Donald Sutherland

CrewActorProducerWriter Jul 17 (died age 88) Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada 1944–2024 (80 year career)

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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 o…

Known For

Film

Pride & Prejudice

Mr. Bennet

Film

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

President Coriolanus Snow

Film

The Hunger Games

President Coriolanus Snow

Film

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

President Coriolanus Snow

Film

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

President Coriolanus Snow

Film

Lord of War

Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)

Film

The Best Offer

Billy Whistler

Film

The Italian Job

John Bridger

Filmography

Acting (245)

Movies (193)

OZI: Voice of the Forest

as Mr. Smiley

Miranda's Victim

as Judge Wren

Moonfall

as Holdenfield

Mr. Harrigan's Phone

as Mr. Harrigan

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

2021

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.0

Alone

2020

as Edward

5.8

The Burnt Orange Heresy

as Jerome Debney

Citizen Jane Fonda

Ad Astra

as Thomas Pruitt

Backdraft 2

as Ronald Bartel

American Hangman

as Judge Straight

Reach for the Stars

as Self

The Physics of Sorrow

as (voice)

The Leisure Seeker

as John Spencer

Measure of a Man

as Dr. Kahn

Basmati Blues

as Gurgon

Point and Shoot

as Man

Milton's Secret

as Grandpa Howard

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

2015

as President Coriolanus Snow

6.9

Forsaken

2015

as Rev. Clayton

6.2

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

2015

as Self - President Coriolanus Snow

7.2

Pirate's Passage

2015

as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)

5.6

Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...

2015

as Self

5.0

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

2014

as President Coriolanus Snow

6.8

The Calling

2014

as Father Price

5.9

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2014

as Self - President Coriolanus Snow

6.4

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2013

as President Coriolanus Snow

The Best Offer

as Billy Whistler

Jappeloup

as John Lester

Dawn Rider

as Pop

The Hunger Games

as President Coriolanus Snow

7.2

The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden

2012

as Self

4.0

Assassin's Bullet

2012

as Ambassador Ashdown

3.9

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

2012

as Self - President Coriolanus Snow

8.5

Treasure Island

2012

as Captain Flint

The Mechanic

as Harry McKenna

Horrible Bosses

as Jack Pellit

The Eagle

as Aquila

Jock the Hero Dog

as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)

The Man on the Train

as The Professor

The Con Artist

as Kranski

Astro Boy

as President Stone (voice)

6.3

The Eastmans

2009

as Dr. Charles Eastman

Stonehenge: Decoded

as Narrator (voice)

Fool's Gold

as Nigel Honeycutt

Reign Over Me

as Richter Raines

Trumbo

as Self

Puffball

as Lars

Sleepwalkers

as Businessman Struck by a Taxi

6.7

Days of Darkness

2007

as Donald Sutherland

6.4

Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia

as Narrator

Fierce People

as Ogden C. Osborne

Beerfest

as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)

Ask the Dust

as Hellfrick

Fellini dice...

as Self

Operation Dirty Dozen

as Self (uncredited)

Land of the Blind

as Thorne

Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'

as Self

Pride & Prejudice

as Mr. Bennet

Lord of War

as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)

Aurora Borealis

as Ronald Shorter

An American Haunting

as John Bell

American Gun

as Carl Wilk

Sir! No Sir!

as Self

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

as Self

Cold Mountain

as Reverend Monroe

Five Moons Plaza

as Rosario Sarracino

The Italian Job

as John Bridger

Baltic Storm

as Lou Aldryn

Path to War

as Clark Clifford

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

2003

as Self - Casanova

6.1

The Magic of Fellini

2002

as Self (archive footage)

2.8

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

2001

as Narrator (voice)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

as Dr. Sid (voice)

Uprising

as Adam Czerniaków

Big Shot's Funeral

as Tyler

The Big Heist

as Jimmy Burke

Space Cowboys

as Jerry O'Neill

Panic

as Michael

The Art of War

as Douglas Thomas

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

2000

as Self

7.1

Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'

2000

as Self

6.0

Virus

1999

as Captain Robert Everton

Instinct

as Ben Hillard

The Hunley

as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard

Behind the Mask

as Dr. Bob Shushan

Fallen

as Lt. Stanton

Free Money

as Judge Rausenberg

Without Limits

as Bill Bowerman

Shadow Conspiracy

as Jacob Conrad

The Assignment

as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields

A Time to Kill

as Lucien Wilbanks

Hollow Point

as Garrett Lawton

Natural Enemy

as Ted Robards

Hearst Castle: Building the Dream

1996

as Narrator

6.0

Outbreak

1995

as General Donald McClintock

6.6

Citizen X

1995

as Col. Mikhail Fetisov

7.2

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

1995

as Self (archive footage)

Disclosure

as Bob Garvin

The Puppet Masters

as Andrew Nivens

The Lifeforce Experiment

1994

as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean

5.3

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

as William Marsden

Red Hot

as Kirov

Six Degrees of Separation

1993

as Flan

6.4

La Classe américaine

1993

as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.6

Younger and Younger

1993

as Jonathan Younger

3.9

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

1993

as Dr. Norman Bethune

Benefit of the Doubt

as Frank

Quicksand: No Escape

as Murdoch

The Railway Station Man

1992

as Roger Hawthorne

5.9

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

1992

as Merrick Jamison-Smythe

Shadow of the Wolf

as Henderson

The Setting Sun

as John Williams

The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas

as Narrator (voice)

JFK

as X

Backdraft

as Ronald Bartel

Eminent Domain

as Josef Borski

Scream of Stone

as Ivan

Buster's Bedroom

as O'Connor

Kate Bush: Sensual World

1990

as Self (archive footage)

Lock Up

as Warden Drumgoole

A Dry White Season

as Ben du Toit

Lost Angels

as Dr. Charles Loftis

6.1

People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe

as Narrator (voice)

Apprentice to Murder

as John Reese

The Rosary Murders

as Father Robert Koesler

5.5

The Trouble with Spies

as Appleton Porter

The Wolf at the Door

as Paul Gauguin

Heaven Help Us

as Brother Thadeus

Revolution

as Sgt. Maj. Peasy

Crackers

as Westlake

Ordeal by Innocence

as Dr. Arthur Calgary

Max Dugan Returns

as Brian Costello

Fellini nel cestino

as Self

The Winter of Our Discontent

as Ethan Hawley

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

Eye of the Needle

as Faber

Threshold

as Dr. Thomas Vrain

Gas

as Nick the Noz

A War Story

as Narrator (voice)

Ordinary People

as Calvin Jarrett

Nothing Personal

as Roger Keller

North China Factory

as Narrator (voice)

Murder by Decree

as Robert Lees

Bear Island

as Frank Lansing

A Man, a Woman and a Bank

as Reese Halperin

Animal House

as Dave Jennings

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1978

as Matthew Bennell

7.2

The First Great Train Robbery

as Robert Agar

Blood Relatives

as Carella

End of the Game

as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)

4.9

The Kentucky Fried Movie

1977

as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")

The Disappearance

as Jay Mallory

Bethune

as Dr. Norman Bethune

5.7

1900

1976

as Attila Mellanchini

Fellini's Casanova

as Giacomo Casanova

The Eagle Has Landed

as Liam Devlin

The Cinema According to Bertolucci

1976

as Self

6.5

The Day of the Locust

as Homer Simpson

Abicinema

as Self

Alien Thunder

as Sgt. Dan Candy

S*P*Y*S

as Bruland

The Awful Manners

as Man walking (uncredited)

Steelyard Blues

as Jesse Veldini

Don't Look Now

as John Baxter

Lady Ice

as Andy Hammon

FTA

as Self

'Klute' in New York

as Self

Klute

as John Klute

Johnny Got His Gun

as Christ

Little Murders

as Rev. Dupas

M*A*S*H

as Hawkeye Pierce

Kelly's Heroes

as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)

7.3

Start the Revolution Without Me

as Charles / Pierre

Alex in Wonderland

as Alex Morrison

Act of the Heart

as Father Michael Ferrier

The Split

as Dave Negli

Interlude

as Lawrence

Sebastian

as Ackerman

Joanna

as Lord Peter Sanderson

Oedipus the King

as Chorus Leader

The Sunshine Patriot

as Benedeck

The Dirty Dozen

as Vernon Pinkley

Billion Dollar Brain

as Scientist at Computer

The Shuttered Room

as Zebulon (voice)

Promise Her Anything

as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)

3.5

Fanatic

1965

as Joseph

6.6

Dr Terror's House of Horrors

1965

as Bob Carroll

6.5

The Bedford Incident

1965

as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay

7.0

The Castle of the Living Dead

1964

as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man

6.1

Hamlet at Elsinore

1964

as Fortinbras

7.8

For King and Country: Out There

1963

as Canadian

The World Ten Times Over

1963

as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)

7.0

Television (52)

Lawmen: Bass Reeves

2023

as Judge Isaac Parker

7.1

Swimming with Sharks

2022

as Redmond

6.9

JFK: Destiny Betrayed

2021

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Undoing

as Franklin Reinhart

Trust

as J. Paul Getty Sr.

Ice

as Pieter Van De Bruin

Crossing Lines

as Michael Dorn

The Frame

as President Coriolanus Snow

Treasure Island

as Captain Flint

Moby Dick

as Father Mapple

The Pillars of the Earth

2010

as Earl Bartholomew

7.7

The Graham Norton Show

2007

as Self

7.2

Dirty Sexy Money

2007

as Patrick "Tripp" Darling III

6.2

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

as Narrator (voice)

Commander in Chief

as Nathan Templeton

Human Trafficking

as Agent Bill Meehan

Salem's Lot

as Richard Straker

Frankenstein

as Captain Walton

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

2001

as Self - Guest

6.0

History vs. Hollywood

2001

as Self

7.7

Uprising

2001

as Adam Czerniaków

Queen Victoria's Empire

as Narrator (voice)

Backstory

as Self

The View

as Self

Scene by Scene

as Self

Inside the Actors Studio

1994

as Self

7.5

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

as William Marsden

HBO First Look

as Self

Romy Award

as Self

The Simpsons

as Hollis Hurlbut (voice)

8.0

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

as Self - Guest

American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

Friday People

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

as Self

6.0

Spécial cinéma

1974

as Self

Film '72

as Self

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

The Champions

as David Crayley

The Name of the Game

as Jerry Trevor

Man in a Suitcase

as Willard

BBC Play of the Month

as Charles Givens

Gideon's Way

as Philip Guest

Theatre 625

as Priest

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

The Saint

as Jim McCleery

Man of the World

as Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)

7.0

Studio 4

1962

as Switchboard Operator

6.0

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

The Avengers

as Jessel

The Oscars

as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Ethan Hawley

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

Crew (6)

Movies (5)

Pirate's Passage

Producer

Pirate's Passage

Writer

Steelyard Blues

Executive Producer

FTA

Producer

FTA

Writer

Television (1)

Murder in a Small Town

2024

In Memory Of

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