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