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Donald Sutherland
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
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 t…
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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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2024
Murder in a Small Town
TV show In Memory Of
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2024
OZI: Voice of the Forest
Movie Mr. Smiley (voice)
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2023
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
TV show Judge Isaac Parker
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2023
Miranda's Victim
Movie Judge Wren
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2022
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Movie Mr. Harrigan
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2022
Swimming with Sharks
TV show Redmond
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2022
Moonfall
Movie Holdenfield
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2021
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2021
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2020
The Undoing
TV show Franklin Reinhart
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2020
Alone
Movie Edward
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2020
Citizen Jane Fonda
Movie
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2020
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Movie Jerome Debney
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2019
Reach for the Stars
Movie Self
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2019
Ad Astra
Movie Thomas Pruitt
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2019
The Physics of Sorrow
Movie (voice)
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2019
Backdraft 2
Movie Ronald Bartel
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2019
American Hangman
Movie Judge Straight
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2018
Measure of a Man
Movie Dr. Kahn
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2018
Trust
TV show J. Paul Getty Sr.
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2018
The Green Fog
Movie
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2018
The Leisure Seeker
Movie John Spencer
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2017
Basmati Blues
Movie Gurgon
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2016
Ice
TV show Pieter Van De Bruin
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2016
Milton's Secret
Movie Grandpa Howard
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2016
Point and Shoot
Movie Man
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2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Movie President Coriolanus Snow
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2015
Forsaken
Movie Rev. Clayton
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2015
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
Movie Self
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2015
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Movie Self - President Coriolanus Snow
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2015
Pirate's Passage
Movie Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
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2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Movie President Coriolanus Snow
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2014
The Calling
Movie Father Price
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2014
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Movie Self - President Coriolanus Snow
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2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Movie President Coriolanus Snow
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2013
Crossing Lines
TV show Michael Dorn
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2013
The Frame
TV show President Coriolanus Snow
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2013
Jappeloup
Movie John Lester
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2013
The Best Offer
Movie Billy Whistler
