Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland

  • Birthday: 1935-07-17
  • Place of birth: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
  • Also know as: Don Sutherland

Biography

Donald McNichol Sutherland (born July 17, 1935) is a Canadian actor whose film career spans over 6 decades. He has been 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 is the father of actors Kiefer Sutherland, Rossif Sutherland, and Angus Sutherland.

Filmography

Klute

1971

As John Klute

M*A*S*H

1970

As Hawkeye Pierce

JFK

1991

As X

Don't Look Now

1973

As John Baxter

An American Haunting

2005

As John Bell

A Time to Kill

1996

As Lucien Wilbanks

The Dirty Dozen

1967

As Vernon Pinkley

Max Dugan Returns

1983

As Brian Costello

Ask the Dust

2006

As Hellfrick

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

2001

As Dr. Cid (voice)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

1992

As Merrick Jamison-Smythe

Cold Mountain

2003

As Reverend Monroe

Reign Over Me

2007

As Richter Raines

Backdraft

1991

As Ronald Bartel

1900

1976

As Attila Mellanchini

Pride & Prejudice

2005

As Mr. Bennet

Eye of the Needle

1981

As Faber

Five Moons Plaza

2003

As Rosario Sarracino

Billion Dollar Brain

1967

As Scientist at Computer

Panic

2000

As Michael

The Day of the Locust

1975

As Homer Simpson

Space Cowboys

2000

As Jerry O`Neill

The Eagle Has Landed

1976

As Liam Devlin

Free Money

1998

As Judge Rausenberg

The Art of War

2000

As Douglas Thomas

Without Limits

1998

As Bill Bowerman

Path to War

2003

As Clark Clifford

The First Great Train Robbery

1978

As Robert Agar

Kelly's Heroes

1970

As Sgt. Oddball (tank commander)

Outbreak

1995

As General Donald McClintock

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1978

As Matthew Bennell

The Split

1968

As Dave Negli

Animal House

1978

As Dave Jennings

Fool's Gold

2008

As Nigel Honeycutt

A Dry White Season

1989

As Ben du Toit

Instinct

1999

As Ben Hillard

Disclosure

1994

As Bob Garvin

The Puppet Masters

1994

As Andrew Nivens

Natural Enemy

1996

As Ted Robards

Alex in Wonderland

1970

As Alex Morrison

Fallen

1998

As Lt. Stanton

Virus

1999

As Captain Robert Everton

Citizen X

1995

As Col. Mikhail Fetisov

Revolution

1985

As Sgt. Maj. Peasy

The Italian Job

2003

As John Bridger

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

1965

As Bob Carroll

Puffball

2007

As Lars

Little Murders

1971

As Rev. Dupas

Lock Up

1989

As Warden Drumgoole

The Mechanic

2011

As Harry McKenna

Murder by Decree

1979

As Robert Lees

Aurora Borealis

2005

As Ronald Shorter

The Castle of the Living Dead

1964

As Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man

S*P*Y*S

1974

As Bruland

Heaven Help Us

1985

As Brother Thadeus

Benefit of the Doubt

1993

As Frank

Fellini's Casanova

1976

As Giacomo Casanova

Fanatic

1965

As Joseph

The Con Artist

2010

As Kranski

American Gun

2005

As Carl Wilk

Lost Angels

1989

As Dr. Charles Loftis

Shadow Conspiracy

1997

As Jacob Conrad

Johnny Got His Gun

1971

As Christ

Bear Island

1979

As Frank Lansing

Astro Boy

2009

As General Stone (voice)

Ordinary People

1980

As Calvin Jarrett

The Hunley

1999

As Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard

Sir! No Sir!

2005

As Self

The Bedford Incident

1965

As Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay

Blood Relatives

1978

As Carella

The Assignment

1997

As Jack Shaw / Henry Fields

Shadow of the Wolf

1992

As Henderson

The Eagle

2011

As Aquila

The Big Heist

2001

As Jimmy Burke

Man on the Train

2011

As The Professor

Fierce People

2007

As Ogden C. Osborne

The Hunger Games

2012

As President Coriolanus Snow

Start the Revolution Without Me

1970

As Charles / Pierre

Horrible Bosses

2011

As Jack Pellit

Jock the Hero Dog

2011

As Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)

A Man, a Woman and a Bank

1979

As Reese Halperin

End of the Game

1975

As Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)

Steelyard Blues

1973

As Jesse Veldini

Hollow Point

1996

As Garrett Lawton

Joanna

1968

As Lord Peter Sanderson

Big Shot's Funeral

2001

As Tyler

Crackers

1984

As Westlake

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2013

As President Coriolanus Snow

Scream of Stone

1991

As Ivan

Apprentice to Murder

1988

As John Reese

Ordeal by Innocence

1984

As Dr. Arthur Calgary

Dawn Rider

2012

As Pop

The Rosary Murders

1987

As Father Robert Koesler

The Best Offer

2013

As Billy

Assassin's Bullet

2012

As Ambassador Ashdown

The Trouble with Spies

1987

As Appleton Porter

Act of the Heart

1970

As Father Michael Ferrier

Fellini nel cestino

1983

As Self

The Disappearance

1977

As Jay Mallory

Quicksand: No Escape

1992

As Murdoch

The Wolf at the Door

1986

As Paul Gauguin

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

2003

As Self - Casanova

The Lifeforce Experiment

1994

As Dr. 'Mac' MacLean

Jappeloup

2013

As John Lester

Buster's Bedroom

1991

As O'Connor

Interlude

1968

As Lawrence

Threshold

1981

As Dr. Thomas Vrain

Nothing Personal

1980

As Roger Keller

Hamlet at Elsinore

1964

As Fortinbras

Lady Ice

1973

As Andy Hammon

Sebastian

1968

As Ackerman

Basmati Blues

2017

As Gurgon

Land of the Blind

2006

As Thorne

The Calling

2014

As Father Price

Younger and Younger

1993

As Jonathan Younger

Baltic Storm

2003

As Lou Aldryn

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

1993

As Dr. Norman Bethune

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

2014

As President Coriolanus Snow

Pirate's Passage

2015

As Captain Charles Johnson (voice)

Red Hot

1993

As Kirov

Eminent Domain

1991

As Josef Borski

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

2015

As President Coriolanus Snow

FTA

1972

As Self

Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia

2007

As Narrator (voice)

Trumbo

2007

As Self

Alien Thunder

1974

As Sgt. Dan Candy

Forsaken

2015

As Rev. Clayton

The Winter of Our Discontent

1983

As Ethan Hawley

Sleepwalkers

2007

As Businessman struck by a taxi

Behind the Mask

1999

As Dr. Bob Shushan

The Kentucky Fried Movie

1977

As The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")

Milton's Secret

2016

As Grandpa Howard

Measure of a Man

2018

As Dr. Kahn

Point and Shoot

2016

As Man

A War Story

1981

As Narrator (voice)

North China Factory

1980

As Narrator (voice)

Uprising

2001

As Adam Czerniaków

Bethune

1977

As Norman Bethune

The Leisure Seeker

2018

As John Spencer

The Eastmans

2009

As Dr. Charles Eastman

The Railway Station Man

1992

As Roger Hawthorne

Oedipus the King

1968

As Chorus Leader

Promise Her Anything

1966

As Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)

Days of Darkness

2007

As Donald Sutherland

Gas

1981

As Nick the Noz

The Setting Sun

1992

As John Williams

The Burnt Orange Heresy

2020

As Jerome Debney

American Hangman

2019

As Judge Straight

Operation Dirty Dozen

2006

As Self (uncredited)

Backdraft 2

2019

As Ronald Bartel

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

2001

As Narrator (voice)

'Klute' in New York

1971

As Self

Alone

2020

As Edward

Ad Astra

2019

As Thomas Pruitt

La Classe américaine

1993

As Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)

Stonehenge: Decoded

2008

As Narrator (voice)

The Mighty River

1993

As Narrator (English Version) (voice)

The Magic of Fellini

2002

As Self (archive footage)

The Physics of Sorrow

2019

As (additional voice)

Moonfall

2022

As Holdenfield

Lord of War

2005

As Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)

A Reindeer's Journey

2018

As Narrator (English Version) (voice)

Abicinema

1975

As Self

Terror in the Aisles

1984

As Matthew Bennell (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cloudbusting

1985

As William Reich

Night of 100 Stars

1982

As Self

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

2012

As Self (President Coriolanus Snow)

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2014

As Self (President Coriolanus Snow)

Mr. Harrigan's Phone

2022

As Mr. Harrigan

The Spiral

1976

As Narrator (English version) (voice)

The Sunshine Patriot

1968

As Benedeck

Miranda's Victim

2023

As Judge Wren

Beerfest

2006

As Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)

Ozi: Voice of the Forest

2024

As Albino Crocodile (voice)

For the Love of Spock

2016

As Matthew Bennell (archive footage)

Kate Bush: Sensual World

1990

As Self (archive footage)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

2023

As Coriolanus Snow (voice) (uncredited)

Reach For The Stars

2019

As Self

Roger Moore: A Matter Of Class

1995

As Self (archive footage)

Production

Pirate's Passage

2015

As Writer

Pirate's Passage

2015

As Producer

FTA

1972

As Producer

Steelyard Blues

1973

As Executive Producer

FTA

1972

As Writer

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