
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.

Pride & Prejudice
2005 · as Mr. Bennet

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 · as President Coriolanus Snow

A Time to Kill
1996 · as Lucien Wilbanks

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 · as President Coriolanus Snow

Outbreak
1995 · as General Donald McClintock

Cold Mountain
2003 · as Reverend Monroe

Backdraft
1991 · as Ronald Bartel

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · as President Coriolanus Snow

The Mechanic
2011 · as Harry McKenna

The Italian Job
2003 · as John Bridger

The Hunger Games
2012 · as President Coriolanus Snow

Moonfall
2022 · as Holdenfield

Kelly's Heroes
1970 · as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)

Lord of War
2005 · as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)

Fallen
1998 · as Lt. Stanton

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 · as Matthew Bennell

The Dirty Dozen
1967 · as Vernon Pinkley

Horrible Bosses
2011 · as Jack Pellit