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.
Acting (186 movies)
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014
Don't Look Now
1973
Klute
1971
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001
M*A*S*H
1970
An American Haunting
2005
A Time to Kill
1996
The Dirty Dozen
1967
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
JFK
1991
Cold Mountain
2003
Max Dugan Returns
1983
Reign Over Me
2007
Ask the Dust
2006
1900
1976
Backdraft
1991
Pride & Prejudice
2005
Eye of the Needle
1981
Five Moons Plaza
2003
Billion Dollar Brain
1967
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
2022
Panic
2000
Space Cowboys
2000
The Day of the Locust
1975
Uprising
2001
The Eagle Has Landed
1976
Path to War
2003
Free Money
1998
The Art of War
2000
Without Limits
1998
The First Great Train Robbery
1978
Kelly's Heroes
1970
Six Degrees of Separation
1993
The Kentucky Fried Movie
1977
Outbreak
1995
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978
The Split
1968
Animal House
1978
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
2006
Fool's Gold
2008
Instinct
1999
A Dry White Season
1989
Disclosure
1994
Fallen
1998
The Puppet Masters
1994
Virus
1999
Natural Enemy
1996
Citizen X
1995
Puffball
2007
Alex in Wonderland
1970
Little Murders
1971
Lock Up
1989
Revolution
1985
The Mechanic
2011
The Italian Job
2003
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965
Murder by Decree
1979
Beerfest
2006
Aurora Borealis
2005
S*P*Y*S
1974
The Castle of the Living Dead
1964
Heaven Help Us
1985
Benefit of the Doubt
1993
Fellini's Casanova
1976
Fanatic
1965
The Con Artist
2010
American Gun
2005
Lost Angels
1989
Shadow Conspiracy
1997
Johnny Got His Gun
1971
Bear Island
1979
Astro Boy
2009
Ordinary People
1980
Sir! No Sir!
2005
The Hunley
1999
Shadow of the Wolf
1992
The Bedford Incident
1965
Blood Relatives
1978
The Eagle
2011
The Assignment
1997
The Big Heist
2001
The Man on the Train
2011
Ozi: Voice of the Forest
2024
Horrible Bosses
2011
Fierce People
2006
The Hunger Games
2012
Start the Revolution Without Me
1970
Jock the Hero Dog
2011
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
2007
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
1979
End of the Game
1978
Steelyard Blues
1973
Hollow Point
1996
Joanna
1968
Big Shot's Funeral
2001
Crackers
1984
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
Scream of Stone
1991
Apprentice to Murder
1988
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| FTA | 1972 | Writer |
| FTA | 1972 | Producer |
| Steelyard Blues | 1973 | Executive Producer |
| Pirate's Passage | 2015 | Writer |
| Pirate's Passage | 2015 | Producer |