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Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland

Acting · Crew

Born July 17, 1935, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (47)
  • 2021JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • JFK: Destiny Betrayed — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2020Citizen Jane Fonda — Self (archive footage)
  • 2019Reach for the Stars — Self
  • 2016Re-Visitors from Outer Space, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod — Self
  • 2015Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... — Self
  • 2015The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 — Self - President Coriolanus Snow
  • 2014Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Self - President Coriolanus Snow
  • 2012The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden — Self
  • 2012The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games — Self - President Coriolanus Snow
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self
  • 2007Trumbo — Self
  • 2006Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' — Self
  • 2006Fellini dice... — Self
  • 2006Operation Dirty Dozen — Self (uncredited)
  • 2005Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That — Self
  • 2005Sir! No Sir! — Self
  • 2003Fellini: I'm a Born Liar — Self - Casanova
  • 2002The Magic of Fellini — Self (archive footage)
  • Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self - Guest
  • History vs. Hollywood — Self
  • Backstory — Self
  • 2000Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows — Self
  • 2000Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' — Self
  • Scene by Scene — Self
  • The View — Self
  • 1995Roger Moore: A Matter of Class — Self (archive footage)
  • 1994A Century of Cinema — Self
  • Inside the Actors Studio — Self
  • HBO First Look — Self
  • 1990Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video — Self (archive footage)
  • Romy Award — Self
  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
  • 1983Fellini nel cestino — Self
  • 1982Night of 100 Stars — Self
  • Ciné regards — Self
  • 1976The Cinema According to Bertolucci — Self
  • 1975ABCinema — Self
  • Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
  • Spécial cinéma — Self
  • 1971'Klute' in New York — Self
  • Film '72 — Self
  • The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
  • The Mike Douglas Show — Self
  • The Oscars — Self
  • Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter