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.
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Primarily2024 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
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