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.
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Movies (39)
Ozi: Voice of the Forest
as Crocodile (voice)
2024
Miranda's Victim
as Judge Wren
2023
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
as Mr. Harrigan
2022
Moonfall
as Holdenfield
2022
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
Alone
as Edward
2020
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
The Burnt Orange Heresy
as Jerome Debney
2020
Reach for the Stars
as Self
2019
Ad Astra
as Thomas Pruitt
2019
The Physics of Sorrow
as (voice)
2019
Backdraft 2
as Ronald Bartel
2019
American Hangman
as Judge Straight
2019
Measure of a Man
as Dr. Kahn
2018
The Leisure Seeker
as John Spencer
2018
Basmati Blues
as Gurgon
2017
Milton's Secret
as Grandpa Howard
2016
Point and Shoot
as Man
2016
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)
2015
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
2014
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as President Coriolanus Snow
2013
Jappeloup
as John Lester
2013
The Best Offer
as Billy Whistler
2013
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
2012
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden
as Self
2012
Assassin's Bullet
as Ambassador Ashdown
2012
Dawn Rider
as Pop
2012
The Hunger Games
as President Coriolanus Snow
2012
Treasure Island
as Captain Flint
2012
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
TV Shows (11)
Murder in a Small Town
In Memory Of (Crew)
2024
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
as Judge Isaac Parker
2023
Swimming with Sharks
as Redmond
2022
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
The Undoing
as Franklin Reinhart
2020
Trust
as J. Paul Getty Sr.
2018
Ice
as Pieter Van De Bruin
2016
Crossing Lines
as Michael Dorn
2013
The Frame
as President Coriolanus Snow
2013
Treasure Island
as Captain Flint
2012
Moby Dick
as Father Mapple
2011