Donald McNichol Sutherland (born July 17, 1935) is a Canadian actor whose film career spans over 6 decades. He has been 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 is the father of actors Kiefer Sutherland, Rossif Sutherland, and Angus Sutherland.
Known For
| Birth Location | Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada |
|---|---|
| Born | 1935-07-17 |
Movies
Ozi: Voice of the Forest
as Albino Crocodile (voice)
2024
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
as Coriolanus Snow (voice) (uncredited)
2023
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 Narrator (voice)
2021
Alone
as Edward
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 (additional voice)
2019
Backdraft 2
as Ronald Bartel
2019
American Hangman
as Judge Straight
2019
A Reindeer's Journey
as Narrator (English Version) (voice)
2018
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
For the Love of Spock
as Matthew Bennell (archive footage)
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
2013
2012
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
as Self (President Coriolanus Snow)
2012
Assassin's Bullet
as Ambassador Ashdown
2012
Dawn Rider
as Pop
2012
The Hunger Games
as President Coriolanus Snow
2012
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
The Mechanic
as Harry McKenna
2011
The Con Artist
as Kranski
2010
Astro Boy
as General Stone (voice)
2009
The Eastmans
as Dr. Charles Eastman
2009
Stonehenge: Decoded
as Narrator (voice)
2008
Fool's Gold
as Nigel Honeycutt
2008
Fierce People
as Ogden C. Osborne
2007
Puffball
as Lars
2007
Days of Darkness
as Donald Sutherland
2007
Trumbo
as Self
2007
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
as Narrator (voice)
2007
Reign Over Me
as Richter Raines
2007
Sleepwalkers
as Businessman struck by a taxi
2007
Beerfest
as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
2006
Land of the Blind
as Thorne
2006
Ask the Dust
as Hellfrick
2006
Operation Dirty Dozen
as Self (uncredited)
2006
2006
2005
Lord of War
as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
2005
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Bennet
2005
American Gun
as Carl Wilk
2005
Sir! No Sir!
as Self
2005
An American Haunting
as John Bell
2005
Aurora Borealis
as Ronald Shorter
2005
Cold Mountain
as Reverend Monroe
2003
Path to War
as Clark Clifford
2003
Baltic Storm
as Lou Aldryn
2003
The Italian Job
as John Bridger
2003
Five Moons Plaza
as Rosario Sarracino
2003
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
as Self - Casanova
2003
The Magic of Fellini
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Big Shot's Funeral
as Tyler
2001
Uprising
as Adam Czerniaków
2001
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
as Dr. Cid (voice)
2001
The Big Heist
as Jimmy Burke
2001
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
as Narrator (voice)
2001
Panic
as Michael
2000
2000
The Art of War
as Douglas Thomas
2000
Space Cowboys
as Jerry O`Neill
2000
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
as Self
2000
The Hunley
as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
1999
Instinct
as Ben Hillard
1999
Behind the Mask
as Dr. Bob Shushan
1999
Virus
as Captain Robert Everton
1999
Free Money
as Judge Rausenberg
1998
Without Limits
as Bill Bowerman
1998
Fallen
as Lt. Stanton
1998
The Assignment
as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
1997
Shadow Conspiracy
as Jacob Conrad
1997
Natural Enemy
as Ted Robards
1996
Hollow Point
as Garrett Lawton
1996
A Time to Kill
as Lucien Wilbanks
1996
Roger Moore: A Matter Of Class
as Self (archive footage)
1995
Outbreak
as General Donald McClintock
1995
Citizen X
as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
1995
Disclosure
as Bob Garvin
1994
The Puppet Masters
as Andrew Nivens
1994
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
as William Marsden
1994
The Lifeforce Experiment
as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
1994
La Classe américaine
as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
Six Degrees of Separation
as Flan
1993
Younger and Younger
as Jonathan Younger
1993
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
as Dr. Norman Bethune
1993
Benefit of the Doubt
as Frank
1993
The Mighty River
as Narrator (English Version) (voice)
1993
Red Hot
as Kirov
1993
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
1992
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
as Narrator (voice)
1992
The Railway Station Man
as Roger Hawthorne
1992
The Setting Sun
as John Williams
1992
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
1992
Shadow of the Wolf
as Henderson
1992
Quicksand: No Escape
as Murdoch
1992
JFK
as X
1991
Scream of Stone
as Ivan
1991
Backdraft
as Ronald Bartel
1991
Buster's Bedroom
as O'Connor
1991
Eminent Domain
as Josef Borski
1991
Kate Bush: Sensual World
as Self (archive footage)
1990
A Dry White Season
as Ben du Toit
1989
Lock Up
as Warden Drumgoole
1989
Lost Angels
as Dr. Charles Loftis
1989
Apprentice to Murder
as John Reese
1988
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
as Narrator (voice)
1988
The Trouble with Spies
as Appleton Porter
1987
The Rosary Murders
as Father Robert Koesler
1987
The Wolf at the Door
as Paul Gauguin
1986
Revolution
as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
1985
Cloudbusting
as William Reich
1985
Heaven Help Us
as Brother Thadeus
1985
Terror in the Aisles
as Matthew Bennell (archive footage) (uncredited)
1984
Ordeal by Innocence
as Dr. Arthur Calgary
1984
Crackers
as Westlake
1984
The Winter of Our Discontent
as Ethan Hawley
1983
Max Dugan Returns
as Brian Costello
1983
Fellini nel cestino
as Self
1983
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
A War Story
as Narrator (voice)
1981
Threshold
as Dr. Thomas Vrain
1981
Gas
as Nick the Noz
1981
Eye of the Needle
as Faber
1981
Ordinary People
as Calvin Jarrett
1980
Nothing Personal
as Roger Keller
1980
North China Factory
as Narrator (voice)
1980
Bear Island
as Frank Lansing
1979
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
as Reese Halperin
1979
Murder by Decree
as Robert Lees
1979
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
as Matthew Bennell
1978
The First Great Train Robbery
as Robert Agar
1978
Animal House
as Dave Jennings
1978
Blood Relatives
as Carella
1978
The Disappearance
as Jay Mallory
1977
The Kentucky Fried Movie
as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
1977
Bethune
as Norman Bethune
1977
The Eagle Has Landed
as Liam Devlin
1976
Fellini's Casanova
as Giacomo Casanova
1976
1900
as Attila Mellanchini
1976
The Spiral
as Narrator (English version) (voice)
1976
1976
End of the Game
as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
1975
Abicinema
as Self
1975
The Day of the Locust
as Homer Simpson
1975
S*P*Y*S
as Bruland
1974
Alien Thunder
as Sgt. Dan Candy
1974
Lady Ice
as Andy Hammon
1973
Steelyard Blues
as Jesse Veldini
1973
Don't Look Now
as John Baxter
1973
FTA
as Self
1972
'Klute' in New York
as Self
1971
Johnny Got His Gun
as Christ
1971
Klute
as John Klute
1971
Little Murders
as Rev. Dupas
1971
Alex in Wonderland
as Alex Morrison
1970
Act of the Heart
as Father Michael Ferrier
1970
Kelly's Heroes
as Sgt. Oddball (tank commander)
1970
M*A*S*H
as Hawkeye Pierce
1970
Start the Revolution Without Me
as Charles / Pierre
1970
The Sunshine Patriot
as Benedeck
1968
Joanna
as Lord Peter Sanderson
1968
The Split
as Dave Negli
1968
Oedipus the King
as Chorus Leader
1968
Interlude
as Lawrence
1968
Sebastian
as Ackerman
1968
Billion Dollar Brain
as Scientist at Computer
1967
The Dirty Dozen
as Vernon Pinkley
1967
Promise Her Anything
as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
1966
The Bedford Incident
as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
1965
Fanatic
as Joseph
1965
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as Bob Carroll
1965
The Castle of the Living Dead
as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
1964
Hamlet at Elsinore
as Fortinbras
1964
Movies
Pirate's Passage
Producer
2015
Pirate's Passage
Writer
2015
Steelyard Blues
Executive Producer
1973
FTA
Writer
1972
FTA
Producer
1972
