
Cast
Donald Sutherland
Acting
Cast
Donald Sutherland
Known for
Acting
Born
1935-07-17
From
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Died
2024-06-20
Also known as Don Sutherland, Donald McNicol Sutherland, OC
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.

Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Bennet

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

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as President Coriolanus Snow

The Hunger Games
as President Coriolanus Snow

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

The Italian Job
as John Bridger

The Mechanic
as Harry McKenna

Lord of War
as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)

Moonfall
as Holdenfield

Lock Up
as Warden Drumgoole

A Time to Kill
as Lucien Wilbanks

Horrible Bosses
as Jack Pellit

Disclosure
as Bob Garvin

Outbreak
as General Donald McClintock

Animal House
as Dave Jennings

Fool's Gold
as Nigel Honeycutt

Astro Boy
as President Stone (voice)

Cold Mountain
as Reverend Monroe

The Dirty Dozen
as Vernon Pinkley

Fallen
as Lt. Stanton

JFK
as X

Backdraft
as Ronald Bartel

M*A*S*H
as Hawkeye Pierce

Beerfest
as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
as Matthew Bennell

Kelly's Heroes
as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)

Ad Astra
as Thomas Pruitt

The Eagle
as Aquila

The Best Offer
as Billy Whistler

Space Cowboys
as Jerry O'Neill

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

Instinct
as Ben Hillard

Revolution
as Sgt. Maj. Peasy

1900
as Attila Mellanchini

Klute
as John Klute

Ordinary People
as Calvin Jarrett

The First Great Train Robbery
as Robert Agar

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Merrick Jamison-Smythe

Don't Look Now
as John Baxter

Uprising
as Adam Czerniaków

Virus
as Captain Robert Everton

American Gun
as Carl Wilk

Reign Over Me
as Richter Raines

OZI: Voice of the Forest
as Mr. Smiley

Alone
as Edward

The Eagle Has Landed
as Liam Devlin

Citizen X
as Col. Mikhail Fetisov

Shadow Conspiracy
as Jacob Conrad

Backdraft 2
as Ronald Bartel

Forsaken
as Rev. Clayton

Hollow Point
as Garrett Lawton

The Art of War
as Douglas Thomas

The Assignment
as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields

Big Shot's Funeral
as Tyler

Mr. Harrigan's Phone
as Mr. Harrigan

Panic
as Michael

Johnny Got His Gun
as Christ

Younger and Younger
as Jonathan Younger

Eye of the Needle
as Faber

The Leisure Seeker
as John Spencer

Six Degrees of Separation
as Flan

The Split
as Dave Negli

Shadow of the Wolf
as Henderson

Path to War
as Clark Clifford

Bear Island
as Frank Lansing

Red Hot
as Kirov

Free Money
as Judge Rausenberg

Ask the Dust
as Hellfrick

The Cinema According to Bertolucci
as Self

Fellini's Casanova
as Giacomo Casanova

Fierce People
as Ogden C. Osborne

Baltic Storm
as Lou Aldryn

Measure of a Man
as Dr. Kahn

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

The Puppet Masters
as Andrew Nivens

Billion Dollar Brain
as Scientist at Computer

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

An American Haunting
as John Bell

Heaven Help Us
as Brother Thadeus

Night of 100 Stars
as Self

Lost Angels
as Dr. Charles Loftis

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow

Jappeloup
as John Lester

Oedipus the King
as Chorus Leader

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

A Man, a Woman and a Bank
as Reese Halperin

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

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as Bob Carroll

The Calling
as Father Price

Puffball
as Lars

Miranda's Victim
as Judge Wren

Max Dugan Returns
as Brian Costello

The Man on the Train
as The Professor

A Dry White Season
as Ben du Toit

The Day of the Locust
as Homer Simpson

Interlude
as Lawrence

The Con Artist
as Kranski

Trumbo
as Self

Without Limits
as Bill Bowerman

Ordeal by Innocence
as Dr. Arthur Calgary

The Burnt Orange Heresy
as Jerome Debney

Eminent Domain
as Josef Borski

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
as Self

Basmati Blues
as Gurgon

Crackers
as Westlake

Murder by Decree
as Robert Lees

Threshold
as Dr. Thomas Vrain

Assassin's Bullet
as Ambassador Ashdown

Land of the Blind
as Thorne

Nothing Personal
as Roger Keller

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

Days of Darkness
as Donald Sutherland

The Bedford Incident
as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay

Natural Enemy
as Ted Robards

Steelyard Blues
as Jesse Veldini

The Setting Sun
as John Williams

The Wolf at the Door
as Paul Gauguin

The Shuttered Room
as Zebulon (voice)

Dawn Rider
as Pop

Start the Revolution Without Me
as Charles / Pierre

FTA
as Self

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
as William Marsden

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

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

Quicksand: No Escape
as Murdoch

Five Moons Plaza
as Rosario Sarracino

Benefit of the Doubt
as Frank

Operation Dirty Dozen
as Self (uncredited)

Gas
as Nick the Noz

Lady Ice
as Andy Hammon

Apprentice to Murder
as John Reese

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow

Sebastian
as Ackerman

Little Murders
as Rev. Dupas

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

American Hangman
as Judge Straight

The Physics of Sorrow
as (voice)

The Trouble with Spies
as Appleton Porter

The Disappearance
as Jay Mallory

Fanatic
as Joseph

Joanna
as Lord Peter Sanderson

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

Behind the Mask
as Dr. Bob Shushan

Promise Her Anything
as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)

S*P*Y*S
as Bruland

Aurora Borealis
as Ronald Shorter

Scream of Stone
as Ivan

The Winter of Our Discontent
as Ethan Hawley

The Rosary Murders
as Father Robert Koesler

Reach for the Stars
as Self

Milton's Secret
as Grandpa Howard

The Magic of Fellini
as Self (archive footage)

Hamlet at Elsinore
as Fortinbras

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

The Big Heist
as Jimmy Burke

The Lifeforce Experiment
as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Self

Pirate's Passage
as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)

Alex in Wonderland
as Alex Morrison

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

Hollywood Invasion
as archive footage

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

Alien Thunder
as Sgt. Dan Candy

Abicinema
as Self

The Eastmans
as Dr. Charles Eastman

Buster's Bedroom
as O'Connor

The Hunley
as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard

The Railway Station Man
as Roger Hawthorne

Blood Relatives
as Carella

Citizen Jane Fonda

Fellini nel cestino
as Self

Sir! No Sir!
as Self

Bethune
as Dr. Norman Bethune

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

The World Ten Times Over
as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)

Sleepwalkers
as Businessman Struck by a Taxi

Act of the Heart
as Father Michael Ferrier

The Sunshine Patriot
as Benedeck

Fellini dice...
as Self

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
as Narrator (voice)

A War Story
as Narrator (voice)

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

For King and Country: Out There
as Canadian

Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video
as Self (archive footage)

Point and Shoot
as Man

'Klute' in New York
as Self

Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
as Narrator

Stonehenge: Decoded
as Narrator (voice)

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

The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden
as Self

The Awful Manners
as Man walking (uncredited)

North China Factory
as Narrator (voice)

Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
as Narrator