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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 …
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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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OZI: Voice of the Forest
as Mr. Smiley (voice)
Miranda's Victim
as Judge Wren
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
as Mr. Harrigan
Moonfall
as Holdenfield
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Alone
as Edward
Citizen Jane Fonda
as Self (archive footage)
The Burnt Orange Heresy
as Jerome Debney
Reach for the Stars
as Self
Ad Astra
as Thomas Pruitt
The Physics of Sorrow
as (voice)
Backdraft 2
as Ronald Bartel
American Hangman
as Judge Straight
Measure of a Man
as Dr. Kahn
The Green Fog
The Leisure Seeker
as John Spencer
Basmati Blues
as Gurgon
Milton's Secret
as Grandpa Howard
Re-Visitors from Outer Space, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod
as Self
No Poster
Point and Shoot
as Man
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as President Coriolanus Snow
Forsaken
as Rev. Clayton
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
as Self
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Pirate's Passage
as Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
as President Coriolanus Snow
The Calling
as Father Price
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as President Coriolanus Snow
Jappeloup
as John Lester
The Best Offer
as Billy Whistler
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
No Poster
The Hunger Games: Letters From The Rose Garden
as Self
Assassin's Bullet
as Ambassador Ashdown
Dawn Rider
as Pop
The Hunger Games
as President Coriolanus Snow
Treasure Island
as Flint
The Man on the Train
as The Professor
Jock the Hero Dog
as Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
Horrible Bosses
as Jack Pellit
The Eagle
as Aquila
The Mechanic
as Harry McKenna
The Con Artist
as Kranski
Astro Boy
as President Stone (voice)
The Eastmans
as Dr. Charles Eastman
Stonehenge: Decoded
as Narrator (voice)
Fool's Gold
as Nigel Honeycutt
Puffball
as Lars
Days of Darkness
as Donald Sutherland
Trumbo
as Self
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
as Narrator
Reign Over Me
as Richter Raines
Sleepwalkers
as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
Beerfest
as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
Land of the Blind
as Thorne
Fierce People
as Ogden C. Osborne
Ask the Dust
as Hellfrick
Fellini dice...
as Self
Operation Dirty Dozen
as Self (uncredited)
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
as Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Self
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Bennet
Lord of War
as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
American Gun
as Carl Wilk
Sir! No Sir!
as Self
An American Haunting
as John Bell
Aurora Borealis
as Ronald Shorter
Cold Mountain
as Reverend Monroe
Path to War
as Clark Clifford
Baltic Storm
as Lou Aldryn
The Italian Job
as John Bridger
Five Moons Plaza
as Rosario Sarracino
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
as Self - Casanova
The Magic of Fellini
as Self (archive footage)
Big Shot's Funeral
as Tyler
Uprising
as Adam Czerniaków
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
as Dr. Sid (voice)
The Big Heist
as Jimmy Burke
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
as Narrator (voice)
Panic
as Michael
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
as Self
The Art of War
as Douglas Thomas
Space Cowboys
as Jerry O'Neill
No Poster
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
as Self
The Hunley
as Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Instinct
as Ben Hillard
Behind the Mask
as Dr. Bob Shushan
Virus
as Captain Robert Everton
Free Money
as Judge Rausenberg
Without Limits
as Bill Bowerman
Fallen
as Lt. Stanton
The Assignment
as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
Shadow Conspiracy
as Jacob Conrad
Natural Enemy
as Ted Robards
Hollow Point
as Garrett Lawton
A Time to Kill
as Lucien Wilbanks
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
as Narrator
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
as Self (archive footage)
Outbreak
as General Donald McClintock
Citizen X
as Col. Mikhail Fetisov
Disclosure
as Bob Garvin
The Puppet Masters
as Andrew Nivens
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
as William Marsden
The Lifeforce Experiment
as Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
A Century of Cinema
as Self
La Classe américaine
as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Six Degrees of Separation
as Flan
Younger and Younger
as Jonathan Younger
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
as Dr. Norman Bethune
Red Hot
as Kirov
Benefit of the Doubt
as Frank
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
The Railway Station Man
as Roger Hawthorne
The Setting Sun
as John Williams
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Shadow of the Wolf
as Henderson
Quicksand: No Escape
as Murdoch
JFK
as X
Scream of Stone
as Ivan
Backdraft
as Ronald Bartel
Buster's Bedroom
as O'Connor
Eminent Domain
as Josef Borski
Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video
as Self (archive footage)
A Dry White Season
as Ben du Toit
Lock Up
as Warden Drumgoole
Lost Angels
as Dr. Charles Loftis
Apprentice to Murder
as John Reese
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
as Narrator (voice)
The Trouble with Spies
as Appleton Porter
The Rosary Murders
as Father Robert Koesler
The Wolf at the Door
as Paul Gauguin
Revolution
as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
Heaven Help Us
as Brother Thadeus
Ordeal by Innocence
as Dr. Arthur Calgary
Crackers
as Westlake
The Winter of Our Discontent
as Ethan Hawley
Max Dugan Returns
as Brian Costello
No Poster
Fellini nel cestino
as Self
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
A War Story
as Narrator (voice)
Threshold
as Dr. Thomas Vrain
Eye of the Needle
as Faber
Gas
as Nick the Noz
Ordinary People
as Calvin Jarrett
Nothing Personal
as Roger Keller
No Poster
North China Factory
as Narrator (voice)
Bear Island
as Frank Lansing
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
as Reese Halperin
Murder by Decree
as Robert Lees
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
as Matthew Bennell
The First Great Train Robbery
as Robert Agar
Animal House
as Dave Jennings
Blood Relatives
as Steve Carella
The Disappearance
as Jay Mallory
The Kentucky Fried Movie
as The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
Bethune
as Dr. Norman Bethune
The Eagle Has Landed
as Liam Devlin
Fellini's Casanova
as Giacomo Casanova
1900
as Attila Mellanchini
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
as Self
ABCinema
as Self
The Day of the Locust
as Homer Simpson
End of the Game
as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
S*P*Y*S
as Bruland
Alien Thunder
as Sgt. Dan Candy
The Awful Manners
as Man walking (uncredited)
Don't Look Now
as John Baxter
Lady Ice
as Andy Hammon
Steelyard Blues
as Jesse Veldini
FTA
as Self
'Klute' in New York
as Self
Johnny Got His Gun
as Christ
Klute
as John Klute
Little Murders
as Rev. Dupas
Alex in Wonderland
as Alex Morrison
Act of the Heart
as Father Michael Ferrier
Kelly's Heroes
as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
M*A*S*H
as Hawkeye Pierce
Start the Revolution Without Me
as Charles / Pierre
The Sunshine Patriot
as Benedeck
Joanna
as Lord Peter Sanderson
The Split
as Dave Negli
Oedipus the King
as Chorus Leader
Interlude
as Lawrence
Sebastian
as Ackerman
Billion Dollar Brain
as Scientist at Computer
The Shuttered Room
as Zebulon (voice)
The Dirty Dozen
as Vernon Pinkley
Lee Oswald: Assassin
as Charles Givens
Promise Her Anything
as Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
The Bedford Incident
as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
Fanatic
as Joseph
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as Bob Carroll
The Castle of the Living Dead
as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
Hamlet at Elsinore
as Fortinbras
The World Ten Times Over
as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
No Poster
For King and Country: Out There
as Canadian