Highest rated as cast or director
Ordinary People
1980
Don't Look Now
1973
The Pillars of the Earth
2010 · 1 Season
Path to War
2003
Donald Sutherland's 11 titles from the 1970s have a median Balasaur Score of 71, led by Don't Look Now (80) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (78), against 61 for those from the 2000s.
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), MAS*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.
Acted in 186
2020s
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
Swimming with Sharks
Redmond · 6 episodes
- 2020
2010s
- 2019
The Physics of Sorrow
(voice)
- 2018
The Green Fog
Movie
- 2017
- 2016
Milton's Secret
Grandpa Howard
- 2015
Pirate's Passage
Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
Moby Dick
Father Mapple · 4 episodes
- 2010
2000s
- 2009
The Eastmans
Dr. Charles Eastman
- 2008
- 2007
Puffball
Lars
Days of Darkness
Donald Sutherland
Sleepwalkers
Businessman Struck by a Taxi
- 2006
- 2005
Human Trafficking
Agent Bill Meehan · 2 episodes
American Gun
Carl Wilk
Aurora Borealis
Ronald Shorter
- 2004
- 2003
Five Moons Plaza
Rosario Sarracino
- 2001
Big Shot's Funeral
Tyler
Uprising
Adam Czerniaków · 2 episodes
The Big Heist
Jimmy Burke
- 2000
1990s
- 1999
The Hunley
Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
Behind the Mask
Dr. Bob Shushan
- 1998
Without Limits
Bill Bowerman
- 1997
- 1996
Hollow Point
Garrett Lawton
- 1995
- 1994
The Puppet Masters
Andrew Nivens
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
William Marsden
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
William Marsden · 2 episodes
The Lifeforce Experiment
Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
- 1993
La Classe américaine
Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Dr. Norman Bethune
Benefit of the Doubt
Frank
- 1992
The Railway Station Man
Roger Hawthorne
The Setting Sun
John Williams
Shadow of the Wolf
Henderson
Quicksand: No Escape
Murdoch
- 1991
79JFK
X
Scream of Stone
Ivan
Buster's Bedroom
O'Connor
Eminent Domain
Josef Borski
1980s
- 1989
Lost Angels
Dr. Charles Loftis
- 1988
- 1987
The Trouble with Spies
Appleton Porter
- 1986
- 1985
Heaven Help Us
Brother Thadeus
- 1984
Crackers
Westlake
- 1983
The Winter of Our Discontent
Ethan Hawley
Max Dugan Returns
Brian Costello
- 1981
Threshold
Dr. Thomas Vrain
Gas
Nick the Noz
- 1980
1970s
- 1979
Bear Island
Frank Lansing
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
Reese Halperin
Murder by Decree
Robert Lees
- 1978
Blood Relatives
Steve Carella
- 1977
The Disappearance
Jay Mallory
Bethune
Dr. Norman Bethune
- 1976
Fellini's Casanova
Giacomo Casanova
- 1975
End of the Game
Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
- 1974
S*P*Y*S
Bruland
The Awful Manners
Man walking (uncredited)
- 1973
Steelyard Blues
Jesse Veldini
- 1971
Little Murders
Rev. Dupas
- 1970
Alex in Wonderland
Alex Morrison
Act of the Heart
Father Michael Ferrier
1960s
- 1968
The Sunshine Patriot
Benedeck
Joanna
Lord Peter Sanderson
Oedipus the King
Chorus Leader
Interlude
Lawrence
Sebastian
Ackerman
- 1967
The Shuttered Room
Zebulon (voice)
- 1966
Lee Oswald: Assassin
Charles Givens
Promise Her Anything
Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
- 1965
The Bedford Incident
Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
- 1964
Hamlet at Elsinore
Fortinbras
- 1963
The World Ten Times Over
Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
- 1962
- 1961
Produced 3
2010s
- 2015
Pirate's Passage
Producer
1970s
- 1973
Steelyard Blues
Executive Producer
- 1972
FTA
Producer
Wrote 2
2010s
- 2015
Pirate's Passage
Writer
1970s
- 1972
FTA
Writer
Other crew 1
2020s
- 2024
Appearances54
2020s
- 2021
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
Self - Narrator (voice) · 4 episodes
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2020
2010s
- 2019
Reach for the Stars
Self
- 2016
Re-Visitors from Outer Space, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod
Self
- 2015
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
Self
- 2014
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
- 2012
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Self - President Coriolanus Snow
- 2011
Jock the Hero Dog
Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
2000s
- 2008
- 2007
Trumbo
Self
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
Narrator
- 2006
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
Self
Operation Dirty Dozen
Self (uncredited)
- 2005
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Self
Sir! No Sir!
Self
- 2003
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Self - Casanova
- 2002
The Magic of Fellini
Self (archive footage)
- 2001
Queen Victoria's Empire
Narrator (voice) · 4 episodes
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Narrator (voice)
History vs. Hollywood
Self · 1 episode
- 2000
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self
Backstory
Self · 1 episode
1990s
- 1997
Scene by Scene
Self · 1 episode
- 1996
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
Narrator
- 1995
- 1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 episode
A Century of Cinema
Self
- 1992
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
Narrator (voice)
- 1990
Kate Bush: The Sensual World - The Video
Self (archive footage)
1980s
- 1988
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
Narrator (voice)
- 1982
Night of 100 Stars
Self
- 1981
A War Story
Narrator (voice)
1970s
- 1978
- 1976
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Self
- 1975
ABCinema
Self
- 1974
- 1972
FTA
Self
- 1971
'Klute' in New York
Self
1960s
- 1968
- 1962
- 1961
1950s
- 1953
