
Donald Sutherland
1 FOLLOWER • 70 CREDITS • JUL 17, 1935 - JUN 20, 2024 • 88
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 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Golden Globe Awards

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Name of the Game

BBC Play of the Month

The Graham Norton Show

The Oscars

The Simpsons

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Honest Trailers

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

The Saint

Backstory

Beerfest

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Lord of War

Promise Her Anything

Moonfall

Hamlet at Elsinore

JFK

The Kentucky Fried Movie

The Dirty Dozen

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

The Undoing

Cold Mountain

Lawmen: Bass Reeves

Horrible Bosses

The Hunger Games

The Italian Job

Astro Boy

Ad Astra

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

A Time to Kill

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Outbreak

Crossing Lines

1900

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Kelly's Heroes

Pride & Prejudice

The Burnt Orange Heresy

Backdraft

The Eagle

Gas

Disclosure

Fool's Gold

Virus

The Mechanic

Swimming with Sharks

Ask the Dust

JFK: Destiny Betrayed

Lock Up

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Path to War

The Pillars of the Earth

Citizen X

Dirty Sexy Money

Mr. Harrigan's Phone

Stonehenge: Decoded

Heaven Help Us

Human Trafficking

The Day of the Locust

Trust

Ordinary People

A Dry White Season
Production Credits
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