Donald Sutherland
169 movies · 34 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 17, 1935
- Died
- Jun 20, 2024 (age 88)
- Place of birth
- Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
- Also known as
- Don Sutherland · Donald McNicol Sutherland, OC
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).
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He was the father of actors Kiefer Sutherland, Rossif Sutherland, and Angus Sutherland.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.2 The Hunger Games
2012 · Film
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★ 7.4 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 · Film
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★ 6.8 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 · Film
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★ 6.9 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · Film
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★ 8.0 The Simpsons
1989 · TV
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★ 8.1 Pride & Prejudice
2005 · Film
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★ 6.1 Ad Astra
2019 · Film
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★ 6.6 Horrible Bosses
2011 · Film
Donald Sutherland: movies and TV shows
Acting (202)
- 2024 OZI: Voice of the Forest
as Mr. Smiley (voice)
- 2023
- 2023 Miranda's Victim
as Judge Wren
- 2022 Mr. Harrigan's Phone
as Mr. Harrigan
- 2022
- 2022 Moonfall
as Holdenfield
- 2020
- 2020 Alone
as Edward
- 2020 The Burnt Orange Heresy
as Jerome Debney
- 2019 Ad Astra
as Thomas Pruitt
- 2019 The Physics of Sorrow
as (voice)
- 2019 Backdraft 2
as Ronald Bartel
- 2019 American Hangman
as Judge Straight
- 2018 Measure of a Man
as Dr. Kahn
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018 The Leisure Seeker
as John Spencer
- 2017 Basmati Blues
as Gurgon
- 2016
- 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
- 2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as President Coriolanus Snow
- 2013
- 2013 Jappeloup
as John Lester
- 2013 The Best Offer
as Billy Whistler
- 2012 Assassin's Bullet
as Ambassador Ashdown
- 2012 Dawn Rider
as Pop
- 2012 The Hunger Games
as President Coriolanus Snow
- 2012 Treasure Island
as Flint
- 2012
- 2011 The Man on the Train
as The Professor
- 2011 Jock the Hero Dog
as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
- 2011 Horrible Bosses
as Jack Pellit
- 2011
- 2011 The Eagle
as Aquila
- 2011 The Mechanic
as Harry McKenna
- 2010 The Con Artist
as Kranski
- 2010
- 2009 Astro Boy
as President Stone (voice)
- 2009 The Eastmans
as Dr. Charles Eastman
- 2008 Stonehenge: Decoded
as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 Fool's Gold
as Nigel Honeycutt
- 2007 Puffball
as Lars
- 2007 Days of Darkness
as Donald Sutherland
- 2007
- 2007 Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
as Narrator
- 2007 Reign Over Me
as Richter Raines
- 2007 Sleepwalkers
as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
- 2006
- 2006 Beerfest
as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
- 2006 Land of the Blind
as Thorne
- 2006 Fierce People
as Ogden C. Osborne
- 2006 Ask the Dust
as Hellfrick
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005 Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Bennet
- 2005 Lord of War
as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
- 2005 American Gun
as Carl Wilk
- 2005 An American Haunting
as John Bell
- 2005 Aurora Borealis
as Ronald Shorter
- 2004
- 2004
- 2003 Cold Mountain
as Reverend Monroe
- 2003 Path to War
as Clark Clifford
- 2003 Baltic Storm
as Lou Aldryn
- 2003 The Italian Job
as John Bridger
- 2003 Five Moons Plaza
as Rosario Sarracino
- 2001 Big Shot's Funeral
as Tyler
- 2001 Uprising
as Adam Czerniaków
- 2001
- 2001 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
as Dr. Sid (voice)
- 2001
- 2001 The Big Heist
as Jimmy Burke
- 2001 The Autobiography of Malcolm X
as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 Panic
as Michael
- 2000 The Art of War
as Douglas Thomas
- 2000 Space Cowboys
as Jerry O'Neill
- 1999 The Hunley
as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
- 1999 Instinct
as Ben Hillard
- 1999 Behind the Mask
as Dr. Bob Shushan
- 1999 Virus
as Captain Robert Everton
- 1998 Free Money
as Judge Rausenberg
- 1998 Without Limits
as Bill Bowerman
- 1998 Fallen
as Lt. Stanton
- 1997 The Assignment
as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
- 1997 Shadow Conspiracy
as Jacob Conrad
- 1996 Natural Enemy
as Ted Robards
- 1996 Hollow Point
as Garrett Lawton
- 1996 A Time to Kill
as Lucien Wilbanks
- 1996 Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
as Narrator
- 1995 Outbreak
as General Donald McClintock
- 1995 Citizen X
as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
- 1994 Disclosure
as Bob Garvin
- 1994 The Puppet Masters
as Andrew Nivens
- 1994 Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
as William Marsden
- 1994
- 1994 The Lifeforce Experiment
as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
- 1993 La Classe américaine
as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1993 Six Degrees of Separation
as Flan
- 1993 Younger and Younger
as Jonathan Younger
- 1993 Bethune: The Making of a Hero
as Dr. Norman Bethune
- 1993 Red Hot
as Kirov
- 1993 Benefit of the Doubt
as Frank
- 1992 The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
- 1992 The Railway Station Man
as Roger Hawthorne
- 1992 The Setting Sun
as John Williams
- 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
- 1992 Shadow of the Wolf
as Henderson
- 1992 Quicksand: No Escape
as Murdoch
- 1991 JFK
as X
- 1991 Scream of Stone
as Ivan
- 1991 Backdraft
as Ronald Bartel
- 1991 Buster's Bedroom
as O'Connor
- 1991 Eminent Domain
as Josef Borski
- 1989
- 1989 A Dry White Season
as Ben du Toit
- 1989 Lock Up
as Warden Drumgoole
- 1989 Lost Angels
as Dr. Charles Loftis
- 1988
- 1988 Apprentice to Murder
as John Reese
- 1988 People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
as Narrator (voice)
- 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
- 1985
- 1984 Ordeal by Innocence
as Dr. Arthur Calgary
- 1984 Crackers
as Westlake
- 1983 The Winter of Our Discontent
as Ethan Hawley
- 1983 Max Dugan Returns
as Brian Costello
- 1981 A War Story
as Narrator (voice)
- 1981 Threshold
as Dr. Thomas Vrain
- 1981 Eye of the Needle
as Faber
- 1981 Gas
as Nick the Noz
- 1980 Ordinary People
as Calvin Jarrett
- 1980 Nothing Personal
as Roger Keller
- 1980 North China Factory
as Narrator (voice)
- 1979 Bear Island
as Frank Lansing
- 1979 A Man, a Woman and a Bank
as Reese Halperin
- 1979 Murder by Decree
as Robert Lees
- 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
as Matthew Bennell
- 1978 The First Great Train Robbery
as Robert Agar
- 1978 Animal House
as Dave Jennings
- 1978 Blood Relatives
as Steve Carella
- 1977 The Disappearance
as Jay Mallory
- 1977 The Kentucky Fried Movie
as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
- 1977 Bethune
as Dr. Norman Bethune
- 1976 The Eagle Has Landed
as Liam Devlin
- 1976 Fellini's Casanova
as Giacomo Casanova
- 1976 1900
as Attila Mellanchini
- 1975 The Day of the Locust
as Homer Simpson
- 1975 End of the Game
as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
- 1974 S*P*Y*S
as Bruland
- 1974 Alien Thunder
as Sgt. Dan Candy
- 1974 The Awful Manners
as Man walking (uncredited)
- 1973 Don't Look Now
as John Baxter
- 1973 Lady Ice
as Andy Hammon
- 1973 Steelyard Blues
as Jesse Veldini
- 1971 Johnny Got His Gun
as Christ
- 1971 Klute
as John Klute
- 1971 Little Murders
as Rev. Dupas
- 1970 Alex in Wonderland
as Alex Morrison
- 1970 Act of the Heart
as Father Michael Ferrier
- 1970 Kelly's Heroes
as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
- 1970 M*A*S*H
as Hawkeye Pierce
- 1970 Start the Revolution Without Me
as Charles / Pierre
- 1968 The Sunshine Patriot
as Benedeck
- 1968 Joanna
as Lord Peter Sanderson
- 1968 The Split
as Dave Negli
- 1968
- 1968
- 1968 Oedipus the King
as Chorus Leader
- 1968 Interlude
as Lawrence
- 1968 Sebastian
as Ackerman
- 1967 Billion Dollar Brain
as Scientist at Computer
- 1967
- 1967 The Shuttered Room
as Zebulon (voice)
- 1967 The Dirty Dozen
as Vernon Pinkley
- 1966 Lee Oswald: Assassin
as Charles Givens
- 1966 Promise Her Anything
as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
- 1965
- 1965 The Bedford Incident
as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
- 1965 Fanatic
as Joseph
- 1965
- 1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as Bob Carroll
- 1964 The Castle of the Living Dead
as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
- 1964
- 1964 Hamlet at Elsinore
as Fortinbras
- 1963 The World Ten Times Over
as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
- 1963 For King and Country: Out There
as Canadian
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
+ 2 more credits
Behind the camera (4)
- 2024
- 2015 Pirate's Passage
Writer, Producer
- 1973 Steelyard Blues
Executive Producer
- 1972 FTA
Writer, Producer
Talk shows and appearances (48)
- 2021 JFK: Destiny Betrayed
4 episodes
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2016
- 2015
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013 The Frame
1 episode
- 2012
- 2012
- 2007
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
1 episode
- 2006
- 2006
- 2006
- 2005
- 2005
- 2003
- 2002
- 2001 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
1 episode
- 2001 History vs. Hollywood
1 episode
- 2000
- 2000 Backstory
1 episode
- 2000
- 1997 The View
1 episode
- 1997 Scene by Scene
1 episode
- 1995
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1994
- 1992 HBO First Look
1 episode
- 1990
- 1990 Romy Award
1 episode
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1 episode
- 1983
- 1982
- 1978 Ciné regards
1 episode
- 1976
- 1975
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1 episode
- 1974 Spécial cinéma
1 episode
- 1971
- 1971 Film '72
3 episodes
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show
1 episode
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1 episode
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
4 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
2 episodes
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
6 episodes