Donald Sutherland
Acting
- Born:
- 1935-07-17
- Died:
- 2024-06-20
- Place of birth:
- Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
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
OZI: Voice of the Forest
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Miranda's Victim
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Swimming with Sharks
Moonfall
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
The Undoing
Alone
Citizen Jane Fonda
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Reach for the Stars
Ad Astra
The Physics of Sorrow
Backdraft 2
American Hangman
Measure of a Man
Trust
The Green Fog
The Leisure Seeker
Basmati Blues
Ice
Milton's Secret
Re-Visitors from Outer Space, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod
Point and Shoot
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Forsaken
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Pirate's Passage
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
The Calling
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Crossing Lines
The Frame
Jappeloup
The Best Offer
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden
Assassin's Bullet
Dawn Rider
The Hunger Games
Treasure Island
Treasure Island
The Man on the Train
Jock the Hero Dog
Horrible Bosses
Moby Dick
The Eagle
The Mechanic
The Con Artist
The Pillars of the Earth
Astro Boy
The Eastmans
Stonehenge: Decoded
Fool's Gold
Puffball
Days of Darkness
Dirty Sexy Money
Trumbo
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
Reign Over Me
The Graham Norton Show
Sleepwalkers
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Beerfest
Land of the Blind
Fierce People
Ask the Dust
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
Fellini dice...
Operation Dirty Dozen
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Human Trafficking
Commander in Chief
Pride & Prejudice
Lord of War
American Gun
Sir! No Sir!
An American Haunting
Aurora Borealis
Frankenstein
Salem's Lot
Cold Mountain
Path to War
Baltic Storm
The Italian Job
Five Moons Plaza
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
The Magic of Fellini
Big Shot's Funeral
Uprising
Uprising
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Queen Victoria's Empire
The Big Heist
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
History vs. Hollywood
Panic
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
The Art of War
Backstory
Space Cowboys
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
The Hunley
Instinct
Behind the Mask
Virus
Free Money
Without Limits
Fallen
The Assignment
The View
Scene by Scene
Shadow Conspiracy
Natural Enemy
Hollow Point
A Time to Kill
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Outbreak
Citizen X
Disclosure
The Puppet Masters
Inside the Actors Studio
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
The Lifeforce Experiment
A Century of Cinema
La Classe américaine
Six Degrees of Separation
Younger and Younger
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Red Hot
Benefit of the Doubt
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
The Railway Station Man
The Setting Sun
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
HBO First Look
Shadow of the Wolf
Quicksand: No Escape
JFK
Scream of Stone
Backdraft
Buster's Bedroom
Eminent Domain
Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video
Romy Award
The Simpsons
A Dry White Season
Lock Up
Lost Angels
American Experience
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Apprentice to Murder
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
The Trouble with Spies
The Rosary Murders
The Wolf at the Door
Revolution
Heaven Help Us
Screen Two
Friday People
Ordeal by Innocence
Crackers
The Winter of Our Discontent
Max Dugan Returns
Fellini nel cestino
Night of 100 Stars
A War Story
Threshold
Eye of the Needle
Gas
Ordinary People
Nothing Personal
North China Factory
Bear Island
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
Murder by Decree
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The First Great Train Robbery
Animal House
Blood Relatives
Ciné regards
The Disappearance
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Bethune
The Eagle Has Landed
Fellini's Casanova
1900
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
ABCinema
The Day of the Locust
End of the Game
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Spécial cinéma
S*P*Y*S
Alien Thunder
The Awful Manners
Don't Look Now
Lady Ice
Steelyard Blues
FTA
'Klute' in New York
Film '72
Johnny Got His Gun
Klute
Little Murders
Alex in Wonderland
Act of the Heart
Kelly's Heroes
M*A*S*H
Start the Revolution Without Me
The Sunshine Patriot
Joanna
The Split
The Champions
The Name of the Game
The Dick Cavett Show
Oedipus the King
Interlude
Sebastian
Billion Dollar Brain
Man in a Suitcase
The Shuttered Room
The Dirty Dozen
Lee Oswald: Assassin
Promise Her Anything
BBC Play of the Month
The Bedford Incident
Fanatic
Gideon's Way
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
The Castle of the Living Dead
Theatre 625
Hamlet at Elsinore
The World Ten Times Over
For King and Country: Out There
The Saint
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Man of the World
Studio 4
The Mike Douglas Show
The Avengers
The Oscars
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Golden Globe Awards