Donald Sutherland
Actor
Born July 17, 1935 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
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).
Filmography
Murder in a Small Town
OZI: Voice of the Forest
Mr. Smiley
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 - Narrator (voice)
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Undoing
Franklin Reinhart
Alone
Edward
Citizen Jane Fonda
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 Leisure Seeker
John Spencer
Basmati Blues
Gurgon
Ice
Pieter Van De Bruin
Milton's Secret
Grandpa Howard
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 - President Coriolanus Snow
Pirate's Passage
Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
President Coriolanus Snow
The Calling
Father Price
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
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 - President Coriolanus Snow
Assassin's Bullet
Ambassador Ashdown
Dawn Rider
Pop
The Hunger Games
President Coriolanus Snow
Treasure Island
Captain Flint
The Man on the Train
The Professor
Hollywood Invasion
archive footage
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)
Fierce People
Ogden C. Osborne
Beerfest
Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
Land of the Blind
Thorne
Ask the Dust
Hellfrick
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
Self
Fellini dice...
Self
Operation Dirty Dozen
Self (uncredited)
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)
American Gun
Carl Wilk
Sir! No Sir!
Self
An American Haunting
John Bell
Aurora Borealis
Ronald Shorter
Frankenstein
Captain Walton
Salem's Lot
Richard Straker
Cold Mountain
Reverend Monroe
Path to War
Clark Clifford
Baltic Storm
Lou Aldryn
The Italian Job
John Bridger
Five Moons Plaza
Rosario Sarracino
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Self - Casanova
The Magic of Fellini
Self (archive footage)
Big Shot's Funeral
Tyler
Uprising
Adam Czerniaków
Uprising
Adam Czerniaków
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Dr. Sid (voice)
Queen Victoria's Empire
Narrator (voice)
The Big Heist
Jimmy Burke
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Narrator (voice)
History vs. Hollywood
Self
Panic
Michael
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self
The Art of War
Douglas Thomas
Backstory
Self
Space Cowboys
Jerry O'Neill
Virus: Ghost in the Machine
Self
The Hunley
Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Instinct
Ben Hillard
Behind the Mask
Dr. Bob Shushan
Virus
Captain Robert Everton
Free Money
Judge Rausenberg
Without Limits
Bill Bowerman
Fallen
Lt. Stanton
The Assignment
Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
The View
Self
Scene by Scene
Self
Shadow Conspiracy
Jacob Conrad
Natural Enemy
Ted Robards
Hollow Point
Garrett Lawton
A Time to Kill
Lucien Wilbanks
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
Narrator
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Self (archive footage)
Outbreak
General Donald McClintock
Citizen X
Col. Mikhail Fetisov
Disclosure
Bob Garvin
The Puppet Masters
Andrew Nivens
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
William Marsden
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
William Marsden
The Lifeforce Experiment
Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
La Classe américaine
Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Six Degrees of Separation
Flan
Younger and Younger
Jonathan Younger
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Dr. Norman Bethune
Red Hot
Kirov
Benefit of the Doubt
Frank
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
Narrator (voice)
The Railway Station Man
Roger Hawthorne
The Setting Sun
John Williams
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Merrick Jamison-Smythe
HBO First Look
Self
Shadow of the Wolf
Henderson
Quicksand: No Escape
Murdoch
JFK
X
Scream of Stone
Ivan
Backdraft
Ronald Bartel
Buster's Bedroom
O'Connor
Eminent Domain
Josef Borski
Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video
Self (archive footage)
The Simpsons
Hollis Hurlbut (voice)
A Dry White Season
Ben du Toit
Lock Up
Warden Drumgoole
Lost Angels
Dr. Charles Loftis
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
Apprentice to Murder
John Reese
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
Narrator (voice)
The Trouble with Spies
Appleton Porter
The Rosary Murders
Father Robert Koesler
The Wolf at the Door
Paul Gauguin
Revolution
Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Heaven Help Us
Brother Thadeus
Screen Two
Roger Hawthorne
Ordeal by Innocence
Dr. Arthur Calgary
Crackers
Westlake
The Winter of Our Discontent
Ethan Hawley
Max Dugan Returns
Brian Costello
Night of 100 Stars
Self
A War Story
Narrator (voice)
Threshold
Dr. Thomas Vrain
Eye of the Needle
Faber
Gas
Nick the Noz
Ordinary People
Calvin Jarrett
Nothing Personal
Roger Keller
Bear Island
Frank Lansing
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
Reese Halperin
Murder by Decree
Robert Lees
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Matthew Bennell
The First Great Train Robbery
Robert Agar
Animal House
Dave Jennings
End of the Game
Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
Blood Relatives
Steve Carella
The Disappearance
Jay Mallory
The Kentucky Fried Movie
The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
Bethune
Dr. Norman Bethune
The Eagle Has Landed
Liam Devlin
Fellini's Casanova
Giacomo Casanova
1900
Attila Mellanchini
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Self
Abicinema
Self
The Day of the Locust
Homer Simpson
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Spécial cinéma
Self
S*P*Y*S
Bruland
Alien Thunder
Sgt. Dan Candy
The Awful Manners
Man walking (uncredited)
Don't Look Now
John Baxter
Lady Ice
Andy Hammon
Steelyard Blues
Jesse Veldini
FTA
Self
'Klute' in New York
Self
Johnny Got His Gun
Christ
Klute
John Klute
Little Murders
Rev. Dupas
Alex in Wonderland
Alex Morrison
Act of the Heart
Father Michael Ferrier
Kelly's Heroes
Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
M*A*S*H
Hawkeye Pierce
Start the Revolution Without Me
Charles / Pierre
The Sunshine Patriot
Benedeck
Joanna
Lord Peter Sanderson
The Split
Dave Negli
The Champions
David Crayley
The Name of the Game
Jerry Trevor
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Oedipus the King
Chorus Leader
Interlude
Lawrence
Sebastian
Ackerman
Billion Dollar Brain
Scientist at Computer
Man in a Suitcase
Willard
The Shuttered Room
Zebulon (voice)
The Dirty Dozen
Vernon Pinkley
Promise Her Anything
Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
BBC Play of the Month
Charles Givens
The Bedford Incident
Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
Fanatic
Joseph
Gideon's Way
Philip Guest
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Bob Carroll
The Castle of the Living Dead
Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
Theatre 625
Priest
Hamlet at Elsinore
Fortinbras
The World Ten Times Over
Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
The Saint
John Wood
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Man of the World
Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Avengers
Jessel
The Oscars
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Ethan Hawley
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee