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

The Simpsons

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Graham Norton Show

The Mike Douglas Show

The View

Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Awards

American Experience

All Movies (194)

• OZI: Voice of the Forest2024 · as Mr. Smiley
• Miranda's Victim2023 · as Judge Wren
• Mr. Harrigan's Phone2022 · as Mr. Harrigan
• Moonfall2022 · as Holdenfield
• JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass2021 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Alone2020 · as Edward
• Citizen Jane Fonda2020
• The Burnt Orange Heresy2020 · as Jerome Debney
• Reach for the Stars2019 · as Self
• Ad Astra2019 · as Thomas Pruitt
• The Physics of Sorrow2019 · as (voice)
• Backdraft 22019 · as Ronald Bartel
• American Hangman2019 · as Judge Straight
• Measure of a Man2018 · as Dr. Kahn
• The Leisure Seeker2018 · as John Spencer
• Basmati Blues2017 · as Gurgon
• Milton's Secret2016 · as Grandpa Howard
• Point and Shoot2016 · as Man
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 22015 · as President Coriolanus Snow
• Forsaken2015 · as Rev. Clayton
• Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...2015 · as Self
• The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 12015 · as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
• Pirate's Passage2015 · as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 12014 · as President Coriolanus Snow
• The Calling2014 · as Father Price
• Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2014 · as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2013 · as President Coriolanus Snow
• Jappeloup2013 · as John Lester
• The Best Offer2013 · as Billy Whistler
• The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games2012 · as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
• The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden2012 · as Self
• Assassin's Bullet2012 · as Ambassador Ashdown
• Dawn Rider2012 · as Pop
• The Hunger Games2012 · as President Coriolanus Snow
• The Man on the Train2011 · as The Professor
• Hollywood Invasion2011 · as archive footage
• Jock the Hero Dog2011 · as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
• Horrible Bosses2011 · as Jack Pellit
• The Eagle2011 · as Aquila
• The Mechanic2011 · as Harry McKenna
• The Con Artist2010 · as Kranski
• Astro Boy2009 · as President Stone (voice)
• The Eastmans2009 · as Dr. Charles Eastman
• Stonehenge: Decoded2008 · as Narrator (voice)
• Fool's Gold2008 · as Nigel Honeycutt
• Puffball2007 · as Lars
• Days of Darkness2007 · as Donald Sutherland
• Trumbo2007 · as Self
• Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia2007 · as Narrator
• Reign Over Me2007 · as Richter Raines
• Sleepwalkers2007 · as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
• Fierce People2006 · as Ogden C. Osborne
• Beerfest2006 · as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
• Land of the Blind2006 · as Thorne
• Ask the Dust2006 · as Hellfrick
• Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'2006 · as Self
• Fellini dice...2006 · as Self
• Operation Dirty Dozen2006 · as Self (uncredited)
• Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That2005 · as Self
• Pride & Prejudice2005 · as Mr. Bennet
• Lord of War2005 · as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
• American Gun2005 · as Carl Wilk
• Sir! No Sir!2005 · as Self
• An American Haunting2005 · as John Bell
• Aurora Borealis2005 · as Ronald Shorter
• Cold Mountain2003 · as Reverend Monroe
• Path to War2003 · as Clark Clifford
• Baltic Storm2003 · as Lou Aldryn
• The Italian Job2003 · as John Bridger
• Five Moons Plaza2003 · as Rosario Sarracino
• Fellini: I'm a Born Liar2003 · as Self - Casanova
• The Magic of Fellini2002 · as Self (archive footage)
• Big Shot's Funeral2001 · as Tyler
• Uprising2001 · as Adam Czerniaków
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within2001 · as Dr. Sid (voice)
• The Big Heist2001 · as Jimmy Burke
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X2001 · as Narrator (voice)
• Panic2000 · as Michael
• Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows2000 · as Self
• The Art of War2000 · as Douglas Thomas
• Space Cowboys2000 · as Jerry O'Neill
• Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'2000 · as Self
• Virus: Ghost in the Machine1999 · as Self
• The Hunley1999 · as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
• Instinct1999 · as Ben Hillard
• Behind the Mask1999 · as Dr. Bob Shushan
• Virus1999 · as Captain Robert Everton
• Free Money1998 · as Judge Rausenberg
• Without Limits1998 · as Bill Bowerman
• Fallen1998 · as Lt. Stanton
• The Assignment1997 · as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
• Shadow Conspiracy1997 · as Jacob Conrad
• Natural Enemy1996 · as Ted Robards
• Hollow Point1996 · as Garrett Lawton
• A Time to Kill1996 · as Lucien Wilbanks
• Hearst Castle: Building the Dream1996 · as Narrator
• Roger Moore: A Matter of Class1995 · as Self (archive footage)
• Outbreak1995 · as General Donald McClintock
• Citizen X1995 · as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
• Disclosure1994 · as Bob Garvin
• The Puppet Masters1994 · as Andrew Nivens
• Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All1994 · as William Marsden
• The Lifeforce Experiment1994 · as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
• La Classe américaine1993 · as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Six Degrees of Separation1993 · as Flan
• Younger and Younger1993 · as Jonathan Younger
• Bethune: The Making of a Hero1993 · as Dr. Norman Bethune
• Red Hot1993 · as Kirov
• Benefit of the Doubt1993 · as Frank
• The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas1992 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Railway Station Man1992 · as Roger Hawthorne
• The Setting Sun1992 · as John Williams
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer1992 · as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
• Shadow of the Wolf1992 · as Henderson
• Quicksand: No Escape1992 · as Murdoch
• JFK1991 · as X
• Scream of Stone1991 · as Ivan
• Backdraft1991 · as Ronald Bartel
• Buster's Bedroom1991 · as O'Connor
• Eminent Domain1991 · as Josef Borski
• Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video1990 · as Self (archive footage)
• A Dry White Season1989 · as Ben du Toit
• Lock Up1989 · as Warden Drumgoole
• Lost Angels1989 · as Dr. Charles Loftis
• Apprentice to Murder1988 · as John Reese
• People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe1988 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Trouble with Spies1987 · as Appleton Porter
• The Rosary Murders1987 · as Father Robert Koesler
• The Wolf at the Door1986 · as Paul Gauguin
• Revolution1985 · as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
• Heaven Help Us1985 · as Brother Thadeus
• Ordeal by Innocence1984 · as Dr. Arthur Calgary
• Crackers1984 · as Westlake
• The Winter of Our Discontent1983 · as Ethan Hawley
• Max Dugan Returns1983 · as Brian Costello
• Fellini nel cestino1983 · as Self
• Night of 100 Stars1982 · as Self
• A War Story1981 · as Narrator (voice)
• Threshold1981 · as Dr. Thomas Vrain
• Eye of the Needle1981 · as Faber
• Gas1981 · as Nick the Noz
• Ordinary People1980 · as Calvin Jarrett
• Nothing Personal1980 · as Roger Keller
• North China Factory1980 · as Narrator (voice)
• Bear Island1979 · as Frank Lansing
• A Man, a Woman and a Bank1979 · as Reese Halperin
• Murder by Decree1979 · as Robert Lees
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers1978 · as Matthew Bennell
• The First Great Train Robbery1978 · as Robert Agar
• Animal House1978 · as Dave Jennings
• End of the Game1978 · as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
• Blood Relatives1978 · as Carella
• The Disappearance1977 · as Jay Mallory
• The Kentucky Fried Movie1977 · as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
• Bethune1977 · as Dr. Norman Bethune
• The Eagle Has Landed1976 · as Liam Devlin
• Fellini's Casanova1976 · as Giacomo Casanova
• 19001976 · as Attila Mellanchini
• The Cinema According to Bertolucci1976 · as Self
• Abicinema1975 · as Self
• The Day of the Locust1975 · as Homer Simpson
• S*P*Y*S1974 · as Bruland
• Alien Thunder1974 · as Sgt. Dan Candy
• The Awful Manners1974 · as Man walking (uncredited)
• Don't Look Now1973 · as John Baxter
• Lady Ice1973 · as Andy Hammon
• Steelyard Blues1973 · as Jesse Veldini
• FTA1972 · as Self
• 'Klute' in New York1971 · as Self
• Johnny Got His Gun1971 · as Christ
• Klute1971 · as John Klute
• Little Murders1971 · as Rev. Dupas
• Alex in Wonderland1970 · as Alex Morrison
• Act of the Heart1970 · as Father Michael Ferrier
• Kelly's Heroes1970 · as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
• M*A*S*H1970 · as Hawkeye Pierce
• Start the Revolution Without Me1970 · as Charles / Pierre
• The Sunshine Patriot1968 · as Benedeck
• Joanna1968 · as Lord Peter Sanderson
• The Split1968 · as Dave Negli
• Oedipus the King1968 · as Chorus Leader
• Interlude1968 · as Lawrence
• Sebastian1968 · as Ackerman
• Billion Dollar Brain1967 · as Scientist at Computer
• The Shuttered Room1967 · as Zebulon (voice)
• The Dirty Dozen1967 · as Vernon Pinkley
• Promise Her Anything1966 · as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
• The Bedford Incident1965 · as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
• Fanatic1965 · as Joseph
• Dr. Terror's House of Horrors1965 · as Bob Carroll
• The Castle of the Living Dead1964 · as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
• Hamlet at Elsinore1964 · as Fortinbras
• The World Ten Times Over1963 · as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
• For King and Country: Out There1963 · as Canadian

All TV Shows (57)

• Lawmen: Bass Reeves2023 · as Judge Isaac Parker
• Swimming with Sharks2022 · as Redmond
• JFK: Destiny Betrayed2021 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Undoing2020 · as Franklin Reinhart
• Trust2018 · as J. Paul Getty Sr.
• Ice2016 · as Pieter Van De Bruin
• Crossing Lines2013 · as Michael Dorn
• The Frame2013 · as President Coriolanus Snow
• Treasure Island2012 · as Captain Flint
• Moby Dick2011 · as Father Mapple
• The Pillars of the Earth2010 · as Earl Bartholomew
• Dirty Sexy Money2007 · as Patrick "Tripp" Darling III
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions2006 · as Narrator (voice)
• Human Trafficking2005 · as Agent Bill Meehan
• Commander in Chief2005 · as Nathan Templeton
• Frankenstein2004 · as Captain Walton
• Salem's Lot2004 · as Richard Straker
• Uprising2001 · as Adam Czerniaków
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross2001 · as Self - Guest
• Queen Victoria's Empire2001 · as Narrator (voice)
• History vs. Hollywood2001 · as Self
• Backstory2000 · as Self
• The View1997 · as Self
• Scene by Scene1997 · as Self
• Inside the Actors Studio1994 · as Self
• Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All1994 · as William Marsden
• HBO First Look1992 · as Self
• Romy Award1990 · as Self
• The Simpsons1989 · as Hollis Hurlbut (voice)
• American Experience1988 · as Narrator (voice)
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988 · as Self - Guest
• Screen Two1985 · as Roger Hawthorne
• Friday People1985
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975 · as Self
• Spécial cinéma1974 · as Self
• Film '721971 · as Self
• The Champions1968 · as David Crayley
• The Name of the Game1968 · as Jerry Trevor
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• Man in a Suitcase1967 · as Willard
• Man in a Suitcase1967 · as Keith Earle
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Charles Givens
• Gideon's Way1965 · as Philip Guest
• Theatre 6251964 · as Priest
• Theatre 6251964 · as Union Captain
• The Saint1962 · as John Wood
• The Saint1962 · as Jim McCleery
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• Man of the World1962 · as Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)
• Studio 41962 · as Switchboard Operator
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• The Avengers1961 · as Jessel
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Ethan Hawley
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Presenter