Donald Sutherland

Known For: Acting
Born: July 17, 1935 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: June 20, 2024
Active Years: 1944–2024 (81 Years)
Total Credits: 259 credits in database

Acting Born Jul 17, 1935 Died Jun 20, 2024 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada 259 credits

Biography

Donald McNichol Sutherland was a Canadian actor born on July 17, 1935, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. His film career spanned over six decades, and he amassed 251 known acting credits on The Movie Database. Throughout his career, he was nominated for eight Golden Globe Awards and won two for his performances in the television films Citizen X in 1995 and Path to War in 2002. His work in Citizen X also earned him a Primetime Emmy Award. Sutherland was an inductee of the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Canadian Walk of Fame, and he received a Canadian Academy Award for the drama film Threshold in 1981. In 2017, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his contributions to cinema. He passed away on June 20, 2024.

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Career

Career overview

Donald McNichol Sutherland was a Canadian actor born on July 17, 1935, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. His film career spanned over six decades, during which he accumulated 251 known acting credits according to archival data. Throughout his extensive career in film and television, he was recognized internationally and domestically, earning numerous accolades and honors for his performances.

Sutherland was nominated for eight Golden Globe Awards, winning two for his work in the television films Citizen X in 1995 and Path to War in 2002. His performance in Citizen X also earned him a Primetime Emmy Award. In addition to these honors, he received a Canadian Academy Award for his role in the drama film Threshold in 1981. His contributions to the industry were further recognized with inductions into both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Canadian Walk of Fame.

Multiple film critics and media outlets 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. Sutherland passed away on June 20, 2024, at the age of 88.

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Career timeline

2024

Murder in a Small Town · In Memory OfOZI: Voice of the Forest

2023

Lawmen: Bass ReevesMiranda's Victim

2022

MoonfallMr. Harrigan's PhoneSwimming with Sharks

2021

JFK: Destiny BetrayedJFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

2020

The UndoingAloneThe Burnt Orange HeresyCitizen Jane Fonda

2019

Ad AstraBackdraft 2Reach for the StarsAmerican HangmanThe Physics of Sorrow

2018

TrustThe Leisure SeekerMeasure of a ManThe Green Fog

2017

Basmati Blues

2016

IceMilton's SecretPoint and Shoot

2015

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2ForsakenPirate's PassagePirate's Passage · WriterPirate's Passage · Producer

2014

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1The CallingSurviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2013

The Hunger Games: Catching FireCrossing LinesThe FrameThe Best OfferJappeloup

2012

The Hunger GamesTreasure IslandDawn RiderAssassin's BulletThe World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

2011

The MechanicHorrible BossesThe EagleHollywood InvasionMoby Dick

2010

The Pillars of the EarthThe Con Artist

2009

Astro BoyThe Eastmans

2008

Fool's GoldStonehenge: Decoded

2007

The Graham Norton ShowDirty Sexy MoneyReign Over MeDays of DarknessPuffball

2006

America's Game: The Super Bowl ChampionsBeerfestFellini dice...Land of the BlindAsk the Dust

2005

Pride & PrejudiceCommander in ChiefLord of WarHuman TraffickingAn American Haunting

2004

FrankensteinSalem's Lot

2003

The Italian JobCold MountainPath to WarFive Moons PlazaBaltic Storm

2002

The Magic of Fellini

2001

Friday Night with Jonathan RossFinal Fantasy: The Spirits WithinUprisingUprisingBig Shot's Funeral

2000

Space CowboysBackstoryPanicThe Art of WarClint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

1999

InstinctVirusBehind the MaskThe HunleyVirus: Ghost in the Machine

1998

FallenWithout LimitsFree Money

1997

The ViewScene by SceneThe AssignmentShadow Conspiracy

1996

A Time to KillNatural EnemyHearst Castle: Building the DreamHollow Point

1995

OutbreakCitizen XRoger Moore: A Matter of Class

Full Filmography

259 titles

Murder in a Small Town (2024) In Memory Of
OZI: Voice of the Forest (2024) as Mr. Smiley
Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023) as Judge Isaac Parker
Miranda's Victim (2023) as Judge Wren
Moonfall (2022) as Holdenfield
Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022) as Mr. Harrigan
Swimming with Sharks (2022) as Redmond
JFK: Destiny Betrayed (2021) as Self - Narrator (voice)
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021) as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Undoing (2020) as Franklin Reinhart
Alone (2020) as Edward
The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020) as Jerome Debney
Citizen Jane Fonda (2020)
Ad Astra (2019) as Thomas Pruitt
Backdraft 2 (2019) as Ronald Bartel
Reach for the Stars (2019) as Self
American Hangman (2019) as Judge Straight
The Physics of Sorrow (2019) as (voice)
Trust (2018) as J. Paul Getty Sr.
The Leisure Seeker (2018) as John Spencer
Measure of a Man (2018) as Dr. Kahn
The Green Fog (2018)
Basmati Blues (2017) as Gurgon
Ice (2016) as Pieter Van De Bruin
Milton's Secret (2016) as Grandpa Howard
Point and Shoot (2016) as Man
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) as President Coriolanus Snow
Forsaken (2015) as Rev. Clayton
Pirate's Passage (2015) as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
Pirate's Passage (2015) Writer
Pirate's Passage (2015) Producer
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2015) as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... (2015) as Self
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) as President Coriolanus Snow
The Calling (2014) as Father Price
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2014) as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) as President Coriolanus Snow
Crossing Lines (2013) as Michael Dorn
The Frame (2013) as President Coriolanus Snow
The Best Offer (2013) as Billy Whistler
Jappeloup (2013) as John Lester
The Hunger Games (2012) as President Coriolanus Snow
Treasure Island (2012) as Captain Flint
Dawn Rider (2012) as Pop
Assassin's Bullet (2012) as Ambassador Ashdown
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games (2012) as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden (2012) as Self
The Mechanic (2011) as Harry McKenna
Horrible Bosses (2011) as Jack Pellit
The Eagle (2011) as Aquila
Hollywood Invasion (2011) as archive footage
Moby Dick (2011) as Father Mapple
The Man on the Train (2011) as The Professor
Jock the Hero Dog (2011) as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
The Pillars of the Earth (2010) as Earl Bartholomew
The Con Artist (2010) as Kranski
Astro Boy (2009) as President Stone (voice)
The Eastmans (2009) as Dr. Charles Eastman
Fool's Gold (2008) as Nigel Honeycutt
Stonehenge: Decoded (2008) as Narrator (voice)
The Graham Norton Show (2007) as Self
Dirty Sexy Money (2007) as Patrick "Tripp" Darling III
Reign Over Me (2007) as Richter Raines
Days of Darkness (2007) as Donald Sutherland
Puffball (2007) as Lars
Trumbo (2007) as Self
Sleepwalkers (2007) as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia (2007) as Narrator
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions (2006) as Narrator (voice)
Beerfest (2006) as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
Fellini dice... (2006) as Self
Land of the Blind (2006) as Thorne
Ask the Dust (2006) as Hellfrick
Fierce People (2006) as Ogden C. Osborne
Operation Dirty Dozen (2006) as Self (uncredited)
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' (2006) as Self
Pride & Prejudice (2005) as Mr. Bennet
Commander in Chief (2005) as Nathan Templeton
Lord of War (2005) as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
Human Trafficking (2005) as Agent Bill Meehan
An American Haunting (2005) as John Bell
American Gun (2005) as Carl Wilk
Aurora Borealis (2005) as Ronald Shorter
Sir! No Sir! (2005) as Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005) as Self
Frankenstein (2004) as Captain Walton
Salem's Lot (2004) as Richard Straker
The Italian Job (2003) as John Bridger
Cold Mountain (2003) as Reverend Monroe
Path to War (2003) as Clark Clifford
Five Moons Plaza (2003) as Rosario Sarracino
Baltic Storm (2003) as Lou Aldryn
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003) as Self - Casanova
The Magic of Fellini (2002) as Self (archive footage)
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001) as Self - Guest
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) as Dr. Sid (voice)
Uprising (2001) as Adam Czerniaków
Uprising (2001) as Adam Czerniaków
Big Shot's Funeral (2001) as Tyler
History vs. Hollywood (2001) as Self
Queen Victoria's Empire (2001) as Narrator (voice)
The Big Heist (2001) as Jimmy Burke
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2001) as Narrator (voice)
Space Cowboys (2000) as Jerry O'Neill
Backstory (2000) as Self
Panic (2000) as Michael
The Art of War (2000) as Douglas Thomas
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000) as Self
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' (2000) as Self
Instinct (1999) as Ben Hillard
Virus (1999) as Captain Robert Everton
Behind the Mask (1999) as Dr. Bob Shushan
The Hunley (1999) as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Virus: Ghost in the Machine (1999) as Self
Fallen (1998) as Lt. Stanton
Without Limits (1998) as Bill Bowerman
Free Money (1998) as Judge Rausenberg
The View (1997) as Self
Scene by Scene (1997) as Self
The Assignment (1997) as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
Shadow Conspiracy (1997) as Jacob Conrad
A Time to Kill (1996) as Lucien Wilbanks
Natural Enemy (1996) as Ted Robards
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream (1996) as Narrator
Hollow Point (1996) as Garrett Lawton
Outbreak (1995) as General Donald McClintock
Citizen X (1995) as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class (1995) as Self (archive footage)
Disclosure (1994) as Bob Garvin
The Puppet Masters (1994) as Andrew Nivens
Inside the Actors Studio (1994) as Self
The Lifeforce Experiment (1994) as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994) as William Marsden
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994) as William Marsden
Six Degrees of Separation (1993) as Flan
La Classe américaine (1993) as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Younger and Younger (1993) as Jonathan Younger
Red Hot (1993) as Kirov
Benefit of the Doubt (1993) as Frank
Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1993) as Dr. Norman Bethune
HBO First Look (1992) as Self
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
The Setting Sun (1992) as John Williams
Quicksand: No Escape (1992) as Murdoch
Shadow of the Wolf (1992) as Henderson
The Railway Station Man (1992) as Roger Hawthorne
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas (1992) as Narrator (voice)
Backdraft (1991) as Ronald Bartel
JFK (1991) as X
Eminent Domain (1991) as Josef Borski
Scream of Stone (1991) as Ivan
Buster's Bedroom (1991) as O'Connor
Romy Award (1990) as Self
Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video (1990) as Self (archive footage)
The Simpsons (1989) as Hollis Hurlbut (voice)
Lock Up (1989) as Warden Drumgoole
A Dry White Season (1989) as Ben du Toit
Lost Angels (1989) as Dr. Charles Loftis
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988) as Self - Guest
American Experience (1988) as Narrator (voice)
Apprentice to Murder (1988) as John Reese
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe (1988) as Narrator (voice)
The Rosary Murders (1987) as Father Robert Koesler
The Trouble with Spies (1987) as Appleton Porter
The Wolf at the Door (1986) as Paul Gauguin
Screen Two (1985) as Roger Hawthorne
Friday People (1985)
Revolution (1985) as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Heaven Help Us (1985) as Brother Thadeus
Ordeal by Innocence (1984) as Dr. Arthur Calgary
Crackers (1984) as Westlake
Max Dugan Returns (1983) as Brian Costello
Fellini nel cestino (1983) as Self
The Winter of Our Discontent (1983) as Ethan Hawley
Night of 100 Stars (1982) as Self
Eye of the Needle (1981) as Faber
Gas (1981) as Nick the Noz
Threshold (1981) as Dr. Thomas Vrain
A War Story (1981) as Narrator (voice)
Ordinary People (1980) as Calvin Jarrett
Nothing Personal (1980) as Roger Keller
North China Factory (1980) as Narrator (voice)
Murder by Decree (1979) as Robert Lees
Bear Island (1979) as Frank Lansing
A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979) as Reese Halperin
Ciné regards (1978) as Self
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) as Matthew Bennell
Animal House (1978) as Dave Jennings
The First Great Train Robbery (1978) as Robert Agar
Blood Relatives (1978) as Steve Carella
End of the Game (1978) as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
Bethune (1977) as Dr. Norman Bethune
The Disappearance (1977) as Jay Mallory
1900 (1976) as Attila Mellanchini
The Eagle Has Landed (1976) as Liam Devlin
Fellini's Casanova (1976) as Giacomo Casanova
The Cinema According to Bertolucci (1976) as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975) as Self
The Day of the Locust (1975) as Homer Simpson
Abicinema (1975) as Self
Spécial cinéma (1974) as Self
Alien Thunder (1974) as Sgt. Dan Candy
The Awful Manners (1974) as Man walking (uncredited)
S*P*Y*S (1974) as Bruland
Don't Look Now (1973) as John Baxter
Steelyard Blues (1973) as Jesse Veldini
Steelyard Blues (1973) Executive Producer
Lady Ice (1973) as Andy Hammon
FTA (1972) as Self
FTA (1972) Writer
FTA (1972) Producer
Film '72 (1971) as Self
Klute (1971) as John Klute
Johnny Got His Gun (1971) as Christ
Little Murders (1971) as Rev. Dupas
'Klute' in New York (1971) as Self
Kelly's Heroes (1970) as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
M*A*S*H (1970) as Hawkeye Pierce
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) as Charles / Pierre
Alex in Wonderland (1970) as Alex Morrison
Act of the Heart (1970) as Father Michael Ferrier
The Dick Cavett Show (1968) as Self - Guest
The Name of the Game (1968) as Jerry Trevor
The Champions (1968) as David Crayley
Oedipus the King (1968) as Chorus Leader
The Sunshine Patriot (1968) as Benedeck
The Split (1968) as Dave Negli
Interlude (1968) as Lawrence
Joanna (1968) as Lord Peter Sanderson
Sebastian (1968) as Ackerman
The Dirty Dozen (1967) as Vernon Pinkley
Man in a Suitcase (1967) as Willard
Man in a Suitcase (1967) as Keith Earle
Billion Dollar Brain (1967) as Scientist at Computer
The Shuttered Room (1967) as Zebulon (voice)
Promise Her Anything (1966) as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Charles Givens
Gideon's Way (1965) as Philip Guest
Fanatic (1965) as Joseph
The Bedford Incident (1965) as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) as Bob Carroll
Theatre 625 (1964) as Priest
Theatre 625 (1964) as Union Captain
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) as Fortinbras
The Castle of the Living Dead (1964) as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
For King and Country: Out There (1963) as Canadian
The World Ten Times Over (1963) as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
The Saint (1962) as John Wood
The Saint (1962) as Jim McCleery
Studio 4 (1962) as Switchboard Operator
Man of the World (1962) as Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)
The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self
The Avengers (1961) as Jessel
The Oscars (1953) as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) as Ethan Hawley
Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Presenter

Frequently Asked Questions

What movies or TV shows is Donald Sutherland best known for?

Donald Sutherland is widely recognized for notable roles and projects including Murder in a Small Town (2024), OZI: Voice of the Forest (2024), Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023), Miranda's Victim (2023).

When and where was Donald Sutherland born?

Donald Sutherland was born on July 17, 1935 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. They passed away on June 20, 2024.

How many credits does Donald Sutherland have?

Donald Sutherland has accumulated over 259 film and television credits across a career spanning from 1944 to 2024.

What is Donald Sutherland's background in cinema and television?