Donald Sutherland Highlights

  • 2007: Played an aging aristocratic billionaire in Griffin Dunne's "Fierce People"
  • 2007: Cast as Patrick 'Tripp' Darling III on ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money"; earned a Golden Globe (2008) nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Series
  • 2006: Co-starred with Colin Farrell in the Robert Towne-directed adaptation of "Ask the Dust"
  • 2006: Played a Virginia firearms-shop owner in Aric Avelino's film debut "American Gun"
  • 2005: Co-starred with Mira Sorvino in the Lifetime movie "Human Trafficking"; earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Best Actor in a TV movie
  • 2005: Cast as Speaker of the House, Nathan Templeton in Rod Lurie's ABC drama "Commander in Chief"; earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor
  • 2005: Cast as the patriarch in Joe Wright's adaptation of the Jane Austen classic "Pride and Prejudice"
  • 2003: Had memorable role in F. Gary Gray's remake of the "Italian Job"
  • 2003: Cast in Anthony Minghella's war epic "Cold Mountain"
  • 2001: Starred as a painter in the Off-Broadway play "Ten Unknowns" by Jon Robin Baitz
  • 2001: Had lead role as an Irish thief who plans to rob an airport terminal in the A&E original "The Big Heist"
  • 2000: Acted on stage in "Enigma Variations"
  • 1998: Played University of Oregon track coach, Bill Bowerman in Robert Towne's "Without Limits" about track sensation Steve Prefontaine
  • 1998: Stalked the hidden enemy in the supernatural thriller "Fallen"
  • 1997: Cast as a coldly manipulative CIA agent in "The Assignment"
  • 1996: Second film with son Kiefer, as the alcoholic mentor of Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) in "A Time to Kill"
  • 1995: Offered an award winning performance as Colonel Fetisov in the HBO movie "Citizen X"
  • 1995: Came aboard "Outbreak" late to play the icy General McClintock
  • 1994: Narrator for The Learning Channel's "Great Books" series
  • 1994: Portrayed a corporate honcho in Barry Levinson's adaptation of Michael Crichton's "Disclosure"
  • 1993: Offered a captivating performance as a snobbish but charming, upscale New Yorker living through the eyes of other people in "Six Degrees of Separation"; film is based on a 1990 play by John Guare
  • 1992: Mentored Kristy Swanson in the feature, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
  • 1991: Cast as a mad firebug in Ron Howard's "Backdraft"
  • 1991: Played a mysterious Washington intelligence officer in Oliver Stone's "JFK"
  • 1989: Cast as a teacher in the South African apartheid drama "A Dry White Season"
  • 1987: Portrayed middle-aged Paul Gauguin in "Wolf at the Door"; also provided voice of Gauguin in PBS' "Paul Gauguin: The Savage Dream" (1989)
  • 1983: Returned to TV after a 15-year absence in the CBS movie "John Steinbeck's 'The Winter of Our Discontent'"
  • 1983: Appeared in "Max Dugan Returns" along with son Kiefer in his film debut (also debut of Matthew Broderick)
  • 1981: Broadway debut as Humbert Humbert in Edward Albee's stage adaptation of "Lolita"
  • 1981: Played a German agent in the thriller, "Eye of the Needle"
  • 1981: Founded McNichol Pictures Inc. (also president)
  • 1980: Came to see the falseness of his life as he struggled to overcome the death of his son in the Academy award-winning "Ordinary People" co-starring Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton; Robert Redford's directorial debut
  • 1979: Teamed with Sean Connery for the stylish "The Great Train Robbery"
  • 1978: Delivered arguably his best performance since "Klute" as scientific-minded public health inspector confronting unspeakable horrors in Phillip Kaufman's remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
  • 1976: Played a bestial fascist in Bernardo Bertolucci's "1990"
  • 1976: Delivered a romantic turn as the title role of "Fellini's Casanova"
  • 1975: Evoked pity as the hick in love with an aspiring, selfish would-be starlet (Karen Black) in John Schlesinger's "The Day of the Locust"
  • 1974: Re-teamed with Gould in "S.P.Y.S."
  • 1973: Executive produced "Steelyard Blues" (also starred with Fonda)
  • 1973: Starred opposite Julie Christie in Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now"
  • 1972: Feature debut as co-producer and co-writer for the anti-Vietnam war film "F.T.A."; featured a series of anti-war skits and songs (with Fonda) performed outside army bases
  • 1971: Reteamed with Elliott Gould (from "M*A*S*H") for Alan Arkin's "Little Murders"
  • 1971: Delivered an outstanding performance as detective opposite then-girlfriend Jane Fonda in "Klute"
  • 1971: Played Jesus Christ in Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun"
  • 1970: Soared to stardom as the original Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H"
  • 1970: Portrayed a prototypical hippie in the WWII comedy-drama "Kelly's Heroes"
  • 1968: Received strong notices as a flamboyant wealthy young man in "Joanna"
  • 1967: Breakthrough supporting role, "The Dirty Dozen" with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson
  • 1966: US TV debut in the ABC series "Court Martial"
  • 1964: First significant film role, "Il Castello dei Morti Vivi/Castle of the Living Dead"
  • 1963: London stage debut, "August for the People"
  • 1960: Began acting in British TV and repertory theater
  • 1958: Moved to England to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
  • 1952: Made stage debut in "The Male Animal" at the Hart House Theatre in Toronto
  • 1949: Became Canada's (Nova Scotia) youngest radio announcer and disc jockey at age 14
  • Acted with the Perth Repertory Theatre in Scotland
  • Suffered a series of potentially crippling diseases during childhood, including polio, rheumatic fever and hepatitis
  • Played Scrooge in a radio production of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"

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