Acting
Donald Sutherland
EN, FR, IT, ZH cinema · 197 credits
Born
17 July 1935
Died
20 June 2024 (aged 88)
Birthplace
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Also known as Don Sutherland · Donald McNicol Sutherland, OC
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
OZI: Voice of the Forest
as Mr. Smiley (voice)
Miranda's Victim
as Judge Wren
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
as Mr. Harrigan
Moonfall
as Holdenfield
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Burnt Orange Heresy
as Jerome Debney
Alone
as Edward
Citizen Jane Fonda
as Self (archive footage)
American Hangman
as Judge Straight
Backdraft 2
as Ronald Bartel
Ad Astra
as Thomas Pruitt
The Physics of Sorrow
as (voice)
Measure of a Man
as Dr. Kahn
The Leisure Seeker
as John Spencer
Basmati Blues
as Gurgon
Milton's Secret
as Grandpa Howard
Pirate's Passage
as Captain Charles Johnson (voice), Writer, Producer
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as President Coriolanus Snow
Forsaken
as Rev. Clayton
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Calling
as Father Price
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
as President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as President Coriolanus Snow
The Best Offer
as Billy Whistler
Jappeloup
as John Lester
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games
as President Coriolanus Snow
Dawn Rider
as Pop
Assassin's Bullet
as Ambassador Ashdown
The Mechanic
as Harry McKenna
The Eagle
as Aquila
The Man on the Train
as The Professor
Horrible Bosses
as Jack Pellit
Jock the Hero Dog
as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
The Con Artist
as Kranski
Astro Boy
as President Stone (voice)
The Eastmans
as Dr. Charles Eastman
Fool's Gold
as Nigel Honeycutt
Stonehenge: Decoded
as Narrator (voice)
Reign Over Me
as Richter Raines
Puffball
as Lars
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
as Narrator
Trumbo
as Self
Sleepwalkers
as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
Days of Darkness
as Donald Sutherland
Ask the Dust
as Hellfrick
Beerfest
as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
Fierce People
as Ogden C. Osborne
Land of the Blind
as Thorne
Operation Dirty Dozen
as Self (uncredited)
An American Haunting
as John Bell
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Bennet
Aurora Borealis
as Ronald Shorter
American Gun
as Carl Wilk
Sir! No Sir!
as Self
Lord of War
as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
Cold Mountain
as Reverend Monroe
Five Moons Plaza
as Rosario Sarracino
Path to War
as Clark Clifford
The Italian Job
as John Bridger
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
as Self - Casanova
Baltic Storm
as Lou Aldryn
The Magic of Fellini
as Self (archive footage)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
as Dr. Sid (voice)
Uprising
as Adam Czerniaków
The Big Heist
as Jimmy Burke
Big Shot's Funeral
as Tyler
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
as Narrator (voice)
Panic
as Michael
Space Cowboys
as Jerry O'Neill
The Art of War
as Douglas Thomas
Instinct
as Ben Hillard
Virus
as Captain Robert Everton
The Hunley
as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Behind the Mask
as Dr. Bob Shushan
Free Money
as Judge Rausenberg
Without Limits
as Bill Bowerman
Fallen
as Lt. Stanton
Shadow Conspiracy
as Jacob Conrad
The Assignment
as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
A Time to Kill
as Lucien Wilbanks
Natural Enemy
as Ted Robards
Hollow Point
as Garrett Lawton
Outbreak
as General Donald McClintock
Citizen X
as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
as Self (archive footage)
Disclosure
as Bob Garvin
The Puppet Masters
as Andrew Nivens
The Lifeforce Experiment
as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
as William Marsden
Benefit of the Doubt
as Frank
Younger and Younger
as Jonathan Younger
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
as Dr. Norman Bethune
Red Hot
as Kirov
La Classe américaine
as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Shadow of the Wolf
as Henderson
Quicksand: No Escape
as Murdoch
The Railway Station Man
as Roger Hawthorne
The Setting Sun
as John Williams
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
JFK
as X
Backdraft
as Ronald Bartel
Scream of Stone
as Ivan
Buster's Bedroom
as O'Connor
Eminent Domain
as Josef Borski
Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video
as Self (archive footage)
A Dry White Season
as Ben du Toit
Lock Up
as Warden Drumgoole
Lost Angels
as Dr. Charles Loftis
Apprentice to Murder
as John Reese
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
as Narrator (voice)
The Rosary Murders
as Father Robert Koesler
The Trouble with Spies
as Appleton Porter
The Wolf at the Door
as Paul Gauguin
Revolution
as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Heaven Help Us
as Brother Thadeus
Crackers
as Westlake
Ordeal by Innocence
as Dr. Arthur Calgary
Max Dugan Returns
as Brian Costello
The Winter of Our Discontent
as Ethan Hawley
Eye of the Needle
as Faber
Threshold
as Dr. Thomas Vrain
A War Story
as Narrator (voice)
Gas
as Nick the Noz
Ordinary People
as Calvin Jarrett
Nothing Personal
as Roger Keller
North China Factory
1980
North China Factory
as Narrator (voice)
Murder by Decree
as Robert Lees
Bear Island
as Frank Lansing
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
as Reese Halperin
The First Great Train Robbery
as Robert Agar
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
as Matthew Bennell
Animal House
as Dave Jennings
Blood Relatives
as Steve Carella
The Kentucky Fried Movie
as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
The Disappearance
as Jay Mallory
Bethune
as Dr. Norman Bethune
1900
as Attila Mellanchini
The Eagle Has Landed
as Liam Devlin
Fellini's Casanova
as Giacomo Casanova
The Day of the Locust
as Homer Simpson
End of the Game
as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
ABCinema
as Self
S*P*Y*S
as Bruland
Alien Thunder
as Sgt. Dan Candy
The Awful Manners
as Man walking (uncredited)
Don't Look Now
as John Baxter
Steelyard Blues
as Jesse Veldini, Executive Producer
Lady Ice
as Andy Hammon
FTA
as Self, Writer, Producer
Klute
as John Klute
Little Murders
as Rev. Dupas
Johnny Got His Gun
as Christ
M*A*S*H
as Hawkeye Pierce
Kelly's Heroes
as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
Alex in Wonderland
as Alex Morrison
Start the Revolution Without Me
as Charles / Pierre
Act of the Heart
as Father Michael Ferrier
The Split
as Dave Negli
Joanna
as Lord Peter Sanderson
The Sunshine Patriot
as Benedeck
Interlude
as Lawrence
Sebastian
as Ackerman
Oedipus the King
as Chorus Leader
The Dirty Dozen
as Vernon Pinkley
Billion Dollar Brain
as Scientist at Computer
The Shuttered Room
as Zebulon (voice)
Promise Her Anything
as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
Lee Oswald: Assassin
as Charles Givens
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as Bob Carroll
Fanatic
as Joseph
The Bedford Incident
as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
The Castle of the Living Dead
as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
Hamlet at Elsinore
as Fortinbras
The World Ten Times Over
as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)