Donald Sutherland biography
Donald Sutherland was a Canadian actor, born on 17 July 1935 in Saint John, who died on 20 June 2024.
Donald Sutherland's screen career began in 1962 with Studio 4, playing Switchboard Operator.
Donald Sutherland appeared in 155 films and 44 television or streaming titles between 1962 and 2023.
Honours include Companion of the Order of Canada, Romy and Teen Choice Award for Best Villain.
- Also known as
- Donald McNichol Sutherland
- Born
- 17 July 1935
- Died
- 20 June 2024 (aged 88)
- Birthplace
- Saint John
- Work
- Film actor, Voice actor, Spokesperson, Film producer, Character actor
- Film industries
- Hollywood and beyond
- Years active
- 1960 to 2023
- Awards
- Companion of the Order of Canada
- Romy
- Teen Choice Award for Best Villain
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- Academy Honorary Award
- Canada's Walk of Fame
Donald Sutherland filmography
155 films and 44 television or streaming titles, newest first.
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Miranda's Victim | Judge Wren | ||
| 2023 | Ozi: Voice of the Forest | Smiley (voice) | ||
| 2022 | Mr. Harrigan's Phone | Mr. Harrigan | ||
| 2022 | Moonfall | Holdenfield | ||
| 2021 | JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass | The Narrator | ||
| 2020 | Alone | Edward | ||
| 2019 | The Burnt Orange Heresy | Jerome Debney | ||
| 2019 | Ad Astra | Colonel Thomas Pruitt | ||
| 2019 | Backdraft 2 | Ronald Bartel | ||
| 2019 | American Hangman | Judge Straight | ||
| 2018 | Measure of a Man | Dr. Kahn | ||
| 2017 | Basmati Blues | Gurgon | ||
| 2017 | The Leisure Seeker | John Spencer | ||
| 2016 | Milton's Secret | Grandpa Howard | ||
| 2016 | For the Love of Spock | English | ||
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay , Part 2 | President Coriolanus Snow | ||
| 2015 | Altman | English | ||
| 2015 | Forsaken | Rev. Clayton | ||
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay , Part 1 | President Coriolanus Snow | ||
| 2014 | The Calling | Father Price | ||
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | President Coriolanus Snow | ||
| 2013 | Jappeloup | John Lester | ||
| 2013 | The Best Offer | Billy Whistler | ||
| 2012 | Assassin's Bullet | Ambassador Ashdown | ||
| 2012 | The Hunger Games | President Coriolanus Snow |
Show all 155 films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Living Loaded | English | ||
| 2012 | Dawn Rider | Cochrane | ||
| 2012 | Out of the Shadows | Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2011 | Horrible Bosses | Jack Pellitt | ||
| 2011 | The Eagle | Aquila | ||
| 2011 | The Mechanic | Harry McKenna | ||
| 2011 | Man on the Train | The Professor | ||
| 2011 | Jock the Hero Dog | Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voices) | ||
| 2010 | The Con Artist | John Kranski | ||
| 2009 | Astro Boy | President Stone (voice) | ||
| 2008 | Fool's Gold | Nigel Honeycutt | ||
| 2007 | Reign Over Me | Judge Raines | ||
| 2007 | Puffball | Lars | ||
| 2007 | Days of Darkness | French | ||
| 2007 | Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia | Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2006 | Ask the Dust | Hellfrick | ||
| 2006 | Land of the Blind | Thorne | ||
| 2006 | Beerfest | Johann von Wolfhaus | Uncredited | |
| 2005 | An American Haunting | John Bell | ||
| 2005 | Pride & Prejudice | Mr. Bennet | ||
| 2005 | Lord of War | Colonel Southern (voice) | ||
| 2005 | Fierce People | Ogden C. Osbourne | ||
| 2005 | The Four Saints | English | ||
| 2005 | Sir! No Sir! | English | ||
| 2005 | Aurora Borealis | Ronald | ||
| 2005 | American Gun | Carl Wilk | ||
| 2003 | Cold Mountain | Reverend Monroe | ||
| 2003 | The Italian Job | John Bridger | ||
| 2003 | Five Moons Square | Rosario Sarracino | ||
| 2003 | Baltic Storm | Lou Aldryn | ||
| 2002 | Fellini: I'm a Born Liar | Italian | ||
| 2001 | Big Shot's Funeral | Rob Tyler | ||
| 2001 | Queen Victoria's Empire | Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2001 | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Dr. Sid (voice) | ||
| 2000 | The Art of War | UN Secretary-General Douglas Thomas | ||
| 2000 | Space Cowboys | Captain Jerry O'Neill | ||
| 2000 | Panic | Michael | ||
| 2000 | Threads of Hope | Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1999 | Instinct | Doctor Ben Hillard | ||
| 1999 | Virus | Captain Robert Everton | ||
| 1998 | Fallen | Lieutenant Stanton | ||
| 1998 | Without Limits | Bill Bowerman | ||
| 1998 | Free Money | Judge Rolf Rausenberger | ||
| 1997 | The Assignment | Jack Shaw | ||
| 1997 | Shadow Conspiracy | Jacob Conrad | ||
| 1996 | A Time to Kill | Lucien Wilbanks | ||
| 1996 | Hollow Point | Garrett Lawton | ||
| 1995 | Outbreak | Major General Donald McClintock | ||
| 1994 | The Puppet Masters | Andrew Nivens | ||
| 1994 | Disclosure | Bob Garvin | ||
| 1994 | A Century of Cinema | English | ||
| 1994 | Punch | Craman | ||
| 1993 | Six Degrees of Separation | Flan Kittredge | ||
| 1993 | Younger and Younger | Jonathan Younger | ||
| 1993 | Red Hot | Kirov | ||
| 1993 | Benefit of the Doubt | Frank | ||
| 1993 | Shadow of the Wolf | Henderson | ||
| 1993 | Great Books | Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1993 | Conspiracy | Rukov's Father | 1993 CD-ROM version only | |
| 1992 | The Setting Sun | John Williams | ||
| 1992 | The Railway Station Man | Roger Hawthorne | ||
| 1992 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Merrick Jamison-Smythe | ||
| 1992 | The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas | Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1991 | Scream of Stone | Ivan | ||
| 1991 | JFK | X | ||
| 1991 | Backdraft | Ronald Bartel | ||
| 1991 | Eminent Domain | Josef Borski | ||
| 1990 | Buster's Bedroom | O'Connor | ||
| 1990 | Bethune: The Making of a Hero | Dr. Norman Bethune | ||
| 1989 | Lost Angels | Doctor Charles Loftis | ||
| 1989 | Lock Up | Warden Drumgoole | ||
| 1989 | A Dry White Season | Ben du Toit | ||
| 1988 | Apprentice to Murder | John Reese | ||
| 1987 | The Trouble with Spies | Appleton Porter | ||
| 1987 | The Rosary Murders | Father Robert Koesler | ||
| 1986 | The Wolf at the Door | Paul Gauguin | ||
| 1985 | Revolution | Sergeant Major Peasy | ||
| 1985 | Heaven Help Us | Brother Thadeus | ||
| 1984 | Terror in the Aisles | English | ||
| 1984 | Ordeal by Innocence | Dr. Arthur Calgary | ||
| 1984 | Crackers | Weslake | ||
| 1983 | Max Dugan Returns | Officer Brian Costello | ||
| 1981 | Threshold | Dr. Thomas Vrain | ||
| 1981 | Gas | Nick the Noz | ||
| 1981 | Eye of the Needle | Henry Faber | ||
| 1980 | Ordinary People | Calvin Jarrett | ||
| 1980 | Nothing Personal | Roger Keller | ||
| 1980 | North China Factory | Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1979 | Bear Island | Frank Lansing | ||
| 1979 | Murder by Decree | Robert Lees | ||
| 1979 | A Man, a Woman and a Bank | Reese Halperin | ||
| 1978 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Matthew Bennell | ||
| 1978 | The First Great Train Robbery | Agar | ||
| 1978 | Animal House | Professor Dave Jennings | ||
| 1978 | Blood Relatives | Steve Carella | ||
| 1977 | The Kentucky Fried Movie | The Clumsy Waiter | Segment: "That's Armageddon" | |
| 1977 | The Disappearance | Jay Mallory | ||
| 1976 | The Eagle Has Landed | Liam Devlin | ||
| 1976 | Fellini's Casanova | Giacomo Casanova | ||
| 1976 | 1900 | Attila Mellanchini | ||
| 1975 | End of the Game | Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied | ||
| 1975 | The Day of the Locust | Homer Simpson | ||
| 1974 | SPYS | Bruland | ||
| 1974 | Alien Thunder | Sergeant Dan Candy | ||
| 1973 | Steelyard Blues | Jesse Veldini | Also executive producer | |
| 1973 | Lady Ice | Andy Hammon | ||
| 1973 | Don't Look Now | John Baxter | ||
| 1972 | F.T.A. | English | ||
| 1971 | Little Murders | Rev. Dupas | ||
| 1971 | Klute | John Klute | ||
| 1971 | Johnny Got His Gun | Christ | ||
| 1970 | Kelly's Heroes | Sergeant "Oddball" | ||
| 1970 | Start the Revolution Without Me | Charles / Pierre | ||
| 1970 | The Act of the Heart | Father Michael Ferrier | ||
| 1970 | MASH | Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce | ||
| 1970 | Alex in Wonderland | Alex Morrison | ||
| 1968 | The Split | Dave Negli | ||
| 1968 | Interlude | Lawrence | ||
| 1968 | Sebastian | Ackerman | ||
| 1968 | Oedipus the King | Chorus Leader | ||
| 1968 | Joanna | Lord Peter Sanderson | ||
| 1967 | Billion Dollar Brain | Scientist at computer | ||
| 1967 | The Dirty Dozen | Vernon L. Pinkley | ||
| 1967 | The Shuttered Room | Zebulon Whately (voice) | Dubbed William Devlin | |
| 1966 | Promise Her Anything | Autograph-seeking Father | Uncredited | |
| 1965 | The Bedford Incident | Hospitalman Nerney | ||
| 1965 | Fanatic | Joseph | ||
| 1965 | Dr. Terror's House of Horrors | Dr. Bob Carroll | Segment: "Vampire" | |
| 1964 | Castle of the Living Dead | Sgt. Paul / The witch / The old man | ||
| 1963 | The World Ten Times Over | Tall man in nightclub | Uncredited |
Television and streaming
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Lawmen: Bass Reeves | Judge Isaac C. Parker | Main role | |
| 2022 | Swimming with Sharks | Redmond | Main role | |
| 2020 | The Undoing | Franklin Renner | Main role | |
| 2018 | Trust | J. Paul Getty | Main role | |
| 2016 | Ice | Pieter Van De Bruin | Main role (season 1) | |
| 2015 | Pirate's Passage | Captain Charles Johnson (voice) | ||
| 2013 | Crossing Lines | Michel Dorn | Main role | |
| 2012 | Treasure Island | Captain Flint | ||
| 2011 | Moby Dick | Father Mapple | ||
| 2010 | The Pillars of the Earth | Earl Bartholomew | ||
| 2009 | The Eastmans | Dr. Charles Eastman | ||
| 2007 | Dirty Sexy Money | Patrick "Tripp" Darling III | Main role | |
| 2005 | Human Trafficking | Agent Bill Meehan | ||
| 2005 | Commander in Chief | Nathan Templeton | Main role | |
| 2004 | Salem's Lot | Richard Straker | ||
| 2004 | Frankenstein | Captain Walton | ||
| 2002 | Path to War | Clark Clifford | ||
| 2001 | The Big Heist | Jimmy Burke | ||
| 2001 | Uprising | Adam Czerniaków | ||
| 1999 | The Hunley | Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard | ||
| 1999 | Behind the Mask | Dr. Bob Shushan | ||
| 1996 | Natural Enemy | Ted Robards | ||
| 1996 | The Simpsons | Hollis Hurlbut (voice) | Episode: "Lisa the Iconoclast" | |
| 1995 | Citizen X | Colonel Mikhail Fetisov | ||
| 1994 | The Lifeforce Experiment | Dr. 'MAC' MacLean |
Show all 44 titles
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Captain William Marsden | ||
| 1992 | Quicksand: No Escape | Murdoch | ||
| 1983 | The Winter of Our Discontent | Ethan Allen Hawley | ||
| 1977 | Bethune | Dr. Norman Bethune | ||
| 1969 | The Name of the Game | Jerry Trevor | Episode: "The Suntan Mob" | |
| 1969 | The Champions | David Crayley | Episode: "Shadow of the Panther" | |
| 1968 | The Sunshine Patriot | Benedeck | ||
| 1967 | The Avengers | Jessel | Episode: "The Superlative Seven" | |
| 1967 | Man in a Suitcase | Earle / Willard | 2 episodes | |
| 1966 | Theatre 625 | Union Captain / Priest | 2 episodes | |
| 1966 | Gideon's Way | Phillip Guest | Episode: "The Millionaires' Daughter" | |
| 1966 | Court Martial | Cpl. Brown | Episode: "All Is a Dream to Me" | |
| 1966 | A Farewell to Arms | Sim | ||
| 1965 | The Sullavan Brothers | Jonathan Vickers | Episode: "The Corrupters" | |
| 1965 | The Saint | John Wood / Jim McCleery | 2 episodes | |
| 1964 | Hamlet at Elsinore | Prince Fortinbras | ||
| 1963 | The Sentimental Agent | Hotel Clerk | Episode: "A Very Desirable Plot" | |
| 1963 | The Odd Man | Mitch Scott | Episode: "A Pattern of Little Silver Devils" | |
| 1962 | Studio 4 | Switchboard Operator | Episode: "Flight into Danger" |