Donald Sutherland

Cast as Patrick 'Tripp' Darling III on ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money"; earned a Golden Globe (2008) nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Series

Played an aging aristocratic billionaire in Griffin Dunne's "Fierce People"

Co-starred with Colin Farrell in the Robert Towne-directed adaptation of "Ask the Dust"

Played a Virginia firearms-shop owner in Aric Avelino's film debut "American Gun"

Cast as Speaker of the House, Nathan Templeton in Rod Lurie's ABC drama "Commander in Chief"; earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor

Cast as the patriarch in Joe Wright's adaptation of the Jane Austen classic "Pride and Prejudice"

Co-starred with Mira Sorvino in the Lifetime movie "Human Trafficking"; earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Best Actor in a TV movie

Cast in Anthony Minghella's war epic "Cold Mountain"

Had memorable role in F. Gary Gray's remake of the "Italian Job"

Had lead role as an Irish thief who plans to rob an airport terminal in the A&E original "The Big Heist"

Starred as a painter in the Off-Broadway play "Ten Unknowns" by Jon Robin Baitz

Acted on stage in "Enigma Variations"

Played University of Oregon track coach, Bill Bowerman in Robert Towne's "Without Limits" about track sensation Steve Prefontaine

Stalked the hidden enemy in the supernatural thriller "Fallen"

Cast as a coldly manipulative CIA agent in "The Assignment"

Second film with son Kiefer, as the alcoholic mentor of Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) in "A Time to Kill"

Came aboard "Outbreak" late to play the icy General McClintock

Offered an award winning performance as Colonel Fetisov in the HBO movie "Citizen X"

Narrator for The Learning Channel's "Great Books" series

Portrayed a corporate honcho in Barry Levinson's adaptation of Michael Crichton's "Disclosure"

Offered a captivating performance as a snobbish but charming, upscale New Yorker living through the eyes of other people in "Six Degrees of Separation"; film is based on a 1990 play by John Guare

Mentored Kristy Swanson in the feature, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

Cast as a mad firebug in Ron Howard's "Backdraft"

Played a mysterious Washington intelligence officer in Oliver Stone's "JFK"

Cast as a teacher in the South African apartheid drama "A Dry White Season"

Portrayed middle-aged Paul Gauguin in "Wolf at the Door"; also provided voice of Gauguin in PBS' "Paul Gauguin: The Savage Dream" (1989)

Appeared in "Max Dugan Returns" along with son Kiefer in his film debut (also debut of Matthew Broderick)

Returned to TV after a 15-year absence in the CBS movie "John Steinbeck's 'The Winter of Our Discontent'"

Broadway debut as Humbert Humbert in Edward Albee's stage adaptation of "Lolita"

Founded McNichol Pictures Inc. (also president)

Played a German agent in the thriller, "Eye of the Needle"

Came to see the falseness of his life as he struggled to overcome the death of his son in the Academy award-winning "Ordinary People" co-starring Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton; Robert Redford's directorial debut

Teamed with Sean Connery for the stylish "The Great Train Robbery"

Delivered arguably his best performance since "Klute" as scientific-minded public health inspector confronting unspeakable horrors in Phillip Kaufman's remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

Delivered a romantic turn as the title role of "Fellini's Casanova"

Played a bestial fascist in Bernardo Bertolucci's "1990"

Evoked pity as the hick in love with an aspiring, selfish would-be starlet (Karen Black) in John Schlesinger's "The Day of the Locust"

Re-teamed with Gould in "S.P.Y.S."

Executive produced "Steelyard Blues" (also starred with Fonda)

Starred opposite Julie Christie in Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now"

Feature debut as co-producer and co-writer for the anti-Vietnam war film "F.T.A."; featured a series of anti-war skits and songs (with Fonda) performed outside army bases

Delivered an outstanding performance as detective opposite then-girlfriend Jane Fonda in "Klute"

Played Jesus Christ in Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun"

Reteamed with Elliott Gould (from "M*A*S*H") for Alan Arkin's "Little Murders"

Portrayed a prototypical hippie in the WWII comedy-drama "Kelly's Heroes"

Soared to stardom as the original Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H"

Received strong notices as a flamboyant wealthy young man in "Joanna"

Breakthrough supporting role, "The Dirty Dozen" with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson

US TV debut in the ABC series "Court Martial"

First significant film role, "Il Castello dei Morti Vivi/Castle of the Living Dead"

London stage debut, "August for the People"

Began acting in British TV and repertory theater

Moved to England to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

Made stage debut in "The Male Animal" at the Hart House Theatre in Toronto

Became Canada's (Nova Scotia) youngest radio announcer and disc jockey at age 14

Acted with the Perth Repertory Theatre in Scotland

Played Scrooge in a radio production of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"

Suffered a series of potentially crippling diseases during childhood, including polio, rheumatic fever and hepatitis