Donald Sutherland

Highest Rated: 100% Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia (2007)

Lowest Rated: 0% Puffball (2008)

Birthday: Jul 17, 1935

Birthplace: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Certainly one of the most distinctive looking men ever to be granted the title of movie star, Donald Sutherland is an actor defined as much by his almost caricature-like features as his considerable talent. Tall, lanky and bearing perhaps the most enjoyably sinister face this side of Vincent Price, Sutherland made a name for himself in some of the most influential films of the 1970s and early '80s.A native of Canada, Sutherland was born in New Brunswick on July 17, 1935. Raised in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, he took an early interest in the entertainment industry, becoming a radio DJ by the time he was fourteen. While an engineering student at the University of Toronto, he discovered his love for acting and duly decided to pursue theatrical training. An attempt to enroll at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art was thwarted, however, because of his size (6'4") and idiosyncratic looks. Not one to give up, Sutherland began doing British repertory theatre and getting acting stints on television series like The Saint. In 1964 the actor got his first big break, making his screen debut in the Italian horror film Il Castello dei Morti Vivi (The Castle of the Living Dead). His dual role as a young soldier and an old hag was enough to convince various casting directors of a certain kind of versatility, and Sutherland was soon appearing in a number of remarkably schlocky films, including Dr. Terror's House of Horrors and Die! Die! Darling! (both 1965). A move into more respectable fare came in 1967, when Robert Aldrich cast him as a retarded killer in the highly successful The Dirty Dozen. By the early '70s, Sutherland had become something of a bonafide star, thanks to lead roles in films like Start the Revolution without Me and Robert Altman's MASH (both 1970). It was his role as Army surgeon Hawkeye Pierce in the latter film that gave the actor particular respect and credibility, and the following year he enhanced his reputation with a portrayal of the titular private detective in Alan J. Pakula's Klute.It was during this period that Sutherland became something of an idol for a younger, counter culture audience, due to both the kind of roles he took and his own anti-war stance. Offscreen, he spent a great deal of time protesting the Vietnam War, and, with the participation of fellow protestor and Klute co-star Jane Fonda, made the anti-war documentary F.T.A. in 1972. He also continued his mainstream Hollywood work, enjoying success with films like Don't Look Now (1973), The Day of the Locust (1975), and Fellini's Casanova (1976). In 1978, he won a permanent place in the hearts and minds of slackers everywhere with his portrayal of a pot-smoking, metaphysics-spouting college professor in National Lampoon's Animal House.After a starring role in the critically acclaimed Ordinary People (1980), Sutherland entered a relatively unremarkable phase of his career, appearing in one forgettable film after another. This phase continued for much of the decade, and didn't begin to change until 1989, when the actor won raves for his starring role in A Dry White Season and his title role in Bethune: The Making of a Hero. He spent the 1990s doing steady work in films of widely varying quality, appearing as the informant who cried conspiracy in JFK (1991), a Van Helsing-type figure in Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992), a wealthy New Yorker who gets taken in by con artist Will Smith in Six Degrees of Separation (1993), and a general in the virus thriller Outbreak (1995). In 1998, the actor did some of his best work in years (in addition to the made-for-TV Citizen X (1995), for which he won an Emmy and a Golden Globe) when he starred as a track coach in Without Limits, Robert Towne's biopic of runner Steve Prefontaine. In 2000, Sutherland enjoyed further critical and commerical success with Space Cowboys, an adventure drama that teamed the actor alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Clint Eastwood, and James Garner as geriatric astronauts who get another chance

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Filmography

MOVIES

		CREDIT
No Score Yet	Ad Astra	Actor	—	2019
50%	American Hangman	Actor	—	2019
No Score Yet	Backdraft 2	Ronald Bartel	—	2019
50%	Measure of a Man	Dr. Kahn	—	2018
37%	The Leisure Seeker	John	—	2018
38%	Milton's Secret	Grandpa Howard	—	2016
43%	Forsaken	Rev. Clayton	—	2016
No Score Yet	The Hunger Games: Complete 4-Film Collection	Actor	—	2016
70%	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	President Snow	$254.7M	2015
No Score Yet	Pirate's Passage	Screenwriter Capt. Charles Johnson Producer	—	2015
68%	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	President Snow	$295.5M	2014
52%	The Calling	Father Price	—	2014
55%	The Best Offer	Billy	$85.9K	2014
89%	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	President Snow	$336.7M	2013
7%	Assassin's Bullet	Ambassador Ashdown	—	2012
84%	The Hunger Games	President Snow	$408M	2012
56%	Treasure Island	Flint	—	2012
No Score Yet	Dawn Rider	Pop Mason	—	2012
69%	Horrible Bosses	Jack Pellit	$117M	2011
40%	The Eagle	Uncle Aquila	$19.5M	2011
53%	The Mechanic	Harry McKenna	$29.2M	2011
No Score Yet	Jock The Hero Dog	Narrator	—	2011
No Score Yet	Man On The Train	The Professor	—	2011
No Score Yet	The Con Artist	Kranski	—	2010
No Score Yet	Out of the Shadows	Narrator	—	2010
No Score Yet	For Love of Liberty	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots	Actor	—	2010
50%	Astro Boy (AstroBoy)	President Stone	$19.6M	2009
0%	Puffball	Actor	—	2008
11%	Fool's Gold	Nigel Honeycutt	$70.2M	2008
No Score Yet	Stonehenge Decoded	Narrator	—	2008
No Score Yet	Last Continent	Narrator	—	2007
83%	Trumbo	Actor	$28.6K	2007
100%	Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia	Actor	—	2007
64%	Reign Over Me	Judge Raines	$19.7M	2007
No Score Yet	Behind the Mask	Actor	—	2007
68%	Aurora Borealis	Ronald Shorter	—	2006
17%	Land of the Blind	Thorne	—	2006
13%	An American Haunting	John Bell Sr.	$16.3M	2006
39%	American Gun	Carl Wilk	—	2006
35%	Ask the Dust	Hellfrick	$0.7M	2006
No Score Yet	Baltic Storm	Actor	—	2005
86%	Pride and Prejudice	Mr. Bennet	$38.3M	2005
62%	Lord of War	Col. Oliver Southern	$24.1M	2005
No Score Yet	Interlude	Actor	—	2005
24%	Fierce People	Ogden C. Osborne	—	2005
No Score Yet	Human Trafficking	Bill Meehan	—	2005
No Score Yet	Salem's Lot	Richard Straker	—	2004
No Score Yet	Frankenstein	Capt. Walton	—	2004
71%	Cold Mountain	Reverend Monroe	—	2003
73%	The Italian Job	John Bridger	$106M	2003
73%	Fellini: I'm a Born Liar	Himself	—	2003
20%	Big Shot's Funeral	Tyler	—	2003
No Score Yet	Five Moons Plaza (Piazza delle Cinque Lunes)	Actor	—	2003
No Score Yet	Path to War	Clark Clifford	—	2002
100%	Uprising	Adam Czerniakow	—	2001
45%	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	Dr. Sid	—	2001
No Score Yet	The Big Heist	Jimmy Burke	—	2001
91%	Panic	Michael	—	2000
16%	The Art of War	Douglas Thomas	$29.5M	2000
78%	Space Cowboys	Jerry O'Neill	—	2000
No Score Yet	Bear Island	Frank Lansing	—	2000
No Score Yet	Spiral, The (La spirale)	Actor	—	2000
No Score Yet	Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows	Actor	—	2000
No Score Yet	The Hunley	Gen. Beauregard	—	1999
29%	Free Money	Judge Rowsenberger	—	1999
27%	Instinct	Dr. Ben Hillard	—	1999
No Score Yet	Behind the Mask	Dr. Bob Shushan	—	1999
10%	Virus	Captain Robert Everton	—	1999
79%	Without Limits	Bill Bowerman	—	1998
60%	The Assignment	Jack Shaw/Henry Fields	—	1997
40%	Fallen	Lt. Stanton	—	1997
0%	Shadow Conspiracy	Jake Conrad	—	1997
No Score Yet	Natural Enemy	Actor	—	1997
65%	A Time to Kill	Lucien Wilbanks	—	1996
No Score Yet	Hollow Point	Lawton	—	1995
No Score Yet	Younger & Younger	Jonathan Younger	—	1995
57%	Outbreak	General Donald McClintock	—	1995
86%	Citizen X	Col. Mikhail Fetisov	—	1995
No Score Yet	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Capt. William Marsden	—	1994
58%	Disclosure	Bob Garvin	—	1994
26%	The Puppet Masters	Andrew Nivens	—	1994
88%	Six Degrees of Separation	Flan Kittredge	—	1993
No Score Yet	Bethune: The Making of a Hero	Dr. Norman Bethune	—	1993
No Score Yet	Red Hot	Kirov	—	1993
0%	Benefit of the Doubt	Frank	—	1993
No Score Yet	Shadow of the Wolf	Henderson	—	1993
No Score Yet	Dr. Bethune	Actor	—	1993
No Score Yet	The Setting Sun	Bureaucrat	—	1992
35%	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Merrick	—	1992
No Score Yet	The Railway Station Man	Roger Hawthorne	—	1992
No Score Yet	Quicksand: No Escape	Murdoch	—	1992
83%	JFK	X	—	1991
No Score Yet	Scream of Stone	Ivan	—	1991
74%	Backdraft	Ronald Bartel	—	1991
No Score Yet	Buster's Bedroom	O'Connor	—	1991
No Score Yet	Long Road Home	Actor	—	1991
No Score Yet	Eminent Domain	Josef Borski	—	1991
84%	A Dry White Season	Ben du Toit	—	1989
17%	Lock Up	Warden Drumgoole	—	1989
No Score Yet	Lost Angels	Dr. Charles Loftis	—	1989
No Score Yet	National Gallery of Art	Paul Gauguin	—	1988
No Score Yet	The Rosary Murders	Father Bob Koesler	—	1987
No Score Yet	Apprentice to Murder	John Reese	—	1987
No Score Yet	Oviri (The Wolf at the Door)	Paul Gauguin	—	1986
10%	Revolution	Sgt. Maj. Peasy	—	1985
No Score Yet	Ordeal by Innocence	Dr. Arthur Calgary	—	1985
40%	Heaven Help Us	Brother Thadeus	—	1985
No Score Yet	Revolution Revisited	Actor	—	1985
No Score Yet	Le Fleuve Aux Grandes Eaux	Actor	—	1984
No Score Yet	The Trouble with Spies	Appleton Porter	—	1984
0%	Crackers	Weslake	—	1984
No Score Yet	Savage and Beautiful	Actor	—	1984
75%	Max Dugan Returns	Brian Costello	—	1983
No Score Yet	Threshold	Dr. Thomas Vrain	—	1983
87%	Eye of the Needle	Faber	—	1981
No Score Yet	Gas	Nick the Noz	—	1981
91%	Ordinary People	Calvin	—	1980
No Score Yet	Nothing Personal	Roger Keller	—	1980
No Score Yet	A Man, a Woman and a Bank	Reese	—	1979
88%	Murder by Decree	Robert Lees	—	1979
76%	The Great Train Robbery	Agar	—	1979
95%	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Matthew Bennell	—	1978
No Score Yet	Les Liens de sang (Blood Relatives)	Carella	—	1978
91%	National Lampoon's Animal House	Prof. Dave Jennings	—	1978
50%	1900 (Novecento)	Attila	—	1977
80%	The Kentucky Fried Movie	Clumsy	—	1977
43%	Le Casanova de Fellini	Giacomo Casanova	—	1976
86%	The Eagle Has Landed	Liam Devlin	—	1976
60%	End of the Game (Der Richter und sein Henker) (The Judge and His Hangman)	Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied	—	1975
64%	The Day of the Locust	Homer	—	1975
No Score Yet	Shadow Catcher	Narrator	—	1975
No Score Yet	SPY*S	Bruland	—	1974
No Score Yet	Dan Candy's Law	Dan Candy	—	1974
96%	Don't Look Now	John Baxter	—	1973
No Score Yet	Lady Ice	Andy Hammon	—	1973
60%	Steelyard Blues	Producer Executive Producer Veldini Jesse Veldini	—	1973
No Score Yet	F.T.A.	Producer Actor Screenwriter	—	1972
67%	Johnny Got His Gun	`Christ'	—	1971
93%	Klute	Klute	—	1971
56%	Little Murders	Minister	—	1971
85%	MAS*H	Hawkeye Pierce	—	1970
No Score Yet	Alex in Wonderland	Alex Morrison	—	1970
No Score Yet	The Act of the Heart	Father Michael Ferrier	—	1970
76%	Kelly's Heroes	Sgt. Oddball (tank commander)	—	1970
83%	Start The Revolution Without Me	Charles, Pierre	—	1970
33%	Sebastian	American	—	1969
No Score Yet	Joanna	Lord Peter Sanderson	—	1968
No Score Yet	The Split	Dave Negli	—	1968
91%	The Dirty Dozen	Vernon Pinkley	—	1967
50%	Billion Dollar Brain	Actor	—	1967
No Score Yet	Dr. Terror's House of Horrors	Dr. Bob Carroll	—	1965
86%	The Bedford Incident	Pharmacist's Mate Nerny	—	1965
44%	Die! Die! My Darling!	Joseph	—	1965
No Score Yet	Promise Her Anything	Baby's Father	—	1964
No Score Yet	Castle of the Living Dead	Sergent Paul/Witch/Old Man	—	1964
No Score Yet	La cripta e l'incubo (Crypt of the Vampire)(Terror in the Crypt)	Sergent Paul/Witch/Old Man	—	1964

TV

		CREDIT
No Score Yet	The View 1997	Guest	2018
No Score Yet	Today 2017	Guest	2018
80%	Trust 2018	J. Paul Getty	2018
No Score Yet	60 Minutes 2008	Appearing Guest	2018 2017
No Score Yet	ICE 2016-2018	Pieter Van De Bruin	2017 2016
No Score Yet	Crossing Lines 2013-2015	Michel Dorn	2015 2014 2013
No Score Yet	The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson 2005-2014	Guest	2013
No Score Yet	Treasure Island 2012	Flint	2012
No Score Yet	The Graham Norton Show 2007	Guest	2011
86%	Pillars of the Earth 2010	Bartholomew	2011 2010
68%	Dirty Sexy Money 2007-2009	Tripp Darling	2009 2008 2007
No Score Yet	Commander in Chief 2005-2006	Nathan Templeton	2006 2005
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014	Guest	2000
No Score Yet	American Experience 1988	Narrator	1999
85%	The Simpsons 1989	Voice	1996
No Score Yet	The Avengers 1969	Jessel	1967
No Score Yet	Crossing Lines	Michel Dorn
No Score Yet	The Saint 1962-1969	Wood McCleery

QUOTES FROM Donald Sutherland CHARACTERS

President Snow	It's the things we love the most that destroy us
President Snow	It's the things we love the most that destroy us.

Katniss Everdeen	It must be a fragile system if it can be brought down by just a few berries
President Snow	It is indeed--but not in the way you imagine.
Katniss Everdeen	How should I imagine?
President Snow	You should imagine thousands upon thousands of your people dead...this town of yours reduced to ashes, imagine it gone, buried under dirt, made radioactive as if it had never existed like District 13. You fought very hard in the games miss Everdeen, but they were games...would you like to be in a real war?

President Snow

It's the things we love most that destroy us.

Billy	Human emotions are like works of art. They can be forged. They seem just like the original, but they're a forgery.
Virgil Oldman	Forgery?
Billy	Everything can be faked, Virgil. Joy, pain, hate, illness, recovery, even love.

Harry McKenna	You're a goddamn machine. You see things. You view people differently than I do, differently than anybody does. But you have a problem, Arthur. You need companionship.
Arthur Bishop	I have you Harry
Harry McKenna	Oh, then you're in deeper shit than I thought.

Monroe

I lost your mother after twenty-two months of marriage. It was enough for a lifetime.

Billy

Emotions are like work of art. They can be forged they seem just like the original but they are forgery.

President Snow	Your hair looks lovely, darling. When did you start wearing it like that?
Snow's Granddaughter	Everyone at school wears their hair like this now, Grandpa.

President Snow	While you and Peeta are on tour, you need to smile, you need to be grateful, but above all, you need to madly end it all in love. You think you can manage that?
Katniss Everdeen	Yes.
President Snow	"Yes" what?
Katniss Everdeen	I'll convince them.
President Snow	No. Convince me.

Jack Pellit

Life is a marathon and you can't win a marathon without putting a few Band-Aids on your nipples.

President Snow

Let it fly, Ms Everdeen. Let it. Fly.

President Snow	Your hair looks lovely, darling. When did you start wearing it like that?
Snow's Granddaughter	Everyone at school wears their hair like this now, Grandpa.

President Snow

Are all of you happy about the capitol? After all we are your gods.

President Snow	"They're holding hands. I want them dead."
President Snow	They're holding hands. I want them dead.

President Snow

Let it fly.

The Professor

Schubert appeals to my sense of failure.

President Snow	You fought very had in the Games, Miss Everdeen. But they were games. Would you like to be in a real war? Thousands of your people dead. Your loved ones....Gone.
President Snow	You fought very had in the Games, Miss Everdeen. But they were games. Would you like to be in a real one? Thousands of your people dead. Your loved ones....Gone.

Dr. Thomas Vrain

It won't be long before you leave this room with a heart as good as God ever made.

President Snow	Her entire species must be... eradicated.
President Snow	Her entire species must be eradicated.
Plutarch Heavensbee	Her species, sir?
President Snow	The other victors. Because of her, they all pose a threat. Because of her, they all think they're invincible.

President Snow	(On Katniss Everdeen) She has become a beacon of hope for them. She has to be eliminated.
President Snow	She has become a beacon of hope for them. She has to be eliminated.

President Snow	Her entire species must be eradicated.
Plutarch Heavensbee	Her species, sir?
President Snow	The other victors. Because of her, they all pose a threat. Because of her, they all think they're invisible.
President Snow	The other victors. Because of her, they all pose a threat. Because of her, they all think they're invincible.

President Snow	(on Katniss Everdeen) She has become a big kind of hope for them. She has to be eliminated. What do you think?
President Snow	She has become a big kind of hope for them. She has to be eliminated. What do you think?
Plutarch Heavensbee	I agree. She should die, but in the right way and the right time.

Ronald	You look like your dad.
Duncan Shorter	You do too.
Ronald	I'm better looking......Grandpa's little helper.
Ronald	I'm better looking.Grandpa's little helper.

X	''He Must Die.''
X	He must die.

President Snow	Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained.
Seneca Crane	So...
President Snow	So, contain it!

John Bridger

I trust everyone, It's the devil inside them I don't trust.

President Snow

Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained.

Warden Drumgoole

Frank, this is hell and I'm going to give you the guided tour.

President Snow

Welcome! Welcome! Welcome Tributes! We salute you!

President Snow

Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear.

Oddball	But for 1.6 million dollars, we could become heroes for three days.
Oddball	Why don't you say something rightous or hopeful for a change? [to Moriarity]
Moriarty	Crap! [to Oddball]
Big Joe	Well then, why the hell aren't you up there helping them? [fix the tank]
Oddball	answers: (laughs) I only ride em I don't know what makes em work.
Oddball	[answers] I only ride em I don't know what makes em work.

President Snow	An eleven?
Seneca Crane	She earned it.
President Snow	She shot an arrow at your head.
Seneca Crane	She shot the apple.
President Snow	Near your head.

President Snow

I like you. Be careful.

Seneca Crane	Who doesn't like an underdog?
President Snow	I don't.

President Snow	Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, alot of hope is dangerous. This fact is fine, as long as it's contained.
Seneca Crane	So...
Effie Trinket	So, contain it.

President Snow	Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, alot is dangerous. This fact is fine, as long as it's contained.
Seneca Crane	So...
President Snow	So, contain it.

President Snow

Hope is the only thing more powerful then fear.

Seneca Crane	I mean, everyone loves a good underdog!
President Snow	I don't.

Father Bob Koesler	Say five Our Fathers and five Hail Mary's. If it'll help, say the rosary [after hearing a distressed friend's confession].
Father Bob Koesler	Say five Our Fathers and five Hail Mary's. If it'll help, say the rosary. [after hearing a distressed friend's confession]

Oddball

I'm grabbing some waves.

Vernon Pinkley

Very pretty, General. Very pretty. But, can they fight?

President Snow	" By the way, I know about the kiss. "
President Snow	By the way, I know about the kiss.

President Snow	"On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the Capitol, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors."
President Snow	On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the Capitol, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.

President Snow	Welcome, and Happy Hunger Games.
Effie Trinket	I just love that. Ladies first, Primrose Everdeen.

Oddball

A Sherman can give you a very nice... edge.

President Snow

And so it was decreed that each year the twelve districts of Panem shall offer up in tribute one young man and woman between the ages of twelve and eighteen to be trained in the art of survival and be prepared to fight to the death.

Aquila

Hold the circle!

Dr. Sid	Remember what happened to Galileo? They threw him in jail because he said the earth was not the center of the universe. That could happen to us.
Dr. Sid	Remember what happened to Galileo? They threw him in jail because he said the earth was not the center of the universe. That could happen to us.