Donald Sutherland - Actor Profile

Donald Sutherland

50Movies
10.0 Best Rating

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.

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Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2021 JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass Self - Narrator (voice) ★ 7.0 HIT
2019 Reach for the Stars Self ★ 10.0 HIT
2019 The Physics of Sorrow (voice) ★ 7.6 HIT
2018 The Leisure Seeker John Spencer ★ 7.1 HIT
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 President Coriolanus Snow ★ 6.9 HIT
2015 The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Self - President Coriolanus Snow ★ 7.2 HIT
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 President Coriolanus Snow ★ 6.8 HIT
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire President Coriolanus Snow ★ 7.4 HIT
2013 Jappeloup John Lester ★ 7.1 HIT
2013 The Best Offer Billy Whistler ★ 7.8 HIT
2012 The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games Self - President Coriolanus Snow ★ 8.2 HIT
2012 The Hunger Games President Coriolanus Snow ★ 7.2 HIT
2007 Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia Narrator ★ 6.7 HIT
2007 Reign Over Me Richter Raines ★ 7.2 HIT
2005 Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That Self ★ 6.7 HIT
2005 Pride & Prejudice Mr. Bennet ★ 8.1 HIT
2005 Lord of War Colonel Oliver Southern (voice) ★ 7.3 HIT
2005 Sir! No Sir! Self ★ 6.7 HIT
2003 Cold Mountain Reverend Monroe ★ 6.9 HIT
2003 Path to War Clark Clifford ★ 6.7 HIT
2003 The Italian Job John Bridger ★ 6.8 HIT
2000 Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows Self ★ 7.1 HIT
1998 Fallen Lt. Stanton ★ 6.8 HIT
1996 A Time to Kill Lucien Wilbanks ★ 7.4 HIT
1995 Citizen X Col. Mikhail Fetisov ★ 7.2 HIT
1993 La Classe américaine Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited) ★ 7.6 HIT
1991 JFK X ★ 7.6 HIT
1991 Backdraft Ronald Bartel ★ 6.7 HIT
1990 Kate Bush: Sensual World Self (archive footage) ★ 8.0 HIT
1989 Lock Up Warden Drumgoole ★ 6.8 HIT
1988 People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe Narrator (voice) ★ 7.3 HIT
1983 Fellini nel cestino Self ★ 7.5 HIT
1981 A War Story Narrator (voice) ★ 8.0 HIT
1980 Ordinary People Calvin Jarrett ★ 7.5 HIT
1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers Matthew Bennell ★ 7.2 HIT
1978 The First Great Train Robbery Robert Agar ★ 6.7 HIT
1978 Animal House Dave Jennings ★ 7.0 HIT
1976 Fellini's Casanova Giacomo Casanova ★ 6.9 HIT
1976 1900 Attila Mellanchini ★ 7.8 HIT
1973 Don't Look Now John Baxter ★ 6.9 HIT
1971 Johnny Got His Gun Christ ★ 7.5 HIT
1971 Klute John Klute ★ 6.7 HIT
1971 Little Murders Rev. Dupas ★ 6.7 HIT
1970 Kelly's Heroes Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander) ★ 7.3 HIT
1970 M*A*S*H Hawkeye Pierce ★ 7.0 HIT
1968 The Split Dave Negli ★ 6.7 HIT
1967 The Dirty Dozen Vernon Pinkley ★ 7.6 HIT
1965 The Bedford Incident Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay ★ 7.0 HIT
1964 Hamlet at Elsinore Fortinbras ★ 7.8 HIT
1963 The World Ten Times Over Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited) ★ 7.0 HIT