Donald Sutherland
- Acting
- July 17, 1935 · Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
- June 20, 2024
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
- Murder in a Small Town · In Memory Of
- OZI: Voice of the Forest · Mr. Smiley (Voice)
- Lawmen: Bass Reeves · Judge Isaac Parker
- Miranda's Victim · Judge Wren
- Mr. Harrigan's Phone · Mr. Harrigan
- Swimming with Sharks · Redmond
- Moonfall · Holdenfield
- JFK: Destiny Betrayed · Self
- JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass · Self
- The Undoing · Franklin Reinhart
- Alone · Edward
- Citizen Jane Fonda · Self
- The Burnt Orange Heresy · Jerome Debney
- Reach for the Stars · Self
- Ad Astra · Thomas Pruitt
- The Physics of Sorrow · Voice
- Backdraft 2 · Ronald Bartel
- American Hangman · Judge Straight
- Measure of a Man · Dr. Kahn
- Trust · J. Paul Getty Sr.
- The Green Fog
- The Leisure Seeker · John Spencer
- Basmati Blues · Gurgon
- Ice · Pieter Van De Bruin
- Milton's Secret · Grandpa Howard
- Re-Visitors from Outer Space, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod · Self
- Point and Shoot · Man
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 · President Coriolanus Snow
- Forsaken · Rev. Clayton
- Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... · Self
- The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 · Self
- Pirate's Passage · Captain Charles Johnson (Voice), Writer
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 · President Coriolanus Snow
- The Calling · Father Price
- Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire · Self
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire · President Coriolanus Snow
- Crossing Lines · Michael Dorn
- The Frame · President Coriolanus Snow
- Jappeloup · John Lester
- The Best Offer · Billy Whistler
- The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games · Self
- The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden · Self
- Assassin's Bullet · Ambassador Ashdown
- Dawn Rider · Pop
- The Hunger Games · President Coriolanus Snow
- Treasure Island · Flint
- Treasure Island · Captain Flint
- The Man on the Train · The Professor
- Jock the Hero Dog · Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (Voice)
- Horrible Bosses · Jack Pellit
- Moby Dick · Father Mapple
- The Eagle · Aquila
- The Mechanic · Harry McKenna
- The Con Artist · Kranski
- The Pillars of the Earth · Earl Bartholomew
- Astro Boy · President Stone (Voice)
- The Eastmans · Dr. Charles Eastman
- Stonehenge: Decoded · Narrator (Voice)
- Fool's Gold · Nigel Honeycutt
- Puffball · Lars
- Days of Darkness · Donald Sutherland
- Dirty Sexy Money · Patrick "Tripp" Darling III
- Trumbo · Self
- Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia · Narrator
- Reign Over Me · Richter Raines
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- Sleepwalkers · Businessman Struck by a Taxi
- America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions · Narrator (Voice)
- Beerfest · Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
- Land of the Blind · Thorne
- Fierce People · Ogden C. Osborne
- Ask the Dust · Hellfrick
- Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' · Self
- Fellini dice... · Self
- Operation Dirty Dozen · Self
- Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That · Self
- Human Trafficking · Agent Bill Meehan
- Commander in Chief · Nathan Templeton
- Pride & Prejudice · Mr. Bennet
- Lord of War · Colonel Oliver Southern (Voice)