Donald Sutherland
Born July 17, 1935 (Age: 90)
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Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Biography
Donald McNichol Sutherland (July 17, 1935 – June 20, 2024) was a Canadian actor whose film career spanned over 6 decades. He was nominated for eight Golden Globe Awards, winning two for his performances in the television films Citizen X (1995) and Path to War (2002); the former also earned him a Primetime Emmy Award. An inductee of the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Canadian Walk of Fame, he also received a Canadian Academy Award for the drama film Threshold (1981). Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. In 2017, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his contributions to cinema. In 2021, he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries for his work in the HBO miniseries The Undoing (2020). Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films including The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Fellini's Casanova (1976), 1900 (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Animal House (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Ordinary People (1980), and Eye of the Needle (1981). He later went on to star in many other films where he appeared either in leading or supporting roles such as A Dry White Season (1989), JFK (1991), Outbreak (1995), A Time to Kill (1996), The Assignment (1997), Without Limits (1998), Big Shot's Funeral (2001), The Italian Job (2003), Cold Mountain (2003), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Aurora Borealis (2006) and The Hunger Games franchise (2012–2015). He was the father of actors Kiefer Sutherland, Rossif Sutherland, and Angus Sutherland.
Donald McNichol Sutherland (July 17, 1935 – June 20, 2024) was a Canadian actor whose film career spanned over 6 decades. He was nominated for eight Golden Globe Awards, winning two for his performances in the television films Citizen X (1995) and Path to War (2002); the former also earned him a Primetime Emmy Award. An inductee of the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Canadian Walk of Fame, he also received a Canadian Academy Award for the drama film Threshold (1981). Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. In 2017, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his contributions to cinema. In 2021, he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries for his work in the HBO miniseries The Undoing (2020).
Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films including The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Fellini's Casanova (1976), 1900 (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Animal House (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Ordinary People (1980), and Eye of the Needle (1981). He later went on to star in many other films where he appeared either in leading or supporting roles such as A Dry White Season (1989), JFK (1991), Outbreak (1995), A Time to Kill (1996), The Assignment (1997), Without Limits (1998), Big Shot's Funeral (2001), The Italian Job (2003), Cold Mountain (2003), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Aurora Borealis (2006) and The Hunger Games franchise (2012–2015).
He was the father of actors Kiefer Sutherland, Rossif Sutherland, and Angus Sutherland.
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Filmography
Moonfall
2022
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as Holdenfield
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Age: 86
Ad Astra
2019
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as Thomas Pruitt
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Age: 84
The Leisure Seeker
2018
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as John Spencer
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Age: 82
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
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as President Coriolanus Snow
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Age: 80
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
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as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
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Age: 79
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
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as President Coriolanus Snow
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Age: 79
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
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as President Coriolanus Snow
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Age: 78
The Best Offer
2013
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as Billy Whistler
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Age: 77
The Hunger Games
2012
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as President Coriolanus Snow
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Age: 76
Treasure Island
2012
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as Captain Flint
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Age: 76
Horrible Bosses
2011
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as Jack Pellit
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Age: 75
The Eagle
2011
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as Aquila
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Age: 75
The Mechanic
2011
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as Harry McKenna
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Age: 75
Astro Boy
2009
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as President Stone (voice)
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Age: 74
The Eastmans
2009
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as Dr. Charles Eastman
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Age: 73
Fool's Gold
2008
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as Nigel Honeycutt
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Age: 72
Days of Darkness
2007
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as Donald Sutherland
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Age: 72
Reign Over Me
2007
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as Richter Raines
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Age: 71
Sleepwalkers
2007
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as Businessman Struck by a Taxi
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Age: 71
Beerfest
2006
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as Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
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Age: 71
Ask the Dust
2006
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as Hellfrick
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Age: 70
Operation Dirty Dozen
2006
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as Self (uncredited)
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Age: 70
Fellini dice...
2006
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as Self
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Age: 70
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
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as Self
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Age: 70
Pride & Prejudice
2005
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as Mr. Bennet
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Age: 70
Lord of War
2005
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as Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
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Age: 70
An American Haunting
2005
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as John Bell
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Age: 69
Cold Mountain
2003
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as Reverend Monroe
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Age: 68
The Italian Job
2003
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as John Bridger
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Age: 67
The Magic of Fellini
2002
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 66
Uprising
2001
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as Adam Czerniaków
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Age: 66
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001
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as Dr. Sid (voice)
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Age: 65
Panic
2000
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as Michael
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Age: 65
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
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as Self
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Age: 65
The Art of War
2000
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as Douglas Thomas
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Age: 65
Space Cowboys
2000
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as Jerry O'Neill
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Age: 65
Instinct
1999
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as Ben Hillard
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Age: 63
Virus
1999
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as Captain Robert Everton
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Age: 63
Free Money
1998
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as Judge Rausenberg
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Age: 63
Without Limits
1998
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as Bill Bowerman
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Age: 63
Fallen
1998
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as Lt. Stanton
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Age: 62
The Assignment
1997
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as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
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Age: 62
Shadow Conspiracy
1997
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as Jacob Conrad
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Age: 61
Natural Enemy
1996
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as Ted Robards
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Age: 61
Hollow Point
1996
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as Garrett Lawton
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Age: 61
A Time to Kill
1996
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as Lucien Wilbanks
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Age: 61
Hearst Castle: Building the Dream
1996
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as Narrator
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Age: 60
Outbreak
1995
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as General Donald McClintock
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Age: 59
Disclosure
1994
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as Bob Garvin
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Age: 59
The Puppet Masters
1994
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as Andrew Nivens
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Age: 59
La Classe américaine
1993
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as Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Age: 58
Six Degrees of Separation
1993
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as Flan
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Age: 58
Younger and Younger
1993
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as Jonathan Younger
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Age: 58
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
1993
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as Dr. Norman Bethune
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Age: 58
Red Hot
1993
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as Kirov
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Age: 57
Benefit of the Doubt
1993
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as Frank
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Age: 57
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas
1992
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 57
The Railway Station Man
1992
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as Roger Hawthorne
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Age: 57
The Setting Sun
1992
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as John Williams
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Age: 57
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
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as Merrick Jamison-Smythe
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Age: 57
Shadow of the Wolf
1992
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as Henderson
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Age: 56
Quicksand: No Escape
1992
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as Murdoch
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Age: 56
JFK
1991
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as X
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Age: 56
Scream of Stone
1991
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as Ivan
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Age: 56
Backdraft
1991
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as Ronald Bartel
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Age: 55
Buster's Bedroom
1991
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as O'Connor
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Age: 55
Eminent Domain
1991
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as Josef Borski
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Age: 55
Kate Bush: Sensual World
1990
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 54
A Dry White Season
1989
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as Ben du Toit
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Age: 54
Lock Up
1989
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as Warden Drumgoole
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Age: 54
Lost Angels
1989
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as Dr. Charles Loftis
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Age: 53
Apprentice to Murder
1988
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as John Reese
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Age: 52
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
1988
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 52
The Trouble with Spies
1987
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as Appleton Porter
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Age: 52
The Rosary Murders
1987
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as Father Robert Koesler
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Age: 52
Revolution
1985
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as Sgt. Maj. Peasy
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Age: 50
Heaven Help Us
1985
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as Brother Thadeus
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Age: 49
Crackers
1984
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as Westlake
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Age: 48
Max Dugan Returns
1983
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as Brian Costello
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Age: 47
A War Story
1981
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 46
Threshold
1981
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as Dr. Thomas Vrain
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Age: 46
Gas
1981
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as Nick the Noz
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Age: 46
Eye of the Needle
1981
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as Faber
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Age: 46
Ordinary People
1980
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as Calvin Jarrett
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Age: 45
Nothing Personal
1980
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as Roger Keller
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Age: 44
No Image
North China Factory
1980
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 44
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978
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as Matthew Bennell
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Age: 43
The First Great Train Robbery
1978
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as Robert Agar
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Age: 43
Animal House
1978
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as Dave Jennings
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Age: 43
End of the Game
1978
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as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
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Age: 42
Blood Relatives
1978
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as Carella
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Age: 42
Bethune
1977
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as Dr. Norman Bethune
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Age: 41
S*P*Y*S
1974
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as Bruland
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Age: 39
Alien Thunder
1974
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as Sgt. Dan Candy
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Age: 38
The Awful Manners
1974
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as Man walking (uncredited)
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Age: 38
Don't Look Now
1973
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as John Baxter
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Age: 38
Lady Ice
1973
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as Andy Hammon
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Age: 37
Steelyard Blues
1973
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as Jesse Veldini
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Age: 37
FTA
1972
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as Self
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Age: 37
'Klute' in New York
1971
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as Self
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Age: 36
Klute
1971
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as John Klute
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Age: 35
Kelly's Heroes
1970
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as Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
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Age: 34
M*A*S*H
1970
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as Hawkeye Pierce
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Age: 34
The Sunshine Patriot
1968
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as Benedeck
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Age: 33
The Bedford Incident
1965
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as Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
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Age: 30
Fanatic
1965
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as Joseph
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Age: 29
Dr Terror's House of Horrors
1965
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as Bob Carroll
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Age: 29
The Castle of the Living Dead
1964
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as Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
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Age: 29
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964
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as Fortinbras
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Age: 28
The World Ten Times Over
1963
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as Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
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Age: 28
No Image
For King and Country: Out There
1963
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as Canadian
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Age: 28