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Donald Sutherland

Donald 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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OZI: Voice of the Forest
OZI: Voice of the Forest
2024 • Mr. Smiley
Miranda's Victim
Miranda's Victim
2023 • Judge Wren
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
2022 • Mr. Harrigan
Moonfall
Moonfall
2022 • Holdenfield
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
2021 • Self - Narrator (voice)
Alone
Alone
2020 • Edward
Citizen Jane Fonda
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
The Burnt Orange Heresy
The Burnt Orange Heresy
2020 • Jerome Debney

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Miranda's Victim
Miranda's Victim
2023 • Judge Wren
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Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
2022 • Mr. Harrigan
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Moonfall
Moonfall
2022 • Holdenfield
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Alone
Alone
2020 • Edward
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The Burnt Orange Heresy
The Burnt Orange Heresy
2020 • Jerome Debney
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Ad Astra
Ad Astra
2019 • Thomas Pruitt
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Backdraft 2
Backdraft 2
2019 • Ronald Bartel
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American Hangman
American Hangman
2019 • Judge Straight
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The Leisure Seeker
The Leisure Seeker
2018 • John Spencer
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Milton's Secret
Milton's Secret
2016 • Grandpa Howard
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 • President Coriolanus Snow
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Forsaken
Forsaken
2015 • Rev. Clayton
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Pirate's Passage
Pirate's Passage
2015 • Captain Charles Johnson (voice)
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 • President Coriolanus Snow
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The Calling
The Calling
2014 • Father Price
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 • President Coriolanus Snow
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Jappeloup
Jappeloup
2013 • John Lester
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The Best Offer
The Best Offer
2013 • Billy Whistler
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The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012 • Self - President Coriolanus Snow
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Assassin's Bullet
Assassin's Bullet
2012 • Ambassador Ashdown
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The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games
2012 • President Coriolanus Snow
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The Man on the Train
The Man on the Train
2011 • The Professor
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Jock the Hero Dog
Jock the Hero Dog
2011 • Narrator / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (voice)
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Horrible Bosses
Horrible Bosses
2011 • Jack Pellit
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The Eagle
The Eagle
2011 • Aquila
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The Mechanic
The Mechanic
2011 • Harry McKenna
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The Con Artist
The Con Artist
2010 • Kranski
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Astro Boy
Astro Boy
2009 • President Stone (voice)
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The Eastmans
The Eastmans
2009 • Dr. Charles Eastman
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Stonehenge: Decoded
Stonehenge: Decoded
2008 • Narrator (voice)
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Fool's Gold
Fool's Gold
2008 • Nigel Honeycutt
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Puffball
Puffball
2007 • Lars
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Days of Darkness
Days of Darkness
2007 • Donald Sutherland
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Trumbo
Trumbo
2007 • Self
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Reign Over Me
Reign Over Me
2007 • Richter Raines
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Sleepwalkers
Sleepwalkers
2007 • Businessman Struck by a Taxi
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Fierce People
Fierce People
2006 • Ogden C. Osborne
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Beerfest
Beerfest
2006 • Johann von Wolfhaus (uncredited)
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Ask the Dust
Ask the Dust
2006 • Hellfrick
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Operation Dirty Dozen
Operation Dirty Dozen
2006 • Self (uncredited)
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Pride & Prejudice
Pride & Prejudice
2005 • Mr. Bennet
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Lord of War
Lord of War
2005 • Colonel Oliver Southern (voice)
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American Gun
American Gun
2005 • Carl Wilk
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Aurora Borealis
Aurora Borealis
2005 • Ronald Shorter
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Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain
2003 • Reverend Monroe
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Path to War
Path to War
2003 • Clark Clifford
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Baltic Storm
Baltic Storm
2003 • Lou Aldryn
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The Italian Job
The Italian Job
2003 • John Bridger
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Five Moons Plaza
Five Moons Plaza
2003 • Rosario Sarracino
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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003 • Self - Casanova
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The Magic of Fellini
The Magic of Fellini
2002 • Self (archive footage)
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Uprising
Uprising
2001 • Adam Czerniaków
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The Big Heist
The Big Heist
2001 • Jimmy Burke
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Panic
Panic
2000 • Michael
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The Art of War
The Art of War
2000 • Douglas Thomas
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Space Cowboys
Space Cowboys
2000 • Jerry O'Neill
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The Hunley
The Hunley
1999 • Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard
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Instinct
Instinct
1999 • Ben Hillard
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Behind the Mask
Behind the Mask
1999 • Dr. Bob Shushan
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Virus
Virus
1999 • Captain Robert Everton
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Free Money
Free Money
1998 • Judge Rausenberg
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Without Limits
Without Limits
1998 • Bill Bowerman
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Fallen
Fallen
1998 • Lt. Stanton
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The Assignment
The Assignment
1997 • Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
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Shadow Conspiracy
Shadow Conspiracy
1997 • Jacob Conrad
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Natural Enemy
Natural Enemy
1996 • Ted Robards
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Hollow Point
Hollow Point
1996 • Garrett Lawton
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A Time to Kill
A Time to Kill
1996 • Lucien Wilbanks
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Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995 • Self (archive footage)
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Outbreak
Outbreak
1995 • General Donald McClintock
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Citizen X
Citizen X
1995 • Col. Mikhail Fetisov
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Disclosure
Disclosure
1994 • Bob Garvin
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The Puppet Masters
The Puppet Masters
1994 • Andrew Nivens
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The Lifeforce Experiment
The Lifeforce Experiment
1994 • Dr. 'Mac' MacLean
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La Classe américaine
La Classe américaine
1993 • Assassin (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Younger and Younger
Younger and Younger
1993 • Jonathan Younger
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Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
1993 • Dr. Norman Bethune
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Red Hot
Red Hot
1993 • Kirov
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The Railway Station Man
The Railway Station Man
1992 • Roger Hawthorne
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The Setting Sun
The Setting Sun
1992 • John Williams
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992 • Merrick Jamison-Smythe
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JFK
JFK
1991 • X
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Backdraft
Backdraft
1991 • Ronald Bartel
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Eminent Domain
Eminent Domain
1991 • Josef Borski
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Kate Bush: Sensual World
Kate Bush: Sensual World
1990 • Self (archive footage)
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A Dry White Season
A Dry White Season
1989 • Ben du Toit
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Lock Up
Lock Up
1989 • Warden Drumgoole
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Lost Angels
Lost Angels
1989 • Dr. Charles Loftis
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The Trouble with Spies
The Trouble with Spies
1987 • Appleton Porter
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The Rosary Murders
The Rosary Murders
1987 • Father Robert Koesler
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The Wolf at the Door
The Wolf at the Door
1986 • Paul Gauguin
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Revolution
Revolution
1985 • Sgt. Maj. Peasy
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Heaven Help Us
Heaven Help Us
1985 • Brother Thadeus
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Ordeal by Innocence
Ordeal by Innocence
1984 • Dr. Arthur Calgary
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Crackers
Crackers
1984 • Westlake
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Max Dugan Returns
Max Dugan Returns
1983 • Brian Costello
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A War Story
A War Story
1981 • Narrator (voice)
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Threshold
Threshold
1981 • Dr. Thomas Vrain
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Gas
Gas
1981 • Nick the Noz
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Ordinary People
Ordinary People
1980 • Calvin Jarrett
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Nothing Personal
Nothing Personal
1980 • Roger Keller
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North China Factory
1980 • Narrator (voice)
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Bear Island
Bear Island
1979 • Frank Lansing
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Murder by Decree
Murder by Decree
1979 • Robert Lees
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Animal House
Animal House
1978 • Dave Jennings
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End of the Game
End of the Game
1978 • Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied (uncredited)
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The Disappearance
The Disappearance
1977 • Jay Mallory
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The Kentucky Fried Movie
The Kentucky Fried Movie
1977 • The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")
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Bethune
Bethune
1977 • Dr. Norman Bethune
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The Eagle Has Landed
The Eagle Has Landed
1976 • Liam Devlin
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Fellini's Casanova
Fellini's Casanova
1976 • Giacomo Casanova
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1900
1900
1976 • Attila Mellanchini
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Abicinema
Abicinema
1975 • Self
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The Day of the Locust
The Day of the Locust
1975 • Homer Simpson
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S*P*Y*S
S*P*Y*S
1974 • Bruland
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Alien Thunder
Alien Thunder
1974 • Sgt. Dan Candy
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The Awful Manners
The Awful Manners
1974 • Man walking (uncredited)
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Don't Look Now
Don't Look Now
1973 • John Baxter
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Lady Ice
Lady Ice
1973 • Andy Hammon
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Steelyard Blues
Steelyard Blues
1973 • Jesse Veldini
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FTA
FTA
1972 • Self
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Klute
Klute
1971 • John Klute
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Little Murders
Little Murders
1971 • Rev. Dupas
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Alex in Wonderland
Alex in Wonderland
1970 • Alex Morrison
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Act of the Heart
Act of the Heart
1970 • Father Michael Ferrier
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Kelly's Heroes
Kelly's Heroes
1970 • Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
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M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H
1970 • Hawkeye Pierce
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Joanna
Joanna
1968 • Lord Peter Sanderson
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The Split
The Split
1968 • Dave Negli
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Oedipus the King
Oedipus the King
1968 • Chorus Leader
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Interlude
Interlude
1968 • Lawrence
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Sebastian
Sebastian
1968 • Ackerman
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Billion Dollar Brain
Billion Dollar Brain
1967 • Scientist at Computer
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The Shuttered Room
The Shuttered Room
1967 • Zebulon (voice)
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The Dirty Dozen
The Dirty Dozen
1967 • Vernon Pinkley
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Promise Her Anything
Promise Her Anything
1966 • Autograph Seeking Father (uncredited)
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The Bedford Incident
The Bedford Incident
1965 • Hospitalman Nerney - Sick Bay
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Fanatic
Fanatic
1965 • Joseph
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The Castle of the Living Dead
The Castle of the Living Dead
1964 • Sgt. Paul / The Witch / The Old Man
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Hamlet at Elsinore
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964 • Fortinbras
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The World Ten Times Over
The World Ten Times Over
1963 • Tall Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
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