Donald Sutherland
While Donald Sutherland was born and raised in Canada, he didn't truly find his true calling until he moved to the United Kingdom when he was in his early 20s. Acting was a part of his Canadian childhood, but he spent most of his time studying to become an engineer. That changed once he got to London in the late 1950s. He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, which led to a number of appearances in British media, including the horror flick "The Castle of the Living Dead" (1964) and an adaptation of "A Farewell to Arms" (1966). His breakout performance was in the award-winning ensemble war film "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), which segued nicely into his next notable roles as Hawkeye in Robert Altman's "MASH" (1970) and Oddball in "Kelly's Heroes" (1970). Sutherland became a star during the '70s, appearing in everything from the psychological thriller "Don't Look Now" (1973) to Bernardo Bertolucci's epic "1900" (1976). He also opened himself up to a different generation of viewers with his role as a professor in "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978). To kick off the '80s, Sutherland received acclaim for his performance alongside Mary Tyler Moore in the Oscar-winning drama "Ordinary People" (1980). He continued to appear in a variety of projects, including the apartheid drama "A Dry White Season" (1989) and the Kurt Russell-starring thriller "Backdraft" (1990). Memorable turns in Oliver Stone's "JFK" (1991) and the original film version of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1992) peppered the early '90s for Sutherland. For his role in HBO's "Citizen X" (1995), Sutherland earned multiple awards, including an Emmy. He closed out the decade with appearances in "Outbreak" (1995), "Without Limits" (1998), and "A Time to Kill" (1996), the latter of which was one of the rare times when Sutherland appeared in a work alongside his son Kiefer. In the 2000s, he appeared in the remake of "The Italian Job" (2003) as well as in the Keira Knightley-starring adaptation of "Pride & Prejudice" (2005). In 2012, he began performing one of the most notable roles of his late-stage career, appearing as the villainous President Snow in "The Hunger Games" (2012), going on to reprise the role in the complete four-film franchise. By the time "The Hunger Games" wrapped up, Sutherland was awarded an Honorary Oscar in 2017 for his multi-decade career. Even as he entered his 80s, Sutherland did not slow down, starring in Danny Boyle's "Trust" (FX 2018) and appearing alongside Brad Pitt in "Ad Astra" (2019). Donald Sutherland died on June 20, 2024 in Miami, FL at the age of 88.
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Donald Sutherland
Filmography
Movies
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82% |
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Miranda's Victim | Judge Wren (Character) | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet |
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Ozi: Voice of the Forest | Albino Crocodile (Voice) | - | 2023 |
46% |
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Mr. Harrigan's Phone | Mr. Harrigan (Character) | - | 2022 |
35% |
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Moonfall | Holdenfield (Character) | $19.0M | 2022 |
64% |
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass | Narrator | - | 2021 |
27% |
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Alone | Edward (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Physics of Sorrow | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2019 |
66% |
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The Burnt Orange Heresy | Jerome Debney (Character) | $143.8K | 2019 |
83% |
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Ad Astra | Thomas Pruitt (Character) | $50.2M | 2019 |
40% |
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Backdraft 2 | Ronald Bartel (Character) | - | 2019 |
44% |
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American Hangman | Judge Straight (Character) | - | 2019 |
52% |
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Measure of a Man | Dr. Kahn (Character) | - | 2018 |
38% |
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The Leisure Seeker | John Spencer (Character) | $3.2M | 2017 |
10% |
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Basmati Blues | Gurgon (Character) | - | 2017 |
42% |
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Milton's Secret | Grandpa Howard (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet |
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Pirate's Passage |
Captain Charles Johnson (Voice), Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2015 |
40% |
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Forsaken | Reverend William Clayton (Character) | - | 2015 |
70% |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 | President Snow (Character) | $281.7M | 2015 |
55% |
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The Calling | Father Price (Character) | - | 2014 |
69% |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 | President Snow (Character) | - | 2014 |
56% |
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The Best Offer | Billy Whistler (Character) | $82.0K | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Jappeloup: The Ride to Victory | John Lester (Character) | - | 2013 |
90% |
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | President Snow (Character) | - | 2013 |
7% |
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Assassin's Bullet | Ambassador Ashdown (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Dawn Rider | Pop (Character) | - | 2012 |
84% |
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The Hunger Games | President Snow (Character) | $408.0M | 2012 |
56% |
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Treasure Island | Flint (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Jock |
Narrator/ |
- | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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The Man on the Train | The Professor (Character) | - | 2011 |
69% |
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Horrible Bosses | Jack Pellit (Character) | $117.5M | 2011 |
39% |
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The Eagle | Uncle Aquila (Character) | $19.5M | 2011 |
54% |
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The Mechanic | Harry (Character) | $29.1M | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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The Con Artist | Kranski (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Out of the Shadows | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2010 |
51% |
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Astro Boy | Stone (Voice) | $19.5M | 2009 |
11% |
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Fool's Gold | Nigel Honeycutt (Character) | $70.2M | 2008 |
100% |
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Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia | Narrator | - | 2007 |
84% |
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Trumbo | Unknown (Character) | $108.3K | 2007 |
64% |
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Reign Over Me | Judge Raines (Character) | $19.7M | 2007 |
0% |
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Puffball | Lars (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
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Behind the Mask | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
36% |
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Ask the Dust | Hellfrick (Character) | $742.6K | 2006 |
17% |
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Land of the Blind | Thorne (Character) | - | 2006 |
24% |
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Fierce People | Ogden C. Osborne (Character) | $85.4K | 2005 |
68% |
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Aurora Borealis | Ronald (Character) | $60.6K | 2005 |
39% |
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American Gun | Carl (Character) | $24.0K | 2005 |
12% |
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An American Haunting | John Bell (Character) | $16.3M | 2005 |
87% |
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Pride & Prejudice | Mr. Bennet (Character) | $38.4M | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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Human Trafficking | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
69% |
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Salem's Lot | Richard Straker (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Five Moons Plaza | Rosario Sarracino (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet |
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Baltic Storm | Lou Aldryn (Character) | - | 2003 |
70% |
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Cold Mountain | Reverend Monroe (Character) | $95.6M | 2003 |
73% |
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The Italian Job | John Bridger (Character) | $106.1M | 2003 |
100% |
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Path to War | Clark Clifford (Character) | - | 2002 |
20% |
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Big Shot's Funeral | Tyler (Character) | $529 | 2001 |
44% |
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Doctor Cid (Voice) | $32.1M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Heist | Jimmy Burke (Character) | - | 2001 |
91% |
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Panic | Michael (Character) | $775.8K | 2000 |
16% |
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The Art of War | Douglas Thomas (Character) | $30.2M | 2000 |
78% |
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Space Cowboys | Jerry O'Nell (Character) | $90.4M | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Behind the Mask | Dr. Bob Shushan (Character) | - | 1999 |
26% |
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Instinct | Ben Hillard (Character) | $34.1M | 1999 |
12% |
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Virus | Capt. Robert Everton (Character) | $14.0M | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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The Hunley | Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard (Character) | - | 1999 |
29% |
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Free Money | Judge Rolf Rausenberger (Character) | - | 1998 |
79% |
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Without Limits | Bill Bowerman (Character) | $777.4K | 1998 |
40% |
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Fallen | Lieutenant Stanton (Character) | $25.2M | 1998 |
7% |
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Shadow Conspiracy | Jacob Conrad (Character) | $2.3M | 1997 |
62% |
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The Assignment |
Jack Shaw/ |
$540.1K | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Natural Enemy | Ted Robards (Character) | - | 1997 |
67% |
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A Time to Kill | Lucien Wilbanks (Character) | $108.7M | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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Hollow Point | Garrett Lawton (Character) | - | 1996 |
86% |
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Citizen X | Col. Mikhail Fetisov (Character) | - | 1995 |
59% |
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Outbreak | Maj. Gen. Donald McClintock (Character) | $65.9M | 1995 |
29% |
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The Puppet Masters | Andrew Nivens (Character) | $8.6M | 1994 |
59% |
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Disclosure | Bob Garvin (Character) | $81.3M | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dead Men Talk | Dr. "MAC" MacLean (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Younger & Younger | Jonathan Younger (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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Red Hot | Kirov (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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Shadow of the Wolf | Henderson (Character) | $1.2M | 1993 |
0% |
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Benefit of the Doubt | Frank (Character) | $73.3K | 1993 |
88% |
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Six Degrees of Separation | Flan (Character) | $6.3M | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Bethune | Unknown (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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The Mighty River | Narrator | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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Quicksand: No Escape | Murdoch (Character) | - | 1992 |
36% |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Merrick Jamison-Smythe (Character) | $14.1M | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Setting Sun | John Williams (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Railway Station Man | Roger Hawthorne (Character) | - | 1992 |
73% |
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Backdraft | Ronald Bartel (Character) | $75.7M | 1991 |
84% |
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JFK | X (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Scream of Stone | Ivan (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Buster's Bedroom | O'Connor (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Eminent Domain | Josef Borski (Character) | $81.9K | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bethune: The Making of a Hero | Dr. Norman Bethune (Character) | - | 1990 |
40% |
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Lost Angels | Lost Angels (Character) | $1.0M | 1989 |
31% |
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Lock Up | Warden Drumgoole (Character) | $20.3M | 1989 |
82% |
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A Dry White Season | Ben du Toit (Character) | $3.3M | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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The Trouble With Spies | Appleton Porter (Character) | $57.0K | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Apprentice to Murder | John Reese (Character) | $140.3K | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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The Rosary Murders | Father Robert Koesler (Character) | $1.7M | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Wolf at the Door | Paul Gauguin (Character) | $39.0K | 1986 |
29% |
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Heaven Help Us | Brother Thadeus (Character) | - | 1985 |
10% |
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Revolution | Sgt. Maj. Peasy (Character) | $295.3K | 1985 |
0% |
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Crackers | Weslake (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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Ordeal by Innocence | Dr. Arthur Calgary (Character) | - | 1984 |
71% |
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Max Dugan Returns | Brian Costello (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Winter of Our Discontent | Ethan Hawley (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The War Story | Narrator | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Threshold | Dr. Thomas Vrain (Character) | - | 1981 |
85% |
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Eye of the Needle | Faber (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gas | Nick the Noz (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet |
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Nothing Personal | Roger Keller (Character) | - | 1980 |
89% |
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Ordinary People | Calvin Jarrett (Character) | - | 1980 |
86% |
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Murder by Decree | Robert Lees (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
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A Man, a Woman and a Bank | Reese Halperin (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
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Bear Island | Frank Lansing (Character) | - | 1979 |
77% |
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The Great Train Robbery | Agar (Character) | - | 1978 |
93% |
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Matthew Bennell (Character) | - | 1978 |
91% |
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National Lampoon's Animal House | Prof. Dave Jennings (Character) | - | 1978 |
83% |
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The Kentucky Fried Movie | The Clumsy Waiter (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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The Disappearance | Jay Mallory (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bethune | Dr. Norman Bethune (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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Blood Relatives | Steve Carella (Character) | - | 1977 |
52% |
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1900 | Attila Mellanchini (Character) | $66.1K | 1976 |
58% |
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Fellini's Casanova | Giacomo Casanova (Character) | - | 1976 |
71% |
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The Eagle Has Landed | Liam Devlin (Character) | - | 1976 |
43% |
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End of the Game | Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cinema According to Bertolucci | Unknown (Character) | - | 1976 |
63% |
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The Day of the Locust | Homer Simpson (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadow Catcher | Unknown (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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S.P.Y.S | Bruland (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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Dan Candy's Law | Sgt. Dan Candy (Character) | - | 1973 |
93% |
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Don't Look Now | John Baxter (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
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Lady Ice | Andy Hammon (Character) | - | 1973 |
50% |
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Steelyard Blues | Jesse Veldini (Character) | - | 1973 |
83% |
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F.T.A. |
Self, Producer |
- | 1972 |
67% |
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Johnny Got His Gun | Christ (Character) | - | 1971 |
93% |
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Klute | John Klute (Character) | - | 1971 |
71% |
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Little Murders | Rev. Dupas (Character) | - | 1971 |
79% |
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Kelly's Heroes | Sgt. Oddball (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet |
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Alex in Wonderland | Alex Morrison (Character) | - | 1970 |
83% |
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Start the Revolution Without Me |
Charles/ |
- | 1970 |
86% |
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M*A*S*H | "Hawkeye" Pierce (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Act of the Heart | Father Michael Ferrier (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Suntan Mob | Jerry Trevor (Character) | - | 1969 |
20% |
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Joanna | Lord Peter Sanderson (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Interlude | Lawrence (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet |
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The Split | Dave Negli (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sunshine Patriot | Benedeck (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Oedipus the King | Chorus Leader (Character) | - | 1968 |
29% |
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Sebastian | Ackerman (Character) | - | 1968 |
82% |
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The Dirty Dozen | Vernon L. Pinkley (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet |
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Promise Her Anything | Autograph Seeking Father (Character) | - | 1966 |
100% |
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors | Bob Carroll (Character) | - | 1965 |
50% |
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Die! Die! My Darling! | Joseph (Character) | - | 1965 |
86% |
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The Bedford Incident | Hospitalman Nerney (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet |
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Castle of the Living Dead |
Sgt. Paul/ |
- | 1964 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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79% | 93% | Lawmen: Bass Reeves | Judge Isaac Parker (Character) | 2023 |
71% | 81% | Swimming With Sharks | Redmond (Character) | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | JFK: Destiny Betrayed | Narrator | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Treasure Island | Capt. Flint (Character) | 2012 2020 |
75% | 66% | The Undoing | Franklin Renner (Character) | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 60 Minutes | Guest | 2017-2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ice | Pieter Van De Bruin (Character) | 2017-2018 |
No Score Yet | 73% | Ice | Unknown (Character) | 2016-2018 |
78% | 79% | Trust | J. Paul Getty (Character) | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The View | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Crossing Lines | Michel Dorn (Character) | 2013-2015 |
No Score Yet | 91% | The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson | Guest | 2013 |
77% | 86% | The Pillars of the Earth | Bartholomew (Character) | 2010 |
68% | No Score Yet | Dirty Sexy Money | Tripp Darling (Character) | 2007-2009 |
82% | No Score Yet | Commander in Chief | Nathan Templeton (Character) | 2005-2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Salem's Lot | Richard Straker (Character) | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Actors Studio | Guest | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Living Edens | Narrator | 1998 |
85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Hollis Hurlbut (Guest Voice) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Unknown (Character) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man in a Suitcase | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967-1968 |
No Score Yet | 87% | The Avengers | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El Santo | John Wood (Guest Star) | 1965-1966 |