
Donald Sutherland
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

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

The Puppet Masters
1994

Fallen
1998

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

Horrible Bosses
2011

Fierce People
2006

Start the Revolution Without Me
1970

The Hunger Games
2012

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

Dawn Rider
2012

Ordeal by Innocence
1984

The Rosary Murders
1987

The Best Offer
2013

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005

Kate Bush: Sensual World
1990

Assassin's Bullet
2012

The Trouble with Spies
1987

Act of the Heart
1970

Fellini nel cestino
1983

The Disappearance
1977

Quicksand: No Escape
1992

Jappeloup
2013

The Wolf at the Door
1986

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003

The Lifeforce Experiment
1994

Buster's Bedroom
1991

The Sunshine Patriot
1968

Miranda's Victim
2023

Interlude
1968

Threshold
1981

Nothing Personal
1980

Hamlet at Elsinore
1964

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994

Sebastian
1968

Basmati Blues
2017

The Calling
2014

Land of the Blind
2006

Younger and Younger
1993

Baltic Storm
2003

Eminent Domain
1991

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014

Bethune: The Making of a Hero
1993

Lady Ice
1973

Reach for the Stars
2019

Pirate's Passage
2015

Red Hot
1993

Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
2000

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015

Trumbo
2007

FTA
1972

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995

The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden
2012

Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
2015

Alien Thunder
1974

Forsaken
2015

The Winter of Our Discontent
1983

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000

Sleepwalkers
2007

Behind the Mask
1999

Fellini dice...
2006

Measure of a Man
2018

Milton's Secret
2016

Point and Shoot
2016

A War Story
1981

North China Factory
1980

Bethune
1977

The Eastmans
2009

The Leisure Seeker
2018

Promise Her Anything
1966

Oedipus the King
1968

Days of Darkness
2007

The Railway Station Man
1992

Gas
1981

The Setting Sun
1992

The Burnt Orange Heresy
2020

The Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976

The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
1992

American Hangman
2019

Operation Dirty Dozen
2006

Backdraft 2
2019

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
2001

'Klute' in New York
1971

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015

People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
1988

Alone
2020

La Classe américaine
1993

Ad Astra
2019

Stonehenge: Decoded
2008

The Magic of Fellini
2002

The Physics of Sorrow
2019

Moonfall
2022

Lord of War
2005

Abicinema
1975

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
2021

Night of 100 Stars
1982

The Shuttered Room
1967

Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
1996

The World Ten Times Over
1963

For King and Country: Out There
1963

The Awful Manners
1974

Treasure Island
2012

Citizen Jane Fonda
2020

OZI: Voice of the Forest
2024

Inside the Actors Studio
1994

The Simpsons
1989

The View
1997

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

Gideon's Way
1965

The Avengers
1961

History vs. Hollywood
2001

Commander in Chief
2005

Dirty Sexy Money
2007

The Saint
1962

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

The Champions
1968

Human Trafficking
2005

Man in a Suitcase
1967

The Oscars
1953

The Pillars of the Earth
2010

Moby Dick
2011

Crossing Lines
2013

Man in a Suitcase
1967

Frankenstein
2004

The Saint
1962

Treasure Island
2012

Lawmen: Bass Reeves
2023

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006

Swimming with Sharks
2022

The Graham Norton Show
2007

JFK: Destiny Betrayed
2021

Ice
2016

American Experience
1988

Trust
2018

The Name of the Game
1968

Salem's Lot
2004

Queen Victoria's Empire
2001

Spécial cinéma
1974

Scene by Scene
1997

The Undoing
2020

The Frame
2013

Romy Award
1990

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

BBC Play of the Month
1965

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Backstory
2000

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Man of the World
1962

Friday People
1985

HBO First Look
1992

Theatre 625
1964

Theatre 625
1964

Uprising
2001

Studio 4
1962

Film '72
1971