Donald Sutherland - Biography, External links

Film actor, born in St John, New Brunswick, E Canada. He studied at the University of Toronto, and for a time at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. An actor of enormous versatility, he became known for his role in The Dirty Dozen (1967), following this with M*A*S*H (1970) and Klute (1971). Among his later films are Ordinary People (1980), A Time To Kill (1996), Instinct (1999), Uprising (2001), Cold Mountain (2003), and Pride & Prejudice (2005).

Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Birth name	Donald McNicol Sutherland
Born	July 17, 1935 (age 71) Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Donald McNicol Sutherland OC (born July 17, 1935) is a prolific Canadian actor with a film career spanning over 40 years.

Biography

Early life

Donald Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick to Dorothy McNichol and Frederick Sutherland, who was in charge of the local bus, gas and electricity company;

Acting career

In the early 1960s, he began to get small parts in British film and TV, in the mid 1960s getting notable roles in horror films with Christopher Lee such as Castle of the Living Dead (1964), and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965). Sutherland had an intimate relationship (on and off-screen, he said, to critic Mark Cousins in 2001), with actress Jane Fonda, during the filming of the Academy award-winning detective thriller Klute (1.)

Sutherland and Fonda went on to co-produce and star together in the anti-Vietnam war film F.T.A. (1972) consisting of a series of sketches performed outside army bases in the Pacific Rim and interviews with the American troops who were then on active service. Sutherland found himself in demand as a leading man throughout the 1970s in films such as the Venice based psychological horror Don't Look Now (1973), the war film The Eagle Has Landed (1976), and as the ever optimistic health inspector in the sci-fi horror Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) alongside Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum.

In the Oliver Stone film, JFK, Sutherland played a mysterious Washington intelligence officer who spoke of links to the military-industrial complex in relation to Kennedy's assassination.

Recently he has been noted for his role as the Reverend Monroe in the civil war drama Cold Mountain (2003), in the re-make of The Italian Job (2003), and in Pride and Prejudice (2005) starring alongside Keira Knightley. (She later starred in the classic World War II drama Au revoir les enfants (1987).) They have three sons (all named after directors whom they have worked with):

Roeg Sutherland (born 1974) Rossif Sutherland (born 1978) (appeared in the 2003 film based on the Michael Crichton novel Timeline, and the 2005 film Red Doors) Angus Redford Sutherland (born 1979)

Donald Sutherland was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978. My Darling! (1966) The Bedford Incident (1965) Promise Her Anything (1966) The Dirty Dozen (1967) The Sunshine Patriot (1968) The Split (1968) Interlude (1968)

1970s

Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) M*A*S*H (1970) Kelly's Heroes (1970) Alex in Wonderland (1970) Act of the Heart (1970) Little Murders (1971) Klute (1971) Johnny Got His Gun (1971) F.T.A. (1972) Steelyard Blues (1973) Lady Ice (1973) Don't Look Now (1973) Alien Thunder (1973) S*P*Y*S (1974) The Day of the Locust (1975) End of the Game (1976) The Eagle Has Landed (1976) Fellini's Casanova (1976) 1900 (1976) Blood Relatives (1977) The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) The Disappearance (1977) Bethune (1977) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Murder by Decree (1979) A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979) The Great Train Robbery (1979) Bear Island (1979)

1980s

Ordinary People (1980) Nothing Personal (1980) Threshold (1981) Gas (1981) Eye of the Needle (1981) The Winter of Our Discontent (1983) Max Dugan Returns (1983) Ordeal by Innocence (1984) Crackers (1984) Revolution (1985) Heaven Help Us (1985) The Wolf at the Door (1986) The Trouble with Spies (1987) The Rosary Murders (1987) Apprentice to Murder (1988) Lost Angels (1989) Lock Up (1989) A Dry White Season (1989)

1990s

Buster's Bedroom (1990) Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990) Scream of Stone (1991) Long Road Home (1991) JFK (1991) Eminent Domain (1991) Backdraft (1991) The Railway Station Man (1992) Quicksand: No Escape (1992) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) The Setting Sun (1992 Japanese film, US release 1999, [IMDb]) Younger and Younger (1993) Six Degrees of Separation (1993) Shadow of the Wolf (1993) Benefit of the Doubt (1993) The Puppet Masters (1994) Punch (1994) Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994) The Lifeforce Experiment (1994) Disclosure (1994) Outbreak (1995) Hollow Point (1995) Citizen X (1995) A Time to Kill (1996) The Assignment (1997) Shadow Conspiracy (1997) Free Money (1998) Fallen (1998) Without Limits (1998) Behind the Mask (1999) Virus (1999) Instinct (1999) The Hunley (1999) Toscano (1999)

2000s

Panic (2000) Space Cowboys (2000) The Art of War (2000) Threads of Hope (voice) (2000) Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (voice) (2001) Uprising (TV) (2001) Queen Victoria's Empire (TV) (voice) (2001) Big Shot's Funeral (2002) (A Chinese comedy by Xiaogang Feng) Path to War (TV) (2002) The Italian Job (2003) Piazza delle cinque lune (2003) Baltic Storm (2003) Cold Mountain (2003) 'Salem's Lot (TV) (2004) Frankenstein (TV) (2004) Aurora Borealis (2004) Fierce People (2005) Pride and Prejudice (2005) American Gun (2005) An American Haunting (2005) Lord Of War (2005 movie cameo, Face not Seen) Commander in Chief (TV) (2005) Human Trafficking Lifetime TV mini-series (2005) Beerfest (2006)

External links

Donald Sutherland at the Internet Movie Database Donald Sutherland at the TCM Movie Database Donald Sutherland at the Internet Broadway Database Donald Sutherland at Yahoo!