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

Self - President Coriolanus Snow

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

Self - President Coriolanus Snow

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

John Baxter

Don't Look Now

John Klute

Klute

Dr. Sid (voice)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Hawkeye Pierce

M*A*S*H

John Bell

An American Haunting

Lucien Wilbanks

A Time to Kill

Vernon Pinkley

The Dirty Dozen

Merrick Jamison-Smythe

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

X

JFK

Reverend Monroe

Cold Mountain

Brian Costello

Max Dugan Returns

Richter Raines

Reign Over Me

Hellfrick

Ask the Dust

Attila Mellanchini

Novecento

Ronald Bartel

Backdraft

Mr. Bennet

Pride & Prejudice

Faber

Eye of the Needle

Rosario Sarracino

Piazza delle cinque lune

Scientist at Computer

Billion Dollar Brain

Mr. Harrigan

Mr. Harrigan's Phone

Michael

Panic

Jerry O'Neill

Space Cowboys

Homer Simpson

The Day of the Locust

Adam Czerniaków

Uprising

Liam Devlin

The Eagle Has Landed

Clark Clifford

Path to War

Judge Rausenberg

Free Money

Douglas Thomas

The Art of War

Bill Bowerman

Without Limits

Robert Agar

The First Great Train Robbery

Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)

Kelly's Heroes

Flan

Six Degrees of Separation

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

The Kentucky Fried Movie

General Donald McClintock

Outbreak

Matthew Bennell

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Dave Negli

The Split

Dave Jennings

Animal House

Self

Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'

Nigel Honeycutt

Fool's Gold

Ben Hillard

Instinct

Ben du Toit

A Dry White Season

Bob Garvin

Disclosure

Lt. Stanton

Fallen

Andrew Nivens

The Puppet Masters

Captain Robert Everton

Virus

Ted Robards

Natural Enemy

Col. Mikhail Fetisov

Citizen X

Lars

Puffball

Alex Morrison

Alex in Wonderland

Rev. Dupas

Little Murders

Warden Drumgoole

Lock Up

Sgt. Maj. Peasy

Revolution

Harry McKenna

The Mechanic

John Bridger

The Italian Job

Bob Carroll

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Robert Lees

Murder by Decree

Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)

Beerfest

Ronald Shorter

Aurora Borealis

Bruland

S*P*Y*S

Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man

Il castello dei morti vivi

Brother Thadeus

Heaven Help Us

Frank

Benefit of the Doubt

Giacomo Casanova

Il Casanova di Federico Fellini

Joseph

Fanatic

Kranski

The Con Artist

Carl Wilk

American Gun

Dr. Charles Loftis

Lost Angels

Jacob Conrad

Shadow Conspiracy

Christ

Johnny Got His Gun

Frank Lansing

Bear Island

President Stone (voice)

Astro Boy

Calvin Jarrett

Ordinary People

Self

Sir! No Sir!

Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard

The Hunley

Henderson

Shadow of the Wolf

Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay

The Bedford Incident

Carella

Les liens de sang

Aquila

The Eagle

Jack Shaw / Henry Fields

The Assignment

Jimmy Burke

The Big Heist

The Professor

The Man on the Train

Crocodile (voice)

Ozi: Voice of the Forest

Jack Pellit

Horrible Bosses

Ogden C. Osborne

Fierce People

President Coriolanus Snow

The Hunger Games

Charles / Pierre

Start the Revolution Without Me

Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)

Jock the Hero Dog

Narrator

Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia

Reese Halperin

A Man, a Woman and a Bank

Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)

Der Richter und sein Henker

Jesse Veldini

Steelyard Blues

Garrett Lawton

Hollow Point

Lord Peter Sanderson

Joanna

Tyler

大腕

Westlake

Crackers

President Coriolanus Snow

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Ivan

Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein

John Reese

Apprentice to Murder

Pop

Dawn Rider

Dr. Arthur Calgary

Ordeal by Innocence

Father Robert Koesler

The Rosary Murders

Billy Whistler

La migliore offerta

Self

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

Self (archive footage)

Kate Bush: Sensual World

Ambassador Ashdown

Assassin's Bullet

Appleton Porter

The Trouble with Spies

Father Michael Ferrier

Act of the Heart

Self

Fellini nel cestino

Jay Mallory

The Disappearance

Murdoch

Quicksand: No Escape

Paul Gauguin

Oviri

John Lester

Jappeloup

Self - Casanova

Fellini: Je suis un grand menteur

Dr. 'Mac' MacLean

The Lifeforce Experiment

O'Connor

Buster's Bedroom

Benedeck

The Sunshine Patriot

Judge Wren

Miranda's Victim

Lawrence

Interlude

Dr. Thomas Vrain

Threshold

Roger Keller

Nothing Personal

Fortinbras

Hamlet at Elsinore

William Marsden

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Ackerman

Sebastian

Gurgon

Basmati Blues

Father Price

The Calling

Thorne

Land of the Blind

Jonathan Younger

Younger and Younger

Lou Aldryn

Baltic Storm

Josef Borski

Eminent Domain

President Coriolanus Snow

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

Dr. Norman Bethune

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

Andy Hammon

Lady Ice

Self

Reach for the Stars

Captain Charles Johnson (voice)

Pirate's Passage

Kirov

Red Hot

Self

Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'

President Coriolanus Snow

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

Self

Trumbo

Self

FTA

Self (archive footage)

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

Self

The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden

Self

Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...

Sgt. Dan Candy

Alien Thunder

Rev. Clayton

Forsaken

Ethan Hawley

The Winter of Our Discontent

Self

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Businessman Struck by a Taxi

Sleepwalkers

Dr. Bob Shushan

Behind the Mask

Self

Fellini dice...

Dr. Kahn

Measure of a Man

Grandpa Howard

Milton's Secret

Man

Point and Shoot

Narrator (voice)

A War Story

Narrator (voice)

North China Factory

Dr. Norman Bethune

Bethune

Dr. Charles Eastman

The Eastmans

John Spencer

The Leisure Seeker

Chorus Leader

Oedipus the King

Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)

Promise Her Anything

Donald Sutherland

L'âge des ténèbres

Roger Hawthorne

The Railway Station Man

Nick the Noz

Gas

John Williams

落陽

Jerome Debney

The Burnt Orange Heresy

Self

Bertolucci secondo il cinema

Narrator (voice)

The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas

Judge Straight

American Hangman

Self (uncredited)

Operation Dirty Dozen

Ronald Bartel

Backdraft 2

Narrator (voice)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Self

'Klute' in New York

Self - President Coriolanus Snow

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Narrator (voice)

People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe

Edward

Alone

Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)

La Classe américaine

Thomas Pruitt

Ad Astra

Narrator (voice)

Stonehenge: Decoded

Narrator (voice)

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

Self (archive footage)

The Magic of Fellini

(voice)

Physique de la tristesse

Holdenfield

Moonfall

Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)

Lord of War

Self

Abicinema

Self - Narrator (voice)

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

Self

Night of 100 Stars

Zebulon (voice)

The Shuttered Room

Narrator

Hearst Castle: Building the Dream

Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)

The World Ten Times Over

Canadian

For King and Country: Out There

Man walking (uncredited)

Les Vilaines manières

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

192

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-07-17

Place of Birth

Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Also Known As

Don Sutherland