Donald Sutherland filmography

Donald Sutherland filmography
Film	141
Television series	42
Music videos	1
Theatre	1

Donald Sutherland (1935–2024) was a Canadian film, television, and stage actor, which spanned over 60 years of his career. He was nominated for eight Golden Globe Awards, winning two for his performances in the television films Citizen X (1995)^[1] and Path to War (2002);^[2] the former also earned him a Primetime Emmy Award.^[3] An inductee of the Hollywood Walk of Fame^[4] and Canadian Walk of Fame,^[5] he also received a Canadian Academy Award for the drama film Threshold (1981).^[6] Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.^[7]^[8]^[9] In 2017, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his contributions to cinema.^[10] 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).^[11]

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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), The First Great Train Robbery (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), Without Limits (1998), Space Cowboys (2000), 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).

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1963	The World Ten Times Over	Tall man in nightclub	Uncredited
1964	Castle of the Living Dead	Sgt. Paul / The witch / The old man
1965	Fanatic	Joseph
	Dr. Terror's House of Horrors	Dr. Bob Carroll	Segment: "Vampire"
	The Bedford Incident	Hospitalman Nerney
1966	Promise Her Anything	Autograph-seeking Father	Uncredited
1967	Billion Dollar Brain	Scientist at computer
	The Dirty Dozen	Vernon L. Pinkley
	The Shuttered Room	Zebulon Whately (voice)	Dubbed William Devlin
1968	Sebastian	Ackerman
	Joanna	Lord Peter Sanderson
	The Split	Dave Negli
	Interlude	Lawrence
	Oedipus the King	Chorus Leader
1970	MASH*	Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
	Start the Revolution Without Me	Charles / Pierre
	Kelly's Heroes	Sergeant "Oddball"
	The Act of the Heart	Father Michael Ferrier
	Alex in Wonderland	Alex Morrison
1971	Little Murders	Rev. Dupas
	Johnny Got His Gun	Christ
	Klute	John Klute
1973	Steelyard Blues	Jesse Veldini	Also executive producer
	Lady Ice	Andy Hammon
	Don't Look Now	John Baxter
1974	Alien Thunder	Sergeant Dan Candy
1974	SPYS*	Bruland
1975	The Day of the Locust	Homer Simpson
1975	End of the Game	Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied
1976	1900	Attila Mellanchini
	Fellini's Casanova	Giacomo Casanova
	The Eagle Has Landed	Liam Devlin
1977	The Kentucky Fried Movie	The Clumsy Waiter	Segment: "That's Armageddon"
1977	The Disappearance	Jay Mallory
1978	Blood Relatives	Steve Carella
	Animal House	Professor Dave Jennings
	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Matthew Bennell
	The First Great Train Robbery	Agar
1979	Murder by Decree	Robert Lees
	A Man, a Woman and a Bank	Reese Halperin
	Bear Island	Frank Lansing
1980	Ordinary People	Calvin Jarrett
1980	Nothing Personal	Roger Keller
1981	Threshold	Dr. Thomas Vrain
	Gas	Nick the Noz
	Eye of the Needle	Henry Faber
1983	Max Dugan Returns	Officer Brian Costello
1984	Ordeal by Innocence	Dr. Arthur Calgary
1984	Crackers	Weslake
1985	Revolution	Sergeant Major Peasy
1985	Heaven Help Us	Brother Thadeus
1986	The Wolf at the Door	Paul Gauguin
1987	The Trouble with Spies	Appleton Porter
1987	The Rosary Murders	Father Robert Koesler
1988	Apprentice to Murder	John Reese
1989	Lost Angels	Doctor Charles Loftis
	A Dry White Season	Ben du Toit
	Lock Up	Warden Drumgoole
1990	Buster's Bedroom	O'Connor
1990	Bethune: The Making of a Hero	Dr. Norman Bethune
1991	Scream of Stone	Ivan
	JFK	X
	Eminent Domain	Josef Borski
	Backdraft	Ronald Bartel
1992	The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas	Narrator (voice)
	The Railway Station Man	Roger Hawthorne
	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Merrick Jamison-Smythe
	The Setting Sun	John Williams
1993	Younger and Younger	Jonathan Younger
	Six Degrees of Separation	Flan Kittredge
	Red Hot	Kirov
	Shadow of the Wolf	Henderson
	Benefit of the Doubt	Frank
1994	The Puppet Masters	Andrew Nivens
	Punch	Craman
	Disclosure	Bob Garvin
1995	Outbreak	Major General Donald McClintock
1996	Hollow Point	Garrett Lawton
1996	A Time to Kill	Lucien Wilbanks
1997	The Assignment	Jack Shaw
1997	Shadow Conspiracy	Jacob Conrad
1998	Free Money	Judge Rolf Rausenberger
	Fallen	Lieutenant Stanton
	Without Limits	Bill Bowerman
1999	Virus	Captain Robert Everton
1999	Instinct	Doctor Ben Hillard
2000	Panic	Michael
	Space Cowboys	Captain Jerry O'Neill
	The Art of War	UN Secretary-General Douglas Thomas
2001	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	Dr. Sid (voice)		^[12]
2001	Big Shot's Funeral	Rob Tyler
2003	The Italian Job	John Bridger
	Five Moons Square	Rosario Sarracino
	Baltic Storm	Lou Aldryn
	Cold Mountain	Reverend Monroe
2005	Aurora Borealis	Ronald
	Fierce People	Ogden C. Osbourne
	Pride & Prejudice	Mr. Bennet
	American Gun	Carl Wilk
	Lord of War	Colonel Southern (voice)
	An American Haunting	John Bell
2006	Ask the Dust	Hellfrick
	Beerfest	Johann von Wolfhaus	Uncredited
	Land of the Blind	Thorne
2007	Reign Over Me	Judge Raines
	Puffball	Lars
	Days of Darkness	Himself
2008	Fool's Gold	Nigel Honeycutt
2009	Astro Boy	President Stone (voice)		^[12]
2010	The Con Artist	John Kranski
2011	The Mechanic	Harry McKenna
	The Eagle	Aquila
	Horrible Bosses	Jack Pellitt
	Man on the Train	The Professor
	Jock the Hero Dog	Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voices)		^[12]
2012	The Hunger Games	President Coriolanus Snow
	Dawn Rider	Cochrane
	Assassin's Bullet	Ambassador Ashdown
2013	The Best Offer	Billy Whistler
	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	President Coriolanus Snow
	Jappeloup	John Lester
2014	The Calling	Father Price
2014	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1	President Coriolanus Snow
2015	Forsaken	Rev. Clayton
2015	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2	President Coriolanus Snow
2016	Milton's Secret	Grandpa Howard
2017	The Leisure Seeker	John Spencer
2017	Basmati Blues	Gurgon
2018	Measure of a Man	Dr. Kahn
2019	American Hangman	Judge Straight
	Backdraft 2	Ronald Bartel
	Ad Astra	Colonel Thomas Pruitt
	The Burnt Orange Heresy	Jerome Debney
2020	Alone	Edward		^[13]
2021	JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass	The Narrator
2022	Moonfall	Holdenfield		^[14]
2022	Mr. Harrigan's Phone	Mr. Harrigan		^[15]
2023	Miranda's Victim	Judge Wren		^[16]
2023	Ozi: Voice of the Forest	Smiley (voice)		^[17]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1962	Studio 4	Switchboard Operator	Episode: "Flight into Danger"
1963	The Odd Man	Mitch Scott	Episode: "A Pattern of Little Silver Devils"
1963	The Sentimental Agent	Hotel Clerk	Episode: "A Very Desirable Plot"
1965	The Sullavan Brothers	Jonathan Vickers	Episode: "The Corrupters"
1965–66	The Saint	John Wood / Jim McCleery	2 episodes
1966	Court Martial	Cpl. Brown	Episode: "All Is a Dream to Me"
	Theatre 625	Union Captain / Priest	2 episodes
	Gideon's Way	Phillip Guest	Episode: "The Millionaires' Daughter"
1967	The Avengers	Jessel	Episode: "The Superlative Seven"
1967–68	Man in a Suitcase	Earle / Willard	2 episodes
1969	The Champions	David Crayley	Episode: "Shadow of the Panther"
1969	The Name of the Game	Jerry Trevor	Episode: "The Suntan Mob"
1996	The Simpsons	Hollis Hurlbut (voice)	Episode: "Lisa the Iconoclast"
2005–06	Commander in Chief	Nathan Templeton	Main role
2007–09	Dirty Sexy Money	Patrick "Tripp" Darling III	Main role
2013–15	Crossing Lines	Michel Dorn	Main role
2016–17	Ice	Pieter Van De Bruin	Main role (season 1)
2018	Trust	J. Paul Getty	Main role
2020	The Undoing	Franklin Renner	Main role
2022	Swimming with Sharks	Redmond	Main role
2023	Lawmen: Bass Reeves	Judge Isaac C. Parker	Main role

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
1964	Hamlet at Elsinore	Prince Fortinbras
1966	A Farewell to Arms	Sim
1968	The Sunshine Patriot	Benedeck
1977	Bethune	Dr. Norman Bethune	^[18]
1983	The Winter of Our Discontent	Ethan Allen Hawley
1992	Quicksand: No Escape	Murdoch
1994	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Captain William Marsden
1994	The Lifeforce Experiment	Dr. 'MAC' MacLean
1995	Citizen X	Colonel Mikhail Fetisov
1996	Natural Enemy	Ted Robards
1999	Behind the Mask	Dr. Bob Shushan
1999	The Hunley	Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard
2001	The Big Heist	Jimmy Burke
2001	Uprising	Adam Czerniaków
2002	Path to War	Clark Clifford
2004	Salem's Lot	Richard Straker
2004	Frankenstein	Captain Walton
2005	Human Trafficking	Agent Bill Meehan
2009	The Eastmans	Dr. Charles Eastman
2010	The Pillars of the Earth	Earl Bartholomew
2011	Moby Dick	Father Mapple
2012	Treasure Island	Captain Flint
2015	Pirate's Passage	Captain Charles Johnson (voice)

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes	Ref.
1960	The Rape of the Belt	Heracles	Webster Theatre, Arbroath		^[19]
1960	The Rape of the Belt	Heracles	Perth Theatre, Perth		^[19]
1960-61	Robinson Crusoe	Mate	Perth Theatre, Perth		^[19]
1961	Great Expectations	Abel Magwitch	Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham		^[19]
1962	On a Clear Day You Can See Canterbury	Hector	Theatre Royal Stratford East, Newham		^[19]
1962	The Gimmick	Del Rio	Ireland and UK tour	West End debut	^[19]
1963	Red on White	Bill Higgins	Theatre Royal, Windsor		^[19]
1964	Spoon River	Various roles	Royal Court Theatre, Lodnon		^[19]
1969	Buck White	Black Man / Honey Man	George Abbott Theatre, New York	Broadway debut	^[20]
1981	Lolita	Humbert Humbert	Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York		^[21]
2000	Enigma Variations	Abel Znorko	Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto		^[22]
			Savoy Theatre, London		^[19]
			Festival Theatre, Malvern		^[19]
2001	Ten Unknowns	Malcolm Raphelson	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, New York		^[23]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1972	F.T.A.	Himself	Also producer
1980	North China Factory	Narrator (voice)
1993–2000	Great Books	Narrator (voice)
2000	Threads of Hope	Narrator (voice)
2001	Queen Victoria's Empire	Narrator (voice)
2002	Fellini: I'm a Born Liar	Himself / Giacomo Casanova
2005	Sir! No Sir!	Himself
2007	Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia	Narrator (voice)
2007	Trumbo	Himself
2012	Out of the Shadows	Narrator (voice)

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