir! No Sir! as Self
2004
- Salem's Lot as Richard Straker
- Frankenstein as Captain Walton
2003
- The Italian Job as John Bridger
- Cold Mountain as Reverend Monroe
- Path to War as Clark Clifford
- Baltic Storm as Lou Aldryn
- Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self - Casanova
- Five Moons Plaza as Rosario Sarracino
2002
- The Magic of Fellini as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as Dr. Sid (voice)
- Big Shot's Funeral as Tyler
- History vs. Hollywood as Self
- Uprising as Adam Czerniaków
- Uprising as Adam Czerniaków
- Queen Victoria's Empire as Narrator (voice)
- The Big Heist as Jimmy Burke
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Narrator (voice)
2000
- Space Cowboys as Jerry O'Neill
- The Art of War as Douglas Thomas
- Backstory as Self
- Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self
- Panic as Michael
- Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' as Self
1999
- Virus as Captain Robert Everton
- Instinct as Ben Hillard
- The Hunley as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
- Behind the Mask as Dr. Bob Shushan
1998
- Fallen as Lt. Stanton
- Without Limits as Bill Bowerman
- Free Money as Judge Rausenberg
1997
- The View as Self
- Scene by Scene as Self
- The Assignment as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
- Shadow Conspiracy as Jacob Conrad
1996
- A Time to Kill as Lucien Wilbanks
- Natural Enemy as Ted Robards
- Hollow Point as Garrett Lawton
- Hearst Castle: Building the Dream as Narrator
1995
- Outbreak as General Donald McClintock
- Citizen X as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
- Roger Moore: A Matter of Class as Self (archive footage)
1994
- Disclosure as Bob Garvin
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- The Puppet Masters as Andrew Nivens
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as William Marsden
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as William Marsden
- The Lifeforce Experiment as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
1993
- Six Degrees of Separation as Flan
- La Classe américaine as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Benefit of the Doubt as Frank
- Red Hot as Kirov
- Younger and Younger as Jonathan Younger
- Bethune: The Making of a Hero as Dr. Norman Bethune
1992
- HBO First Look as Self
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
- Shadow of the Wolf as Henderson
- The Setting Sun as John Williams
- Quicksand: No Escape as Murdoch
- The Railway Station Man as Roger Hawthorne
- The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas as Narrator (voice)
1991
- JFK as X
- Backdraft as Ronald Bartel
- Eminent Domain as Josef Borski
- Scream of Stone as Ivan
- Buster's Bedroom as O'Connor
1990
- Romy Award as Self
- Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video as Self (archive footage)
1989
- The Simpsons as Hollis Hurlbut (voice)
- Lock Up as Warden Drumgoole
- A Dry White Season as Ben du Toit
- Lost Angels as Dr. Charles Loftis
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
- Friday People
- Revolution as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
- Heaven Help Us as Brother Thadeus
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
- Gas as Nick the Noz
- Threshold as Dr. Thomas Vrain
- A War Story as Narrator (voice)
1980
- Ordinary People as Calvin Jarrett
- Nothing Personal as Roger Keller
- 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
- 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)
- Blood Relatives as Carella
1977
- The Kentucky Fried Movie as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
- The Disappearance as Jay Mallory
- 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
- The Day of the Locust as Homer Simpson
- Abicinema as Self
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- S*P*Y*S as Bruland
- Alien Thunder as Sgt. Dan Candy
- The Awful Manners as Man walking (uncredited)
1973
- Don't Look Now as John Baxter
- Lady Ice as Andy Hammon
- Steelyard Blues as Jesse Veldini
1972
- FTA as Self
1971
- Film '72 as Self
- Klute as John Klute
- Johnny Got His Gun as Christ
- Little Murders as Rev. Dupas
- 'Klute' in New York as Self
1970
- M*A*S*H as Hawkeye Pierce
- Kelly's Heroes as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
- Start the Revolution Without Me as Charles / Pierre
- Alex in Wonderland as Alex Morrison
- Act of the Heart as Father Michael Ferrier
1968
- The Name of the Game as Jerry Trevor
- The Champions as David Crayley
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Oedipus the King as Chorus Leader
- Sebastian as Ackerman
- Joanna as Lord Peter Sanderson
- The Split as Dave Negli
- Interlude as Lawrence
- The Sunshine Patriot as Benedeck
1967
- Man in a Suitcase as Willard
- The Dirty Dozen as Vernon Pinkley
- Billion Dollar Brain as Scientist at Computer
- The Shuttered Room as Zebulon (voice)
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
- The World Ten Times Over as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
- For King and Country: Out There as Canadian
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Saint as John Wood
- Man of the World as Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)
- Studio 4 as Switchboard Operator
1961
- The Avengers as Jessel
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Ethan Hawley
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee