Jamie Kellner obit

Jamie Kellner, TV Maverick Who Launched Both Fox and The WB, Dies at 77

 He was not on the list.

Jamie Kellner, who made his name as the only exec ever to create two broadcast networks — Fox and The WB (both of which also achieved profitability under his watch), died Friday at his home in Montecito, Calif. He was 77. Kellner had a tremendous impact on the television business in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, and was considered an entrepreneur at heart as he built Fox and The WB, and then independently created the Acme Communications stations group, and for a time ran Turner Broadcasting as chairman and CEO (succeeding Ted Turner).

Kellner’s impact includes landmark programming like “The Simpsons,” “Married… With Children,” “Cops,” “In Living Color” and “21 Jump Street” at Fox; the long run of pop cultural touchstones at the WB like “Dawson’s Creek,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Gilmore Girls,” “7th Heaven” and “Felicity”; and he even worked with Lorne Michaels in the first syndication sale of “Saturday Night Live” while at Orion. He also was key to the early careers of creatives like Greg Berlanti, JJ Abrams, Kevin Williamson and Joss Whedon, and comedy stars including Jamie Foxx, Steve Harvey and The Wayans Bros.

“Jamie Kellner was a titan and a visionary in our industry and yet he will be remembered by anyone lucky enough to work for him as an executive or as a showrunner as a warm, funny, charismatic, creative and kind mentor, friend, husband and Dad,” said producer Greg Berlanti. “He dedicated his life in TV to fostering and betting on generations of talent both in front of and behind the camera. I know I speak for so many others when I say my life was changed by the Camelot-esque home he created for all of us who worked at The WB. He will be greatly missed.” 

Kellner retired at 57 — having owned a stake on The WB when it launched as a joint venture between him, Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. But his legacy looms large even today with both Fox and The CW, which resulted in 2006 from a merger between The WB and UPN.

The exec passed on other opportunities to return to the corporate suite. Instead, he settled into his home base in the posh Santa Barbara suburb Montecito with his wife, Julie, while pursuing other passions — including sailing around the world on his ketch called “Irishman,” playing countless rounds of golf and launching a winery in Santa Ynez Valley, Cent’Anni. An architecture buff, Kellner also designed and built numerous homes.

Kellner still kept up on the TV business from time to time. Last year, he joined another early Fox alum, Preston Padden, in sending a letter to the FCC adding his voice to the petition to deny Fox’s broadcast license renewal of its Philadelphia station WTXF.

“Unlike the news feeds provided today by Fox News Channel, our news feeds did not prominently feature advocates like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell spouting nonsensical lies about a Presidential election … If the character requirement for broadcast licensees is to have any meaning, the FCC must designate the application for a hearing to evaluate the Murdochs’/Fox’s character qualifications to operate WTXF on the public airwaves,” he wrote at the time.

Kellner had always been a bit of a maverick in the TV business. He had already been a syndication exec and alum of CBS, Viacom and Orion when he was hired by Rupert Murdoch and Barry Diller to help start what would become Fox. Kellner was named the first president and chief operating officer of Fox Broadcasting Co. in February 1986 — a few months before the announcement of “The Late Show with Joan Rivers,” and a year before the arrival of original primetime series (“21 Jump Street,” “Married… With Children”).

Kellner, along with lieutenants like Garth Ancier (who would also help him build The WB), utilized Fox’s then-recent purchase of the Metromedia stations in major markets like New York and Los Angeles to pitch independent TV stations around the country on the idea of a fourth network.

“Jamie had a syndication background that was invaluable in knowing which stations and which alliances would make sense, and in making the whole thing work,” Ancier once told Variety. “He guided all of us through it.”

The industry had plenty of naysayers who argued that a fourth network would never work — and that included Kellner’s mom. “When I told my mother I was quitting my job to start the Fox network, she told me there was no way that could ever succeed,” he once told the TV trade Electronic Media.

Kellner also launched the Fox Kids Network while there; he departed in early 1993 and after some time off, began talks with Warner Bros. about launching a fifth network. He and Warner Bros. engaged in a battle with Paramount and the Chris-Craft station group (which were building UPN) for stations and programming, with both launching in 1995.

Early on, it appeared like UPN had a lead — especially as it opened with a smash success: The premiere of “Star Trek: Voyager.” But The WB had the benefit of strong Tribune stations and eventually found its voice by targeting teens and twentysomethings with shows like “Dawson’s Creek,” “7th Heaven” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” That led to a defining moment in 1997 when The WB stole away several major Sinclair Broadcasting affiliates from UPN.

As an icon hailing from an age when broadcast leaders displayed tons of showmanship, Kellner relished a good fight — for example, taking on TiVo, when that time-shifting technology threatened to impact advertising revenue at the broadcasters. He was a big proponent of pushing the virtues of repurposing, much to some advertisers’ chagrin. Even internally, he faced difficulty in getting Warner Bros. TV to pay WB some attention and at Turner, had run-ins with Warner Bros. Distribution over re-running WB shows on TNT. And in a big face-off with 20th Century Fox TV, he refused to pay big bucks to renew “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” — which then was snapped up by UPN.

“I have a lot of ideas that some people embrace and others don’t,” Kellner admitted to Variety in 2003. “If I believe something, I do it and say it. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong, and if I’m right, I’m right.”

He also wasn’t afraid to take risks. Kellner moved to Atlanta with his family following the merger of AOL and Time Warner in 2001 at the request of then-COO Bob Pittman to take over Turner Broadcasting, including TNT, TBS, CNN, Cartoon Network, TNT Sports, the Atlanta Braves, Hawks and NHL Thrashers. He helped reshape CNN to compete against rivals Fox News and MSNBC in the process. The Turner gig was a much different beast, as Kellner for the first time was forced to reshape already existing — and somewhat challenged — assets.

Kellner moved back to the Los Angeles area — and specifically, Montecito — in 2003, and ended his run at The WB in 2004. “I think the fair thing to say is it’s my intention to end my career at that point,” Kellner said at the time. “I don’t think the WB will need me after 2004. There’s a good management team there. It’s better for them, better for me.”

Later, he added, “This is purely about a guy after 35 years of sticking my ass in it over and over again now looking to spend more time with my family.”

At that he did, having exercised his option to sell his The WB stake back to Warner Bros. and Tribune in November 2002. But Kellner continued to run the Acme station group, which he independently launched in 1997 and at its height boasted 12 stations, including in markets including St. Louis; Albuquerque-Santa Fe; Salem-Portland, Ore.; and Fort Myers-Naples, Fla. The company sold its final station in 2012.

Kellner was such a TV titan during the late 1990s and early 2000s that even his look was iconic. The exec, who was keen on building brands, had his own: He wore the exact same outfit to work every day, without fail. Blue shirt, Khaki pants.

“It’s consistent — and one of the qualifications of having a brand is being consistent,” Kellner said about his daily uniform.

Kellner’s experience fighting for respect in the broadcast, Hollywood and advertising communities – first at Fox and later at the WB — gave him the kind of insight and admiration from others that few other TV execs could boast.

“Jamie was my mentor, my colleague and most of all my friend – he loved his life, Julie and his children, as well as great food and wine,” former WB chairman Ancier told Variety. “Jamie sparked my own interest in wine, and even built his own winery from scratch near Santa Barbara dedicated to the Italian varietals he enjoyed so much. His contributions to the television industry are legendary. From founding Fox Broadcasting and The WB, to steering Turner Broadcasting and CNN… he took on each challenge with the same vigor that he brought to his own life. I will miss him dearly.”

Another exec who worked with Kellner at Fox, The WB and Turner was Brad Turell, who headed up publicity and corporate communications: “Jamie Kellner was a hero in my life who I loved dearly as a mentor and close friend,” Turell said. “After being shaped by the exhilarating yet rough and tumble environment that was the launch of Fox, Kellner created a unique, supportive and creatively freewheeling home at The WB where everyone that worked under his brilliant, steady and uplifting leadership style lists as the greatest working experience of their careers. He gave you tremendous latitude as a boss and mentor, always empowering you to make bold, decisive decisions and never settling for what’s always been done, rather create innovative new paths, while guiding and rooting for your success and always there to as he often said,  ‘keep the car on the road’ if we ever were to swerve, as young executives are bound to do. Jamie was simply a tremendous boss, person and lifelong friend.” 

Added former The WB CEO Jordan Levin, who took on that title after Kellner’s retirement: “It’s hard to believe. Jamie was eternally youthful. He was one of the most insightful and entrepreneurial people I ever met,” said Levin, now a full-time professor at the University of Texas at Austin. “A genuine visionary who launched two of the five broadcast networks and revolutionized our business. A self-made man who had fun every step of the way. A wonderful and passionate leader who was smart enough to know when to get out while the getting was good. I’m so fortunate to have known him and shared so many laughs together. Truly a legend.”

Said John D. Maatta, the WB’s former EVP and COO: “Jamie Kellner was the perfect model of a CEO. Smart always, pugnacious sometimes, always thinking and often smiling, Jamie gave the executives lucky enough to work for him lots of runway. He would end conversations with, ‘Do we know what we’re doing?’ When things didn’t work out as planned (and they sometimes didn’t) there was no angst, just a ‘next time we will do it differently.’ The atmosphere that Jamie Kellner and Garth Ancier created at The WB was a once-in-a-career moment for which I will always be grateful.”

Kellner is survived by his wife of 38 years, Julie, daughter Melissa, son Christopher, and three grandchildren, Jake, Scarlett and Oliver.   In lieu of donations, Kellner’s family “asks that you open a great bottle of wine in his honor. ”

Donald Sutherland - # 327

 

Donald Sutherland Dies: Revered Actor In ‘Klute’, ‘Ordinary People’, ‘MASH’, ‘Hunger Games’ & Scores Of Others Was 88

He was number 327 on the list.

Donald Sutherland, the beloved actor who starred in scores of films from The Dirty Dozen, MASH and Klute to Animal House and Ordinary People to Pride & Prejudice and The Hunger Games franchise and won an Emmy for Citizen X, died Thursday in Miami after a long illness. He was 88.

The 2017 Honorary Oscar recipient also is the father of Emmy-winning 24 and Designated Survivor actor Kiefer Sutherland and veteran CAA Media Finance exec Roeg Sutherland. CAA confirmed the news to Deadline.

In some of his most well-known roles, he perfected a laconic, wry and dead-serious delivery as such characters as the cool-headed amateur murder investigator John Klute, opposite Jane Fonda’s terrified and erratic call girl Bree Daniels in Klute; as Hawkeye Pierce in the film MASH, where he played opposite Elliott Gould’s cut-up Trapper John; and in Nicolas Reog’s Don’t Look Now as skeptical John Baxter, who does not believe the claims of wife Laura (Julie Christie) that their recently dead daughter is reaching out from the other side.

In one early change-of-pace characterization, Sutherland played a sadistic fascist in Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1976 epic 1900, in which his character gleefully swings a child by the heels, bashing the boy’s head against a wall.

Born on July 17, 1935, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Donald Sutherland amassed some 200 film and TV credits spanning more than 60 years, from guesting on episodes of 1960s series including Suspense, The Avengers, Court Martial and The Odd Man to last year’s Paramount+ drama Bass Reeves. His big break in movies came with Robert Aldrich’s star-packed 1967 World War II drama The Dirty Dozen, playing Vernon Pinkley opposite Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, George Kennedy, Telly Savalas and others. A hit in theaters, it remains a seminal American war movie.

His next big role was as Capt. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce in Robert Altman’s 1970 Korean War dramedy MASH. The alternatively harrowing and hilarious film earned five Oscar nominations including Best Picture, winning for Ring Lardner Jr.’s biting screenplay, and fueled the 1972-83 CBS series in which Alan Alda played Hawkeye.

Sutherland followed that with another star-laden war movie, 1970’s Kelly’s Heroes, playing Sgt. Oddball alongside Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, Savalas and others. That led to perhaps his biggest star turn, in the 1971 Alan J. Pakula crime drama Klute. He starred opposite Fonda as New York Detective John Klute, who is hired to find a chemical company executive who has disappeared. Fonda won her first Oscar for the role, and Andy Lewis & Dave Lewis were nominated for their Original Screenplay.

Sutherland’s next big movie was Nicolas Roeg’s psychological thriller Don’t Look Now, which he followed up with the 1974 international espionage comedy S*P*Y*S, reteaming with Gould, and 1975’s Hollywood-set Day of the Locust. Starring with William Atherton, Karen Black and Burgess Meredith, he played accountant Homer Simpson, who covets Black’s aspiring actress Faye Greener.

 Sutherland was born July 17, 1935, at the Saint John General Hospital in Saint John, New Brunswick.

With his film career in high gear, Sutherland starred in yet another big-name war movie in The Eagle Has Landed (1976), with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall, and then had a small role in the 1977 John Landis-directed farce The Kentucky Fried Movie, penned by future Airplane! filmmakers David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker.

1978 would see Sutherland headline three disparate films: heist comedy The Great Train Robbery with Sean Connery and Lesley-Anne Down; horror thriller remake Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum; and the beloved early-’60s fraternity romp Animal House, also directed by Landis.

He had a supporting but key role in the latter, playing Faber College English lit Professor Dave Jennings. His deadpan character bores his classes with lectures on John Milton in one scene and is sleeping with student Katy (Karen Allen) in the next. She was the girlfriend of Boon (Peter Riegert), one of the Delta Tau Chi fraternity members. The cast also included John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Stephen Furst, Bruce McGill, Kevin Bacon, Amadeus Oscar nominee Tom Hulce and John Vernon.

After starring with Three’s Company‘s Suzanne Somers in the 1980 comedy Nothing Personal, Sutherland’s next film was among his biggest. He starred as Calvin Jarrett, a man grieving for one son and dealing with the suicide attempt of another in Ordinary People, director Robert Redford’s generational drama that won four Oscars including Best Picture. The film’s starry cast also included Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern and others.

Sutherland continued to make films throughout the 1980s and had a key role in Ron Howard’s 1991 firefighter drama Backdraft, playing an imprisoned pyromaniac who helps investigators by saying the arsonist they are hunting must be a firefighter also.

In the 1990s, Sutherland appeared in films including JFK, playing a composite character called Mr. X; Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Merrick, who convinces Kristy Swanson’s titular character that she is the Chosen One and helps her along the way; and Six Degrees of Separation, starring with Will Smith, Stockard Channing and Ian McKellen.

The actor won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for playing Russian Col. Mikhail Fetisov in HBO’s 1995 serial-killer thriller telepic Citizen X, starring with Stephen Rea and Max von Sydow, and had a supporting role that same year in Wolfgang Peterson’s spreading-virus film Outbreak, starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman.

He also earned an Emmy nom for his lead role in the 2006 Lifetime miniseries Human Trafficking, starring with Mira Sorvino and Robert Carlyle.

Sutherland continued to work in films into the 2010s including A Time to Kill, Shadow Conspiracy, Fallen, Instinct, The Italian Job, Cold Mountain, Fierce People, Horrible Bosses and 2005’s Pride & Prejudice. But his next big role would be among his most famous.

He was cast in 2012’s The Hunger Games as President Coriolanus Snow, the fascist dictator of Panem. As the films’ chief antagonist, he also starred in the sequels Catching Fire (2013) and Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2. The films based on Suzanne Collins’ YA novels were global smashes, shattering box office records and making a star of lead Jennifer Lawrence.

Sutherland’s Snow ruled the dystopian world of Panem with an iron fist, and he haunted heroine Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) long after her first rule-breaking victory in the brutal competition because he saw the spark of rebellion in her. He always had a fresh rose clipped to his lapel, and rumor had it that he poisoned people.

Sutherland did not appear in last year’s prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, with the role of younger Snow played by Tom Blyth. Collins outlined Snow’s backstory in the book off which the film was based. Before he had taken the political position, Snow was a power-hungry young mentor to tribute Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Ziegler).

Sutherland continued to make films for much of the rest of his life, including Ad Astra (2019) and Moonfall (2022), but also made several appearances on the small screen. He starred with Peter Krause, Jill Clayburgh and William Baldwin in the 2007-09 ABC family dramedy Dirty Sexy Money and co-starred in the 2010 Starz miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, led by Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Matthew Macfadyen, Hayley Atwell and Eddie Redmayne.

Sutherland’s extensive TV credits also include co-starring in the 2013-15 crime drama Crossing Lines, which aired on NBC and later Ovation in the U.S., and as J. Paul Getty in the 2018 FX drama Trust. He won a Golden Globe for playing Clark Clifford in HBO’s John Frankenheimer-directed telefilm Path to War, about how President Lyndon Johnson’s administration dealt with the Vietnam War in the mid-1960s. The cast also included Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin and others.

He also appeared in the first season of Audience Network’s Ice, opposite Jeremy Sisto, Cam Gigandet and Ray Winstone; in Roku Channel’s 2022 crime drama Swimming with Sharks, with Kiernan Shipka and Diane Kruger; and in HBO’s 2020 miniseries The Undoing as the father of Nicole Kidman’s lead character Grace Fraser.

Sutherland also starred as Humbert in the short-lived 1981 Broadway production of Lolita and in the video for Kate Bush’s 1985 song “Cloudbusting.” It was the second single from her album Hounds of Love, following her seminal hit “Running Up That Hill.” Watch it here.

Among Sutherland’s many and varied accolades are an NAACP Image Award for Klute; a 2019 Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award at the Venice Film Festival for The Burnt Orange Heresy; and nominations for BAFTA, Kids’ Choice, MTV Movie & TV and Critics Choice awards. He got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011 and received a 2017 Governors Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences along with Agnès Varda, Charles Burnett and Owen Roizman.

Along with sons Kiefer and Roeg, Sutherland is survived by his wife, Francine Racette; sons Rossif and Angus; daughter Rachel; and four grandchildren. The family will hold a private celebration of life.

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Heart Land

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Pre-production

 

David Oyelowo in Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)

Lawmen: Bass Reeves

7.4

TV Mini Series

Judge Parker

2023

8 episodes

 

Ozi: Voice of the Forest (2023)

Ozi: Voice of the Forest

6.3

Albino Crocodile (voice)

2023

 

Ryan Phillippe, Andy Garcia, Donald Sutherland, Luke Wilson, Enrique Murciano, Mireille Enos, and Abigail Breslin in Miranda's Victim (2023)

Miranda's Victim

6.6

Judge Wren

2023

 

Jaeden Martell in Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)

Mr. Harrigan's Phone

6.0

Mr. Harrigan

2022

 

Diane Kruger and Kiernan Shipka in Swimming with Sharks (2022)

Swimming with Sharks

6.4

TV Series

Redmond

2022

6 episodes

 

Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, and John Bradley in Moonfall (2022)

Moonfall

5.1

Holdenfield

2022

 

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant in The Undoing (2020)

The Undoing

7.4

TV Mini Series

Franklin Reinhardt

2020

6 episodes

 

Donald Sutherland, John Posey, Tyler Posey, Robert Ri'chard, and Summer Spiro in Alone (2020)

Alone

5.0

Edward

2020

 

The Physics of Sorrow (2019)

The Physics of Sorrow

7.6

Short

(English version, voice)

2019

 

Donald Sutherland, Mick Jagger, Claes Bang, and Elizabeth Debicki in The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019)

The Burnt Orange Heresy

6.1

Jerome Debney

2019

 

Brad Pitt in Ad Astra (2019)

Ad Astra

6.5

Thomas Pruitt

2019

 

Joe Anderson in Backdraft 2 (2019)

Backdraft 2

4.9

Video

Ronald Bartel

2019

 

Donald Sutherland and Vincent Kartheiser in American Hangman (2019)

American Hangman

5.9

Judge Straight

2019

 

Harris Dickinson in Trust (2018)

Trust

7.5

TV Series

J. Paul Getty

2018

9 episodes

 

Blake Cooper in Measure of a Man (2018)

Measure of a Man

6.4

Dr. Kahn

2018

 

Brie Larson and Utkarsh Ambudkar in Basmati Blues (2017)

Basmati Blues

3.9

Gurgon

2017

 

Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland in The Leisure Seeker (2017)

The Leisure Seeker

6.7

John Spencer

2017

 

Ice (2016)

Ice

6.6

TV Series

Pieter Van De Bruin

2016–2017

6 episodes

 

Point and shoot (2016)

Point and shoot

7.5

Short

Roland

2016

 

Milton's Secret (2016)

Milton's Secret

5.8

Grandpa Howard

2016

 

Donald Sutherland, William Fichtner, Marc Lavoine, Gabriella Pession, Tom Wlaschiha, Richard Flood, and Lara Rossi in Crossing Lines (2013)

Crossing Lines

7.3

TV Series

Michel Dorn

2013–2015

34 episodes

 

Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

6.5

President Snow

2015

 

Donald Sutherland and Kiefer Sutherland in Forsaken (2015)

Forsaken

6.4

Reverend Samuel Clayton

2015

 

Pirate's Passage (2015)

Pirate's Passage

6.6

TV Movie

Captain Charles Johnson (voice)

2015

 

Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

6.6

President Snow

2014

 

Susan Sarandon and Topher Grace in The Calling (2014)

The Calling

5.9

Father Price

2014

 

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 Official Teaser - Together As One

7.8

Short

President Snow

2014

 

Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

7.5

President Snow

2013

 

Donald Sutherland, Daniel Auteuil, Tchéky Karyo, Marie Bunel, Guillaume Canet, Fred Epaud, Marina Hands, Arnaud Henriet, Jacques Higelin, Noah Huntley, James Flynn, Antoine Cholet, Benoît Petitjean, Joël Dupuch, Lou de Laâge, Sonia Ammar, Edmond Jonquères d'Oriola, Sébastien Cazorla, and Marco Luraschi in Jappeloup (2013)

Jappeloup

6.6

John Lester

2013

 

Geoffrey Rush and Sylvia Hoeks in The Best Offer (2013)

The Best Offer

7.8

Billy Whistler

2013

 

Living Loaded

6.6

TV Movie

Grant

2012

 

Christian Slater, Donald Sutherland, and Jill Hennessy in Dawn Rider (2012)

Dawn Rider

4.9

Cochrane

2012

 

Christian Slater, Donald Sutherland, Isaac Florentine, and Mariana Stansheva in Assassin's Bullet (2012)

Assassin's Bullet

3.6

Ambassador Ashdown

2012

 

Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games (2012)

The Hunger Games

7.2

President Snow

2012

 

Treasure Island (2012)

Treasure Island

6.2

TV Mini Series

Flint

2012

2 episodes

 

My Life As an Experiment

6.2

TV Movie

Sam Bobkin

2011

 

Donald Sutherland and Larry Mullen Jr. in Man on the Train (2011)

Man on the Train

5.4

The Professor

2011

 

Jock the Hero Dog (2011)

Jock the Hero Dog

4.4

Narrator

Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)

2011

 

Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Colin Farrell, and Jason Sudeikis in Horrible Bosses (2011)

Horrible Bosses

6.9

Jack Pellit

2011

 

Ethan Hawke and William Hurt in Moby Dick (2011)

Moby Dick

6.2

TV Mini Series

Father Mapple

2011

2 episodes

 

Jamie Bell and Channing Tatum in The Eagle (2011)

The Eagle

6.2

Uncle Aquila

2011

 

Jason Statham in The Mechanic (2011)

The Mechanic

6.5

Harry McKenna

2011

 

The Con Artist (2010)

The Con Artist

4.7

John Kranski

2010

 

Donald Sutherland, Rufus Sewell, Matthew Macfadyen, Ian McShane, Eddie Redmayne, and Hayley Atwell in The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

The Pillars of the Earth

8.0

TV Mini Series

Bartholomew

2010

8 episodes

 

The Eastmans

5.7

TV Movie

Dr. Charles Eastman

2009

 

Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Newell Alexander, Kristen Bell, Freddie Highmore, Eugene Levy, Bob Logan, and Ryan Stiles in Astro Boy (2009)

Astro Boy

6.2

President Stone (voice)

2009

 

Dirty Sexy Money (2007)

Dirty Sexy Money

7.2

TV Series

Patrick 'Tripp' Darling III

2007–2009

23 episodes

 

Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson in Fool's Gold (2008)

Fool's Gold

5.7

Nigel Honeycutt

2008

 

Oscar Pearce and Kelly Reilly in Puffball: The Devil's Eyeball (2007)

Puffball: The Devil's Eyeball

4.3

Lars

2007

 

Days of Darkness (2007)

Days of Darkness

6.8

Donald Sutherland

2007

 

Don Cheadle and Adam Sandler in Reign Over Me (2007)

Reign Over Me

7.4

Judge Raines

2007

 

Cat Power in Sleepwalkers (2007)

Sleepwalkers

6.6

Short

Businessman Struck by a Taxi

2007

 

Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske in Beerfest (2006)

Beerfest

6.2

Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)

2006

 

Commander in Chief (2005)

Commander in Chief

6.9

TV Series

Nathan Templeton

2005–2006

19 episodes

 

Salma Hayek and Colin Farrell in Ask the Dust (2006)

Ask the Dust

5.7

Hellfrick

2006

 

Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland in Land of the Blind (2006)

Land of the Blind

6.4

Thorne

2006

 

An American Haunting (2005)

An American Haunting

5.0

John Bell

2005

 

Human Trafficking (2005)

Human Trafficking

7.5

TV Mini Series

Meehan

2005

4 episodes

 

Sunday Pants (2005)

Sunday Pants

5.6

TV Series

The Clumsy Waiter (segment "Hall of Presidents") (voice)

2005

1 episode

 

Nicolas Cage in Lord of War (2005)

Lord of War

7.6

Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)

2005

 

Donald Sutherland, Marcia Gay Harden, Forest Whitaker, and Linda Cardellini in American Gun (2005)

American Gun

6.1

Carl Wilk

2005

 

Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen in Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Pride & Prejudice

7.8

Mr. Bennet

2005

 

Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Perkins, Paz de la Huerta, Chris Evans, Christopher Shyer, Kristen Stewart, Anton Yelchin, and Jeff Westmoreland in Fierce People (2005)

Fierce People

6.4

Ogden C. Osborne

2005

 

Juliette Lewis, Donald Sutherland, and Joshua Jackson in Aurora Borealis (2005)

Aurora Borealis

6.7

Ronald

2005

 

Frankenstein (2004)

Frankenstein

6.2

TV Mini Series

Captain Walton

2004

2 episodes

 

Rob Lowe and Donald Sutherland in Salem's Lot (2004)

Salem's Lot

6.2

TV Mini Series

Richard Straker

2004

2 episodes

 

Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, and Renée Zellweger in Cold Mountain (2003)

Cold Mountain

7.2

Reverend Monroe

2003

 

Greta Scacchi, Donald Sutherland, Jürgen Prochnow, and Thure Riefenstein in Baltic Storm (2003)

Baltic Storm

4.0

Lou Aldryn

2003

 

Charlize Theron, Mark Wahlberg, Seth Green, Edward Norton, Jason Statham, Yasiin Bey, and Franky G in The Italian Job (2003)

The Italian Job

7.0

John Bridger

2003

 

Five Moons Plaza (2003)

Five Moons Plaza

6.0

Rosario Sarracino

2003

 

Path to War (2002)

Path to War

7.3

TV Movie

Clark Clifford

2002

 

Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Kwan, You Ge, and Da Ying in Big Shot's Funeral (2001)

Big Shot's Funeral

6.7

Tyler

2001

 

Uprising (2001)

Uprising

7.2

TV Movie

Adam Czerniakow

2001

 

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

6.4

Dr. Sid (voice)

2001

 

Donald Sutherland, Jamie Harris, Steven Randazzo, and Nick Sandow in The Big Heist (2001)

The Big Heist

5.3

TV Movie

Jimmy Burke

2001

 

The Art of War (2000)

The Art of War

5.7

Douglas Thomas

2000

 

Promo Poster

Space Cowboys

6.5

Jerry O'Neill

2000

 

Neve Campbell, William H. Macy, and Donald Sutherland in Panic (2000)

Panic

6.7

Michael

2000

 

The Hunley (1999)

The Hunley

6.6

TV Movie

Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard

1999

 

Anthony Hopkins in Instinct (1999)

Instinct

6.5

Ben Hillard

1999

 

Donald Sutherland, Mary McDonnell, Matthew Fox, and Bradley Whitford in Behind the Mask (1999)

Behind the Mask

6.3

TV Movie

Dr. Bob Shushan

1999

 

Jamie Lee Curtis and William Baldwin in Virus (1999)

Virus

5.0

Captain Robert Everton

1999

 

Marlon Brando, Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, and Thomas Haden Church in Free Money (1998)

Free Money

5.0

Judge Rolf Rausenberger

1998

 

Billy Crudup and Monica Potter in Without Limits (1998)

Without Limits

7.2

Bill Bowerman

1998

 

Denzel Washington in Fallen (1998)

Fallen

7.0

Lt. Stanton

1998

 

The Assignment (1997)

The Assignment

6.8

Jack Shaw (Henry Fields)

1997

 

Shadow Conspiracy (1997)

Shadow Conspiracy

4.9

Jacob Conrad

1997

 

Donald Sutherland and William McNamara in Natural Enemy (1996)

Natural Enemy

5.2

Video

Ted

1996

 

Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, and Matthew McConaughey in A Time to Kill (1996)

A Time to Kill

7.5

Lucien Wilbanks

1996

 

Hollow Point (1996)

Hollow Point

5.7

Garrett Lawton

1996

 

Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, and Yeardley Smith in The Simpsons (1989)

The Simpsons

8.7

TV Series

Hollis Hurlbut (voice)

1996

1 episode

 

Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, and Rene Russo in Outbreak (1995)

Outbreak

6.6

General Donald McClintock

1995

 

Citizen X (1995)

Citizen X

7.4

TV Movie

Col. Mikhail Fetisov

1995

 

Michael Douglas and Demi Moore in Disclosure (1994)

Disclosure

6.2

Bob Garvin

1994

 

The Puppet Masters (1994)

The Puppet Masters

5.9

Andrew Nivens

1994

 

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

7.1

TV Mini Series

Capt. William Marsden

1994

1 episode

 

Donald Sutherland and Corin Nemec in The Lifeforce Experiment (1994)

The Lifeforce Experiment

4.8

TV Movie

Dr. 'MAC' MacLean

1994

 

Will Smith, Stockard Channing, and Donald Sutherland in Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

Six Degrees of Separation

6.8

Flan

1993

 

Donald Sutherland in Punch (1993)

Punch

3.7

Arthur Craman

1993

 

Red Hot (1993)

Red Hot

5.5

Kirov

1993

 

Benefit of the Doubt (1993)

Benefit of the Doubt

5.1

Frank

1993

 

Donald Sutherland in Younger and Younger (1993)

Younger and Younger

4.9

Jonathan Younger

1993

 

KGB: Conspiracy (1992)

KGB: Conspiracy

6.8

Video Game

Rukov's Father

1992

 

The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas (1992)

The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas

7.3

Short

Narrator (voice)

1992

 

Shadow of the Wolf (1992)

Shadow of the Wolf

5.8

Henderson

1992

 

The Setting Sun (1992)

The Setting Sun

6.2

John Williams

1992

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

5.7

Merrick

1992

 

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in The Railway Station Man (1992)

The Railway Station Man

6.1

Roger Hawthorne

1992

 

Quicksand: No Escape (1992)

Quicksand: No Escape

5.5

TV Movie

Murdoch

1992

 

Kevin Costner in JFK (1991)

JFK

8.0

X

1991

 

Scream of Stone (1991)

Scream of Stone

6.2

Ivan

1991

 

Backdraft (1991)

Backdraft

6.7

Ronald Bartel

1991

 

Donald Sutherland and Amanda Ooms in Buster's Bedroom (1991)

Buster's Bedroom

5.3

O'Connor

1991

 

Mark Harmon and Lee Purcell in Long Road Home (1991)

Long Road Home

5.8

TV Movie

(uncredited)

1991

 

Eminent Domain (1990)

Eminent Domain

5.9

Jozef

1990

 

Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

6.4

Dr. Norman Bethune

1990

 

A Dry White Season (1989)

A Dry White Season

7.0

Ben

1989

 

Lock Up (1989)

Lock Up

6.4

Warden Drumgoole

1989

 

Amy Locane and Adam Horovitz in Lost Angels (1989)

Lost Angels

5.9

Dr. Charles Loftis

1989

 

Mia Sara, Donald Sutherland, and Chad Lowe in Apprentice to Murder (1988)

Apprentice to Murder

5.0

John Reese

1988

 

The Trouble with Spies (1987)

The Trouble with Spies

4.4

Appleton Porter

1987

 

The Rosary Murders (1987)

The Rosary Murders

5.8

Father Robert Koesler

1987

 

Oviri (1986)

Oviri

5.9

Paul Gauguin

1986

 

Revolution (1985)

Revolution

5.3

Sergeant Major Peasy

1985

 

Kate Bush in Kate Bush: Cloudbusting (1985)

Kate Bush: Cloudbusting

8.4

Music Video

Wilhelm Reich

1985

 

Heaven Help Us (1985)

Heaven Help Us

6.9

Brother Thadeus

1985

 

Ordeal by Innocence (1984)

Ordeal by Innocence

5.1

Arthur Calgary

1984

 

Sean Penn, Donald Sutherland, and Tasia Valenza in Crackers (1984)

Crackers

5.2

Weslake

1984

 

The Winter of Our Discontent (1983)

The Winter of Our Discontent

6.5

TV Movie

Ethan Hawley

1983

 

Max Dugan Returns (1983)

Max Dugan Returns

6.7

Brian Costello

1983

 

A War Story (1981)

A War Story

7.9

Narrated by (voice)

1981

 

Threshold (1981)

Threshold

6.0

Dr. Thomas Vrain

1981

 

Gas (1981)

Gas

3.2

Nick the Noz

1981

 

Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan in Eye of the Needle (1981)

Eye of the Needle

7.1

Faber

1981

 

Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, and Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People (1980)

Ordinary People

7.7

Calvin Jarrett

1980

 

Donald Sutherland and Suzanne Somers in Nothing Personal (1980)

Nothing Personal

4.6

Roger Keller

1980

 

Vanessa Redgrave, Donald Sutherland, and Lawrence Dane in Bear Island (1979)

Bear Island

5.8

Frank Lansing

1979

 

A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979)

A Man, a Woman and a Bank

5.7

Reese Halperin

1979

 

Murder by Decree (1979)

Murder by Decree

6.8

Robert Lees

1979

 

Donald Sutherland and Veronica Cartwright in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

7.4

Matthew Bennell

1978

 

Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, and Lesley-Anne Down in The Great Train Robbery (1978)

The Great Train Robbery

6.9

Agar

1978

 

National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

National Lampoon's Animal House

7.4

Dave Jennings

1978

 

Donald Sutherland in Blood Relatives (1978)

Blood Relatives

6.2

Steve Carella

1978

 

Bethune (1977)

Bethune

6.6

TV Movie

Dr. Norman Bethune

1977

 

The Disappearance (1977)

The Disappearance

5.7

Jay Mallory

1977

 

The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

The Kentucky Fried Movie

6.4

The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")

1977

 

Jenny Agutter, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, and Donald Sutherland in The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

The Eagle Has Landed

6.9

Liam Devlin

1976

 

Casanova (1976)

Casanova

7.0

Giacomo Casanova

1976

 

1900 (1976)

1900

7.6

Attila Mellanchini

1976

 

End of the Game (1975)

End of the Game

5.9

Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)

1975

 

Karen Black in The Day of the Locust (1975)

The Day of the Locust

6.9

Homer

1975

 

S*P*Y*S (1974)

S*P*Y*S

4.5

Bruland

1974

 

Donald Sutherland in Alien Thunder (1974)

Alien Thunder

4.6

Dan Candy

1974

 

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in Don't Look Now (1973)

Don't Look Now

7.1

John Baxter

1973

 

Lady Ice (1973)

Lady Ice

4.8

Andy Hammon

1973

 

Steelyard Blues (1973)

Steelyard Blues

5.3

Jesse Veldini

1973

 

Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland in Klute (1971)

Klute

7.1

John Klute

1971

 

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

Johnny Got His Gun

7.8

Christ

1971

 

Little Murders (1971)

Little Murders

6.9

Rev. Dupas

1971

 

Alex in Wonderland (1970)

Alex in Wonderland

5.4

Alex Morrison

1970

 

Act of the Heart (1970)

Act of the Heart

6.1

Father Michael Ferrier

1970

 

Kelly's Heroes (1970)

Kelly's Heroes

7.6

Sergeant Oddball

1970

 

Donald Sutherland and Gene Wilder in Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)

Start the Revolution Without Me

6.4

Charles

Pierre

1970

 

Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, and Jo Ann Pflug in M*A*S*H (1970)

M*A*S*H

7.4

Hawkeye Pierce

1970

 

The Name of the Game (1968)

The Name of the Game

7.6

TV Series

Jerry Trevor

1969

1 episode

 

Alexandra Bastedo, Stuart Damon, and William Gaunt in The Champions (1968)

The Champions

7.5

TV Series

David Crayley

1969

1 episode

 

The Sunshine Patriot (1968)

The Sunshine Patriot

6.6

TV Movie

Benedeck

1968

 

Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland, Jim Brown, Jack Klugman, Julie Harris, and Warren Oates in The Split (1968)

The Split

6.0

Dave Negli

1968

 

Oedipus the King (1968)

Oedipus the King

6.4

Chorus Leader

1968

 

Oskar Werner in Interlude (1968)

Interlude

6.5

Lawrence

1968

 

Joanna (1968)

Joanna

5.7

Lord Peter Sanderson

1968

 

Man in a Suitcase (1967)

Man in a Suitcase

7.6

TV Series

Keith Earle

Willard

1967–1968

2 episodes

 

Dirk Bogarde and Susannah York in Sebastian (1968)

Sebastian

6.1

Ackerman

1968

 

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

Billion Dollar Brain

5.9

Scientist at Computer

1967

 

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

The Dirty Dozen

7.7

Vernon L. Pinkley

1967

 

The Shuttered Room (1967)

The Shuttered Room

5.8

Zebulon (voice)

1967

 

The Avengers (1961)

The Avengers

8.3

TV Series

Jessel

1967

1 episode

 

Roger Moore in The Saint (1962)

The Saint

7.5

TV Series

John Wood

Jim McCleery

1965–1966

2 episodes

 

Gideon C.I.D. (1964)

Gideon C.I.D.

8.1

TV Series

Philip Guest

1966

1 episode

 

Theatre 625 (1964)

Theatre 625

7.5

TV Series

Union Captain

Priest

1966

2 episodes

 

Bradford Dillman and Peter Graves in Court Martial (1965)

Court Martial

7.4

TV Series

Cpl. Brown

1966

1 episode

 

BBC Play of the Month (1965)

BBC Play of the Month

6.9

TV Series

Charles Givens

1966

1 episode

 

A Farewell to Arms (1966)

A Farewell to Arms

8.8

TV Mini Series

Sim

1966

2 episodes

 

Warren Beatty and Leslie Caron in Promise Her Anything (1966)

Promise Her Anything

5.2

Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)

1966

 

Martin Balsam, Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark, Wally Cox, James MacArthur, and Eric Portman in The Bedford Incident (1965)

The Bedford Incident

7.3

Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay

1965

 

ITV Play of the Week (1955)

ITV Play of the Week

6.9

TV Series

Intern

Salesman

Canadian

1963–1965

3 episodes

 

Anthony Bate, Tenniel Evans, Mary Kenton, Hugh Manning, and David Sumner in The Sullavan Brothers (1964)

The Sullavan Brothers

6.2

TV Series

Jonathan Vickers

1965

1 episode

 

Songs of the American Civil War

TV Movie

1965

 

Stefanie Powers in Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)

Die! Die! My Darling!

6.3

Joseph

1965

 

Peter Cushing in Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

6.6

Dr. Bob Carroll (segment "Vampire")

1965

 

The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)

The Castle of the Living Dead

5.7

Sgt. Paul

The Witch

The Old Man

1964

 

Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)

Hamlet at Elsinore

7.8

TV Movie

Fortinbras, Prince of Norway

1964

 

The Sentimental Agent (1963)

The Sentimental Agent

7.2

TV Series

Hotel Clerk

1963

1 episode

 

The World Ten Times Over (1963)

The World Ten Times Over

6.3

Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)

1963

 

William Mervyn and Edwin Richfield in The Odd Man (1960)

The Odd Man

8.1

TV Series

Mitch Scott

1963

1 episode

 

Terry-Thomas says How do you do?

6.2

TV Movie

1963

 

Suspense (1962)

Suspense

6.8

TV Series

Dr. Hal Seaton

1963

1 episode

 

Craig Stevens in Man of the World (1962)

Man of the World

7.7

TV Series

Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)

1962

1 episode

 

Studio 4

7.1

TV Series

Switchboard Operator

1962

1 episode

 

Producer

Pirate's Passage (2015)

Pirate's Passage

6.6

TV Movie

producer

2015

 

Steelyard Blues (1973)

Steelyard Blues

5.3

executive producer

1973

 

FTA (1972)

FTA

6.4

producer (produced by)

1972

 

Writer

Pirate's Passage (2015)

Pirate's Passage

6.6

TV Movie

Writer

2015

 

FTA (1972)

FTA

6.4

written by: The FTA Show

1972