Donald Sutherland

Canadian actor

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Born:July 17, 1935

Died:June 20, 2024

Age at death:88

Zodiac Sign:Cancer

Born in:Saint John, Canada

Residence:Stanstead, Canada

Languages:English

Spokesperson Film Actor Screenwriter Character Actor Stage Actor Peace Activist Actor Television Actor Film Producer Voice Actor

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Famous For

Movies & TV

The Hunger GamesPride & PrejudiceThe Hunger Games: Catching FireLord of WarThe Italian Job

Songs & Albums

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Awards

Companion of the Order of Canada (2019)Academy Honorary Award (2017)Teen Choice Award for Best Villain (2014)Canada's Walk of Fame (2000)Governor General's Performing Arts Award (2000)

Donald Sutherland

Canadian actor

Biography

Donald McNichol Sutherland (17 July 1935 – 20 June 2024) was a Canadian actor. With a career spanning six decades, he received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards as well as a BAFTA Award nomination. Considered one of the best actors never nominated for an Academy Award, he received an Academy Honorary Award in 2017. Sutherland rose to fame after roles in the war films The Dirty Dozen (1967); M*A*S*H (1970); and Kelly's Heroes (1970). He further established himself with leading roles in Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), The Day of the Locust (1975), 1900 (1976), Fellini's Casanova (1976), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Ordinary People (1980), Eye of the Needle (1981), A Dry White Season (1989), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Without Limits (1998), Space Cowboys (2000) and supporting roles in Animal House (1978), JFK (1991), Cold Mountain (2003), The Italian Job (2003), Pride & Prejudice (2005), and Ad Astra (2019). He portrayed President Snow in The Hunger Games franchise (2012–2015). On television, he portrayed Mikhail Fetisov in the HBO thriller Citizen X (1995), which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He played Clark Clifford in the HBO biographical war film Path to War (2002) for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. He also acted in the NBC war drama Uprising (2001), the miniseries Human Trafficking (2005), the FX drama series Trust (2018), and the HBO mystery limited series The Undoing (2020). Sutherland was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC) in 1978, raised to Companion (CC) in 2019, inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame in 2000 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011. He is the father of Kiefer, Rossif, and Angus Sutherland, all actors. Sutherland was a prominent voice in politics throughout his life and was particularly vocal as an anti-war activist during the Vietnam War.

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Quotes

“I love to work. I passionately love to work. I love to feel my hand fit into the glove of some other character. I find a huge freedom — time stops for me. I’m not as crazy as I used to be, but I’m still a little crazy.”

— Interview on the film Without Limits, on Charlie Rose (10 September 1998) [@12:08]

“[Asked if he was conscious of being an unusual actor] Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!”

— Referring to his early roles while living in the UK in the early to mid-1960s in an interview, cited in "Total recall: John Patterson meets Donald Sutherland", The Guardian (3 September 2005)

“We had a housekeeper in Canada, a wonderful woman, whose father raped all of his daughters. She went to see him when he was dying and said, "I'm here to forgive you." He said, "Forgiveness for what? It was my right.”

— From an interview, as cited in "Donald Sutherland: 'I want Hunger Games to stir up a revolution'", The Guardian (19 November 2013)

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Photos

Donald Sutherland accepting the Crystal Nymph Award

Advertisement for the movie Klute 1971 in the Los Angeles Times

Presentazione del film di Werner Herzog Grido di pietra al 48ª Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica di Venezia.

Donald Sutherland at the Filmex Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, November 1981. NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks.

Wash D.C. 1998

Title: Donald Sutherland and Blanche Baker, "Lolita" rehearsal [New York City] Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Date Created/Published: [1980 or 1981] Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-gtfy-03608 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For information see "Bernard Gotfryd," (https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.592.gotf) Access Advisory: Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation. Call Number: LC-GB05- 3608 [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Notes: Title based on information from slide mount and other caption information provided by the photographer. Gift; Bernard Gotfryd; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:032). Subjects: United States--New York (State)--New York. Actors Actresses Format: Slides--Color--1980-1990. Part of: Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress) Bookmark This Record: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2020733149/

The Olympic flag is carried into BC Place stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the XXI Olympic Winter Games, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Feb. 12, 2010. Left to right, Betty Fox, mother of the late cancer activist Terry Fox; Jacques Villeneuve, the only Canadian race car driver to win both the Indianapolis 500 and Formula 1 world championship; four-time Grammy Award winning singer Anne Murray; Bobby Orr, National Hockey League legendary defenceman; Emmy-award winning actor Donald Sutherland; Barbara Ann Scott-King, 1948 Olympic figure skating gold medalist; Meritorious Service Cross recipient retired Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, and Canadian astronaut Julie Payette are carrying the flag.