07/17/1935
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). He was the father of actors Kiefer Sutherland, Rossif Sutherland, and Angus Sutherland.
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OZI: Voice of the Forest (2024) as Mr. Smiley |
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Miranda's Victim (2023) as Judge Wren |
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Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022) as Mr. Harrigan |
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Moonfall (2022) as Holdenfield |
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021) as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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Alone (2020) as Edward |
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Citizen Jane, l'Amérique selon Fonda (2020) as |
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The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020) as Jerome Debney |
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Reach for the Stars (2019) as Self |
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Ad Astra (2019) as Thomas Pruitt |
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Physique de la tristesse (2019) as (voice) |
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Backdraft 2 (2019) as Ronald Bartel |
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American Hangman (2019) as Judge Straight |
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Measure of a Man (2018) as Dr. Kahn |
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The Leisure Seeker (2018) as John Spencer |
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Basmati Blues (2017) as Gurgon |
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Milton's Secret (2016) as Grandpa Howard |
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Point and Shoot (2016) as Man |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) as President Coriolanus Snow |
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Forsaken (2015) as Rev. Clayton |
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Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... (2015) as Self |
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The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2015) as Self - President Coriolanus Snow |
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Pirate's Passage (2015) as Captain Charles Johnson (voice) |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) as President Coriolanus Snow |
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The Calling (2014) as Father Price |
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Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2014) as Self - President Coriolanus Snow |
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) as President Coriolanus Snow |
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Jappeloup (2013) as John Lester |
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La migliore offerta (2013) as Billy Whistler |
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The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden (2012) as Self |
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The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games (2012) as Self - President Coriolanus Snow |
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Assassin's Bullet (2012) as Ambassador Ashdown |
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Dawn Rider (2012) as Pop |
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The Hunger Games (2012) as President Coriolanus Snow |
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The Man on the Train (2011) as The Professor |
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Jock the Hero Dog (2011) as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice) |
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Horrible Bosses (2011) as Jack Pellit |
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The Eagle (2011) as Aquila |
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The Mechanic (2011) as Harry McKenna |
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The Con Artist (2010) as Kranski |
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Astro Boy (2009) as President Stone (voice) |
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The Eastmans (2009) as Dr. Charles Eastman |
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Stonehenge: Decoded (2008) as Narrator (voice) |
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Fool's Gold (2008) as Nigel Honeycutt |
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Puffball (2007) as Lars |
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L'âge des ténèbres (2007) as Donald Sutherland |
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Trumbo (2007) as Self |
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Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia (2007) as Narrator |
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Reign Over Me (2007) as Richter Raines |
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Sleepwalkers (2007) as Businessman Struck by a Taxi |
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Fierce People (2006) as Ogden C. Osborne |
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Beerfest (2006) as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited) |
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Land of the Blind (2006) as Thorne |
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Ask the Dust (2006) as Hellfrick |
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Fellini dice... (2006) as Self |
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Operation Dirty Dozen (2006) as Self (uncredited) |
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Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' (2006) as Self |
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Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005) as Self |
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Pride & Prejudice (2005) as Mr. Bennet |
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Lord of War (2005) as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice) |
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American Gun (2005) as Carl Wilk |
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Sir! No Sir! (2005) as Self |
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An American Haunting (2005) as John Bell |
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Aurora Borealis (2005) as Ronald Shorter |
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Cold Mountain (2003) as Reverend Monroe |
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Path to War (2003) as Clark Clifford |
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Baltic Storm (2003) as Lou Aldryn |
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The Italian Job (2003) as John Bridger |
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Piazza delle cinque lune (2003) as Rosario Sarracino |
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Fellini: Je suis un grand menteur (2003) as Self - Casanova |
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The Magic of Fellini (2002) as Self (archive footage) |
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大腕 (2001) as Tyler |
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Uprising (2001) as Adam Czerniaków |
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) as Dr. Sid (voice) |
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The Big Heist (2001) as Jimmy Burke |
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2001) as Narrator (voice) |
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Panic (2000) as Michael |
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000) as Self |
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The Art of War (2000) as Douglas Thomas |
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Space Cowboys (2000) as Jerry O'Neill |
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Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' (2000) as Self |
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The Hunley (1999) as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard |
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Instinct (1999) as Ben Hillard |
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Behind the Mask (1999) as Dr. Bob Shushan |
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Virus (1999) as Captain Robert Everton |
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Free Money (1998) as Judge Rausenberg |
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Without Limits (1998) as Bill Bowerman |
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Fallen (1998) as Lt. Stanton |
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The Assignment (1997) as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields |
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Shadow Conspiracy (1997) as Jacob Conrad |
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Natural Enemy (1996) as Ted Robards |
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Hollow Point (1996) as Garrett Lawton |
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A Time to Kill (1996) as Lucien Wilbanks |
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Hearst Castle: Building the Dream (1996) as Narrator |
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Roger Moore: A Matter of Class (1995) as Self (archive footage) |
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Outbreak (1995) as General Donald McClintock |
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Citizen X (1995) as Col. Mikhail Fetisov |
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Disclosure (1994) as Bob Garvin |
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The Puppet Masters (1994) as Andrew Nivens |
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994) as William Marsden |
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The Lifeforce Experiment (1994) as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean |
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La Classe américaine (1993) as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Six Degrees of Separation (1993) as Flan |
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Younger and Younger (1993) as Jonathan Younger |
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Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1993) as Dr. Norman Bethune |
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Red Hot (1993) as Kirov |
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Benefit of the Doubt (1993) as Frank |
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The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas (1992) as Narrator (voice) |
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The Railway Station Man (1992) as Roger Hawthorne |
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落陽 (1992) as John Williams |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) as Merrick Jamison-Smythe |
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Shadow of the Wolf (1992) as Henderson |
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Quicksand: No Escape (1992) as Murdoch |
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JFK (1991) as X |
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Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein (1991) as Ivan |
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Backdraft (1991) as Ronald Bartel |
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Buster's Bedroom (1991) as O'Connor |
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Eminent Domain (1991) as Josef Borski |
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Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video (1990) as Self (archive footage) |
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A Dry White Season (1989) as Ben du Toit |
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Lock Up (1989) as Warden Drumgoole |
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Lost Angels (1989) as Dr. Charles Loftis |
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Apprentice to Murder (1988) as John Reese |
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People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe (1988) as Narrator (voice) |
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The Trouble with Spies (1987) as Appleton Porter |
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The Rosary Murders (1987) as Father Robert Koesler |
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Oviri (1986) as Paul Gauguin |
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Revolution (1985) as Sgt. Maj. Peasy |
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Heaven Help Us (1985) as Brother Thadeus |
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Ordeal by Innocence (1984) as Dr. Arthur Calgary |
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Crackers (1984) as Westlake |
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The Winter of Our Discontent (1983) as Ethan Hawley |
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Max Dugan Returns (1983) as Brian Costello |
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Fellini nel cestino (1983) as Self |
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Night of 100 Stars (1982) as Self |
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A War Story (1981) as Narrator (voice) |
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Threshold (1981) as Dr. Thomas Vrain |
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Eye of the Needle (1981) as Faber |
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Gas (1981) as Nick the Noz |
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Ordinary People (1980) as Calvin Jarrett |
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Nothing Personal (1980) as Roger Keller |
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North China Factory (1980) as Narrator (voice) |
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Bear Island (1979) as Frank Lansing |
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A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979) as Reese Halperin |
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Murder by Decree (1979) as Robert Lees |
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) as Matthew Bennell |
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The First Great Train Robbery (1978) as Robert Agar |
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Animal House (1978) as Dave Jennings |
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Der Richter und sein Henker (1978) as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited) |
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Les liens de sang (1978) as Carella |
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The Disappearance (1977) as Jay Mallory |
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The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon") |
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Bethune (1977) as Dr. Norman Bethune |
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The Eagle Has Landed (1976) as Liam Devlin |
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Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976) as Giacomo Casanova |
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Novecento (1976) as Attila Mellanchini |
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Bertolucci secondo il cinema (1976) as Self |
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Abicinema (1975) as Self |
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The Day of the Locust (1975) as Homer Simpson |
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S*P*Y*S (1974) as Bruland |
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Alien Thunder (1974) as Sgt. Dan Candy |
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Les Vilaines manières (1974) as Man walking (uncredited) |
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Don't Look Now (1973) as John Baxter |
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Lady Ice (1973) as Andy Hammon |
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Steelyard Blues (1973) as Jesse Veldini |
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FTA (1972) as Self |
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'Klute' in New York (1971) as Self |
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Johnny Got His Gun (1971) as Christ |
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Klute (1971) as John Klute |
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Little Murders (1971) as Rev. Dupas |
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Alex in Wonderland (1970) as Alex Morrison |
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Act of the Heart (1970) as Father Michael Ferrier |
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Kelly's Heroes (1970) as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander) |
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M*A*S*H (1970) as Hawkeye Pierce |
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Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) as Charles / Pierre |
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The Sunshine Patriot (1968) as Benedeck |
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Joanna (1968) as Lord Peter Sanderson |
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The Split (1968) as Dave Negli |
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Oedipus the King (1968) as Chorus Leader |
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Interlude (1968) as Lawrence |
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Sebastian (1968) as Ackerman |
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Billion Dollar Brain (1967) as Scientist at Computer |
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The Shuttered Room (1967) as Zebulon (voice) |
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The Dirty Dozen (1967) as Vernon Pinkley |
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Promise Her Anything (1966) as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited) |
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The Bedford Incident (1965) as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay |
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Fanatic (1965) as Joseph |
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) as Bob Carroll |
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Il castello dei morti vivi (1964) as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man |
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Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) as Fortinbras |
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The World Ten Times Over (1963) as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited) |
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For King and Country: Out There (1963) as Canadian |
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Pirate's Passage (2015) Writer |
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Pirate's Passage (2015) Producer |
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Steelyard Blues (1973) Executive Producer |
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FTA (1972) Producer |
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FTA (1972) Writer |