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Donald Sutherland
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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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Cold Mountain
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The Dirty Dozen
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Kelly's Heroes
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Klute
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
As President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
As President Coriolanus Snow
Pride & Prejudice
As Mr. Bennet
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
As President Coriolanus Snow
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Epic Journey: An Odyssey Narrative Chain
Homer's Odyssey is the foundational blueprint for the homebound journey, tracking a weary warrior's attempt to return to his family. This six-film narrative cha...
6 films
When Money Buys Trouble
From Brooklyn to the world, a chain of films where transactions turn tender, then treacherous.
8 films
Criminal Alliances
A chain tracing the anti-hero ensemble film from its war-movie origins through heist, western, and genre mutations to the modern comic-book iteration, examining...
8 films
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Lawmen: Bass Reeves
2023 · Judge Isaac Parker
The Undoing
2020 · Franklin Reinhart
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
Ad Astra
2019 · Thomas Pruitt
Measure of a Man
2018 · Dr. Kahn
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 · President Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 · President Coriolanus Snow
The Best Offer
2013 · Billy Whistler
The Hunger Games
2012 · President Coriolanus Snow
Horrible Bosses
2011 · Jack Pellit
The Pillars of the Earth
2010 · Earl Bartholomew
Fool's Gold
2008 · Nigel Honeycutt
Reign Over Me
2007 · Richter Raines
Lord of War
2005 · Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
Pride & Prejudice
2005 · Mr. Bennet
Salem's Lot
2004 · Richard Straker
Cold Mountain
2003 · Reverend Monroe
The Italian Job
2003 · John Bridger
Uprising
2001 · Adam Czerniaków
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001 · Dr. Sid (voice)
Instinct
1999 · Ben Hillard
Fallen
1998 · Lt. Stanton
A Time to Kill
1996 · Lucien Wilbanks
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995 · Self (archive footage)
Outbreak
1995 · General Donald McClintock
The Puppet Masters
1994 · Andrew Nivens
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994 · William Marsden
Six Degrees of Separation
1993 · Flan
The Railway Station Man
1992 · Roger Hawthorne
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992 · Merrick Jamison-Smythe
JFK
1991 · X
Ordinary People
1980 · Calvin Jarrett
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 · Matthew Bennell
Animal House
1978 · Dave Jennings
The Kentucky Fried Movie
1977 · The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Liam Devlin
Don't Look Now
1973 · John Baxter
Johnny Got His Gun
1971 · Christ
Klute
1971 · John Klute
Kelly's Heroes
1970 · Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
M*A*S*H
1970 · Hawkeye Pierce
The Dirty Dozen
1967 · Vernon Pinkley
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964 · Fortinbras