
Donald Sutherland
Acting
🎂 1935-07-17
Donald McNichol Sutherland 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.
Cast credits(240)

Hollis Hurlbut (voice)
1989

Self
2007

Self
1962

Self
1961

Jessel
1961

Self - Nominee
1944

Self - Presenter
1944

Narrator (voice)
1988

John Wood
1962

Jim McCleery
1962

Self
1997

Charles Givens
1965

Jerry Trevor
1968

President Coriolanus Snow
2014

Self - Guest
1988

Self
1975

Mr. Bennet
2005

President Coriolanus Snow
2013

President Coriolanus Snow
2015

Self
1953

Self
1974

John Bridger
2003

Michael Dorn
2013

Self - Guest
1968

President Coriolanus Snow
2012

David Crayley
1968

Lt. Stanton
1998

Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
2005

Harry McKenna
2011

Holdenfield
2022

Earl Bartholomew
2010

Lucien Wilbanks
1996

Jack Pellit
2011

X
1991

Judge Isaac Parker
2023

Philip Guest
1965

Nathan Templeton
2005
Self
1990

Reverend Monroe
2003

Franklin Reinhart
2020

Patrick "Tripp" Darling III
2007

Vernon Pinkley
1967

Nigel Honeycutt
2008

General Donald McClintock
1995

Dave Jennings
1978

President Coriolanus Snow
2013

J. Paul Getty Sr.
2018

Narrator (voice)
2006

President Stone (voice)
2009

Willard
1967

Keith Earle
1967

Jacob Conrad
1997

Jerry O'Neill
2000

Self - Guest
2001

Pieter Van De Bruin
2016

Ronald Bartel
1991

Judge Wren
2023

Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
1970

Dr. Sid (voice)
2001

Robert Agar
1978

Edward
2020

Aquila
2011

Warden Drumgoole
1989

Thomas Pruitt
2019

Tyler
2001

Clark Clifford
2003

Matthew Bennell
1978

Bob Garvin
1994

Liam Devlin
1976

Hawkeye Pierce
1970

Rev. Clayton
2015

Ben Hillard
1999

Captain Flint
2012

Merrick Jamison-Smythe
1992

Hellfrick
2006

Billy Whistler
2013

Richter Raines
2007

Richard Straker
2004

Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
1997

Flan
1993

Self
2000

John Klute
1971

Grandpa Howard
2016

Self (archive footage)
1995

Faber
1981

Dr. Thomas Vrain
1981

Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
2006

Sgt. Maj. Peasy
1985

Father Price
2014

Self
2006

Captain Walton
2004

Zebulon (voice)
1967

Ogden C. Osborne
2006

Henderson
1992

Agent Bill Meehan
2005

John Bell
2005

Ronald Bartel
2019

Scientist at Computer
1967

Mr. Harrigan
2022

Self
2000

Calvin Jarrett
1980

Redmond
2022

Self
1971

Douglas Thomas
2000

Bill Bowerman
1998

The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
1977

John Williams
1992

Attila Mellanchini
1976

John Baxter
1973

Robert Lees
1979

Andrew Nivens
1994

Father Mapple
2011

Self - President Coriolanus Snow
2012

Jerome Debney
2020

Self - President Coriolanus Snow
2015

Paul Gauguin
1986

Brother Thadeus
1985

Jesse Veldini
1973

Frank Lansing
1979

Charles / Pierre
1970

Carl Wilk
2005

Ivan
1991

Ronald Shorter
2005

Captain Robert Everton
1999

Alex Morrison
1970

Self
2001

Judge Rausenberg
1998

Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)
1962

Ethan Hawley
1951

Col. Mikhail Fetisov
1995

Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
1964

John Lester
2013

John Spencer
2018

Reese Halperin
1979

Pop
2012

Nick the Noz
1981

Ackerman
1968

Crocodile (voice)
2024

Self - Narrator (voice)
2021

Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
1965

Dr. Kahn
2018

Thorne
2006

Dr. Arthur Calgary
1984

Bob Carroll
1965

Self
2005

Roger Hawthorne
1992

Giacomo Casanova
1976

Self
1982

Self
1997

Dr. Charles Eastman
2009

Homer Simpson
1975

Self - Narrator (voice)
2021

Donald Sutherland
2007

Gurgon
2017

Christ
1971

Josef Borski
1991

Lou Aldryn
2003

Brian Costello
1983
Switchboard Operator
1962

Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
1999

Father Robert Koesler
1987

Jonathan Younger
1993

Dr. Charles Loftis
1989

Roger Keller
1980

Dave Negli
1968

Ted Robards
1996

Self
1972

Rosario Sarracino
2003

Ben du Toit
1989

Murdoch
1992

Benedeck
1968

John Reese
1988

Self - President Coriolanus Snow
2014

Self (archive footage)
2002

Westlake
1984

Fortinbras
1964

Self
1975

Adam Czerniaków
2001

Judge Straight
2019

Lars
2007

Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
Self
2000

Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
1994

Self
2019

Garrett Lawton
1996

Dr. Bob Shushan
1999
Self
1983

Self - Casanova
2003

Jimmy Burke
2001

Michael
2000

Kirov
1993

Frank
1993

Self
1994

Ambassador Ashdown
2012

Lawrence
1968

Chorus Leader
1968

Self
2007

Sgt. Dan Candy
1974

Kranski
2010

Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
2015

Jay Mallory
1977

Carella
1978

Narrator
1996

Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
1966

Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
2011

Ethan Hawley
1983

Lord Peter Sanderson
1968

Rev. Dupas
1971

The Professor
2011

William Marsden
1994

Self
2005

Appleton Porter
1987

William Marsden
1994

O'Connor
1991

Dr. Norman Bethune
1993

Narrator (voice)
2001

Joseph
1965

Bruland
1974

Father Michael Ferrier
1970

Self (uncredited)
2006

Self
2015

Andy Hammon
1973

(voice)
2019

Self (archive footage)
1990

Businessman Struck by a Taxi
2007

Narrator (voice)
2001

Narrator (voice)
1992

Self
2006

Self
1976
Narrator (voice)
1981
Man
2016

Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
1978

Narrator (voice)
2008

Narrator (voice)
1988
Self
2012

Narrator (voice)
1992

Dr. Norman Bethune
1977
Narrator (voice)
1980

William Reich
1985

Narrator
2007