Donald Sutherland
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 17, 1935
- Died
- Jun 20, 2024 (aged 88)
- Place of birth
- Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
- Credits
- 251
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
The Hunger Games
2012Movie
President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013Movie
President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014Movie
President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015Movie
President Coriolanus Snow
The Simpsons
1989TV
Hollis Hurlbut (voice)
Pride & Prejudice
2005Movie
Mr. Bennet
Filmography
OZI: Voice of the Forest
2024Movie
Mr. Smiley (voice)
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
2023TV
Judge Isaac Parker
Miranda's Victim
2023Movie
Judge Wren
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
2022Movie
Mr. Harrigan
Swimming with Sharks
2022TV
Redmond
Moonfall
2022Movie
Holdenfield
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
2021TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
2021Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Undoing
2020TV
Franklin Reinhart
Alone
2020Movie
Edward
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Burnt Orange Heresy
2020Movie
Jerome Debney
Reach for the Stars
2019Movie
Self
Ad Astra
2019Movie
Thomas Pruitt
The Physics of Sorrow
2019Movie
(voice)
Backdraft 2
2019Movie
Ronald Bartel
American Hangman
2019Movie
Judge Straight
Measure of a Man
2018Movie
Dr. Kahn
Trust
2018TV
J. Paul Getty Sr.
The Green Fog
2018Movie
The Leisure Seeker
2018Movie
John Spencer
Basmati Blues
2017Movie
Gurgon
Ice
2016TV
Pieter Van De Bruin
Milton's Secret
2016Movie
Grandpa Howard
Re-Visitors from Outer Space, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod
2016Movie
Self
Point and Shoot
2016Movie
Man
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015Movie
President Coriolanus Snow
Forsaken
2015Movie
Rev. Clayton
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
2015Movie
Self
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015Movie
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Pirate's Passage
2015Movie
Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014Movie
President Coriolanus Snow
The Calling
2014Movie
Father Price
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014Movie
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013Movie
President Coriolanus Snow
Crossing Lines
2013TV
Michael Dorn
The Frame
2013TV
President Coriolanus Snow
Jappeloup
2013Movie
John Lester
The Best Offer
2013Movie
Billy Whistler
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012Movie
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden
2012Movie
Self
Assassin's Bullet
2012Movie
Ambassador Ashdown
Dawn Rider
2012Movie
Pop
The Hunger Games
2012Movie
President Coriolanus Snow
Treasure Island
2012Movie
Flint
Treasure Island
2012TV
Captain Flint
The Man on the Train
2011Movie
The Professor
Jock the Hero Dog
2011Movie
Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
Horrible Bosses
2011Movie
Jack Pellit
Moby Dick
2011TV
Father Mapple
The Eagle
2011Movie
Aquila
The Mechanic
2011Movie
Harry McKenna
The Con Artist
2010Movie
Kranski
The Pillars of the Earth
2010TV
Earl Bartholomew
Astro Boy
2009Movie
President Stone (voice)
The Eastmans
2009Movie
Dr. Charles Eastman
Stonehenge: Decoded
2008Movie
Narrator (voice)
Fool's Gold
2008Movie
Nigel Honeycutt
Puffball
2007Movie
Lars
Days of Darkness
2007Movie
Donald Sutherland
Dirty Sexy Money
2007TV
Patrick "Tripp" Darling III
Trumbo
2007Movie
Self
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
2007Movie
Narrator
Reign Over Me
2007Movie
Richter Raines
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
Sleepwalkers
2007Movie
Businessman Struck by a Taxi
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006TV
Narrator (voice)
Beerfest
2006Movie
Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
Land of the Blind
2006Movie
Thorne
Fierce People
2006Movie
Ogden C. Osborne
Ask the Dust
2006Movie
Hellfrick
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
2006Movie
Self
Fellini dice...
2006Movie
Self
Operation Dirty Dozen
2006Movie
Self (uncredited)
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005Movie
Self
Human Trafficking
2005TV
Agent Bill Meehan
Commander in Chief
2005TV
Nathan Templeton
Pride & Prejudice
2005Movie
Mr. Bennet
Lord of War
2005Movie
Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
American Gun
2005Movie
Carl Wilk
Sir! No Sir!
2005Movie
Self
An American Haunting
2005Movie
John Bell
Aurora Borealis
2005Movie
Ronald Shorter
Frankenstein
2004TV
Captain Walton
Salem's Lot
2004TV
Richard Straker
Cold Mountain
2003Movie
Reverend Monroe
Path to War
2003Movie
Clark Clifford
Baltic Storm
2003Movie
Lou Aldryn
The Italian Job
2003Movie
John Bridger
Five Moons Plaza
2003Movie
Rosario Sarracino
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003Movie
Self - Casanova
The Magic of Fellini
2002Movie
Self (archive footage)
Big Shot's Funeral
2001Movie
Tyler
Uprising
2001Movie
Adam Czerniaków
Uprising
2001TV
Adam Czerniaków
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001TV
Self - Guest
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001Movie
Dr. Sid (voice)
Queen Victoria's Empire
2001TV
Narrator (voice)
The Big Heist
2001Movie
Jimmy Burke
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
2001Movie
Narrator (voice)
History vs. Hollywood
2001TV
Self
Panic
2000Movie
Michael
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000Movie
Self
The Art of War
2000Movie
Douglas Thomas
Backstory
2000TV
Self
Space Cowboys
2000Movie
Jerry O'Neill
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
2000Movie
Self
The Hunley
1999Movie
Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Instinct
1999Movie
Ben Hillard
Behind the Mask
1999Movie
Dr. Bob Shushan
Virus
1999Movie
Captain Robert Everton
Free Money
1998Movie
Judge Rausenberg
Without Limits
1998Movie
Bill Bowerman
Fallen
1998Movie
Lt. Stanton
The Assignment
1997Movie
Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
The View
1997TV
Self
Scene by Scene
1997TV
Self
Shadow Conspiracy
1997Movie
Jacob Conrad
Natural Enemy
1996Movie
Ted Robards
Hollow Point
1996Movie
Garrett Lawton
A Time to Kill
1996Movie
Lucien Wilbanks
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
1996Movie
Narrator
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995Movie
Self (archive footage)
Outbreak
1995Movie
General Donald McClintock
Citizen X
1995Movie
Col. Mikhail Fetisov
Disclosure
1994Movie
Bob Garvin
The Puppet Masters
1994Movie
Andrew Nivens
Inside the Actors Studio
1994TV
Self
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994Movie
William Marsden
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994TV
William Marsden
The Lifeforce Experiment
1994Movie
Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
A Century of Cinema
1994Movie
Self
La Classe américaine
1993Movie
Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Six Degrees of Separation
1993Movie
Flan
Younger and Younger
1993Movie
Jonathan Younger
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
1993Movie
Dr. Norman Bethune
Red Hot
1993Movie
Kirov
Benefit of the Doubt
1993Movie
Frank
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
1992Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Railway Station Man
1992Movie
Roger Hawthorne
The Setting Sun
1992Movie
John Williams
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992Movie
Merrick Jamison-Smythe
HBO First Look
1992TV
Self
Shadow of the Wolf
1992Movie
Henderson
Quicksand: No Escape
1992Movie
Murdoch
JFK
1991Movie
X
Scream of Stone
1991Movie
Ivan
Backdraft
1991Movie
Ronald Bartel
Buster's Bedroom
1991Movie
O'Connor
Eminent Domain
1991Movie
Josef Borski
Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video
1990Movie
Self (archive footage)
Romy Award
1990TV
Self
The Simpsons
1989TV
Hollis Hurlbut (voice)
A Dry White Season
1989Movie
Ben du Toit
Lock Up
1989Movie
Warden Drumgoole
Lost Angels
1989Movie
Dr. Charles Loftis
American Experience
1988TV
Narrator (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988TV
Self - Guest
Apprentice to Murder
1988Movie
John Reese
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
1988Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Trouble with Spies
1987Movie
Appleton Porter
The Rosary Murders
1987Movie
Father Robert Koesler
The Wolf at the Door
1986Movie
Paul Gauguin
Revolution
1985Movie
Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Heaven Help Us
1985Movie
Brother Thadeus
Screen Two
1985TV
Roger Hawthorne
Friday People
1985TV
Ordeal by Innocence
1984Movie
Dr. Arthur Calgary
Crackers
1984Movie
Westlake
The Winter of Our Discontent
1983Movie
Ethan Hawley
Max Dugan Returns
1983Movie
Brian Costello
Fellini nel cestino
1983Movie
Self
Night of 100 Stars
1982Movie
Self
A War Story
1981Movie
Narrator (voice)
Threshold
1981Movie
Dr. Thomas Vrain
Eye of the Needle
1981Movie
Faber
Gas
1981Movie
Nick the Noz
Ordinary People
1980Movie
Calvin Jarrett
Nothing Personal
1980Movie
Roger Keller
North China Factory
1980Movie
Narrator (voice)
Bear Island
1979Movie
Frank Lansing
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
1979Movie
Reese Halperin
Murder by Decree
1979Movie
Robert Lees
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978Movie
Matthew Bennell
The First Great Train Robbery
1978Movie
Robert Agar
Animal House
1978Movie
Dave Jennings
Blood Relatives
1978Movie
Steve Carella
Ciné regards
1978TV
Self
The Disappearance
1977Movie
Jay Mallory
The Kentucky Fried Movie
1977Movie
The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
Bethune
1977Movie
Dr. Norman Bethune
The Eagle Has Landed
1976Movie
Liam Devlin
Fellini's Casanova
1976Movie
Giacomo Casanova
1900
1976Movie
Attila Mellanchini
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976Movie
Self
ABCinema
1975Movie
Self
The Day of the Locust
1975Movie
Homer Simpson
End of the Game
1975Movie
Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975TV
Self
Spécial cinéma
1974TV
Self
S*P*Y*S
1974Movie
Bruland
Alien Thunder
1974Movie
Sgt. Dan Candy
The Awful Manners
1974Movie
Man walking (uncredited)
Don't Look Now
1973Movie
John Baxter
Lady Ice
1973Movie
Andy Hammon
Steelyard Blues
1973Movie
Jesse Veldini
FTA
1972Movie
Self
'Klute' in New York
1971Movie
Self
Film '72
1971TV
Self
Johnny Got His Gun
1971Movie
Christ
Klute
1971Movie
John Klute
Little Murders
1971Movie
Rev. Dupas
Alex in Wonderland
1970Movie
Alex Morrison
Act of the Heart
1970Movie
Father Michael Ferrier
Kelly's Heroes
1970Movie
Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
M*A*S*H
1970Movie
Hawkeye Pierce
Start the Revolution Without Me
1970Movie
Charles / Pierre
The Sunshine Patriot
1968Movie
Benedeck
Joanna
1968Movie
Lord Peter Sanderson
The Split
1968Movie
Dave Negli
The Champions
1968TV
David Crayley
The Name of the Game
1968TV
Jerry Trevor
The Dick Cavett Show
1968TV
Self - Guest
Oedipus the King
1968Movie
Chorus Leader
Interlude
1968Movie
Lawrence
Sebastian
1968Movie
Ackerman
Billion Dollar Brain
1967Movie
Scientist at Computer
Man in a Suitcase
1967TV
Willard, Keith Earle
The Shuttered Room
1967Movie
Zebulon (voice)
The Dirty Dozen
1967Movie
Vernon Pinkley
Lee Oswald: Assassin
1966Movie
Charles Givens
Promise Her Anything
1966Movie
Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
BBC Play of the Month
1965TV
Charles Givens
The Bedford Incident
1965Movie
Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
Fanatic
1965Movie
Joseph
Gideon's Way
1965TV
Philip Guest
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965Movie
Bob Carroll
The Castle of the Living Dead
1964Movie
Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
Theatre 625
1964TV
Priest, Union Captain
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964Movie
Fortinbras
The World Ten Times Over
1963Movie
Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
For King and Country: Out There
1963Movie
Canadian
The Saint
1962TV
John Wood, Jim McCleery
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
Man of the World
1962TV
Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)
Studio 4
1962TV
Switchboard Operator
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
The Avengers
1961TV
Jessel
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Ethan Hawley
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter