DONALD SUTHERLAND plays John Bell, Sr., an upstanding citizen in his rural Tennessee community and the head of the Bell family, who are besieged by a demonic, unseen presence.
Sutherland is one of the most prolific and versatile of motion picture actors, with an astonishing resume of more than 100 films, ranging from the biting political satire of Robert Altman’s “M.A.S.H.,” to the intimate drama of Robert Redford’s “Ordinary People,” to the subtle intricacy of Alan Pakula’s “Klute,” to the eccentric romanticism of Fellini’s “Casanova.”
Sutherland has also made films with Bernardo Bertolucci (“1900”), Nicolas Roeg (“Don’t Look Now”), John Schlesinger (“The Day of the Locust”), Paul Mazursky (“Alex in Wonderland”), Robert Aldrich (“The Dirty Dozen”), John Sturges (“The Eagle Has Landed”), Herbert Ross (“Max Dugan Returns”), Louis Malle (“Crackers”), Philip Borsos (“Bethune”), Ron Howard (“Backdraft”), Richard Marquand (“Eye of the Needle”), Euzhan Palcy (“A Dry White Season”), Richard Pearce (“Threshold,” for which he won the 1983 Genie Award as Best Actor), Oliver Stone (“JFK”), Robert Towne (“Without Limits”), Clint Eastwood (“Space Cowboys”), the film adaptation of John Guare’s “Six Degrees of Separation,” and a cameo appearance in the National Lampoon classic “Animal House.”
Sutherland was recently seen as Keira Knightley’s father in “Pride & Prejudice,” Nicole Kidman’s father in Anthony Minghella’s “Cold Mountain” and Charlize Theron’s father in F. Gary Gray’s “The Italian Job.” He appeared in Robert Towne’s “Ask the Dust” with Salma Hayek and will soon appear in Griffin Dunne’s “Fierce People” with Diane Lane, in “American Gun” with Sissy Spacek and in “Aurora Borealis” with Louise Fletcher and Juliette Lewis.
For television, he won Emmy and Golden Globe awards for his supporting performance in the HBO film “Citizen X.” He also won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Clark Clifford, advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, in the HBO historical drama “Path to War,” directed by the late John Frankenheimer. Sutherland currently stars as Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton on the hit series “Commander in Chief.”
Sutherland starred with Justin Kirk and Julianna Margulies in a sold-out, critically acclaimed engagement of Jon Robin Baitz’s “Ten Unknowns” at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre of Lincoln Center, receiving an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Best Actor. He also starred in the London, Toronto and Los Angeles productions of “Enigmatic Variations,” an English-language translation (by his son, Roeg Sutherland) of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s French play.
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