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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.

Donald Sutherland

Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb
for Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb in Batman: Gotham Knight (2011)
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Batman operates in Gotham as a feared urban myth during a collapsing gang war between the Falcone and Maroni families. As organized crime tears the city apart, District Attorney Harvey Dent rises as Gotham’s symbol of hope, working alongside Lieutenant James Gordon in a fragile alliance against a deeply corrupted GCPD. Inside the department, Detective Harvey Bullock initially hunts Batman as a criminal, Captain Branden leads militarized SWAT crackdowns under Commissioner Loeb, and Detective Flass secretly serves the Falcone mob. Batman escalates his campaign from street-level vigilantism to dismantling the mob’s financial and political networks, drawing fear from criminals and uneasy attention from the public. Catwoman moves through the chaos as a shifting wildcard, while the Joker appears briefly as a disturbing inmate inside Arkham Asylum. As Dent prosecutes the mob, Flass smuggles acid into a courtroom during a trial involving Sal Maroni, triggering a catastrophic attack that scars Dent and shatters his psyche into Two-Face. Flass is killed soon after as Two-Face’s first act of vengeance. Two-Face unleashes a violent purge against Gotham’s criminal and corrupt leadership, culminating in a final confrontation where Batman stops him but cannot restore Harvey Dent. Commissioner Loeb is exposed and removed, Gordon becomes Commissioner, and Bullock begins aligning with reform. Gotham cautiously accepts Batman as a necessary force, though still fearing what he represents. Mid-Credits: Bruce Wayne receives two tickets to Haly’s Circus from Alfred, hinting at a future shift in his path beyond Gotham’s shadows. Post-Credits: In orbit, LexCorp satellites detect an unexplained burst of solar energy over Kansas, registering an anomaly beyond known science.