Acting · Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada · Born July 17, 1935
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.
MovieOZI: Voice of the Forest
2024
as Mr. Smiley
TVLawmen: Bass Reeves
2023
as Judge Isaac Parker
MovieMiranda's Victim
2023
as Judge Wren
MovieMr. Harrigan's Phone
2022
as Mr. Harrigan
TVSwimming with Sharks
2022
as Redmond
MovieMoonfall
2022
as Holdenfield
TVJFK: Destiny Betrayed
2021
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieJFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
2021
as Self - Narrator (voice)
TVThe Undoing
2020
as Franklin Reinhart
MovieAlone
2020
as Edward
MovieCitizen Jane Fonda
2020
MovieThe Burnt Orange Heresy
2020
as Jerome Debney
MovieReach for the Stars
2019
as Self
MovieAd Astra
2019
as Thomas Pruitt
MovieThe Physics of Sorrow
2019
as (voice)
MovieBackdraft 2
2019
as Ronald Bartel
MovieAmerican Hangman
2019
as Judge Straight
MovieMeasure of a Man
2018
as Dr. Kahn
TVTrust
2018
as J. Paul Getty Sr.
MovieThe Green Fog
2018
MovieThe Leisure Seeker
2018
as John Spencer
MovieBasmati Blues
2017
as Gurgon
TVIce
2016
as Pieter Van De Bruin
MovieMilton's Secret
2016
as Grandpa Howard
Point and Shoot
2016
as Man
MovieThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
as President Coriolanus Snow
MovieForsaken
2015
as Rev. Clayton
MovieNicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
2015
as Self
MovieThe Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
MoviePirate's Passage
2015
as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
MovieThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
as President Coriolanus Snow
MovieThe Calling
2014
as Father Price
MovieSurviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
MovieThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
as President Coriolanus Snow
TVCrossing Lines
2013
as Michael Dorn
TVThe Frame
2013
as President Coriolanus Snow
MovieJappeloup
2013
as John Lester
MovieThe Best Offer
2013
as Billy Whistler
MovieThe World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden
2012
as Self
MovieAssassin's Bullet
2012
as Ambassador Ashdown
MovieDawn Rider
2012
as Pop
MovieThe Hunger Games
2012
as President Coriolanus Snow
TVTreasure Island
2012
as Captain Flint
MovieThe Man on the Train
2011
as The Professor
MovieHollywood Invasion
2011
as archive footage
MovieJock the Hero Dog
2011
as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
MovieHorrible Bosses
2011
as Jack Pellit
TVMoby Dick
2011
as Father Mapple
MovieThe Eagle
2011
as Aquila
MovieThe Mechanic
2011
as Harry McKenna
MovieThe Con Artist
2010
as Kranski
TVThe Pillars of the Earth
2010
as Earl Bartholomew
MovieAstro Boy
2009
as President Stone (voice)
MovieThe Eastmans
2009
as Dr. Charles Eastman
MovieStonehenge: Decoded
2008
as Narrator (voice)
MovieFool's Gold
2008
as Nigel Honeycutt
MoviePuffball
2007
as Lars
MovieDays of Darkness
2007
as Donald Sutherland
TVDirty Sexy Money
2007
as Patrick "Tripp" Darling III
MovieTrumbo
2007
as Self
MovieDinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
2007
as Narrator
MovieReign Over Me
2007
as Richter Raines
TVThe Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
MovieSleepwalkers
2007
as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
TVAmerica's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
as Narrator (voice)
MovieFierce People
2006
as Ogden C. Osborne
MovieBeerfest
2006
as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
MovieLand of the Blind
2006
as Thorne
MovieAsk the Dust
2006
as Hellfrick
MovieArmed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
2006
as Self
MovieFellini dice...
2006
as Self
MovieOperation Dirty Dozen
2006
as Self (uncredited)
MovieBudd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
as Self
TVHuman Trafficking
2005
as Agent Bill Meehan
TVCommander in Chief
2005
as Nathan Templeton
MoviePride & Prejudice
2005
as Mr. Bennet
MovieLord of War
2005
as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
MovieAmerican Gun
2005
as Carl Wilk
MovieSir! No Sir!
2005
as Self
MovieAn American Haunting
2005
as John Bell
MovieAurora Borealis
2005
as Ronald Shorter
TVFrankenstein
2004
as Captain Walton
TVSalem's Lot
2004
as Richard Straker
MovieCold Mountain
2003
as Reverend Monroe
MoviePath to War
2003
as Clark Clifford
MovieBaltic Storm
2003
as Lou Aldryn
MovieThe Italian Job
2003
as John Bridger
MovieFive Moons Plaza
2003
as Rosario Sarracino
MovieFellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003
as Self - Casanova
MovieThe Magic of Fellini
2002
as Self (archive footage)
MovieBig Shot's Funeral
2001
as Tyler
MovieUprising
2001
as Adam Czerniaków
TVUprising
2001
as Adam Czerniaków
TVFriday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest
MovieFinal Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001
as Dr. Sid (voice)
TVQueen Victoria's Empire
2001
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Big Heist
2001
as Jimmy Burke
MovieThe Autobiography of Malcolm X
2001
as Narrator (voice)
TVHistory vs. Hollywood
2001
as Self
MoviePanic
2000
as Michael
MovieClint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
as Self
MovieThe Art of War
2000
as Douglas Thomas
TVBackstory
2000
as Self
MovieSpace Cowboys
2000
as Jerry O'Neill
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
2000
as Self
MovieVirus: Ghost in the Machine
1999
as Self
MovieThe Hunley
1999
as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
MovieInstinct
1999
as Ben Hillard
MovieBehind the Mask
1999
as Dr. Bob Shushan
MovieVirus
1999
as Captain Robert Everton
MovieFree Money
1998
as Judge Rausenberg
MovieWithout Limits
1998
as Bill Bowerman
MovieFallen
1998
as Lt. Stanton
MovieThe Assignment
1997
as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
TVThe View
1997
as Self
TVScene by Scene
1997
as Self
MovieShadow Conspiracy
1997
as Jacob Conrad
MovieNatural Enemy
1996
as Ted Robards
MovieHollow Point
1996
as Garrett Lawton
MovieA Time to Kill
1996
as Lucien Wilbanks
MovieHearst Castle: Building the Dream
1996
as Narrator
MovieRoger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
as Self (archive footage)
MovieOutbreak
1995
as General Donald McClintock
MovieCitizen X
1995
as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
MovieDisclosure
1994
as Bob Garvin
MovieThe Puppet Masters
1994
as Andrew Nivens
TVInside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
MovieOldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as William Marsden
TVOldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as William Marsden
MovieThe Lifeforce Experiment
1994
as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
MovieLa Classe américaine
1993
as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieSix Degrees of Separation
1993
as Flan
MovieYounger and Younger
1993
as Jonathan Younger
MovieBethune: The Making of a Hero
1993
as Dr. Norman Bethune
MovieRed Hot
1993
as Kirov
MovieBenefit of the Doubt
1993
as Frank
MovieThe Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
1992
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Railway Station Man
1992
as Roger Hawthorne
MovieThe Setting Sun
1992
as John Williams
MovieBuffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
TVHBO First Look
1992
as Self
MovieShadow of the Wolf
1992
as Henderson
MovieQuicksand: No Escape
1992
as Murdoch
MovieJFK
1991
as X
MovieScream of Stone
1991
as Ivan
MovieBackdraft
1991
as Ronald Bartel
MovieBuster's Bedroom
1991
as O'Connor
MovieEminent Domain
1991
as Josef Borski
MovieKate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Romy Award
1990
as Self
TVThe Simpsons
1989
as Hollis Hurlbut (voice)
MovieA Dry White Season
1989
as Ben du Toit
MovieLock Up
1989
as Warden Drumgoole
MovieLost Angels
1989
as Dr. Charles Loftis
TVAmerican Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
TVLIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
MovieApprentice to Murder
1988
as John Reese
MoviePeople of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
1988
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Trouble with Spies
1987
as Appleton Porter
MovieThe Rosary Murders
1987
as Father Robert Koesler
MovieThe Wolf at the Door
1986
as Paul Gauguin
MovieRevolution
1985
as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
MovieHeaven Help Us
1985
as Brother Thadeus
TVScreen Two
1985
as Roger Hawthorne
Friday People
1985
MovieOrdeal by Innocence
1984
as Dr. Arthur Calgary
MovieCrackers
1984
as Westlake
MovieThe Winter of Our Discontent
1983
as Ethan Hawley
MovieMax Dugan Returns
1983
as Brian Costello
Fellini nel cestino
1983
as Self
MovieNight of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
MovieA War Story
1981
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThreshold
1981
as Dr. Thomas Vrain
MovieEye of the Needle
1981
as Faber
MovieGas
1981
as Nick the Noz
MovieOrdinary People
1980
as Calvin Jarrett
MovieNothing Personal
1980
as Roger Keller
North China Factory
1980
as Narrator (voice)
MovieBear Island
1979
as Frank Lansing
MovieA Man, a Woman and a Bank
1979
as Reese Halperin
MovieMurder by Decree
1979
as Robert Lees
MovieInvasion of the Body Snatchers
1978
as Matthew Bennell
MovieThe First Great Train Robbery
1978
as Robert Agar
MovieAnimal House
1978
as Dave Jennings
MovieEnd of the Game
1978
as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
MovieBlood Relatives
1978
as Steve Carella
TVCiné regards
1978
as Self
MovieThe Disappearance
1977
as Jay Mallory
MovieThe Kentucky Fried Movie
1977
as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
MovieBethune
1977
as Dr. Norman Bethune
MovieThe Eagle Has Landed
1976
as Liam Devlin
MovieFellini's Casanova
1976
as Giacomo Casanova
Movie1900
1976
as Attila Mellanchini
MovieThe Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976
as Self
MovieAbicinema
1975
as Self
MovieThe Day of the Locust
1975
as Homer Simpson
TVLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
TVSpécial cinéma
1974
as Self
MovieS*P*Y*S
1974
as Bruland
MovieAlien Thunder
1974
as Sgt. Dan Candy
MovieThe Awful Manners
1974
as Man walking (uncredited)
MovieDon't Look Now
1973
as John Baxter
MovieLady Ice
1973
as Andy Hammon
MovieSteelyard Blues
1973
as Jesse Veldini
MovieFTA
1972
as Self
Movie'Klute' in New York
1971
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
MovieJohnny Got His Gun
1971
as Christ
MovieKlute
1971
as John Klute
MovieLittle Murders
1971
as Rev. Dupas
MovieAlex in Wonderland
1970
as Alex Morrison
MovieAct of the Heart
1970
as Father Michael Ferrier
MovieKelly's Heroes
1970
as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
MovieM*A*S*H
1970
as Hawkeye Pierce
MovieStart the Revolution Without Me
1970
as Charles / Pierre
MovieThe Sunshine Patriot
1968
as Benedeck
MovieJoanna
1968
as Lord Peter Sanderson
MovieThe Split
1968
as Dave Negli
TVThe Champions
1968
as David Crayley
TVThe Name of the Game
1968
as Jerry Trevor
TVThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
MovieOedipus the King
1968
as Chorus Leader
MovieInterlude
1968
as Lawrence
MovieSebastian
1968
as Ackerman
MovieBillion Dollar Brain
1967
as Scientist at Computer
TVMan in a Suitcase
1967
as Willard
MovieThe Shuttered Room
1967
as Zebulon (voice)
MovieThe Dirty Dozen
1967
as Vernon Pinkley
MovieLee Oswald: Assassin
1966
as Charles Givens
MoviePromise Her Anything
1966
as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
TVBBC Play of the Month
1965
as Charles Givens
MovieThe Bedford Incident
1965
as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
MovieFanatic
1965
as Joseph
TVGideon's Way
1965
as Philip Guest
MovieDr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965
as Bob Carroll
MovieThe Castle of the Living Dead
1964
as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
TVTheatre 625
1964
as Priest
MovieHamlet at Elsinore
1964
as Fortinbras
MovieThe World Ten Times Over
1963
as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
For King and Country: Out There
1963
as Canadian
TVThe Saint
1962
as John Wood
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVMan of the World
1962
as Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)
Studio 4
1962
as Switchboard Operator
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
TVThe Avengers
1961
as Jessel
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Ethan Hawley
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
