Donald Sutherland
Acting
Born: July 17, 1935 · Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: June 20, 2024 (aged 88)
Highest Rated
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
The Hunger Games
2012
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
The Simpsons
1989
Pride & Prejudice
2005
Ad Astra
2019
Horrible Bosses
2011
The Italian Job
2003
Lord of War
2005
Moonfall
2022
The Mechanic
2011
Photos (11)
Movies (167)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
President Coriolanus Snow
Pride & Prejudice
Mr. Bennet
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
President Coriolanus Snow
The Eagle
Aquila
The Hunger Games
President Coriolanus Snow
The Italian Job
John Bridger
Lord of War
Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
The Mechanic
Harry McKenna
Moonfall
Holdenfield
Horrible Bosses
Jack Pellit
Fallen
Lt. Stanton
A Time to Kill
Lucien Wilbanks
Outbreak
General Donald McClintock
JFK
X
Backdraft
Ronald Bartel
Fool's Gold
Nigel Honeycutt
The Best Offer
Billy Whistler
The Dirty Dozen
Vernon Pinkley
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Matthew Bennell
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Disclosure
Bob Garvin
M*A*S*H
Hawkeye Pierce
Lock Up
Warden Drumgoole
Ordinary People
Calvin Jarrett
Ad Astra
Thomas Pruitt
Cold Mountain
Reverend Monroe
Space Cowboys
Jerry O'Neill
Instinct
Ben Hillard
Kelly's Heroes
Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
Animal House
Dave Jennings
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Dr. Sid (voice)
Astro Boy
President Stone (voice)
Virus
Captain Robert Everton
Citizen X
Col. Mikhail Fetisov
The First Great Train Robbery
Robert Agar
Klute
John Klute
The Eagle Has Landed
Liam Devlin
The Art of War
Douglas Thomas
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Mr. Harrigan
OZI: Voice of the Forest
Mr. Smiley (voice)
Reign Over Me
Richter Raines
Don't Look Now
John Baxter
1900
Attila Mellanchini
Forsaken
Rev. Clayton
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Jerome Debney
The Rosary Murders
Father Robert Koesler
Six Degrees of Separation
Flan
Beerfest
Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
The Assignment
Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
Eye of the Needle
Faber
Shadow Conspiracy
Jacob Conrad
The Calling
Father Price
The Puppet Masters
Andrew Nivens
Uprising
Adam Czerniaków
Panic
Michael
Dawn Rider
Pop
Ordeal by Innocence
Dr. Arthur Calgary
Billion Dollar Brain
Scientist at Computer
The Kentucky Fried Movie
The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
Path to War
Clark Clifford
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Bob Carroll
Alone
Edward
The Leisure Seeker
John Spencer
Backdraft 2
Ronald Bartel
American Hangman
Judge Straight
An American Haunting
John Bell
Hollywood Invasion
archive footage
Heaven Help Us
Brother Thadeus
The Bedford Incident
Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
Johnny Got His Gun
Christ
Revolution
Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Murder by Decree
Robert Lees
Fierce People
Ogden C. Osborne
Ask the Dust
Hellfrick
Shadow of the Wolf
Henderson
Measure of a Man
Dr. Kahn
Fellini's Casanova
Giacomo Casanova
The Day of the Locust
Homer Simpson
Free Money
Judge Rausenberg
The Man on the Train
The Professor
Fanatic
Joseph
Jappeloup
John Lester
Days of Darkness
Donald Sutherland
Apprentice to Murder
John Reese
Basmati Blues
Gurgon
Without Limits
Bill Bowerman
The Disappearance
Jay Mallory
Miranda's Victim
Judge Wren
Eminent Domain
Josef Borski
A Dry White Season
Ben du Toit
Crackers
Westlake
Land of the Blind
Thorne
Bear Island
Frank Lansing
Natural Enemy
Ted Robards
Baltic Storm
Lou Aldryn
Assassin's Bullet
Ambassador Ashdown
The Hunley
Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
The Split
Dave Negli
La Classe américaine
Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
American Gun
Carl Wilk
Little Murders
Rev. Dupas
The Wolf at the Door
Paul Gauguin
Big Shot's Funeral
Tyler
Alex in Wonderland
Alex Morrison
The Shuttered Room
Zebulon (voice)
Puffball
Lars
Lost Angels
Dr. Charles Loftis
S*P*Y*S
Bruland
End of the Game
Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
The Con Artist
Kranski
Steelyard Blues
Jesse Veldini
Red Hot
Kirov
Blood Relatives
Steve Carella
Benefit of the Doubt
Frank
Max Dugan Returns
Brian Costello
The Eastmans
Dr. Charles Eastman
Start the Revolution Without Me
Charles / Pierre
Five Moons Plaza
Rosario Sarracino
Aurora Borealis
Ronald Shorter
Gas
Nick the Noz
Younger and Younger
Jonathan Younger
The Physics of Sorrow
(voice)
Nothing Personal
Roger Keller
Jock the Hero Dog
Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
William Marsden
Lee Oswald: Assassin
Charles Givens
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Dr. Norman Bethune
Scream of Stone
Ivan
Lady Ice
Andy Hammon
Hollow Point
Garrett Lawton
Oedipus the King
Chorus Leader
The Castle of the Living Dead
Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
The Setting Sun
John Williams
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
The Railway Station Man
Roger Hawthorne
Behind the Mask
Dr. Bob Shushan
Stonehenge: Decoded
Narrator (voice)
The Winter of Our Discontent
Ethan Hawley
Milton's Secret
Grandpa Howard
Alien Thunder
Sgt. Dan Candy
Promise Her Anything
Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
Threshold
Dr. Thomas Vrain
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
Reese Halperin
Quicksand: No Escape
Murdoch
The Lifeforce Experiment
Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
The Trouble with Spies
Appleton Porter
Pirate's Passage
Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
Narrator (voice)
The Sunshine Patriot
Benedeck
Joanna
Lord Peter Sanderson
The World Ten Times Over
Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
The Green Fog
2018
Sebastian
Ackerman
Sleepwalkers
Businessman Struck by a Taxi
Buster's Bedroom
O'Connor
Bethune
Dr. Norman Bethune
The Awful Manners
Man walking (uncredited)
Hamlet at Elsinore
Fortinbras
A War Story
Narrator (voice)
The Big Heist
Jimmy Burke
Act of the Heart
Father Michael Ferrier
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
Narrator
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
Narrator (voice)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Narrator (voice)
Interlude
Lawrence
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
Narrator
TV Shows (35)
The Simpsons
Hollis Hurlbut (voice) · 1 eps
The Avengers
Jessel · 1 eps
American Experience
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Charles Givens · 1 eps
The Saint
John Wood · 1 eps
The Saint
Jim McCleery · 1 eps
Screen Two
Roger Hawthorne · 1 eps
The Name of the Game
Jerry Trevor · 1 eps
Theatre 625
Priest · 1 eps
Theatre 625
Union Captain · 1 eps
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
Commander in Chief
Nathan Templeton · 18 eps
Crossing Lines
Michael Dorn · 34 eps
Dirty Sexy Money
Patrick "Tripp" Darling III · 23 eps
The Undoing
Franklin Reinhart · 6 eps
The Champions
David Crayley · 1 eps
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Judge Isaac Parker · 8 eps
Gideon's Way
Philip Guest · 1 eps
The Pillars of the Earth
Earl Bartholomew · 8 eps
Trust
J. Paul Getty Sr. · 10 eps
Ice
Pieter Van De Bruin · 6 eps
Man in a Suitcase
Willard · 1 eps
Man in a Suitcase
Keith Earle · 1 eps
The Frame
President Coriolanus Snow · 1 eps
Salem's Lot
Richard Straker · 2 eps
Man of the World
Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited) · 1 eps
Treasure Island
Captain Flint · 2 eps
Human Trafficking
Agent Bill Meehan · 2 eps
Frankenstein
Captain Walton · 2 eps
Swimming with Sharks
Redmond · 6 eps
Moby Dick
Father Mapple · 4 eps
Uprising
Adam Czerniaków · 2 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Ethan Hawley · 1 eps
Queen Victoria's Empire
Narrator (voice) · 4 eps
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
William Marsden · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (41)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 5 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 4 eps
Ciné regards
Self · 1 eps
The View
Self · 1 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Spécial cinéma
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 2 eps
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 1 eps
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest · 1 eps
HBO First Look
Self · 1 eps
Scene by Scene
Self · 1 eps
Backstory
Self · 1 eps
History vs. Hollywood
Self · 1 eps
Fellini dice...
Self
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Self - Narrator (voice)
ABCinema
Self
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
Self - Narrator (voice) · 4 eps
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Trumbo
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Reach for the Stars
Self
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Self
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
FTA
Self
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Self - Casanova
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Self
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self
Sir! No Sir!
Self
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Self (archive footage)
Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video
Self (archive footage)
The Magic of Fellini
Self (archive footage)
Operation Dirty Dozen
Self (uncredited)
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
Self
'Klute' in New York
Self
