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Donald Sutherland
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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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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.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Name of the Game
BBC Play of the Month
Golden Globe Awards
The Graham Norton Show
HBO First Look
The Simpsons
The Avengers
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
The Saint
Backstory
Beerfest
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Lord of War
Promise Her Anything
Moonfall
Hamlet at Elsinore
JFK
The Kentucky Fried Movie
The Dirty Dozen
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
The Undoing
Cold Mountain
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Horrible Bosses
Pride & Prejudice
The Hunger Games
The Italian Job
Astro Boy
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Outbreak
A Time to Kill
Crossing Lines
Ad Astra
1900
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Kelly's Heroes
The Burnt Orange Heresy
The Oscars
Backdraft
Frankenstein
Gas
The Eagle
Six Degrees of Separation
Fool's Gold
Alone
Disclosure
Virus
Ask the Dust
The Mechanic
Swimming with Sharks
Dirty Sexy Money
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Path to War
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
The Pillars of the Earth
Lock Up
Citizen X
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Trust
Human Trafficking
A Dry White Season
Stonehenge: Decoded
Heaven Help Us
Ordinary People
The Day of the Locust
Production Credits
Murder in a Small Town
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