Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 17, 1935
Died
Jun 20, 2024
Place of Birth
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Credits
251 titles
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
Filmography
Murder in a Small Town
In Memory Of
OZI: Voice of the Forest
Mr. Smiley
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Judge Isaac Parker
Miranda's Victim
Judge Wren
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Mr. Harrigan
Swimming with Sharks
Redmond
Moonfall
Holdenfield
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
Self - Narrator (voice)
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Undoing
Franklin Reinhart
Alone
Edward
Citizen Jane Fonda
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Jerome Debney
Reach for the Stars
Self
Ad Astra
Thomas Pruitt
The Physics of Sorrow
(voice)
Backdraft 2
Ronald Bartel
American Hangman
Judge Straight
Measure of a Man
Dr. Kahn
Trust
J. Paul Getty Sr.
The Green Fog
The Leisure Seeker
John Spencer
Basmati Blues
Gurgon
Ice
Pieter Van De Bruin
Milton's Secret
Grandpa Howard
Point and Shoot
Man
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
President Coriolanus Snow
Forsaken
Rev. Clayton
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
Self
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Pirate's Passage
Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
President Coriolanus Snow
The Calling
Father Price
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
President Coriolanus Snow
Crossing Lines
Michael Dorn
The Frame
President Coriolanus Snow
Jappeloup
John Lester
The Best Offer
Billy Whistler
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden
Self
Assassin's Bullet
Ambassador Ashdown
Dawn Rider
Pop
The Hunger Games
President Coriolanus Snow
Treasure Island
Captain Flint
The Man on the Train
The Professor
Hollywood Invasion
archive footage
Jock the Hero Dog
Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
Horrible Bosses
Jack Pellit
Moby Dick
Father Mapple