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).
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), MAS*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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Ozi: Voice of the Forest
Character:Crocodile (voice)
Release Date:07/03/2024
Miranda's Victim
Character:Judge Wren
Release Date:06/10/2023
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Character:Mr. Harrigan
Release Date:28/09/2022
Moonfall
Character:Holdenfield
Release Date:02/02/2022
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:12/11/2021
Alone
Character:Edward
Release Date:23/10/2020
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Character:Jerome Debney
Release Date:06/03/2020
Reach for the Stars
Character:Self
Release Date:17/12/2019
Ad Astra
Character:Thomas Pruitt
Release Date:17/09/2019
The Physics of Sorrow
Character:(voice)
Release Date:06/09/2019
Backdraft 2
Character:Ronald Bartel
Release Date:14/05/2019
American Hangman
Character:Judge Straight
Release Date:04/01/2019
Measure of a Man
Character:Dr. Kahn
Release Date:11/05/2018
The Leisure Seeker
Character:John Spencer
Release Date:03/01/2018
Basmati Blues
Character:Gurgon
Release Date:06/11/2017
Milton's Secret
Character:Grandpa Howard
Release Date:30/09/2016
Point and Shoot
Character:Man
Release Date:27/04/2016
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Character:President Coriolanus Snow
Release Date:18/11/2015
Forsaken
Character:Rev. Clayton
Release Date:16/09/2015
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
Character:Self
Release Date:28/06/2015
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Character:Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Release Date:06/03/2015
Pirate's Passage
Character:Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
Release Date:04/01/2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Character:President Coriolanus Snow
Release Date:19/11/2014
The Calling
Character:Father Price
Release Date:05/08/2014
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Character:Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Release Date:07/03/2014
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Character:President Coriolanus Snow
Release Date:15/11/2013
Jappeloup
Character:John Lester
Release Date:13/03/2013
The Best Offer
Character:Billy Whistler
Release Date:01/01/2013
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Character:Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Release Date:18/08/2012
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden
Character:Self
Release Date:18/08/2012
Assassin's Bullet
Character:Ambassador Ashdown
Release Date:01/08/2012
Dawn Rider
Character:Pop
Release Date:29/05/2012
The Hunger Games
Character:President Coriolanus Snow
Release Date:12/03/2012
Treasure Island
Character:Captain Flint
Release Date:01/01/2012
The Man on the Train
Character:The Professor
Release Date:28/10/2011
Jock the Hero Dog
Character:Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
Release Date:29/07/2011
Horrible Bosses
Character:Jack Pellit
Release Date:08/07/2011
The Eagle
Character:Aquila
Release Date:08/02/2011
The Mechanic
Character:Harry McKenna
Release Date:13/01/2011
The Con Artist
Character:Kranski
Release Date:25/11/2010
Astro Boy
Character:President Stone (voice)
Release Date:15/10/2009
The Eastmans
Character:Dr. Charles Eastman
Release Date:01/01/2009
Stonehenge: Decoded
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:23/10/2008
Fool's Gold
Character:Nigel Honeycutt
Release Date:07/02/2008
Puffball
Character:Lars
Release Date:28/10/2007
Days of Darkness
Character:Donald Sutherland
Release Date:26/09/2007
Trumbo
Character:Self
Release Date:10/09/2007
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
Character:Narrator
Release Date:05/04/2007
Reign Over Me
Character:Richter Raines
Release Date:22/03/2007
Sleepwalkers
Character:Businessman Struck by a Taxi
Release Date:16/01/2007
Fierce People
Character:Ogden C. Osborne
Release Date:26/10/2006
Beerfest
Character:Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
Release Date:25/08/2006
Land of the Blind
Character:Thorne
Release Date:01/05/2006
Ask the Dust
Character:Hellfrick
Release Date:02/02/2006
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2006
Fellini dice...
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2006
Operation Dirty Dozen
Character:Self (uncredited)
Release Date:01/01/2006
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Character:Self
Release Date:21/12/2005
Pride & Prejudice
Character:Mr. Bennet
Release Date:16/09/2005
Lord of War
Character:Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
Release Date:16/09/2005
American Gun
Character:Carl Wilk
Release Date:15/09/2005
Sir! No Sir!
Character:Self
Release Date:19/05/2005
An American Haunting
Character:John Bell
Release Date:05/05/2005
Aurora Borealis
Character:Ronald Shorter
Release Date:22/04/2005
Cold Mountain
Character:Reverend Monroe
Release Date:24/12/2003
Path to War
Character:Clark Clifford
Release Date:28/10/2003
Baltic Storm
Character:Lou Aldryn
Release Date:01/09/2003
The Italian Job
Character:John Bridger
Release Date:30/05/2003
Five Moons Plaza
Character:Rosario Sarracino
Release Date:09/05/2003
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Character:Self - Casanova
Release Date:02/04/2003
The Magic of Fellini
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:27/01/2002
Big Shot's Funeral
Character:Tyler
Release Date:21/12/2001
Uprising
Character:Adam Czerniaków
Release Date:04/11/2001
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Character:Dr. Sid (voice)
Release Date:02/07/2001
The Big Heist
Character:Jimmy Burke
Release Date:10/06/2001
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/04/2001
Panic
Character:Michael
Release Date:01/12/2000
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Character:Self
Release Date:27/09/2000
The Art of War
Character:Douglas Thomas
Release Date:25/08/2000
Space Cowboys
Character:Jerry O'Neill
Release Date:04/08/2000
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
Character:Self
Release Date:08/01/2000
The Hunley
Character:Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Release Date:11/07/1999
Instinct
Character:Ben Hillard
Release Date:04/06/1999
Behind the Mask
Character:Dr. Bob Shushan
Release Date:28/02/1999
Virus
Character:Captain Robert Everton
Release Date:14/01/1999
Free Money
Character:Judge Rausenberg
Release Date:03/12/1998
Without Limits
Character:Bill Bowerman
Release Date:11/09/1998
Fallen
Character:Lt. Stanton
Release Date:16/01/1998
The Assignment
Character:Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
Release Date:28/09/1997
Shadow Conspiracy
Character:Jacob Conrad
Release Date:25/01/1997
Natural Enemy
Character:Ted Robards
Release Date:31/12/1996
Hollow Point
Character:Garrett Lawton
Release Date:21/10/1996
A Time to Kill
Character:Lucien Wilbanks
Release Date:24/07/1996
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
Character:Narrator
Release Date:08/03/1996
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:16/11/1995
Outbreak
Character:General Donald McClintock
Release Date:10/03/1995
Citizen X
Character:Col. Mikhail Fetisov
Release Date:25/02/1995
Disclosure
Character:Bob Garvin
Release Date:09/12/1994
The Puppet Masters
Character:Andrew Nivens
Release Date:21/10/1994
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Character:William Marsden
Release Date:01/05/1994
The Lifeforce Experiment
Character:Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
Release Date:16/04/1994
La Classe américaine
Character:Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:31/12/1993
Six Degrees of Separation
Character:Flan
Release Date:08/12/1993
Younger and Younger
Character:Jonathan Younger
Release Date:01/10/1993
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Character:Dr. Norman Bethune
Release Date:17/09/1993
Red Hot
Character:Kirov
Release Date:23/06/1993
Benefit of the Doubt
Character:Frank
Release Date:17/06/1993
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:13/12/1992
The Railway Station Man
Character:Roger Hawthorne
Release Date:18/10/1992
The Setting Sun
Character:John Williams
Release Date:15/09/1992
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Character:Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Release Date:24/07/1992
Shadow of the Wolf
Character:Henderson
Release Date:05/03/1992
Quicksand: No Escape
Character:Murdoch
Release Date:04/03/1992
JFK
Character:X
Release Date:20/12/1991
Scream of Stone
Character:Ivan
Release Date:03/10/1991
Backdraft
Character:Ronald Bartel
Release Date:24/05/1991
Buster's Bedroom
Character:O'Connor
Release Date:09/05/1991
Eminent Domain
Character:Josef Borski
Release Date:12/04/1991
Kate Bush: Sensual World
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/04/1990
A Dry White Season
Character:Ben du Toit
Release Date:20/09/1989
Lock Up
Character:Warden Drumgoole
Release Date:04/08/1989
Lost Angels
Character:Dr. Charles Loftis
Release Date:05/05/1989
Apprentice to Murder
Character:John Reese
Release Date:26/02/1988
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1988
The Trouble with Spies
Character:Appleton Porter
Release Date:04/12/1987
The Rosary Murders
Character:Father Robert Koesler
Release Date:28/08/1987
The Wolf at the Door
Character:Paul Gauguin
Release Date:05/09/1986
Revolution
Character:Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Release Date:25/12/1985
Heaven Help Us
Character:Brother Thadeus
Release Date:08/02/1985
Ordeal by Innocence
Character:Dr. Arthur Calgary
Release Date:22/06/1984
Crackers
Character:Westlake
Release Date:17/02/1984
The Winter of Our Discontent
Character:Ethan Hawley
Release Date:06/12/1983
Max Dugan Returns
Character:Brian Costello
Release Date:25/03/1983
Fellini nel cestino
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1983
Night of 100 Stars
Character:Self
Release Date:08/03/1982
A War Story
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:08/11/1981
Threshold
Character:Dr. Thomas Vrain
Release Date:19/09/1981
Eye of the Needle
Character:Faber
Release Date:24/07/1981
Gas
Character:Nick the Noz
Release Date:24/07/1981
Ordinary People
Character:Calvin Jarrett
Release Date:19/09/1980
Nothing Personal
Character:Roger Keller
Release Date:28/03/1980
North China Factory
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1980
Bear Island
Character:Frank Lansing
Release Date:05/12/1979
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
Character:Reese Halperin
Release Date:28/09/1979
Murder by Decree
Character:Robert Lees
Release Date:01/02/1979
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Character:Matthew Bennell
Release Date:20/12/1978
The First Great Train Robbery
Character:Robert Agar
Release Date:14/12/1978
Animal House
Character:Dave Jennings
Release Date:28/07/1978
End of the Game
Character:Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
Release Date:05/05/1978
Blood Relatives
Character:Carella
Release Date:01/02/1978
The Disappearance
Character:Jay Mallory
Release Date:30/11/1977
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Character:The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
Release Date:10/08/1977
Bethune
Character:Dr. Norman Bethune
Release Date:01/01/1977
The Eagle Has Landed
Character:Liam Devlin
Release Date:24/12/1976
Fellini's Casanova
Character:Giacomo Casanova
Release Date:10/12/1976
1900
Character:Attila Mellanchini
Release Date:28/08/1976
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Character:Self
Release Date:28/02/1976
Abicinema
Character:Self
Release Date:09/08/1975
The Day of the Locust
Character:Homer Simpson
Release Date:07/05/1975
S*P*Y*S
Character:Bruland
Release Date:05/09/1974
Alien Thunder
Character:Sgt. Dan Candy
Release Date:22/02/1974
The Awful Manners
Character:Man walking (uncredited)
Release Date:13/02/1974
Don't Look Now
Character:John Baxter
Release Date:11/10/1973
Lady Ice
Character:Andy Hammon
Release Date:13/07/1973
Steelyard Blues
Character:Jesse Veldini
Release Date:31/01/1973
FTA
Character:Self
Release Date:21/07/1972
'Klute' in New York
Character:Self
Release Date:31/12/1971
Johnny Got His Gun
Character:Christ
Release Date:04/08/1971
Klute
Character:John Klute
Release Date:23/06/1971
Little Murders
Character:Rev. Dupas
Release Date:09/02/1971
Alex in Wonderland
Character:Alex Morrison
Release Date:22/12/1970
Act of the Heart
Character:Father Michael Ferrier
Release Date:24/09/1970
Kelly's Heroes
Character:Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
Release Date:22/06/1970
M*A*S*H
Character:Hawkeye Pierce
Release Date:18/02/1970
Start the Revolution Without Me
Character:Charles / Pierre
Release Date:04/02/1970
The Sunshine Patriot
Character:Benedeck
Release Date:16/12/1968
Joanna
Character:Lord Peter Sanderson
Release Date:24/11/1968
The Split
Character:Dave Negli
Release Date:04/11/1968
Oedipus the King
Character:Chorus Leader
Release Date:01/06/1968
Interlude
Character:Lawrence
Release Date:01/05/1968
Sebastian
Character:Ackerman
Release Date:24/01/1968
Billion Dollar Brain
Character:Scientist at Computer
Release Date:16/11/1967
The Shuttered Room
Character:Zebulon (voice)
Release Date:27/06/1967
The Dirty Dozen
Character:Vernon Pinkley
Release Date:15/06/1967
Promise Her Anything
Character:Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
Release Date:22/02/1966
The Bedford Incident
Character:Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
Release Date:11/10/1965
Fanatic
Character:Joseph
Release Date:21/03/1965
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Character:Bob Carroll
Release Date:23/02/1965
The Castle of the Living Dead
Character:Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
Release Date:05/08/1964
Hamlet at Elsinore
Character:Fortinbras
Release Date:15/04/1964
The World Ten Times Over
Character:Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
Release Date:31/10/1963
For King and Country: Out There
Character:Canadian
Release Date:06/08/1963
Television Appearances
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Character:Judge Isaac Parker
Swimming with Sharks
Character:Redmond
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
The Undoing
Character:Franklin Reinhart
Trust
Character:J. Paul Getty Sr.
Ice
Character:Pieter Van De Bruin
Crossing Lines
Character:Michael Dorn
The Frame
Character:President Coriolanus Snow
Treasure Island
Character:Captain Flint
Moby Dick
Character:Father Mapple
The Pillars of the Earth
Character:Earl Bartholomew
Dirty Sexy Money
Character:Patrick "Tripp" Darling III
The Graham Norton Show
Character:Self
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Character:Narrator (voice)
Human Trafficking
Character:Agent Bill Meehan
Commander in Chief
Character:Nathan Templeton
Frankenstein
Character:Captain Walton
Salem's Lot
Character:Richard Straker
Uprising
Character:Adam Czerniaków
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Character:Self - Guest
Queen Victoria's Empire
Character:Narrator (voice)
History vs. Hollywood
Character:Self
Backstory
Character:Self
The View
Character:Self
Scene by Scene
Character:Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Character:Self
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Character:William Marsden
HBO First Look
Character:Self
Romy Award
Character:Self
The Simpsons
Character:Hollis Hurlbut (voice)
American Experience
Character:Narrator (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Character:Self - Guest
Friday People
Character:
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character:Self
Spécial cinéma
Character:Self
The Champions
Character:David Crayley
The Name of the Game
Character:Jerry Trevor
The Dick Cavett Show
Character:Self - Guest
Man in a Suitcase
Character:Willard
Man in a Suitcase
Character:Keith Earle
BBC Play of the Month
Character:Charles Givens
Gideon's Way
Character:Philip Guest
Theatre 625
Character:Priest
Theatre 625
Character:Union Captain
The Saint
Character:John Wood
The Saint
Character:Jim McCleery
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character:Self
Man of the World
Character:Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)
Studio 4
Character:Switchboard Operator
The Mike Douglas Show
Character:Self
The Avengers
Character:Jessel
The Oscars
Character:Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Ethan Hawley
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Presenter
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