DONALD SUTHERLAND

July 17, 1935 – June 20, 2024
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
88 years old

“I’m really hoping that in some movie I’m doing, I die but I die, me, Donald, and they’re able to use my funeral and the coffin. That would be absolutely ideal. I would love that.”

—Donald Sutherland in AP News Interview

FAVORITE PERFORMANCE

LAST PERFORMANCE SEEN

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

DONALD SUTHERLAND’S FILMOGRAPHY

1963	The World Ten Times Over	Tall Man In Nightclub
1964	Castle of the Living Dead	Sgt. Paul | The Witch | The Old Man
1965	Fanatic	Joseph
1965	Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors	Dr. Bob Carroll
1965	The Bedford Incident	Hospitalman Nerney – Sick Bay
1966	Promise Her Anything	Autograph-Seeking Father
1967	Billion Dollar Brain	Scientist At Computer
1967	The Dirty Dozen	Vernon L. Pinkley
1967	The Shuttered Room	Zebulon (Voice)
1968	Sebastian	Ackerman
1968	Joanna	Lord Peter Sanderson
1968	The Split	Dave Negli
1968	Interlude	Lawrence
1968	Oedipus the King	Chorus Leader
1970	M*A*S*H	Capt. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce
1970	Start the Revolution Without Me	Charles | Pierre
1970	Kelly’s Heroes	Sergeant “Oddball”
1970	Act of the Heart	Father Michael Ferrier
1970	Alex in Wonderland	Alex Morrison
1971	Little Murders	Rev. Dupas
1971	Johnny Got His Gun	Christ
1971	Klute	John Klute
1972	F.T.A.	Himself
1973	Steelyard Blues	Jesse Veldini
1973	Lady Ice	Andy Hammon
1973	Don’t Look Now	John Baxter
1974	Alien Thunder	Sergeant Dan Candy
1974	S*P*Y*S	Bruland
1975	The Day of the Locust	Homer Simpson
1975	End of the Game	Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied
1976	1900	Attila Mellanchini
1976	Fellini’s Casanova	Giacomo Casanova
1976	The Eagle Has Landed	Liam Devlin
1977	The Kentucky Fried Movie	The Clumsy Waiter
1977	The Disappearance	Jay Mallory
1978	Blood Relatives	Steve Carella
1978	Animal House	Professor Dave Jennings
1978	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Matthew Bennell
1978	The First Great Train Robbery	Agar
1979	Murder by Decree	Robert Lees
1979	A Man, a Woman and a Bank	Reese Halperin
1979	Bear Island	Frank Lansing
1980	North China Factory	Narrator
1980	Ordinary People	Calvin Jarrett
1980	Nothing Personal	Roger Keller
1981	Threshold	Dr. Thomas Vrain
1981	Gas	Nick the Noz
1981	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
1989	A Dry White Season	Ben du Toit
1989	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
1991	JFK	X
1991	Eminent Domain	Josef Borski
1991	Backdraft	Ronald Bartel
1992	The Poky Little Puppy’s First Christmas	Narrator
1992	The Railway Station Man	Roger Hawthorne
1992	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Merrick Jamison-Smythe
1992	The Setting Sun	John Williams
1993	Younger and Younger	Jonathan Younger
1993	Six Degrees of Separation	Flan Kittredge
1993	Red Hot	Kirov
1993	Shadow of the Wolf	Henderson
1993	Benefit of the Doubt	Frank
1994	The Puppet Masters	Andrew Nivens
1994	Punch	Craman
1994	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
1998	Fallen	Lieutenant Stanton
1998	Without Limits	Bill Bowerman
1999	Virus	Captain Robert Everton
1999	Instinct	Doctor Ben Hillard
2000	Panic	Michael
2000	Space Cowboys	Captain Jerry O’Neill
2000	The Art of War	UN Secretary-General Douglas Thomas
2000	Threads of Hope	Narrator
2001	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	Dr. Sid (Voice)
2001	Big Shot’s Funeral	Rob Tyler
2002	Fellini: I’m a Born Liar	Himself / Giacomo Casanova
2003	The Italian Job	John Bridger
2003	Five Moons Square	Rosario Sarracino
2003	Baltic Storm	Lou Aldryn
2003	Cold Mountain	Reverend Monroe
2005	Aurora Borealis	Ronald
2005	Fierce People	Ogden C. Osbourne
2005	Pride & Prejudice	Mr. Bennet
2005	American Gun	Carl Wilk
2005	Lord of War	Colonel Oliver Southern
2005	Sir! No Sir!	Himself
2005	An American Haunting	John Bell
2006	Ask the Dust	Hellfrick
2006	Beerfest	Johann von Wolfhaus
2006	Land of the Blind	Thorne
2007	Reign Over Me	Judge Raines
2007	Puffball	Lars
2007	Days of Darkness	Himself
2007	Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia	Narrator
2007	Trumbo	Himself
2008	Fool’s Gold	Nigel Honeycutt
2009	Astro Boy	President Stone
2010	The Con Artist	John Kranski
2011	The Mechanic	Harry McKenna
2011	The Eagle	Aquila
2011	Horrible Bosses	Jack Pellitt
2011	Man on the Train	The Professor
2011	Jock the Hero Dog	Narrator | Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
2012	The Hunger Games	President Coriolanus Snow
2012	Dawn Rider	Cochrane
2012	Assassin’s Bullet	Ambassador Ashdown
2012	Out of the Shadows	Narrator
2013	The Best Offer	Billy Whistler
2013	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	President Coriolanus Snow
2013	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
2019	Backdraft 2	Ronald Bartel
2019	Ad Astra	Colonel Thomas Pruitt
2019	The Burnt Orange Heresy	Jerome Debney
2020	Alone	Edward
2022	Moonfall	Holdenfield
2022	Mr. Harrigan’s Phone	Mr. Harrigan
2023	Miranda’s Victim	Judge Wren
2023	Ozi: Voice of the Forest	Albino Crocodile (Voice)
2023	The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes	President Coriolanus Snow
—	Heart Land	Rick

DONALD SUTHERLAND’S TELEVISION

1962	Studio 4	Switchboard Operator	Episode: “Flight Into Danger”
1962	Man of the World	Unhelpful Neighbour	Episode: “Portrait of a Girl”; uncredited
1963	The Odd Man	Mitch Scott	Episode: “A Pattern of Little Silver Devils”
1963	The Sentimental Agent	Hotel Clerk	Episode: “A Very Desirable Plot”
1964	Hamlet at Elsinore	Prince Fortinbras	Television film
1965	The Sullavan Brothers	Jonathan Vickers	1 episode
1965–1966	The Saint	John Wood | Jim McCleery	2 episodes
1966	A Farewell to Arms	Sim	2 episodes
1966	Court Martial	Cpl. Brown	Episode: “All Is a Dream to Me”
1966	Theatre 625	Union Captain | Priest	2 episodes
1966	Gideon’s Way	Phillip Guest	Episode: “The Millionaires’ Daughter”
1967	The Avengers	Jessel	Episode: “The Superlative Seven”
1967–1968	Man in a Suitcase	Earle | Willard	2 episodes
1968	The Sunshine Patriot	Benedeck	Television film
1969	The Champions	David Crayley	Episode: “Shadow of the Panther”
1969	The Name of the Game	Jerry Trevor	Episode: “The Suntan Mob”
1977	Bethune	Dr. Norman Bethune	Television film
1983	The Winter of Our Discontent	Ethan Allen Hawley	Television film
1992	Quicksand: No Escape	Murdoch	Television film
1994	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Captain William Marsden	Television film
1994	The Lifeforce Experiment	Dr. ‘MAC’ MacLean	Television film
1995	Citizen X	Colonel Mikhail Fetisov	Television film
1996	The Simpsons	Hollis Hurlbut (Voice)	Episode: “Lisa the Iconoclast”
1996	Natural Enemy	Ted Robards	Television film
1999	Behind the Mask	Dr. Bob Shushan	Television film
1999	The Hunley	Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard	Television film
2001	The Big Heist	Jimmy Burke	Television film
2001	Uprising	Adam Czerniaków	Television film
2001	Queen Victoria’s Empire	Narrator	4 episodes
2002	Path to War	Clark Clifford	Television film
2004	Salem’s Lot	Richard Straker	Two episodes
2004	Frankenstein	Captain Walton	2 episodes
2005–2006	Commander in Chief	Nathan Templeton	19 episodes
2005	Human Trafficking	Agent Bill Meehan	4 episodes
2007–2009	Dirty Sexy Money	Patrick “Tripp” Darling III	23 episodes
2009	The Eastmans	Dr. Charles Eastman	Unsold pilot
2010	The Pillars of the Earth	Earl Bartholomew	4 episodes
2011	Moby Dick	Father Mapple	2 episodes
2012	Treasure Island	Captain Flint	Episode #1.1
2013–2015	Crossing Lines	Michel Dorn	34 episodes
2015	Pirate’s Passage	Captain Charles Johnson (voice)	Television film
2016–2017	Ice	Pieter Van De Bruin	Eight episodes
2018	Trust	J. Paul Getty	10 episodes
2020	The Undoing	Franklin Renner	Six episodes
2022	Swimming with Sharks	Redmond	Six episodes
2023	Lawmen: Bass Reeves	Judge Isaac C. Parker	Recurring role