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