Donald Sutherland
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1935-07-17
Day of Death
2024-06-20 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
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
Acting
(2024)
Ozi: Voice of the Forest
as Crocodile (voice)
(2023)
Miranda's Victim
as Judge Wren
(2022)
Moonfall
as Holdenfield
(2022)
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
as Mr. Harrigan
(2021)
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2020)
Alone
as Edward
(2020)
The Burnt Orange Heresy
as Jerome Debney
(2019)
Ad Astra
as Thomas Pruitt
(2019)
Backdraft 2
as Ronald Bartel
(2019)
American Hangman
as Judge Straight
(2019)
The Physics of Sorrow
as (additional voice)
(2019)
Reach For The Stars
as Self
(2018)
The Leisure Seeker
as John Spencer
(2018)
A Reindeer's Journey
as Narrator (English Version) (voice)
(2018)
Measure of a Man
as Dr. Kahn
(2017)
Basmati Blues
as Gurgon
(2016)
For the Love of Spock
as Matthew Bennell (archive footage)
(2016)
Milton's Secret
as Grandpa Howard
(2016)
Point and Shoot
as Man
(2015)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as President Coriolanus Snow
(2015)
Forsaken
as Rev. Clayton
(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)
(2015)
(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)
The Best Offer
as Billy
(2013)
Jappeloup
as John Lester
(2012)
The Hunger Games
as President Coriolanus Snow
(2012)
Dawn Rider
as Pop
(2012)
Assassin's Bullet
as Ambassador Ashdown
(2012)
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
as Self (President Coriolanus Snow)
(2012)
(2011)
The Mechanic
as Harry McKenna
(2011)
Horrible Bosses
as Jack Pellit
(2011)
The Eagle
as Aquila
(2011)
Jock the Hero Dog
as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
(2011)
The Man on the Train
as The Professor
(2010)
The Con Artist
as Kranski
(2009)
Astro Boy
as President Stone (voice)
(2009)
The Eastmans
as Dr. Charles Eastman
(2008)
Fool's Gold
as Nigel Honeycutt
(2008)
Stonehenge: Decoded
as Narrator (voice)
(2007)
Reign Over Me
as Richter Raines
(2007)
Trumbo
as Self
(2007)
Days of Darkness
as Donald Sutherland
(2007)
Puffball
as Lars
(2007)
Sleepwalkers
as Businessman struck by a taxi
(2007)
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
as Narrator
(2006)
Beerfest
as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
(2006)
Fierce People
as Ogden C. Osborne
(2006)
Ask the Dust
as Hellfrick
(2006)
Land of the Blind
as Thorne
(2006)
(2006)
Fellini dice...
as Self
(2006)
Operation Dirty Dozen
as Self (uncredited)
(2005)
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Bennet
(2005)
Lord of War
as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
(2005)
An American Haunting
as John Bell
(2005)
American Gun
as Carl Wilk
(2005)
Aurora Borealis
as Ronald Shorter
(2005)
Sir! No Sir!
as Self
(2005)
(2003)
The Italian Job
as John Bridger
(2003)
Cold Mountain
as Reverend Monroe
(2003)
Path to War
as Clark Clifford
(2003)
Baltic Storm
as Lou Aldryn
(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)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
as Dr. Cid (voice)
(2001)
Uprising
as Adam Czerniaków
(2001)
The Big Heist
as Jimmy Burke
(2001)
Big Shot's Funeral
as Tyler
(2001)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
as Narrator (voice)
(2000)
Space Cowboys
as Jerry O`Neill
(2000)
The Art of War
as Douglas Thomas
(2000)
Panic
as Michael
(2000)
(2000)
(1999)
Virus
as Captain Robert Everton
(1999)
Instinct
as Ben Hillard
(1999)
Behind the Mask
as Dr. Bob Shushan
(1999)
The Hunley
as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
(1998)
Fallen
as Lt. Stanton
(1998)
Without Limits
as Bill Bowerman
(1998)
Free Money
as Judge Rausenberg
(1997)
The Assignment
as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
(1997)
Shadow Conspiracy
as Jacob Conrad
(1996)
A Time to Kill
as Lucien Wilbanks
(1996)
Hollow Point
as Garrett Lawton
(1996)
Natural Enemy
as Ted Robards
(1995)
Outbreak
as General Donald McClintock
(1995)
Citizen X
as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
(1995)
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
as Self (archive footage)
(1994)
Disclosure
as Bob Garvin
(1994)
The Puppet Masters
as Andrew Nivens
(1994)
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
as William Marsden
(1994)
The Lifeforce Experiment
as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
(1993)
Six Degrees of Separation
as Flan
(1993)
La Classe américaine
as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1993)
Younger and Younger
as Jonathan Younger
(1993)
Red Hot
as Kirov
(1993)
Benefit of the Doubt
as Frank
(1993)
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
as Dr. Norman Bethune
(1993)
The Mighty River
as Narrator (English Version) (voice)
(1992)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
(1992)
Shadow of the Wolf
as Henderson
(1992)
The Railway Station Man
as Roger Hawthorne
(1992)
Quicksand: No Escape
as Murdoch
(1992)
The Setting Sun
as John Williams
(1992)
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
(1992)
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
as Narrator (voice)
(1991)
JFK
as X
(1991)
Backdraft
as Ronald Bartel
(1991)
Eminent Domain
as Josef Borski
(1991)
Scream of Stone
as Ivan
(1991)
Buster's Bedroom
as O'Connor
(1990)
Kate Bush: Sensual World
as Self (archive footage)
(1989)
Lock Up
as Warden Drumgoole
(1989)
A Dry White Season
as Ben du Toit
(1989)
Lost Angels
as Dr. Charles Loftis
(1988)
Apprentice to Murder
as John Reese
(1988)
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
as Narrator (voice)
(1987)
The Rosary Murders
as Father Robert Koesler
(1987)
The Trouble with Spies
as Appleton Porter
(1986)
The Wolf at the Door
as Paul Gauguin
(1985)
Revolution
as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
(1985)
Heaven Help Us
as Brother Thadeus
(1985)
Cloudbusting
as William Reich
(1984)
Crackers
as Westlake
(1984)
Ordeal by Innocence
as Dr. Arthur Calgary
(1983)
Max Dugan Returns
as Brian Costello
(1983)
Fellini nel cestino
as Self
(1983)
The Winter of Our Discontent
as Ethan Hawley
(1982)
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1981)
Eye of the Needle
as Faber
(1981)
A War Story
as Narrator (voice)
(1981)
Threshold
as Dr. Thomas Vrain
(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)
Murder by Decree
as Robert Lees
(1979)
Bear Island
as Frank Lansing
(1979)
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
as Reese Halperin
(1978)
Animal House
as Dave Jennings
(1978)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
as Matthew Bennell
(1978)
The First Great Train Robbery
as Robert Agar
(1978)
Blood Relatives
as Carella
(1978)
End of the Game
as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
(1977)
The Kentucky Fried Movie
as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
(1977)
The Disappearance
as Jay Mallory
(1977)
Bethune
as Dr. Norman Bethune
(1976)
1900
as Attila Mellanchini
(1976)
The Eagle Has Landed
as Liam Devlin
(1976)
Fellini's Casanova
as Giacomo Casanova
(1976)
The Spiral
as Narrator (English version) (voice)
(1976)
(1975)
The Day of the Locust
as Homer Simpson
(1975)
Abicinema
as Self
(1974)
Alien Thunder
as Sgt. Dan Candy
(1974)
S*P*Y*S
as Bruland
(1973)
Don't Look Now
as John Baxter
(1973)
Lady Ice
as Andy Hammon
(1973)
Steelyard Blues
as Jesse Veldini
(1972)
FTA
as Self
(1971)
Klute
as John Klute
(1971)
Johnny Got His Gun
as Christ
(1971)
Little Murders
as Rev. Dupas
(1971)
'Klute' in New York
as Self
(1970)
M*A*S*H
as Hawkeye Pierce
(1970)
Kelly's Heroes
as Sgt. Oddball (tank commander)
(1970)
Start the Revolution Without Me
as Charles / Pierre
(1970)
Alex in Wonderland
as Alex Morrison
(1970)
Act of the Heart
as Father Michael Ferrier
(1968)
The Split
as Dave Negli
(1968)
Interlude
as Lawrence
(1968)
Joanna
as Lord Peter Sanderson
(1968)
Sebastian
as Ackerman
(1968)
Oedipus the King
as Chorus Leader
(1968)
The Sunshine Patriot
as Benedeck
(1967)
The Dirty Dozen
as Vernon Pinkley
(1967)
Billion Dollar Brain
as Scientist at Computer
(1967)
The Shuttered Room
as Zebulon (voice)
(1966)
Promise Her Anything
as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
(1965)
The Bedford Incident
as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
(1965)
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as Bob Carroll
(1965)
Fanatic
as Joseph
(1964)
Hamlet at Elsinore
as Fortinbras
(1964)
The Castle of the Living Dead
as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
Crew
(2015)
Pirate's Passage
Producer, Writer
(1973)
Steelyard Blues
Executive Producer
(1972)
FTA
Writer, Producer