Donald Sutherland
Acting
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.
TV Shows(51)
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Judge Isaac Parker
2023
Swimming with Sharks
Redmond
2022
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
The Undoing
Franklin Reinhart
2020
Trust
J. Paul Getty Sr.
2018
Ice
Pieter Van De Bruin
2016
Crossing Lines
Michael Dorn
2013
The Frame
President Coriolanus Snow
2013
Treasure Island
Captain Flint
2012
Moby Dick
Father Mapple
2011
The Pillars of the Earth
Earl Bartholomew
2010
Dirty Sexy Money
Patrick "Tripp" Darling III
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Narrator (voice)
2006
Commander in Chief
Nathan Templeton
2005
Frankenstein
Captain Walton
2004
Salem's Lot
Richard Straker
2004
Uprising
Adam Czerniaków
2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest
2001
Queen Victoria's Empire
Narrator (voice)
2001
History vs. Hollywood
Self
2001
Backstory
Self
2000
The View
Self
1997
Scene by Scene
Self
1997
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
William Marsden
1994
HBO First Look
Self
1992
Romy Award
Self
1990
The Simpsons
Hollis Hurlbut (voice)
1989
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
Friday People
1985
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Film '72
Self
1971
The Champions
David Crayley
1968
The Name of the Game
Jerry Trevor
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Man in a Suitcase
Willard
1967
BBC Play of the Month
Charles Givens
1965
Gideon's Way
Philip Guest
1965
Theatre 625
Priest
1964
The Saint
John Wood
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Man of the World
Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)
1962
Studio 4
Switchboard Operator
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Avengers
Jessel
1961
The Oscars
Self
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Ethan Hawley
1951
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Movies(192)
OZI: Voice of the Forest
Mr. Smiley
2024
Miranda's Victim
Judge Wren
2023
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Mr. Harrigan
2022
Moonfall
Holdenfield
2022
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
Alone
Edward
2020
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Jerome Debney
2020
Reach for the Stars
Self
2019
Ad Astra
Thomas Pruitt
2019
The Physics of Sorrow
(voice)
2019
Backdraft 2
Ronald Bartel
2019
American Hangman
Judge Straight
2019
Measure of a Man
Dr. Kahn
2018
The Leisure Seeker
John Spencer
2018
Basmati Blues
Gurgon
2017
Milton's Secret
Grandpa Howard
2016
Point and Shoot
Man
2016
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
President Coriolanus Snow
2015
Forsaken
Rev. Clayton
2015
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
Self
2015
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
2015
Pirate's Passage
Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
President Coriolanus Snow
2014
The Calling
Father Price
2014
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
2014
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
President Coriolanus Snow
2013
Jappeloup
John Lester
2013
The Best Offer
Billy Whistler
2013
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
2012
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden
Self
2012
Assassin's Bullet
Ambassador Ashdown
2012
Dawn Rider
Pop
2012
The Hunger Games
President Coriolanus Snow
2012
The Man on the Train
The Professor
2011
Jock the Hero Dog
Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
2011
Horrible Bosses
Jack Pellit
2011
The Eagle
Aquila
2011
The Mechanic
Harry McKenna
2011
The Con Artist
Kranski
2010
Astro Boy
President Stone (voice)
2009
The Eastmans
Dr. Charles Eastman
2009
Stonehenge: Decoded
Narrator (voice)
2008
Fool's Gold
Nigel Honeycutt
2008
Puffball
Lars
2007
Days of Darkness
Donald Sutherland
2007
Trumbo
Self
2007
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
Narrator
2007
Reign Over Me
Richter Raines
2007
Sleepwalkers
Businessman Struck by a Taxi
2007
Fierce People
Ogden C. Osborne
2006
Beerfest
Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
2006
Land of the Blind
Thorne
2006
Ask the Dust
Hellfrick
2006
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
Self
2006
Fellini dice...
Self
2006
Operation Dirty Dozen
Self (uncredited)
2006
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Self
2005
Pride & Prejudice
Mr. Bennet
2005
Lord of War
Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
2005
American Gun
Carl Wilk
2005
Sir! No Sir!
Self
2005
An American Haunting
John Bell
2005
Aurora Borealis
Ronald Shorter
2005
Cold Mountain
Reverend Monroe
2003
Path to War
Clark Clifford
2003
Baltic Storm
Lou Aldryn
2003
The Italian Job
John Bridger
2003
Five Moons Plaza
Rosario Sarracino
2003
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Self - Casanova
2003
The Magic of Fellini
Self (archive footage)
2002
Big Shot's Funeral
Tyler
2001
Uprising
Adam Czerniaków
2001
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Dr. Sid (voice)
2001
The Big Heist
Jimmy Burke
2001
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Narrator (voice)
2001
Panic
Michael
2000
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self
2000
The Art of War
Douglas Thomas
2000
Space Cowboys
Jerry O'Neill
2000
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
Self
2000
The Hunley
Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
1999
Instinct
Ben Hillard
1999
Behind the Mask
Dr. Bob Shushan
1999
Virus
Captain Robert Everton
1999
Free Money
Judge Rausenberg
1998
Without Limits
Bill Bowerman
1998
Fallen
Lt. Stanton
1998
The Assignment
Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
1997
Shadow Conspiracy
Jacob Conrad
1997
Natural Enemy
Ted Robards
1996
Hollow Point
Garrett Lawton
1996
A Time to Kill
Lucien Wilbanks
1996
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
Narrator
1996
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Self (archive footage)
1995
Outbreak
General Donald McClintock
1995
Citizen X
Col. Mikhail Fetisov
1995
Disclosure
Bob Garvin
1994
The Puppet Masters
Andrew Nivens
1994
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
William Marsden
1994
The Lifeforce Experiment
Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
1994
La Classe américaine
Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
Six Degrees of Separation
Flan
1993
Younger and Younger
Jonathan Younger
1993
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Dr. Norman Bethune
1993
Red Hot
Kirov
1993
Benefit of the Doubt
Frank
1993
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
Narrator (voice)
1992
The Railway Station Man
Roger Hawthorne
1992
The Setting Sun
John Williams
1992
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Merrick Jamison-Smythe
1992
Shadow of the Wolf
Henderson
1992
Quicksand: No Escape
Murdoch
1992
JFK
X
1991
Scream of Stone
Ivan
1991
Backdraft
Ronald Bartel
1991
Buster's Bedroom
O'Connor
1991
Eminent Domain
Josef Borski
1991
Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video
Self (archive footage)
1990
A Dry White Season
Ben du Toit
1989
Lock Up
Warden Drumgoole
1989
Lost Angels
Dr. Charles Loftis
1989
Apprentice to Murder
John Reese
1988
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
Narrator (voice)
1988
The Trouble with Spies
Appleton Porter
1987
The Rosary Murders
Father Robert Koesler
1987
The Wolf at the Door
Paul Gauguin
1986
Revolution
Sgt. Maj. Peasy
1985
Heaven Help Us
Brother Thadeus
1985
Ordeal by Innocence
Dr. Arthur Calgary
1984
Crackers
Westlake
1984
The Winter of Our Discontent
Ethan Hawley
1983
Max Dugan Returns
Brian Costello
1983
Fellini nel cestino
Self
1983
Night of 100 Stars
Self
1982
A War Story
Narrator (voice)
1981
Threshold
Dr. Thomas Vrain
1981
Eye of the Needle
Faber
1981
Gas
Nick the Noz
1981
Ordinary People
Calvin Jarrett
1980
Nothing Personal
Roger Keller
1980
North China Factory
Narrator (voice)
1980
Bear Island
Frank Lansing
1979
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
Reese Halperin
1979
Murder by Decree
Robert Lees
1979
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Matthew Bennell
1978
The First Great Train Robbery
Robert Agar
1978
Animal House
Dave Jennings
1978
End of the Game
Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
1978
Blood Relatives
Carella
1978
The Disappearance
Jay Mallory
1977
The Kentucky Fried Movie
The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
1977
Bethune
Dr. Norman Bethune
1977
The Eagle Has Landed
Liam Devlin
1976
Fellini's Casanova
Giacomo Casanova
1976
1900
Attila Mellanchini
1976
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Self
1976
Abicinema
Self
1975
The Day of the Locust
Homer Simpson
1975
S*P*Y*S
Bruland
1974
Alien Thunder
Sgt. Dan Candy
1974
The Awful Manners
Man walking (uncredited)
1974
Don't Look Now
John Baxter
1973
Lady Ice
Andy Hammon
1973
Steelyard Blues
Jesse Veldini
1973
FTA
Self
1972
'Klute' in New York
Self
1971
Johnny Got His Gun
Christ
1971
Klute
John Klute
1971
Little Murders
Rev. Dupas
1971
Alex in Wonderland
Alex Morrison
1970
Act of the Heart
Father Michael Ferrier
1970
Kelly's Heroes
Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
1970
M*A*S*H
Hawkeye Pierce
1970
Start the Revolution Without Me
Charles / Pierre
1970
The Sunshine Patriot
Benedeck
1968
Joanna
Lord Peter Sanderson
1968
The Split
Dave Negli
1968
Oedipus the King
Chorus Leader
1968
Interlude
Lawrence
1968
Sebastian
Ackerman
1968
Billion Dollar Brain
Scientist at Computer
1967
The Shuttered Room
Zebulon (voice)
1967
The Dirty Dozen
Vernon Pinkley
1967
Promise Her Anything
Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
1966
The Bedford Incident
Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
1965
Fanatic
Joseph
1965
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Bob Carroll
1965
The Castle of the Living Dead
Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
1964
Hamlet at Elsinore
Fortinbras
1964
The World Ten Times Over
Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
1963
For King and Country: Out There
Canadian
1963