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Aliases: Don Sutherland , Donald McNicol Sutherland, OC , 도날드 서덜랜드 , 唐納·蘇德蘭
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
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Movie Involvements: 157
TV Involvements: 37
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
American Experience
(1988) Narrator (voice)BBC Play of the Month
(1965) Charles GivensThe Saint
(1962) Jim McCleeryThe Avengers
(1961) JesselThe Name of the Game
(1968) Jerry TrevorThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
(2014) President Coriolanus SnowPride & Prejudice
(2005) Mr. BennetThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire
(2013) President Coriolanus SnowActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Crocodile (voice) | |
| 2023 | Judge Isaac Parker | |
| Judge Wren | ||
| 2022 | Mr. Harrigan | |
| Redmond | ||
| Holdenfield | ||
| 2021 | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| Self - Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2020 | Franklin Reinhart | |
| Edward | ||
| Jerome Debney | ||
| 2019 | Self | |
| Thomas Pruitt | ||
| (voice) | ||
| Ronald Bartel | ||
| Judge Straight | ||
| 2018 | Dr. Kahn | |
| J. Paul Getty Sr. | ||
| John Spencer | ||
| 2017 | Gurgon | |
| 2016 | Pieter Van De Bruin | |
| Grandpa Howard | ||
| Man | ||
| 2015 | President Coriolanus Snow | |
| Rev. Clayton | ||
| Self | ||
| Self - President Coriolanus Snow | ||
| Captain Charles Johnson (voice) | ||
| 2014 | President Coriolanus Snow | |
| Father Price | ||
| Self - President Coriolanus Snow | ||
| 2013 | President Coriolanus Snow | |
| Michael Dorn | ||
| President Coriolanus Snow | ||
| John Lester | ||
| Billy Whistler | ||
| 2012 | Self - President Coriolanus Snow | |
| Self | ||
| Ambassador Ashdown | ||
| Pop | ||
| President Coriolanus Snow | ||
| Captain Flint | ||
| 2011 | The Professor | |
| Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice) | ||
| Jack Pellit | ||
| Father Mapple | ||
| Aquila | ||
| Harry McKenna | ||
| 2010 | Kranski | |
| Earl Bartholomew | ||
| 2009 | President Stone (voice) | |
| Dr. Charles Eastman | ||
| 2008 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Nigel Honeycutt | ||
| 2007 | Lars | |
| Patrick "Tripp" Darling III | ||
| Donald Sutherland | ||
| Self | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Richter Raines | ||
| Self | ||
| Businessman Struck by a Taxi | ||
| 2006 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Ogden C. Osborne | ||
| Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited) | ||
| Thorne | ||
| Hellfrick | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Self (uncredited) | ||
| 2005 | Self | |
| Agent Bill Meehan | ||
| Nathan Templeton | ||
| Mr. Bennet | ||
| Colonel Oliver Southern (voice) | ||
| Carl Wilk | ||
| Self | ||
| John Bell | ||
| Ronald Shorter | ||
| 2004 | Captain Walton | |
| Richard Straker | ||
| 2003 | Reverend Monroe | |
| Clark Clifford | ||
| Lou Aldryn | ||
| John Bridger | ||
| Rosario Sarracino | ||
| Self - Casanova | ||
| 2002 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2001 | Tyler | |
| Adam Czerniaków | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Dr. Sid (voice) | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Jimmy Burke | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| 2000 | Michael | |
| Self | ||
| Douglas Thomas | ||
| Self | ||
| Jerry O'Neill | ||
| Self | ||
| 1999 | Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard | |
| Ben Hillard | ||
| Dr. Bob Shushan | ||
| Captain Robert Everton | ||
| 1998 | Judge Rausenberg | |
| Bill Bowerman | ||
| Lt. Stanton | ||
| 1997 | Jack Shaw / Henry Fields | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Jacob Conrad | ||
| 1996 | Ted Robards | |
| Garrett Lawton | ||
| Lucien Wilbanks | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1995 | Self (archive footage) | |
| General Donald McClintock | ||
| Col. Mikhail Fetisov | ||
| 1994 | Bob Garvin | |
| Andrew Nivens | ||
| Self | ||
| William Marsden | ||
| William Marsden | ||
| Dr. 'Mac' MacLean | ||
| 1993 | Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Flan | ||
| Jonathan Younger | ||
| Dr. Norman Bethune | ||
| Kirov | ||
| Frank | ||
| 1992 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Roger Hawthorne | ||
| John Williams | ||
| Merrick Jamison-Smythe | ||
| Henderson | ||
| Murdoch | ||
| 1991 | X | |
| Ivan | ||
| Ronald Bartel | ||
| O'Connor | ||
| Josef Borski | ||
| 1990 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self | ||
| 1989 | Hollis Hurlbut (voice) | |
| Ben du Toit | ||
| Warden Drumgoole | ||
| Dr. Charles Loftis | ||
| 1988 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| John Reese | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1987 | Appleton Porter | |
| Father Robert Koesler | ||
| 1986 | Paul Gauguin | |
| 1985 | Sgt. Maj. Peasy | |
| William Reich | ||
| Brother Thadeus | ||
| 1984 | Dr. Arthur Calgary | |
| Westlake | ||
| 1983 | Ethan Hawley | |
| Brian Costello | ||
| Self | ||
| 1982 | Self | |
| 1981 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Dr. Thomas Vrain | ||
| Faber | ||
| Nick the Noz | ||
| 1980 | Calvin Jarrett | |
| Roger Keller | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1979 | Frank Lansing | |
| Reese Halperin | ||
| Robert Lees | ||
| 1978 | Matthew Bennell | |
| Robert Agar | ||
| Dave Jennings | ||
| Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited) | ||
| Carella | ||
| 1977 | Jay Mallory | |
| The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon") | ||
| Dr. Norman Bethune | ||
| 1976 | Liam Devlin | |
| Giacomo Casanova | ||
| Attila Mellanchini | ||
| Self | ||
| 1975 | Self | |
| Homer Simpson | ||
| Self | ||
| 1974 | Self | |
| Bruland | ||
| Sgt. Dan Candy | ||
| 1973 | John Baxter | |
| Andy Hammon | ||
| Jesse Veldini | ||
| 1972 | Self | |
| 1971 | Self | |
| Christ | ||
| John Klute | ||
| Rev. Dupas | ||
| 1970 | Alex Morrison | |
| Father Michael Ferrier | ||
| Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander) | ||
| Hawkeye Pierce | ||
| Charles / Pierre | ||
| 1968 | Benedeck | |
| Lord Peter Sanderson | ||
| Dave Negli | ||
| David Crayley | ||
| Jerry Trevor | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Chorus Leader | ||
| Lawrence | ||
| Ackerman | ||
| 1967 | Scientist at Computer | |
| Willard | ||
| Keith Earle | ||
| Zebulon (voice) | ||
| Vernon Pinkley | ||
| 1966 | Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited) | |
| 1965 | Charles Givens | |
| Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay | ||
| Joseph | ||
| Philip Guest | ||
| Bob Carroll | ||
| 1964 | Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man | |
| Fortinbras | ||
| 1962 | John Wood | |
| Jim McCleery | ||
| Self | ||
| Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited) | ||
| Switchboard Operator | ||
| 1961 | Self | |
| Jessel | ||
| 1953 | Self | |
| 1951 | Ethan Hawley | |
| 1944 | Self - Nominee | |
| Self - Presenter | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | In Memory Of | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Producer | |
| 1973 | Executive Producer | |
| 1972 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Writer | |
| 1972 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |