Donald Sutherland 1935 - 2024 89

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.

From Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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Rating

72.2M

Budget

257M

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Acting

Primarily

193 Credits

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The Hunger Games 2012
President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013
President Coriolanus Snow
Ad Astra 2019
Thomas Pruitt
Lord of War 2005
Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
The Mechanic 2011
Harry McKenna
Moonfall 2022
Holdenfield
A Time to Kill 1996
Lucien Wilbanks
Outbreak 1995
General Donald McClintock
Cold Mountain 2003
Reverend Monroe

Credit 193

2024 Ozi: Voice of the Forest as Crocodile (voice)

2023 Miranda's Victim as Judge Wren

2022 Mr. Harrigan's Phone as Mr. Harrigan

2022 Moonfall as Holdenfield

2021 JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as Self - Narrator (voice)

2020 Alone as Edward

2020 The Burnt Orange Heresy as Jerome Debney

2019 Reach for the Stars as Self

2019 Ad Astra as Thomas Pruitt

2019 The Physics of Sorrow as (additional voice)

2019 Backdraft 2 as Ronald Bartel

2019 American Hangman as Judge Straight

2018 A Reindeer's Journey as Narrator (English Version) (voice)

2018 Measure of a Man as Dr. Kahn

2018 The Leisure Seeker as John Spencer

2017 Basmati Blues as Gurgon

2016 Milton's Secret as Grandpa Howard

2016 For the Love of Spock as Matthew Bennell (archive footage)

2016 Point and Shoot as Man

2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as President Coriolanus Snow

2015 Forsaken as Rev. Clayton

2015 Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... as Self

2015 The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self (President Coriolanus Snow)

2015 Pirate's Passage as Captain Charles Johnson (voice) Producer, Writer

2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as President Coriolanus Snow

2014 The Calling as Father Price

2014 Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Self (President Coriolanus Snow)

2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as President Coriolanus Snow

2013 Jappeloup as John Lester

2013 The Best Offer as Billy

2012 The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden as Self

2012 The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self (President Coriolanus Snow)

2012 Assassin's Bullet as Ambassador Ashdown

2012 Dawn Rider as Pop

2012 The Hunger Games as President Coriolanus Snow

2011 The Man on the Train as The Professor

2011 Jock the Hero Dog as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)

2011 Horrible Bosses as Jack Pellit

2011 The Eagle as Aquila

2011 The Mechanic as Harry McKenna

2010 The Con Artist as Kranski

2009 Astro Boy as President Stone (voice)

2009 The Eastmans as Dr. Charles Eastman

2008 Stonehenge: Decoded as Narrator (voice)

2008 Fool's Gold as Nigel Honeycutt

2007 Puffball as Lars

2007 Days of Darkness as Donald Sutherland

2007 Trumbo as Self

2007 Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia as Narrator

2007 Reign Over Me as Richter Raines

2007 Sleepwalkers as Businessman struck by a taxi

2006 Fierce People as Ogden C. Osborne

2006 Beerfest as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)

2006 Land of the Blind as Thorne

2006 Ask the Dust as Hellfrick

2006 Fellini dice... as Self

2006 Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' as Self

2006 Operation Dirty Dozen as Self (uncredited)

2005 Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Self

2005 Pride & Prejudice as Mr. Bennet

2005 Lord of War as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)

2005 American Gun as Carl Wilk

2005 Sir! No Sir! as Self

2005 An American Haunting as John Bell

2005 Aurora Borealis as Ronald Shorter

2003 Cold Mountain as Reverend Monroe

2003 Path to War as Clark Clifford

2003 Baltic Storm as Lou Aldryn

2003 The Italian Job as John Bridger

2003 Five Moons Plaza as Rosario Sarracino

2003 Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self - Casanova

2002 The Magic of Fellini as Self (archive footage)

2001 Big Shot's Funeral as Tyler

2001 Uprising as Adam Czerniaków

2001 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as Dr. Cid (voice)

2001 The Big Heist as Jimmy Burke

2001 The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Narrator (voice)

2000 Panic as Michael

2000 Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self

2000 The Art of War as Douglas Thomas

2000 Space Cowboys as Jerry O`Neill

2000 Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' as Self

1999 The Hunley as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard

1999 Instinct as Ben Hillard

1999 Behind the Mask as Dr. Bob Shushan

1999 Virus as Captain Robert Everton

1998 Free Money as Judge Rausenberg

1998 Without Limits as Bill Bowerman

1998 Fallen as Lt. Stanton

1997 The Assignment as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields

1997 Shadow Conspiracy as Jacob Conrad

1996 Natural Enemy as Ted Robards

1996 Hollow Point as Garrett Lawton

1996 A Time to Kill as Lucien Wilbanks

1995 Roger Moore: A Matter of Class as Self (archive footage)

1995 Outbreak as General Donald McClintock

1995 Citizen X as Col. Mikhail Fetisov

1994 Disclosure as Bob Garvin

1994 The Puppet Masters as Andrew Nivens

1994 Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as William Marsden

1994 The Lifeforce Experiment as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean

1993 La Classe américaine as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)

1993 Six Degrees of Separation as Flan

1993 Younger and Younger as Jonathan Younger

1993 Bethune: The Making of a Hero as Dr. Norman Bethune

1993 Red Hot as Kirov

1993 Benefit of the Doubt as Frank

1993 The Mighty River as Narrator (English Version) (voice)

1992 The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas as Narrator (voice)

1992 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power as Narrator (voice)

1992 The Railway Station Man as Roger Hawthorne

1992 The Setting Sun as John Williams

1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Merrick Jamison-Smythe

1992 Shadow of the Wolf as Henderson

1992 Quicksand: No Escape as Murdoch

1991 JFK as X

1991 Scream of Stone as Ivan

1991 Backdraft as Ronald Bartel

1991 Buster's Bedroom as O'Connor

1991 Eminent Domain as Josef Borski

1990 Kate Bush: Sensual World as Self (archive footage)

1989 A Dry White Season as Ben du Toit

1989 Lock Up as Warden Drumgoole

1989 Lost Angels as Dr. Charles Loftis

1988 Apprentice to Murder as John Reese

1988 People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe as Narrator (voice)

1987 The Trouble with Spies as Appleton Porter

1987 The Rosary Murders as Father Robert Koesler

1986 The Wolf at the Door as Paul Gauguin

1985 Revolution as Sgt. Maj. Peasy

1985 Cloudbusting as William Reich

1985 Heaven Help Us as Brother Thadeus

1984 Ordeal by Innocence as Dr. Arthur Calgary

1984 Crackers as Westlake

1983 The Winter of Our Discontent as Ethan Hawley

1983 Max Dugan Returns as Brian Costello

1983 Fellini nel cestino as Self

1982 Night of 100 Stars as Self

1981 A War Story as Narrator (voice)

1981 Threshold as Dr. Thomas Vrain

1981 Eye of the Needle as Faber

1981 Gas as Nick the Noz

1980 Ordinary People as Calvin Jarrett

1980 Nothing Personal as Roger Keller

1980 North China Factory as Narrator (voice)

1979 Bear Island as Frank Lansing

1979 A Man, a Woman and a Bank as Reese Halperin

1979 Murder by Decree as Robert Lees

1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Matthew Bennell

1978 The First Great Train Robbery as Robert Agar

1978 Animal House as Dave Jennings

1978 End of the Game as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)

1978 Blood Relatives as Carella

1977 The Disappearance as Jay Mallory

1977 The Kentucky Fried Movie as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")

1977 Bethune as Dr. Norman Bethune

1976 The Eagle Has Landed as Liam Devlin

1976 Fellini's Casanova as Giacomo Casanova

1976 1900 as Attila Mellanchini

1976 The Spiral as Narrator (English version) (voice)

1976 The Cinema According to Bertolucci as Self

1975 Abicinema as Self

1975 The Day of the Locust as Homer Simpson

1974 S*P*Y*S as Bruland

1974 Alien Thunder as Sgt. Dan Candy

1973 Don't Look Now as John Baxter

1973 Lady Ice as Andy Hammon

1973 Steelyard Blues as Jesse Veldini Executive Producer

1972 FTA as Self Writer, Producer

1971 'Klute' in New York as Self

1971 Johnny Got His Gun as Christ

1971 Klute as John Klute

1971 Little Murders as Rev. Dupas

1970 Alex in Wonderland as Alex Morrison

1970 Act of the Heart as Father Michael Ferrier

1970 Kelly's Heroes as Sgt. Oddball (tank commander)

1970 M*A*S*H as Hawkeye Pierce

1970 Start the Revolution Without Me as Charles / Pierre

1968 The Sunshine Patriot as Benedeck

1968 Joanna as Lord Peter Sanderson

1968 The Split as Dave Negli

1968 Oedipus the King as Chorus Leader

1968 Interlude as Lawrence

1968 Sebastian as Ackerman

1967 Billion Dollar Brain as Scientist at Computer

1967 The Shuttered Room as Zebulon (voice)

1967 The Dirty Dozen as Vernon Pinkley

1966 Promise Her Anything as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)

1965 The Bedford Incident as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay

1965 Fanatic as Joseph

1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as Bob Carroll

1964 The Castle of the Living Dead as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man

1964 Hamlet at Elsinore as Fortinbras

Genres

6.58 War 16

6.56 History 12

6.50 Documentary 32

6.33 Science Fiction 14

6.20 Adventure 26

6.15 Drama 91

6.12 Action 32

6.09 Crime 35

6.09 TV Movie 17

6.08 Romance 18

5.98 Thriller 48

5.94 Animation 8

5.94 Music 5

5.79 Horror 16

5.77 Mystery 18

5.69 Comedy 38

5.69 Family 8

5.61 Western 3

5.56 Fantasy 3