DONALD SUTHERLAND’S TOP 10 MOVIES

“The Hunger Games” (2012):

In a part he reprised in several sequels, Sutherland is perfect as the president of a nation where youths battle to win – and survive – a brutal, much-watched contest.

“Space Cowboys” (2000): Sutherland is terrific alongside fellow screen veterans Clint Eastwood (also the picture’s director), Tommy Lee Jones and James Garner as veteran astronauts returned to duty when an orbiting satellite goes haywire.

“Disclosure” (1994): Sutherland casts a very long shadow over this drama as an enigmatic tech-company tycoon who isn’t happy about a harassment case involving two of his people (Michael Douglas, Demi Moore).

“Eye of the Needle” (1981): A German espionage agent’s (Sutherland) scheme to get D-Day information to his superiors involves seducing a lonely British wife (Kate Nelligan) in this Ken Follett story.

“Ordinary People” (1980):

In Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning directorial debut, Sutherland is excellent as a concerned family man who finds himself mediating between his cold wife (Mary Tyler Moore) and their deeply troubled son (Academy Award recipient Timothy Hutton).

“National Lampoon’s Animal House” (1978): While he makes his very few minutes as a college professor in this comedy classic count, Sutherland’s star power helped get the picture made.

“Don’t Look Now” (1973): Sutherland and Julie Christie do fine work as a couple mourning their daughter when they become enmeshed in supernatural doings.

“Klute” (1971): Jane Fonda won her first Oscar by playing a prostitute who could be helpful to a detective (Sutherland) as he pursues a case.

“M*A*S*H” (1970): Alan

Alda was television’s Hawkeye Pierce, but Sutherland had the role first in director Robert Altman’s raucous comedy about a Korean War-era military medical unit.

“The Dirty Dozen” (1967):

In the war classic that Sutherland credits with boosting him to stardom, he plays one of several convict aiming for pardons if they survive what essentially is a suicide mission.