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
Mr. Harrigan's Phone as Mr. Harrigan
Swimming with Sharks as Redmond

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
The Green Fog

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

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as President Coriolanus Snow
Crossing Lines as Michael Dorn
The Best Offer as Billy Whistler
The Frame as President Coriolanus Snow
Jappeloup as John Lester

2012

The Hunger Games as President Coriolanus Snow
Treasure Island as Captain Flint
Assassin's Bullet as Ambassador Ashdown
Dawn Rider as Pop
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden as Self

2011

Horrible Bosses as Jack Pellit
The Mechanic as Harry McKenna
The Eagle as Aquila
Moby Dick as Father Mapple
Hollywood Invasion as archive footage
The Man on the Train as The Professor
Jock the Hero Dog as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)

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
Days of Darkness as Donald Sutherland
Trumbo as Self
Puffball as Lars
Sleepwalkers as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia as Narrator

2006

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Narrator (voice)
Beerfest as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
Land of the Blind as Thorne
Ask the Dust as Hellfrick
Fellini dice... as Self
Fierce People as Ogden C. Osborne
Operation Dirty Dozen as Self (uncredited)
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' 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
An American Haunting as John Bell
American Gun as Carl Wilk
Aurora Borealis as Ronald Shorter
Sir! No Sir! as Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That 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
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self - Casanova
Baltic Storm as Lou Aldryn
Five Moons Plaza as Rosario Sarracino

2002

The Magic of Fellini as Self (archive footage)

2001

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
Uprising as Adam Czerniaków
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as Dr. Sid (voice)
Uprising as Adam Czerniaków
History vs. Hollywood as Self
Big Shot's Funeral as Tyler
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
Panic as Michael
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' as Self

1999

Instinct as Ben Hillard
Virus as Captain Robert Everton
Behind the Mask as Dr. Bob Shushan
The Hunley as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Virus: Ghost in the Machine as Self

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
Shadow Conspiracy as Jacob Conrad
The Assignment as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields

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

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
The Puppet Masters as Andrew Nivens
Inside the Actors Studio as Self
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)
Red Hot as Kirov
Younger and Younger as Jonathan Younger
Benefit of the Doubt as Frank
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
Quicksand: No Escape as Murdoch
The Setting Sun as John Williams
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

LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
American Experience as Narrator (voice)
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe as Narrator (voice)
Apprentice to Murder as John Reese

1987

The Rosary Murders as Father Robert Koesler
The Trouble with Spies as Appleton Porter

1986

The Wolf at the Door as Paul Gauguin

1985

Screen Two as Roger Hawthorne
Friday People
Revolution as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Heaven Help Us as Brother Thadeus

1984

Ordeal by Innocence as Dr. Arthur Calgary
Crackers as Westlake

1983

Max Dugan Returns as Brian Costello
Fellini nel cestino as Self
The Winter of Our Discontent as Ethan Hawley

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

Murder by Decree as Robert Lees
Bear Island as Frank Lansing
A Man, a Woman and a Bank as Reese Halperin

1978

Ciné regards as Self
Animal House as Dave Jennings
Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Matthew Bennell
The First Great Train Robbery as Robert Agar
Blood Relatives as Steve 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

The Eagle Has Landed as Liam Devlin
1900 as Attila Mellanchini
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
ABCinema as Self
End of the Game as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)

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)
Alex in Wonderland as Alex Morrison
Start the Revolution Without Me as Charles / Pierre
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 Champions as David Crayley
The Split as Dave Negli
Oedipus the King as Chorus Leader
Joanna as Lord Peter Sanderson
Sebastian as Ackerman
The Sunshine Patriot as Benedeck
Interlude as Lawrence

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

Lee Oswald: Assassin as Charles Givens
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
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as Bob Carroll
Fanatic as Joseph

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 4 as Switchboard Operator

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee