Donald Sutherland

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* University of Toronto
* London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
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**Donald McNichol Sutherland**, CC (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian actor whose film career spans more than five decades. 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), *Without Limits* (1998), *The Italian Job* (2003), *Cold Mountain* (2003), *Pride & Prejudice* (2005), *Aurora Borealis* (2006) and *The Hunger Games* franchise (2012–2015).

Sutherland has been 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). Several media outlets and film critics describe him as one of the best actors who have never received an Academy Award nomination. In 2017, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his contributions to cinema.

He is the father of actors Kiefer Sutherland, Rossif Sutherland and Angus Sutherland.

## Early life

Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Dorothy Isobel (née McNichol; 1892–1956) and Frederick McLea Sutherland (1894–1983), who worked in sales and ran the local gas, electricity and bus company. He is of Scottish, German and English ancestry. As a child, he had rheumatic fever, hepatitis, and poliomyelitis. His teenage years were spent in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. He obtained his first part-time job, at the age of 14, as a news correspondent for local radio station CKBW.

Sutherland graduated from Bridgewater High School. He then studied at Victoria University, an affiliated college of the University of Toronto, where he met his first wife Lois Hardwick (not to be confused with the child star of the same name), and graduated with a double major in engineering and drama. He had at one point been a member of the "UC Follies" comedy troupe in Toronto. He changed his mind about becoming an engineer, and left Canada for Britain in 1957, studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

## Career

### Early work

After departing the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Sutherland spent a year and a half at the Perth Repertory Theatre in Scotland.

In the early to mid-1960s, Sutherland began to gain small roles in British films and TV (such as a hotel receptionist in *The Sentimental Agent* episode 'A Very Desirable Plot' (1963)). He was featured alongside Christopher Lee in horror films such as *Castle of the Living Dead* (1964) and *Dr. Terror's House of Horrors* (1965). He also had a supporting role in the Hammer Films production *Die! Die! My Darling!* (1965), with Tallulah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers. In the same year, he appeared in the Cold War classic *The Bedford Incident* and in the TV series *Gideon's Way*, in the 1966 episode "The Millionaire's Daughter". In 1966, Sutherland appeared in the BBC TV play *Lee Oswald-Assassin,* playing a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Givens (even though Givens himself was an African-American). He also appeared in the TV series *The Saint,* in the 1966 episode "Escape Route".

In 1967, he appeared in "The Superlative Seven," an episode of *The Avengers.* He also made a second, and more substantial appearance in *The Saint.* The episode, "Escape Route," which was directed by the show's star, Roger Moore, who later recalled Sutherland "asked me if he could show it to some producers as he was up for an important role... they came to view a rough cut and he got *The Dirty Dozen.*" The film, which starred Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson along with a number of other important and popular actors, was the 5th highest-grossing film of 1967 and MGM's highest-grossing movie of the year.

In 1968, after the breakthrough in the UK-filmed *The Dirty Dozen,* Sutherland left London for Hollywood. He then appeared in two war films, playing the lead role as "Hawkeye" Pierce in Robert Altman's *MASH* in 1970; and, again in 1970, as hippie tank commander "Oddball" in *Kelly's Heroes.*

### Mid-career: 1972–2000

Sutherland starred with Gene Wilder in the 1970 comedy *Start the Revolution Without Me*. During the filming of the Academy Award-winning detective thriller *Klute*, Sutherland had an intimate relationship with co-star Jane Fonda. Sutherland and Fonda went on to co-produce and star together in the anti-Vietnam War documentary *F.T.A.* (1972), consisting of a series of sketches performed outside army bases in the Pacific Rim and interviews with American troops who were then on active service. A follow up to their teaming up in *Klute*, Sutherland and Fonda performed together in *Steelyard Blues* (1973), a "freewheeling, Age-of-Aquarius, romp-and-roll caper" from the writer David S. Ward.

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Sutherland found himself as a leading man throughout the 1970s in films such as the Venice-based psychological horror film *Don't Look Now* (1973), co-starring Julie Christie, a role which saw him nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor, the war film *The Eagle Has Landed* (1976), *Federico Fellini's Casanova* (1976) and the thriller *Eye of the Needle* (which was filmed on location on the Isle of Mull, West Scotland). His role as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied in the Maximilian Schell's 1976 German film-directed *End of the Game* is listed in crazy credits. and as the ever-optimistic health inspector in the science fiction/horror film *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* (1978) alongside Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum.

He helped launch the internationally popular Canadian television series *Witness to Yesterday*, with a performance as the Montreal doctor Norman Bethune, a physician and humanitarian, largely talking of Bethune's experiences in revolutionary China. Sutherland also had a role as pot-smoking Professor Dave Jennings in *National Lampoon's Animal House* in 1978, making himself known to younger fans as a result of the movie's popularity. When cast, he was offered either $40,000 up front or two percent of the movie's gross earnings. Thinking the movie would certainly not be a big success, he chose the 40K upfront payment. The movie eventually grossed $141.6 million.

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He won acclaim for his performance in the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 epic film *1900* and as the conflicted father in the Academy Award-winning family drama *Ordinary People* (1980), alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton. In 1981, he narrated *A War Story*, an Anne Wheeler film. He played the role of physician-hero Norman Bethune in two biographical films in 1977 and 1990.

Some of Sutherland's better known roles in the 1980s and 1990s were in the South African apartheid drama *A Dry White Season* (1989), alongside Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon; as a sadistic warden in *Lock Up* (1989) with Sylvester Stallone; as an incarcerated pyromaniac in the firefighter thriller *Backdraft* (1990) alongside Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro, as the humanitarian doctor-activist Norman Bethune in 1990's Bethune: The Making of a Hero, and as a snobbish New York City art dealer in *Six Degrees of Separation* (1993), with Stockard Channing and Will Smith.

In the 1991 Oliver Stone film *JFK*, he played a mysterious Washington intelligence officer, reputed to have been L. Fletcher Prouty, who spoke of links to the military–industrial complex in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. He played psychiatrist and visionary Wilhelm Reich in the video for Kate Bush's 1985 single, "Cloudbusting".

In 1992, he played the role of Merrick in the movie *Buffy the Vampire Slayer*, with Kristy Swanson. In 1994, he played the head of a government agency hunting for aliens who take over people's bodies similar to the premise of *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* in the movie of Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 book *The Puppet Masters*.

In 1994, Sutherland played a software company's scheming CEO in Barry Levinson's drama *Disclosure* opposite Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, and in 1995 was cast as Maj. Gen. Donald McClintock in Wolfgang Petersen's *Outbreak*. He was later cast in 1996 (for only the second time) with his son Kiefer in Joel Schumacher's *A Time to Kill*.

Sutherland played famous American Civil War General P.G.T. Beauregard in the 1999 film *The Hunley*. He played an astronaut in *Space Cowboys* (2000), with co-stars Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones and James Garner. Sutherland was a model for Chris Claremont and John Byrne to create Donald Pierce, the character in the Marvel Comics, which the last name comes from Sutherland's character in the 1970 film *M\*A\*S\*H*, Hawkeye Pierce.

### Recent work: 2000–present

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In more recent years, Sutherland was known for his role as Reverend Monroe in the Civil War drama *Cold Mountain* (2003), in the remake of *The Italian Job* (2003), in the TV series *Commander in Chief* (2005–2006), in the movie *Fierce People* (2005) with Diane Lane and Anton Yelchin, and as Mr. Bennet in *Pride & Prejudice* (2005), starring alongside Keira Knightley.

Sutherland starred as Tripp Darling in the prime time drama series *Dirty Sexy Money* for ABC. He played multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycut in the 2008 film *Fool's Gold*. His distinctive voice has also been used in many radio and television commercials, including those for Delta Air Lines, Volvo automobiles, and Simply Orange orange juice.

Sutherland provided voice-overs and narration during the intro of the 1st semifinal of Eurovision Song Contest 2009, and the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and was also one of the Olympic flag bearers. He was also narrator of CTV's "I Believe" television ads in the lead up to the Games. During the games, Sutherland attended some of the events. In 2010, he starred alongside an ensemble cast in a TV adaptation of Ken Follett's novel *The Pillars of the Earth*.

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Beginning in 2012, Sutherland portrayed President Snow, the main antagonist of *The Hunger Games* film franchise, in *The Hunger Games* (2012), *The Hunger Games: Catching Fire* (2013), *The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1* (2014), and *Part 2* (2015). His role was well received by fans and critics.

On 26 March 2012, he was a guest on the *Opie and Anthony* radio show where he mentioned he had been offered the lead roles in *Deliverance* and *Straw Dogs*, although turned down both offers because he did not want to appear in violent films at the time. The role in *Deliverance* went to Jon Voight and the role in *Straw Dogs* to Dustin Hoffman, and both films enjoyed critical and box office success. After declining these violent roles, he quipped: "and then I played a fascist in *1900* by Bernardo Bertolucci."

The television program *Crossing Lines* premiered on 23 June 2013, on the US NBC network. Sutherland, who played the Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court named Michel Dorn, was one of only two actors to appear in all episodes across three seasons.

Donald Sutherland can be seen tribute in the film *Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*, where Sam Rockwell's character and his mom discuss him in a feature movie scene.

In 2016, he was a member of the main competition jury of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. On 6 September 2017, it was announced Sutherland, along with 3 other recipients, would receive an Honorary Oscar, from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, "for a lifetime of indelible characters, rendered with unwavering truthfulness", being Sutherland's first Academy Award in six decades.

## Personal life

 File:Donald Sutherland - Monte-Carlo Television Festival.jpg  Sutherland was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on 18 December 1978 and promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada in 2019. He was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2000. He maintains a home in Georgeville, Quebec.

Sutherland has been married three times. His first marriage, to Lois Hardwick, lasted from 1959 to 1966. His second marriage, which lasted from 1966 to 1970, was to Shirley Douglas, daughter of Canadian social democratic politician and the "father" of Canada's universal healthcare system, Tommy Douglas.
Sutherland and Douglas have two children, twins Kiefer and Rachel.

Donald Sutherland met his current wife, French Canadian actress Francine Racette, on the set of the Canadian pioneer drama *Alien Thunder*. They married in 1972 and have three sons: Rossif Sutherland, Angus Redford Sutherland, and Roeg Sutherland.

His four sons have all been named after directors whom Sutherland has worked with: Kiefer is named after American-born director and writer Warren Kiefer, who, under the assumed name of Lorenzo Sabatini, directed Sutherland in his first feature film, the Italian low-budget horror film *Il castello dei morti vivi* *(Castle of the Living Dead)*; Roeg is named after director Nicolas Roeg; Rossif is named after French director Frédéric Rossif; and Angus Redford has his middle name after Robert Redford.

Sutherland became a blogger for the American news website *The Huffington Post* during the 2008 United States presidential election campaign. In his blogs, he stated his support for Barack Obama.

Documents declassified in 2017 show that Sutherland was on the National Security Agency watchlist in the period 1971–1973 at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency because of his anti-war activities.

## Filmography

*Main article: Donald Sutherland filmography*
## Awards and recognition

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* 1978: Officer of the Order of Canada (OC)
* 1983: 4th Genie Awards, winner, Best Actor, *Threshold*
* 1995: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role in a Miniseries or a Movie, *Citizen X*
* 1995: Golden Globe Award, winner, Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, *Citizen X*
* 1998: Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Drama, *Without Limits*
* 2000: Canada's Walk of Fame
* 2000: Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement
* 2002: Golden Globe Award, winner, Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, *Path to War*
* 2005: Honorary Doctor of Arts (Hon DArt) from Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont, U.S.)
* 2011: Hollywood Walk of Fame.
* 2012: Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
* 2017: Academy Honorary Award
* 2019: Companion of the Order of Canada (CC)

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32. ↑ "National Security Agency Tracking of U.S. Citizens – "Questionable Practices" from 1960s & 1970s", National Security Archive (25 September 2017). Retrieved on 3 January 2020.
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