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Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland was a Canadian actor. With a career spanning six decades, he received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards as well as a BAFTA Award nomination. Considered one of the best actors never nominated for an Academy Award, he received an Academy Honorary Award in 2017.
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Born 17 July 1935 · Died 20 June 2024 · Q103784
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2026· 4 entries
“something astonishing like Bill Gates has done with the seed vault”
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“t Look Now to be a bit more upbeat; and that his wife, who wanted to produce it, was mad to think that La Cage Aux Folles would be a Broadway hit. I assume that his decision to appear in Fool”
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“Forgiveness for what? It was my right.”
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2024· 9 entries
The Guardian: Letters: Donald Sutherland obituary
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The Guardian: ‘I can see him now. I will see him forever’: Donald Sutherland remembered by Keira Knightley, Elliott Gould, Ralph Fiennes and more
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The Guardian: Donald Sutherland obituary
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The Guardian: Donald Sutherland was an irreplaceable aristocrat of cinema | Peter Bradshaw
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The Guardian: Donald Sutherland: a life in pictures
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The Guardian: Donald Sutherland, Don’t Look Now and Hunger Games actor, dies aged 88
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Died 2024-06-20.
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“I’m really hoping that in some movie I’m doing, I die — but I die, me, Donald — and they’re able to use my funeral and the coffin … That would be absolutely ideal. I would love that.”
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“I love to work. I passionately love to work. I love to feel my hand fit into the glove of some other character. I find a huge freedom — time stops for me. I’m not as crazy as I used to be, but I’m still a little crazy.”
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2023· 2 entries
Sutherland told The Canadian Press that he had not spent much time reflecting on the legacy of his career, stating "You know, it's over or very nearly over, so I guess I got to get down to thinking about it
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Canada Post issued a stamp in his honour, commemorating his career as one of Canada's most respected and versatile actors
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2020· 1 entry
Appeared in the HBO limited series The Undoing (2020) alongside Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded Companion of the Order of Canada (2019).
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2018· 1 entry
Sutherland portrayed oil tycoon J
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2017).
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Show that Sutherland was on the National Security Agency watchlist between 1971 and 1973 at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency because of his anti-war activities
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Detailed how he and his family had lived in a farmhouse in Lakeside, located in present-day Hampton, before moving to Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, at the age of 12, where he spent his teenage years
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2016· 1 entry
Was a member of the main competition jury of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
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2015· 2 entries
Although he was proud to be Canadian, was an officer in the Order of Canada, and had no intention of changing his citizenship, Sutherland complained in 2015 that he was not allowed to vote because he was an expatriate for over five years.
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That he was not allowed to vote because he was an expatriate for over five years
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Teen Choice Award for Best Villain for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2014).
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Established the Donald Sutherland Award for Best Performance through a donation to Hart House Theatre at the University of Toronto, where he had previously studied
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2013· 1 entry
“The response I got from audiences gave me confidence and security for the first time.”
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2012· 3 entries
And the Companion of the Order of Canada (CC) in 2019
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Played Captain Flint in the British series Treasure Island, an adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson 1883 novel of the same name acting opposite Eddie Izzard and Elijah Wood
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Sutherland portrayed President Coriolanus 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), an
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2010· 1 entry
Starred alongside an ensemble cast in a TV adaptation of Ken Follett's novel The Pillars of the Earth (2010) acting alongside Ian McShane, Matthew Macfadyen, Rufus Sewell, Hayley Atwell, and Eddie Redmayne
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2000).
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Awarded Governor General's Performing Arts Award (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “The Spirit of Freedom: Patriotic Songs & Service Hymns”.
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1998· 1 entry
Took the role of Bill Bowerman in the sports drama Without Limits for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
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1996· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for Citizen X (1996).
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(for only the second time) with his son Kiefer in Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Citizen X (1995).
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Was also in the HBO film Citizen X, which won him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Tel
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1994· 2 entries
Sutherland played a software company's scheming CEO in Barry Levinson's drama Disclosure opposite Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, in 1994 he played a KGB officer in the video game Conspiracy, and in 1995 was cast as Maj
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Played the head of a government agency hunting for aliens who take over people's bodies (a premise similar to Invasion of the Body Snatchers) in the film of Robert A
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1992· 1 entry
Played the role of Merrick in the film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with Kristy Swanson
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1983· 1 entry
Co-starred with Teri Garr and Tuesday Weld in an adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent
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1981· 1 entry
Starred in the English spy thriller Eye of the Needle and narrated Anne Wheeler's Canadian docudrama A War Story
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1978· 5 entries
Awarded Officer of the Order of Canada (1978).
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Making himself known to younger fans as a result of the film's popularity
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Raised to Companion (CC) in 2019, inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame in 2000 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011
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Sutherland was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on 22 December 1978, and was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada in 2019.
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Sutherland starred in the heist comedy film The First Great Train Robbery, alongside Sean Connery
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1971· 2 entries
Sutherland starred as Christ in the independent anti-war film, Johnny Got His Gun , based on the Dalton Trumbo novel of the same name
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“late Donald Sutherland cast a literal and figurative shadow over his industry for almost 50 years”
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1970· 1 entry
As hippie tank commander "Oddball" in Kelly's Heroes alongside Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas and Don Rickles
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1968· 1 entry
After the breakthrough in the UK-filmed The Dirty Dozen, Sutherland left London for Hollywood
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1967· 1 entry
Appeared in "The Superlative Seven", an episode of The Avengers
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1966· 2 entries
Also made a second, and more substantial appearance in The Saint (S5,E14)
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Sutherland appeared in the BBC TV play Lee Oswald – Assassin, playing a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald's named Charles Givens (even though Givens himself was an African American)
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1958· 1 entry
With a dual degree in engineering and drama
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1957· 1 entry
Studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA)
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1935· 1 entry
Born 1935-07-17.
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