Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland

1935-07-17 - 2024-06-20
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Biography

Donald McNichol Sutherland 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.

Acting

The Hunger Games: ...
6.815
Pride & Prejudice
8.061
The Hunger Games: ...
7.427
The Hunger Games: ...
6.898
The Hunger Games
7.218
Horrible Bosses
6.572
Moonfall
6.272
The Mechanic
6.522
The Italian Job
6.782
A Time to Kill
7.4
Fallen
6.784
Lord of War
7.334
JFK
7.604
Cold Mountain
6.934
Final Fantasy: The ...
6.195
Astro Boy
6.3
Space Cowboys
6.408
Milton's Secret
5.118
The Dirty Dozen
7.597
Invasion of the Body ...
7.2
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