Donald Sutherland
Milestones
- Birthplace: St John, New Brunswick, Canada
- Birthday: July 17, 1935
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2009
Lent his voice to the animated feature, "Astro Boy"
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2008
Played multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycut in "Fool's Gold"
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2007 to 2008
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
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2007
Played an aging aristocratic billionaire in Griffin Dunne's "Fierce People"
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2006
Co-starred with Colin Farrell in the Robert Towne-directed adaptation of "Ask the Dust"
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2006
Played a Virginia firearms-shop owner in Aric Avelino's film debut "American Gun"
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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
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2005
Cast as the patriarch in Joe Wright's adaptation of the Jane Austen classic "Pride and Prejudice"
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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
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2003
Cast in Anthony Minghella's war epic "Cold Mountain"
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2003
Had memorable role in F. Gary Gray's remake of the "Italian Job"
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2001
Had lead role as an Irish thief who plans to rob an airport terminal in the A&E original "The Big Heist"
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2001
Starred as a painter in the Off-Broadway play "Ten Unknowns" by Jon Robin Baitz
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2000
Acted on stage in "Enigma Variations"
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1998
Played University of Oregon track coach, Bill Bowerman in Robert Towne's "Without Limits" about track sensation Steve Prefontaine
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1998
Stalked the hidden enemy in the supernatural thriller "Fallen"
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1997
Cast as a coldly manipulative CIA agent in "The Assignment"
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1996
Second film with son Kiefer, as the alcoholic mentor of Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) in "A Time to Kill"
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1995
Came aboard "Outbreak" late to play the icy General McClintock
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1995
Offered an award winning performance as Colonel Fetisov in the HBO movie "Citizen X"
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1994
Narrator for The Learning Channel's "Great Books" series
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1994
Portrayed a corporate honcho in Barry Levinson's adaptation of Michael Crichton's "Disclosure"
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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
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1992
Mentored Kristy Swanson in the feature, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
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1991
Cast as a mad firebug in Ron Howard's "Backdraft"
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1991
Played a mysterious Washington intelligence officer in Oliver Stone's "JFK"
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1989
Cast as a teacher in the South African apartheid drama "A Dry White Season"
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1987
Portrayed middle-aged Paul Gauguin in "Wolf at the Door"; also provided voice of Gauguin in PBS' "Paul Gauguin: The Savage Dream" (1989)
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1983
Appeared in "Max Dugan Returns" along with son Kiefer in his film debut (also debut of Matthew Broderick)
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1983
Returned to TV after a 15-year absence in the CBS movie "John Steinbeck's 'The Winter of Our Discontent'"
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1981
Broadway debut as Humbert Humbert in Edward Albee's stage adaptation of "Lolita"
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1981
Founded McNichol Pictures Inc. (also president)
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1981
Played a German agent in the thriller, "Eye of the Needle"
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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
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1979
Teamed with Sean Connery for the stylish "The Great Train Robbery"
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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"
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1976
Delivered a romantic turn as the title role of "Fellini's Casanova"
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1976
Played a bestial fascist in Bernardo Bertolucci's "1990"
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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"
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1974
Re-teamed with Gould in "S.P.Y.S."
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1973
Executive produced "Steelyard Blues" (also starred with Fonda)
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1973
Starred opposite Julie Christie in Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now"
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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
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1971
Delivered an outstanding performance as detective opposite then-girlfriend Jane Fonda in "Klute"
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1971
Played Jesus Christ in Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun"
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1971
Reteamed with Elliott Gould (from "M*A*S*H") for Alan Arkin's "Little Murders"
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1970
Portrayed a prototypical hippie in the WWII comedy-drama "Kelly's Heroes"
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1970
Soared to stardom as the original Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H"
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1968
Received strong notices as a flamboyant wealthy young man in "Joanna"
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1967
Breakthrough supporting role, "The Dirty Dozen" with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson
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1966
US TV debut in the ABC series "Court Martial"
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1964
First significant film role, "Il Castello dei Morti Vivi/Castle of the Living Dead"
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1963
London stage debut, "August for the People"
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1960
Began acting in British TV and repertory theater
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1958
Moved to England to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
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1952
Made stage debut in "The Male Animal" at the Hart House Theatre in Toronto
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1949
Became Canada's (Nova Scotia) youngest radio announcer and disc jockey at age 14
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Acted with the Perth Repertory Theatre in Scotland
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Played Scrooge in a radio production of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"
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Suffered a series of potentially crippling diseases during childhood, including polio, rheumatic fever and hepatitis
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