Donald Sutherland
Acting • Born 1935-07-17 – Died 2024-06-20
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.
Filmography
249 credits
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Movie • 2012
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Movie • 2014
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Don't Look Now
Movie • 1973
John Baxter
Klute
Movie • 1971
John Klute
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Movie • 2001
Dr. Sid (voice)
M*A*S*H
Movie • 1970
Hawkeye Pierce
An American Haunting
Movie • 2005
John Bell
A Time to Kill
Movie • 1996
Lucien Wilbanks
The Dirty Dozen
Movie • 1967
Vernon Pinkley
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Movie • 1992
Merrick Jamison-Smythe
JFK
Movie • 1991
X
Cold Mountain
Movie • 2003
Reverend Monroe
Max Dugan Returns
Movie • 1983
Brian Costello
Reign Over Me
Movie • 2007
Richter Raines
Ask the Dust
Movie • 2006
Hellfrick
1900
Movie • 1976
Attila Mellanchini
Backdraft
Movie • 1991
Ronald Bartel
Pride & Prejudice
Movie • 2005
Mr. Bennet
Eye of the Needle
Movie • 1981
Faber
Five Moons Plaza
Movie • 2003
Rosario Sarracino
Billion Dollar Brain
Movie • 1967
Scientist at Computer
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Movie • 2022
Mr. Harrigan
Panic
Movie • 2000
Michael
Space Cowboys
Movie • 2000
Jerry O'Neill
The Day of the Locust
Movie • 1975
Homer Simpson
Uprising
Movie • 2001
Adam Czerniaków
The Eagle Has Landed
Movie • 1976
Liam Devlin
Path to War
Movie • 2003
Clark Clifford
Free Money
Movie • 1998
Judge Rausenberg
The Art of War
Movie • 2000
Douglas Thomas
Without Limits
Movie • 1998
Bill Bowerman
The First Great Train Robbery
Movie • 1978
Robert Agar
Kelly's Heroes
Movie • 1970
Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
Six Degrees of Separation
Movie • 1993
Flan
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Movie • 1977
The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
Outbreak
Movie • 1995
General Donald McClintock
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Movie • 1978
Matthew Bennell
The Split
Movie • 1968
Dave Negli
Animal House
Movie • 1978
Dave Jennings
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
Movie • 2006
Self
Fool's Gold
Movie • 2008
Nigel Honeycutt
A Dry White Season
Movie • 1989
Ben du Toit
Instinct
Movie • 1999
Ben Hillard
Disclosure
Movie • 1994
Bob Garvin
Fallen
Movie • 1998
Lt. Stanton
The Puppet Masters
Movie • 1994
Andrew Nivens
Virus
Movie • 1999
Captain Robert Everton
Natural Enemy
Movie • 1996
Ted Robards
Citizen X
Movie • 1995
Col. Mikhail Fetisov
Puffball
Movie • 2007
Lars
Alex in Wonderland
Movie • 1970
Alex Morrison
Little Murders
Movie • 1971
Rev. Dupas
Lock Up
Movie • 1989
Warden Drumgoole
Revolution
Movie • 1985
Sgt. Maj. Peasy
The Mechanic
Movie • 2011
Harry McKenna
The Italian Job
Movie • 2003
John Bridger
Dr Terror's House of Horrors
Movie • 1965
Bob Carroll
Murder by Decree
Movie • 1979
Robert Lees
Beerfest
Movie • 2006
Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
Aurora Borealis
Movie • 2005
Ronald Shorter
S*P*Y*S
Movie • 1974
Bruland
The Castle of the Living Dead
Movie • 1964
Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
Heaven Help Us
Movie • 1985
Brother Thadeus
Benefit of the Doubt
Movie • 1993
Frank
Fellini's Casanova
Movie • 1976
Giacomo Casanova
Fanatic
Movie • 1965
Joseph
The Con Artist
Movie • 2010
Kranski
American Gun
Movie • 2005
Carl Wilk
Lost Angels
Movie • 1989
Dr. Charles Loftis
Shadow Conspiracy
Movie • 1997
Jacob Conrad
Johnny Got His Gun
Movie • 1971
Christ
Bear Island
Movie • 1979
Frank Lansing
Astro Boy
Movie • 2009
President Stone (voice)
Ordinary People
Movie • 1980
Calvin Jarrett
Sir! No Sir!
Movie • 2005
Self
The Hunley
Movie • 1999
Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Shadow of the Wolf
Movie • 1992
Henderson
The Bedford Incident
Movie • 1965
Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
Blood Relatives
Movie • 1978
Carella
The Eagle
Movie • 2011
Aquila
The Assignment
Movie • 1997
Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
The Big Heist
Movie • 2001
Jimmy Burke
The Man on the Train
Movie • 2011
The Professor
Horrible Bosses
Movie • 2011
Jack Pellit
Fierce People
Movie • 2006
Ogden C. Osborne
The Hunger Games
Movie • 2012
President Coriolanus Snow
Start the Revolution Without Me
Movie • 1970
Charles / Pierre
Jock the Hero Dog
Movie • 2011
Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
Movie • 2007
Narrator
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
Movie • 1979
Reese Halperin
End of the Game
Movie • 1978
Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
Steelyard Blues
Movie • 1973
Jesse Veldini
Hollow Point
Movie • 1996
Garrett Lawton
Joanna
Movie • 1968
Lord Peter Sanderson
Big Shot's Funeral
Movie • 2001
Tyler
Crackers
Movie • 1984
Westlake
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Movie • 2013
President Coriolanus Snow
Scream of Stone
Movie • 1991
Ivan
Apprentice to Murder
Movie • 1988
John Reese
Dawn Rider
Movie • 2012
Pop
Ordeal by Innocence
Movie • 1984
Dr. Arthur Calgary
The Rosary Murders
Movie • 1987
Father Robert Koesler
The Best Offer
Movie • 2013
Billy Whistler
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Movie • 2005
Self
Kate Bush: Sensual World
Movie • 1990
Self (archive footage)
Assassin's Bullet
Movie • 2012
Ambassador Ashdown
The Trouble with Spies
Movie • 1987
Appleton Porter
Act of the Heart
Movie • 1970
Father Michael Ferrier
Fellini nel cestino
Movie • 1983
Self
The Disappearance
Movie • 1977
Jay Mallory
Quicksand: No Escape
Movie • 1992
Murdoch
Jappeloup
Movie • 2013
John Lester
The Wolf at the Door
Movie • 1986
Paul Gauguin
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Movie • 2003
Self - Casanova
The Lifeforce Experiment
Movie • 1994
Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
Buster's Bedroom
Movie • 1991
O'Connor
The Sunshine Patriot
Movie • 1968
Benedeck
Miranda's Victim
Movie • 2023
Judge Wren
Interlude
Movie • 1968
Lawrence
Threshold
Movie • 1981
Dr. Thomas Vrain
Nothing Personal
Movie • 1980
Roger Keller
Hamlet at Elsinore
Movie • 1964
Fortinbras
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Movie • 1994
William Marsden
Sebastian
Movie • 1968
Ackerman
Basmati Blues
Movie • 2017
Gurgon
The Calling
Movie • 2014
Father Price
Land of the Blind
Movie • 2006
Thorne
Younger and Younger
Movie • 1993
Jonathan Younger
Baltic Storm
Movie • 2003
Lou Aldryn
Eminent Domain
Movie • 1991
Josef Borski
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Movie • 2014
President Coriolanus Snow
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Movie • 1993
Dr. Norman Bethune
Lady Ice
Movie • 1973
Andy Hammon
Reach for the Stars
Movie • 2019
Self
Pirate's Passage
Movie • 2015
Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
Red Hot
Movie • 1993
Kirov
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
Movie • 2000
Self
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Movie • 2015
President Coriolanus Snow
Trumbo
Movie • 2007
Self
FTA
Movie • 1972
Self
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Movie • 1995
Self (archive footage)
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden
Movie • 2012
Self
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
Movie • 2015
Self
Alien Thunder
Movie • 1974
Sgt. Dan Candy
Forsaken
Movie • 2015
Rev. Clayton
The Winter of Our Discontent
Movie • 1983
Ethan Hawley
Sleepwalkers
Movie • 2007
Businessman Struck by a Taxi
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Movie • 2000
Self
Behind the Mask
Movie • 1999
Dr. Bob Shushan
Fellini dice...
Movie • 2006
Self
Measure of a Man
Movie • 2018
Dr. Kahn
Milton's Secret
Movie • 2016
Grandpa Howard
Point and Shoot
Movie • 2016
Man
A War Story
Movie • 1981
Narrator (voice)
North China Factory
Movie • 1980
Narrator (voice)
Bethune
Movie • 1977
Dr. Norman Bethune
The Eastmans
Movie • 2009
Dr. Charles Eastman
The Leisure Seeker
Movie • 2018
John Spencer
Promise Her Anything
Movie • 1966
Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
Oedipus the King
Movie • 1968
Chorus Leader
Days of Darkness
Movie • 2007
Donald Sutherland
The Railway Station Man
Movie • 1992
Roger Hawthorne
Gas
Movie • 1981
Nick the Noz
The Setting Sun
Movie • 1992
John Williams
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Movie • 2020
Jerome Debney
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Movie • 1976
Self
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
Movie • 1992
Narrator (voice)
American Hangman
Movie • 2019
Judge Straight
Operation Dirty Dozen
Movie • 2006
Self (uncredited)
Backdraft 2
Movie • 2019
Ronald Bartel
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Movie • 2001
Narrator (voice)
'Klute' in New York
Movie • 1971
Self
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Movie • 2015
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
Movie • 1988
Narrator (voice)
Alone
Movie • 2020
Edward
La Classe américaine
Movie • 1993
Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ad Astra
Movie • 2019
Thomas Pruitt
Stonehenge: Decoded
Movie • 2008
Narrator (voice)
The Magic of Fellini
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
The Physics of Sorrow
Movie • 2019
(voice)
Moonfall
Movie • 2022
Holdenfield
Lord of War
Movie • 2005
Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
Abicinema
Movie • 1975
Self
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Movie • 2021
Self - Narrator (voice)
Night of 100 Stars
Movie • 1982
Self
The Shuttered Room
Movie • 1967
Zebulon (voice)
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
Movie • 1996
Narrator
The World Ten Times Over
Movie • 1963
Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
For King and Country: Out There
Movie • 1963
Canadian
The Awful Manners
Movie • 1974
Man walking (uncredited)
Treasure Island
Movie • 2012
Captain Flint
Citizen Jane Fonda
Movie • 2020
OZI: Voice of the Forest
Movie • 2024
Mr. Smiley
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Hollis Hurlbut (voice)
The View
TV • 1997
Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV • 2001
Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Gideon's Way
TV • 1965
Philip Guest
The Avengers
TV • 1961
Jessel
History vs. Hollywood
TV • 2001
Self
Commander in Chief
TV • 2005
Nathan Templeton
Dirty Sexy Money
TV • 2007
Patrick "Tripp" Darling III
The Saint
TV • 1962
John Wood
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Ethan Hawley
The Champions
TV • 1968
David Crayley
Human Trafficking
TV • 2005
Agent Bill Meehan
Man in a Suitcase
TV • 1967
Willard
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Pillars of the Earth
TV • 2010
Earl Bartholomew
Moby Dick
TV • 2011
Father Mapple
Crossing Lines
TV • 2013
Michael Dorn
Man in a Suitcase
TV • 1967
Keith Earle
Frankenstein
TV • 2004
Captain Walton
The Saint
TV • 1962
Jim McCleery
Treasure Island
TV • 2012
Captain Flint
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
TV • 2023
Judge Isaac Parker
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
TV • 2006
Narrator (voice)
Swimming with Sharks
TV • 2022
Redmond
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
TV • 2021
Self - Narrator (voice)
Ice
TV • 2016
Pieter Van De Bruin
American Experience
TV • 1988
Narrator (voice)
Trust
TV • 2018
J. Paul Getty Sr.
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Jerry Trevor
Salem's Lot
TV • 2004
Richard Straker
Queen Victoria's Empire
TV • 2001
Narrator (voice)
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Scene by Scene
TV • 1997
Self
The Undoing
TV • 2020
Franklin Reinhart
The Frame
TV • 2013
President Coriolanus Snow
Romy Award
TV • 1990
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Charles Givens
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
TV • 1994
William Marsden
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Backstory
TV • 2000
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
Man of the World
TV • 1962
Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)
Friday People
TV • 1985
HBO First Look
TV • 1992
Self
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Priest
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Union Captain
Uprising
TV • 2001
Adam Czerniaków
Studio 4
TV • 1962
Switchboard Operator
Film '72
TV • 1971
Self