Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland was a Canadian actor whose screen career ran for about six decades, from the war films of the late 1960s to prestige television in his final years. He first came to wide attention in The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H and Kelly's Heroes, then took leading parts in films such as Klute, Don't Look Now, Ordinary People and A Dry White Season, and later supporting parts in Animal House, JFK and The Hunger Games series, in which he played President Snow. On television he won a Primetime Emmy Award for the HBO film Citizen X and a Golden Globe for Path to War. Although he was never nominated for an Academy Award, the Academy gave him an honorary award in 2017. He was born on 17 July 1935 and died on 20 June 2024. The article this entry rests on also records his appointments to the Order of Canada.