Donald Sutherland

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

Born: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1935-07-17

Died: 2024-06-20

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Hamlet at Elsinore	Fortinbras	78
2	1964	The Castle of the Living Dead	Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man	61
3	1965	Dr. Terror's House of Horrors	Bob Carroll	64
4	1965	Fanatic	Joseph	65
5	1965	The Bedford Incident	Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay	69
6	1966	Promise Her Anything	Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)	37
7	1967	The Dirty Dozen	Vernon Pinkley	76
8	1967	Billion Dollar Brain	Scientist at Computer	56
9	1968	Sebastian	Ackerman	60
10	1968	Interlude	Lawrence	58
11	1968	Oedipus the King	Chorus Leader	47
12	1968	The Split	Dave Negli	67
13	1968	Joanna	Lord Peter Sanderson	55
14	1968	The Sunshine Patriot	Benedeck	60
15	1970	Start the Revolution Without Me	Charles / Pierre	58
16	1970	MAS*H	Hawkeye Pierce	70
17	1970	Kelly's Heroes	Sgt. Oddball (tank commander)	73
18	1970	Act of the Heart	Father Michael Ferrier	40
19	1970	Alex in Wonderland	Alex Morrison	56
20	1971	Little Murders	Rev. Dupas	67
21	1971	Klute	John Klute	68
22	1971	Johnny Got His Gun	Christ	75
23	1971	'Klute' in New York	Self	64
24	1972	FTA	Self	61
25	1973	Don't Look Now	John Baxter	69
26	1973	Steelyard Blues	Jesse Veldini	48
27	1973	Lady Ice	Andy Hammon	48
28	1974	Alien Thunder	Sgt. Dan Candy	43
29	1974	SPY*S	Bruland	52
30	1975	The Day of the Locust	Homer Simpson	63
31	1975	Abicinema	Self	60
32	1976	The Cinema According to Bertolucci	Self	65
33	1976	The Spiral	Narrator (English version) (voice)	80
34	1976	1900	Attila Mellanchini	78
35	1976	Fellini's Casanova	Giacomo Casanova	70
36	1976	The Eagle Has Landed	Liam Devlin	66
37	1977	Bethune	Dr. Norman Bethune	57
38	1977	The Kentucky Fried Movie	The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")	62
39	1977	The Disappearance	Jay Mallory	56
40	1978	Blood Relatives	Carella	57
41	1978	End of the Game	Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)	49
42	1978	Animal House	Dave Jennings	70
43	1978	The First Great Train Robbery	Robert Agar	67
44	1978	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Matthew Bennell	72
45	1979	Murder by Decree	Robert Lees	64
46	1979	A Man, a Woman and a Bank	Reese Halperin	61
47	1979	Bear Island	Frank Lansing	59
48	1980	North China Factory	Narrator (voice)	60
49	1980	Nothing Personal	Roger Keller	58
50	1980	Ordinary People	Calvin Jarrett	75
51	1981	Eye of the Needle	Faber	66
52	1981	Gas	Nick the Noz	35
53	1981	Threshold	Dr. Thomas Vrain	52
54	1981	A War Story	Narrator (voice)	80
55	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	65
56	1983	Fellini nel cestino	Self	75
57	1983	Max Dugan Returns	Brian Costello	65
58	1983	The Winter of Our Discontent	Ethan Hawley	40
59	1984	Crackers	Westlake	44
60	1984	Ordeal by Innocence	Dr. Arthur Calgary	46
61	1985	Heaven Help Us	Brother Thadeus	64
62	1985	Cloudbusting	William Reich	72
63	1985	Revolution	Sgt. Maj. Peasy	53
64	1986	The Wolf at the Door	Paul Gauguin	52
65	1987	The Rosary Murders	Father Robert Koesler	55
66	1987	The Trouble with Spies	Appleton Porter	40
67	1988	People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe	Narrator (voice)	73
68	1988	Apprentice to Murder	John Reese	47
69	1989	Lost Angels	Dr. Charles Loftis	61
70	1989	Lock Up	Warden Drumgoole	68
71	1989	A Dry White Season	Ben du Toit	67
72	1990	Kate Bush: Sensual World	Self (archive footage)	80
73	1991	Eminent Domain	Josef Borski	59
74	1991	Buster's Bedroom	O'Connor	35
75	1991	Backdraft	Ronald Bartel	67
76	1991	Scream of Stone	Ivan	63
77	1991	JFK	X	76
78	1992	Quicksand: No Escape	Murdoch	59
79	1992	Shadow of the Wolf	Henderson	56
80	1992	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Merrick Jamison-Smythe	56
81	1992	The Setting Sun	John Williams	47
82	1992	The Railway Station Man	Roger Hawthorne	55
83	1992	The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power	Narrator (voice)	0
84	1992	The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas	Narrator (voice)	50
85	1993	The Mighty River	Narrator (English Version) (voice)	69
86	1993	Benefit of the Doubt	Frank	45
87	1993	Red Hot	Kirov	60
88	1993	Bethune: The Making of a Hero	Dr. Norman Bethune	53
89	1993	Younger and Younger	Jonathan Younger	42
90	1993	Six Degrees of Separation	Flan	64
91	1993	La Classe américaine	Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)	76
92	1994	The Lifeforce Experiment	Dr. 'Mac' MacLean	53
93	1994	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	William Marsden	54
94	1994	The Puppet Masters	Andrew Nivens	58
95	1994	Disclosure	Bob Garvin	62
96	1995	Citizen X	Col. Mikhail Fetisov	72
97	1995	Outbreak	General Donald McClintock	66
98	1995	Roger Moore: A Matter of Class	Self (archive footage)	60
99	1996	A Time to Kill	Lucien Wilbanks	74
100	1996	Hollow Point	Garrett Lawton	52
101	1996	Natural Enemy	Ted Robards	45
102	1997	Shadow Conspiracy	Jacob Conrad	49
103	1997	The Assignment	Jack Shaw / Henry Fields	64
104	1998	Fallen	Lt. Stanton	68
105	1998	Without Limits	Bill Bowerman	65
106	1998	Free Money	Judge Rausenberg	53
107	1999	Virus	Captain Robert Everton	54
108	1999	Behind the Mask	Dr. Bob Shushan	52
109	1999	Instinct	Ben Hillard	65
110	1999	The Hunley	Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard	59
111	2000	Enlisted: The Story of 'MAS*H'	Self	60
112	2000	Space Cowboys	Jerry O`Neill	64
113	2000	The Art of War	Douglas Thomas	57
114	2000	Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows	Self	71
115	2000	Panic	Michael	62
116	2001	The Autobiography of Malcolm X	Narrator (voice)	0
117	2001	The Big Heist	Jimmy Burke	49
118	2001	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	Dr. Cid (voice)	62
119	2001	Uprising	Adam Czerniaków	67
120	2001	Big Shot's Funeral	Tyler	64
121	2002	The Magic of Fellini	Self (archive footage)	28
122	2003	Fellini: I'm a Born Liar	Self - Casanova	63
123	2003	Five Moons Plaza	Rosario Sarracino	55
124	2003	The Italian Job	John Bridger	68
125	2003	Baltic Storm	Lou Aldryn	43
126	2003	Path to War	Clark Clifford	67
127	2003	Cold Mountain	Reverend Monroe	69
128	2005	Aurora Borealis	Ronald Shorter	64
129	2005	An American Haunting	John Bell	56
130	2005	Sir! No Sir!	Self	67
131	2005	American Gun	Carl Wilk	56
132	2005	Pride & Prejudice	Mr. Bennet	81
133	2005	Lord of War	Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)	73
134	2005	Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That	Self	70
135	2006	Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'	Self	60
136	2006	Fellini dice...	Self	0
137	2006	Operation Dirty Dozen	Self (uncredited)	60
138	2006	Ask the Dust	Hellfrick	54
139	2006	Land of the Blind	Thorne	58
140	2006	Beerfest	Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)	59
141	2007	Sleepwalkers	Businessman struck by a taxi	67
142	2007	Reign Over Me	Richter Raines	72
143	2007	Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia	Narrator	67
144	2007	Trumbo	Self	67
145	2007	Days of Darkness	Donald Sutherland	64
146	2007	Puffball	Lars	37
147	2007	Fierce People	Ogden C. Osborne	60
148	2008	Fool's Gold	Nigel Honeycutt	57
149	2008	Stonehenge: Decoded	Narrator (voice)	62
150	2009	The Eastmans	Dr. Charles Eastman	60
151	2009	Astro Boy	President Stone (voice)	63
152	2010	The Con Artist	Kranski	46
153	2011	The Mechanic	Harry McKenna	65
154	2011	The Eagle	Aquila	62
155	2011	Horrible Bosses	Jack Pellit	66
156	2011	Jock the Hero Dog	Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)	44
157	2011	The Man on the Train	The Professor	56
158	2012	The Hunger Games	President Coriolanus Snow	72
159	2012	Dawn Rider	Pop	57
160	2012	Assassin's Bullet	Ambassador Ashdown	39
161	2012	The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games	Self (President Coriolanus Snow)	82
162	2012	The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden	Self	40
163	2013	The Best Offer	Billy	78
164	2013	Jappeloup	John Lester	71
165	2013	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	President Coriolanus Snow	74
166	2014	Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	Self (President Coriolanus Snow)	61
167	2014	The Calling	Father Price	58
168	2014	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	President Coriolanus Snow	68
169	2015	Pirate's Passage	Captain Charles Johnson (voice)	58
170	2015	The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1	Self (President Coriolanus Snow)	71
171	2015	Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...	Self	50
172	2015	Forsaken	Rev. Clayton	61
173	2015	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	President Coriolanus Snow	69
174	2016	Point and Shoot	Man	60
175	2016	For the Love of Spock	Matthew Bennell (archive footage)	75
176	2016	Milton's Secret	Grandpa Howard	54
177	2017	Basmati Blues	Gurgon	41
178	2018	The Leisure Seeker	John Spencer	71
179	2018	Measure of a Man	Dr. Kahn	67
180	2018	A Reindeer's Journey	Narrator (English Version) (voice)	66
181	2019	American Hangman	Judge Straight	60
182	2019	Backdraft 2	Ronald Bartel	64
183	2019	The Physics of Sorrow	(additional voice)	73
184	2019	Ad Astra	Thomas Pruitt	61
185	2019	Reach For The Stars	Self	0
186	2020	The Burnt Orange Heresy	Jerome Debney	56
187	2020	Alone	Edward	59
188	2021	JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass	Self - Narrator (voice)	72
189	2022	Moonfall	Holdenfield	63
190	2022	Mr. Harrigan's Phone	Mr. Harrigan	64
191	2023	Miranda's Victim	Judge Wren	70
192	2024	Ozi: Voice of the Forest	Crocodile (voice)	64

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	68
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	68
3	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	68
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Ethan Hawley	87
5	1953	The Oscars	Self	70
6	1961	The Avengers	Jessel	77
7	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	51
8	1962	Studio Four	Switchboard Operator	60
9	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
10	1962	The Saint	John Wood	73
11	1962	The Saint	Jim McCleery	73
12	1963	The Sentimental Agent	Hotel Clerk	60
13	1965	Gideon's Way	Philip Guest	68
14	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Charles Givens	50
15	1967	Man in a Suitcase	Willard	70
16	1967	Man in a Suitcase	Keith Earle	70
17	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
18	1968	The Name of the Game	Jerry Trevor	68
19	1968	The Champions	David Crayley	61
20	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
21	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
22	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest	55
23	1988	American Experience	Narrator (voice)	75
24	1989	The Simpsons	Hollis Hurlbut (voice)	80
25	1990	Romy Award	Self	90
26	1994	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	William Marsden	50
27	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	74
28	1997	Scene by Scene	Self	60
29	1997	The View	Self	45
30	2000	Backstory	Self	65
31	2001	History vs. Hollywood	Self	77
32	2001	Queen Victoria's Empire	Narrator (voice)	80
33	2001	Friday Night with Jonathan Ross	Self - Guest	58
34	2004	Salem's Lot	Richard Straker	58
35	2004	Frankenstein	Captain Walton	58
36	2005	Commander in Chief	Nathan Templeton	76
37	2005	Human Trafficking	Agent Bill Meehan	69
38	2006	America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions	Narrator (voice)	60
39	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
40	2007	Dirty Sexy Money	Patrick "Tripp" Darling III	62
41	2010	The Pillars of the Earth	Earl Bartholomew	77
42	2011	Moby Dick	Father Mapple	57
43	2012	Treasure Island	Captain Flint	62
44	2012	Honest Trailers	Coriolanus Snow / Self (archive footage)	64
45	2012	Honest Trailers	President Coriolanus Snow (archive footage)	64
46	2013	The Frame	President Coriolanus Snow	100
47	2013	Crossing Lines	Michael Dorn	67
48	2016	Ice	Pieter Van De Bruin	65
49	2018	Trust	J. Paul Getty Sr.	71
50	2020	The Undoing	Franklin Reinhart	74
51	2021	JFK: Destiny Betrayed	Self - Narrator (voice)	76
52	2022	Swimming with Sharks	Redmond	68
53	2023	Lawmen: Bass Reeves	Judge Isaac Parker	71