Donald Sutherland
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
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
252
Gender
Male
Birthday
1935-07-17 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Acting

2024

Ozi: Voice of the Forest as Crocodile (voice)

2023

Lawmen: Bass Reeves as Judge Isaac Parker

2023

Miranda's Victim as Judge Wren

2022

Moonfall as Holdenfield

2022

Mr. Harrigan's Phone as Mr. Harrigan

2022

Swimming with Sharks as Redmond

2021

JFK: Destiny Betrayed as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as Self - Narrator (voice)

2020

Alone as Edward

2020

The Undoing as Franklin Reinhart

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

Trust as J. Paul Getty Sr.

2018

A Reindeer's Journey as Narrator (English Version) (voice)

2018

The Leisure Seeker as John Spencer

2018

Measure of a Man as Dr. Kahn

2017

Basmati Blues as Gurgon

2016

Ice as Pieter Van De Bruin

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

Pirate's Passage as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)

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

Crossing Lines as Michael Dorn

2013

The Frame as President Coriolanus Snow

2013

The Best Offer as Billy

2013

Jappeloup as John Lester

2012

Honest Trailers as Coriolanus Snow / Self (archive footage)

2012

Honest Trailers as President Coriolanus Snow (archive footage)

2012

Treasure Island as Captain Flint

2012

The Hunger Games as President Coriolanus Snow

2012

Dawn Rider as Pop

2012

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self (President Coriolanus Snow)

2012

Assassin's Bullet as Ambassador Ashdown

2011

The Mechanic as Harry McKenna

2011

Horrible Bosses as Jack Pellit

2011

The Eagle as Aquila

2011

Moby Dick as Father Mapple

2011

The Man on the Train as The Professor

2011

Jock the Hero Dog as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)

2010

The Pillars of the Earth as Earl Bartholomew

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

Dirty Sexy Money as Patrick "Tripp" Darling III

2007

Reign Over Me as Richter Raines

2007

Fierce People as Ogden C. Osborne

2007

Days of Darkness as Donald Sutherland

2007

Sleepwalkers as Businessman struck by a taxi

2007

Trumbo as Self

2007

Puffball as Lars

2006

Beerfest as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)

2006

Ask the Dust as Hellfrick

2006

Land of the Blind as Thorne

2006

Operation Dirty Dozen as Self (uncredited)

2006

Fellini dice... as Self

2005

Commander in Chief as Nathan Templeton

2005

Pride & Prejudice as Mr. Bennet

2005

Lord of War as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)

2005

An American Haunting as John Bell

2005

Human Trafficking as Agent Bill Meehan

2005

American Gun as Carl Wilk

2005

Aurora Borealis as Ronald Shorter

2005

Sir! No Sir! as Self

2004

Salem's Lot as Richard Straker

2004

Frankenstein as Captain Walton

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

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self - Casanova

2003

Five Moons Plaza as Rosario Sarracino

2002

The Magic of Fellini as Self (archive footage)

2001

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest

2001

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as Dr. Cid (voice)

2001

Uprising as Adam Czerniaków

2001

Queen Victoria's Empire as Narrator (voice)

2001

Big Shot's Funeral as Tyler

2001

The Big Heist as Jimmy Burke

2001

The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Narrator (voice)

2000

Space Cowboys as Jerry O`Neill

2000

Backstory as Self

2000

The Art of War as Douglas Thomas

2000

Panic as Michael

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 View as Self

1997

Scene by Scene as Self

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

The Lifeforce Experiment as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean

1993

La Classe américaine as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)

1993

Benefit of the Doubt as Frank

1993

Younger and Younger as Jonathan Younger

1993

Red Hot as Kirov

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

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

Romy Award as Self

1990

Kate Bush: Sensual World as Self (archive footage)

1989

The Simpsons as Hollis Hurlbut (voice)

1989

Lock Up as Warden Drumgoole

1989

A Dry White Season as Ben du Toit

1989

Lost Angels as Dr. Charles Loftis

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest

1988

American Experience as Narrator (voice)

1988

Apprentice to Murder as John Reese

1987

The Trouble with Spies as Appleton Porter

1987

The Rosary Murders as Father Robert Koesler

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

Threshold as Dr. Thomas Vrain

1981

Gas as Nick the Noz

1981

A War Story as Narrator (voice)

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

Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Matthew Bennell

1978

Animal House as Dave Jennings

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

Fellini's Casanova as Giacomo Casanova

1976

The Eagle Has Landed as Liam Devlin

1976

The Spiral as Narrator (English version) (voice)

1975

The Day of the Locust as Homer Simpson

1975

Abicinema as Self

1974

Spécial cinéma 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 Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1968

The Champions as David Crayley

1968

The Name of the Game as Jerry Trevor

1968

The Split as Dave Negli

1968

Sebastian as Ackerman

1968

Interlude as Lawrence

1968

Joanna as Lord Peter Sanderson

1968

Oedipus the King as Chorus Leader

1968

The Sunshine Patriot as Benedeck

1967

Man in a Suitcase as Willard

1967

Man in a Suitcase as Keith Earle

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

BBC Play of the Month as Charles Givens

1965

Gideon's Way as Philip Guest

1965

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as Bob Carroll

1965

The Bedford Incident as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay

1965

Fanatic as Joseph

1964

The Castle of the Living Dead as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man

1964

Hamlet at Elsinore as Fortinbras

1963

The Sentimental Agent as Hotel Clerk

1962

The Saint as John Wood

1962

The Saint as Jim McCleery

1962

Studio Four as Switchboard Operator

1961

The Avengers as Jessel

1953

The Oscars as Self

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Ethan Hawley

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
Crew

2024

Murder in a Small Town In Memory Of

2015

Pirate's Passage Producer

2015

Pirate's Passage Writer

1973

Steelyard Blues Executive Producer

1972

FTA Writer

1972

FTA Producer