Kiefer Sutherland Filmography

Born:: December 21, 1966 in London, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Perhaps the most definitive descriptor for Kiefer Sutherland's career is not any particular niche he's carved for himself, but rather his versatility. From the perfected subtleties he has portrayed in supporting roles, to his command of the screen as a star, Sutherland has covered abundant ground....Read More

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Monsters vs. Aliens

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Stephen Colbert

Synopsis: When human-hating aliens disrupt earthbound cable-television signals, it's up to a monster-hunting superhero to take out the pesky extraterrestrials and ensure that television viewers are not deprived in this animated adaptation of the popular comic-book series. The DreamWorks Animation release is Read More

3/27/09
24: Season 07

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Cherry Jones, Janeane Garofalo

2009
Mirrors

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart

Synopsis: Kiefer Sutherland stars as a former policeman-turned-security guard who discovers something sinister lurking in the mirrors of a crumbling museum in Haute Tension writer/director Alexandre Aja's menacing study in the origins of evil. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

8/15/08
An Unlikely Weapon

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: The weapon in question is not a firearm (as might be expected) but a camera: from the 1950s through the early 21st century, photojournalist and sports photographer Eddie Adams (1933-2004) caught a series of indelible images through his lens that dramatically reshaped the way in which the general Read More

2008
24: Season 06

Actors: Jayne Atkinson, Powers Boothe, James Cromwell, Peter MacNicol, Rick Schroder, James Morrison, Marisol Nichols, Carlo Rota, Eric Balfour, Kiefer Sutherland, D.B. Woodside, Mary Lynn Rajskub

2007
Hope in Heaven

2007
Concert for Diana

Actors: Prince William, Prince Harry, Elton John, Duran Duran, James Morris

Synopsis: Concert for Diana captures a 2007 tribute to the deceased Diana Spencer, the former Princess of Wales. Among the many performers who appear on the bill are Nelly Furtado, Elton John, Duran Duran, Rod Stewart, and Kanye West. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Actors: Neil Ross, Michelle Trachtenberg, Marc Worden, Michael Rosenbaum, Kiefer Sutherland, Lucy Lawless, Fred Tatasciore, Rino Romano, Jason Marsden

Synopsis: In this animated film based on the popular series of fantasy books, six friends - a dwarf, a warrior, a half-elf, a mage, a knight and a kinder - have come together once again after spending five years searching for proof that the gods do in fact exist. Sadly, they reunite amidst rumors of a Read More

2007
I Trust You to Kill Me

Actors: Rocco DeLuca & the Burden, Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: Filmmaker Manu Boyer highlights the determined struggles of an unknown band to make a name for themselves as their curiously high-profile manager does his best to spread the good word in a musical documentary that is at once entertaining and surprisingly endearing. As Rocco Deluca and the Burden Read More

9/8/06
The Sentinel

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria, Martin Donovan, Ritchie Coster

Synopsis: A man who has devoted himself to serving the leader of the free world is accused of plotting against him in this thriller. Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is a veteran Secret Service agent who has had a long and distinguished career helping protect the president of the United States. David Read More

4/21/06
The Wild

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, William Shatner

Synopsis: A handful of zoo animals leave behind their well-protected environment for the streets of the big city in this computer-animated comedy. Sampson (voice of Kiefer Sutherland) is the king of a make-believe jungle far from the African plains -- he's a lion on display at a zoo in New York City's Read More

4/14/06
24: Season 05

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland

2006
Jiminy Glick in La La Wood

Actors: Martin Short, Jan Hooks, Linda Cardellini, Janeane Garofalo, John Michael Higgins

Synopsis: The world's most obnoxious celebrity talk-show host demonstrates how he rose to mediocrity in this pungent show business satire. Jiminy Glick (Martin Short) is a corpulent entertainment reporter who is looking to kick his career into high gear. Hoping to snag some celebrity interviews, Jiminy and Read More

5/6/05
River Queen

Actors: Samantha Morton, Anton Lesser

Synopsis: A woman who has come to a strange land is torn between the life she knows and the new life around her in this epic-scale historical drama. In 1854, New Zealand's indigenous Maori tribes were engaged in an ongoing battle to drive away European settlers eager to establish colonies in the nation's Read More

2005
Flight That Fought Back

2005
24: Season 04

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, William Devane, Alberta Watson, Nestor Serrano, Shohreh Aghdashloo

Synopsis: Season four of the wildly successful "real-time" adventure series 24 begins some 18 months at the end of season three. John Keeler (Geoff Pierson) has succeeded David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) as president of the United States, and the new secretary of defense is James Heller (William Devane) Read More

2005
Taking Lives

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Tchéky Karyo, Olivier Martinez, Gena Rowlands

Synopsis: A female detective on the trail of a psychotic killer discovers love in a dangerous time in this thriller, based on the novel by Michael Pye. Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie) is a special agent with the FBI who has a reputation for using offbeat methods, but also boasts a strong record as a criminal Read More

3/19/04
NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: Simon Wincer directs the 40-minute film NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience. It includes interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, plenty of high-speed racing action, and multiple points-of-view created by remote control-operated IMAX 3D cameras mounted to the outside of race cars, as well as the Read More

3/12/04
Phone Booth

Actors: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell

Synopsis: One man's life is thrown into turmoil by picking up a telephone in this claustrophobic thriller. Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is a brash, cynical, and self-centered public relations man who juggles a busy career with both a wife, Kelly (Radha Mitchell), and a mistress, Pamela (Katie Holmes). Stu Read More

4/4/03
The Land Before Time: The Great Longneck Migration

Synopsis: Littlefoot the Dinosaur sets out on a spectacular journey and makes a very unexpected discovery in this, the tenth film in the Land Before Time series. Youthful brontosaurus Littlefoot (voice of Alec Medlock) has a vivid dream in which he imagines travelling to a far-away land where there are many Read More

2003
Behind the Red Door

Actors: Kyra Sedgwick, Kiefer Sutherland, Stockard Channing, Jason Carter, Chuck Shamata

Synopsis: Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best friend Julia (Stockard Channing) arranges for her to Read More

2003
Paradise Found

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski

Synopsis: 24 star Kiefer Sutherland stars as celebrated French painter Paul Gauguin in director Mario Andreacchio's slice of life biopic. A highly successful Paris stockbroker, Gaugin decides to drop out of the rat race in favor of developing his self-taught painting skills. Despite his determination to use Read More

2003
Race of the Century: Ben Johnson, Drugs & the Quest for Gold

2003
24: Season 03

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Dennis Haysbert, Carlos Bernard, Reiko Aylesworth, Elisha Cuthbert, James Badge Dale, Joaquim de Almeida

2003
Doctors Without Borders: Life in the Field [TV Documentary Series]

2003
To End All Wars

Actors: Ciarán McMenamin, Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Mark Strong, Yugo Saso

Synopsis: David L. Cunningham follows up on his acclaimed Beyond Paradise with this Bridge Over the River Kwai-like POW drama. Following Japan's surprise invasion of Singapore during the waning days of 1941, a small British battalion headed by Lieutenant Colonel McLean (James Cosmo), Major Campbell (Robert Carlyle Read More

12/6/02
24: Season 02

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Dennis Haysbert, Elisha Cuthbert, Carlos Bernard, Reiko Aylesworth

2002
24 [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Employing split screens and kinetic pacing, the real-time action thriller-drama 24 became a fast cult hit when it premiered on FOX in late 2001. Each one-hour episode covers an hour in a single day that unfolds over the course of a season. Kiefer Sutherland stars as über-hero Jack Bauer, a daring Read More

2001
24: Season 01

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Elisha Cuthbert, Sarah Clarke, Dennis Haysbert

2001
Dead Heat

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Anthony LaPaglia, Lothaire Bluteau

Synopsis: Retired Boston policeman Pally (Kiefer Sutherland) finds himself mired in murder, mobsters, and misfired romance when he well-meaningly agrees to help his stepbrother, Ray (Anthony LaPaglia), finance a long-shot racehorse. A mob kingpin (Daniel Benzali) has his eyes on the nag as well, and he Read More

2001
Picking Up the Pieces

Actors: Woody Allen, David Schwimmer, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Cheech Marin, Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: A crime of passion unwittingly leads to a "miracle" in this satirical comedy. Tex (Woody Allen) is a butcher who is married to Candy (Sharon Stone), a former exotic dancer who has no skill or enthusiasm for fidelity. Unhappy with her extramarital affairs, Tex kills Candy while performing a "sawing Read More

2000
Beat

Actors: Courtney Love, Norman Reedus, Ron Livingston, Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: William S. Burroughs' ill-fated performance of his "William Tell act" -- resulting in his wife Joan Vollmer getting a bullet in the brain with a shot glass atop her head -- soon became the stuff of Beat legend. This film, directed by Gary Walkow, traces this doomed romance from its inception to Read More

2000
Cowboy Up

Actors: Pete Postlethwaite, Molly Ringwald, Marcus Thomas, Kiefer Sutherland, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: The exciting and dangerous world of professional bull riding provides the backdrop for this drama about the pull between romantic love and a brother's loyalty. Ely Braxton (Marcus Thomas) dreams of being a star on the professional rodeo circuit, and even though he's learned from experience that Read More

2000
Desert Saints

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Melora Walters, Leslie Stefanson

Synopsis: In this offbeat thriller, a refined and well-educated hired killer has an unusual way of doing business: He finds women, forces them to help him with his murders, and then kills them before they can tell anyone about his work. With police detectives on his trail, the killer picks up a woman Read More

2000
The Right Temptation

Actors: Adam Baldwin, Kiefer Sutherland, Rebecca De Mornay, Dana Delany

Synopsis: In this thriller, Derian (Rebecca De Mornay), a beautiful private detective with a checkered past, is hired by a suspicious woman to keep tabs on her husband, whom she suspects is having an affair. While it's her job to keep her distance, Derian soon finds herself drawn into the web of desire that Read More

2000
Woman Wanted

Crew: Director

Actors: Holly Hunter, Kiefer Sutherland, Michael Moriarty

Synopsis: Actor Kiefer Sutherland directed this drama about a housekeeper who tries to keep the peace between a widower and his grown-up son. Sutherland also co-stars, along with Holly Hunter, ichael Moriarty and Christopher Plummer. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

1999
Eye of the Killer

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Henry Czerny, Polly Walker

Synopsis: A troubled cop makes a discovery that really has him worried in this thriller. Mickey Hayden (Kiefer Sutherland), a police detective, is ordered to take a new look at a case he'd worked on ten years ago. A brilliant but demented serial killer known as Jabberwocky went on a killing spree before Read More

1999
A Soldier's Sweetheart

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Georgina Cates, Skeet Ulrich, Daniel London, Louis Vanaria

Synopsis: Thomas Michael Donnelly directed this Vietnam drama, filmed in New Zealand and adapted from Tim O'Brien's short story, "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong," about a group of army medics in Vietnam. Rat (Kiefer Sutherland) narrates the tale seen in flashbacks: Rat's buddy Fossie (Skeet Ulrich), after Read More

1998
Dark City

Actors: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Richard O'Brien

Synopsis: Alex Proyas (The Crow) directed this noir-styled futuristic thriller, scripted by Proyas, Lem Dobbs (Kafka), and David S. Goyer (The Puppet Masters). Separated from his wife Emma (Jennifer Connelly), amnesiac John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to learn he is wanted for a Read More

1998
Ground Control

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Sean Leonard, Kelly McGillis, Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: Ground Control follows the reluctant return to work of Jack Harris (Kiefer Sutherland), a retired air traffic controller who is still haunted by his role in a probably unavoidable plane crash that has left him guilt-ridden and professionally gun shy. When a Phoenix airport fighting budget cutbacks Read More

1/1/98
The Break Up

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Bridget Fonda, Steven Weber

Synopsis: Kiefer Sutherland and Bridget Fonda star in this thriller with Fonda playing an abused housewife who is forced to deal with a constant stream of lies and violent confrontation from her psychotic husband. Things only get worse when she discovers dead bodies are appearing at their home, a large sum Read More

1998
The Last Days of Frankie the Fly

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, Kiefer Sutherland, Daryl Hannah, Dayton Callie

Synopsis: In this tough contemporary noir drama, Frankie (Dennis Hopper) is a low-level "mechanic" working for second-rate mobster Sal (Michael Madsen). Frankie dreams of rising into the upper echelons of organized crime and commiting a series of bloody reprisals against those who have wronged him. Read More

1997
Truth or Consequences, N.M.

Crew: Director

Actors: Vincent Gallo, Mykelti Williamson, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak, Kim Dickens, Max Perlich, Rod Steiger, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: The directorial debut of Kiefer Sutherland is part-Western, part-gangster flick in the style of Quentin Tarantino. Raymond (Vincent Gallo) is paroled from prison but decides to do one last robbery to get money to help him successfully woo his love Addy (Kim Dickens). With fellow ex-con Curtis Read More

1997
A Time to Kill

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) takes the law into his own hands after the legal system fails to adequately punish the men who brutally raped and beat his daughter, leaving her for dead. Normally, a distraught father could count on some judicial sympathy in those circumstances. Unfortunately Read More

1996
Freeway

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Brooke Shields, Amanda Plummer, Wolfgang Bodison, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: In this postmodern exploitation flick loosely based on "Little Red Riding Hood," the uneducated daughter of a drug-addicted prostitute flees the foster-care system in search of her long-lost grandmother but meets up instead with a serial killer. Vanessa (Reese Witherspoon), a nearly illiterate Read More

1996
Eye for an Eye

Actors: Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris, Beverly D'Angelo, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: An ordinary woman is driven to the point of violent revenge in this tense thriller. Karen McCann (Sally Field) is a suburban wife and working mother with two daughters. Karen's life is turned upside down when her 17-year-old daughter is raped and murdered, a crime she overhears on her cellular Read More

1995
Teresa's Tattoo

Actors: Adrienne Shelly, C. Thomas Howell, Nancy McKeon, Lou Diamond Phillips, Casey Siemaszko

Synopsis: It's the old switcheroo in this action comedy that follows the exploits of desperate extortionists. Gloria is a fluffhead with a Chinese dragon tattooed upon her chest. She wears lovely holograph earrings that just happen to contain classified detail of the U.S. space program. She is taken hostage Read More

1994
Armitage III [Anime OVA Series]

Synopsis: Robots who've been designed to pose as humans find themselves the targets of a murderous maniac in this four-part anime OVA. In the 22nd century, the planet Mars has been colonized by the Earth, with most of the manual labor being performed by androids. Among the android population are unusual Read More

1994
The Cowboy Way

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, Ernie Hudson, Cara Buono

Synopsis: In this action comedy, director Gregg Champion relies on the premise that, indeed, "country boys can survive," as Sonny (Kiefer Sutherland) and Pepper (Woody Harrelson, always game) head off to the Big Apple in order to rescue a mutual friend's daughter from the clutches of an evil sweatshop Read More

1994
Dark Reflection

Crew: Executive Producer

1994
The Three Musketeers

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry

Synopsis: This comedy-adventure is one of several adaptations of Alexadre Dumas' (pere) classic novel. Provincial swordsman D'Artagnan (Chris O'Donnell) travels to Paris to follow in his father's footsteps and become a king's guard, a musketeer. Meanwhile, the evil royal advisor Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Read More

1993
The Vanishing

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bullock, Park Overall

Synopsis: George Sluizer's 1992 English-language remake of his 1988 Dutch thriller The Vanishing follows the same plot-line as the original film, yet with one important difference. The film details a young man's (Kiefer Sutherland) search for his girlfriend (Sandra Bullock), who disappeared at a gas station Read More

1993
Last Light

Crew: Director

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker

Synopsis: Kiefer Sutherland directed and stars in this death-row drama, playing an inmate who forms a complex relationship with a guard (Forest Whitaker). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
A Few Good Men

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: In this military courtroom drama based on the play by Aaron Sorkin, Navy lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is assigned to defend two Marines, Pfc. Louden Downey (James Marshall) and Lance Cpl. Harold Dawson (Wolfgang Bodison), who are accused of the murder of fellow leatherneck Pfc. William Read More

12/11/92
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Actors: Sheryl Lee, Chris Isaak, Ray Wise, David Bowie, Moira Kelly, Kyle MacLachlan, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: David Lynch's prequel to his cult television series "Twin Peaks" concerns the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), whose plastic-wrapped corpse, found floating in a river, was the fulcrum for the television series. During the day in the town of Twin Peaks, Laura is a top Read More

8/28/92
Article 99

Actors: Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Lea Thompson, John C. McGinley, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: The title Article 99 refers to a fictional legal loophole which states that American veterans cannot be treated in VA hospitals unless their illnesses are related to their military service. The pinchpenny administrator of a Kansas City hospital intends to follow this proviso to the letter, while Read More

3/13/92
Saturday Night Live: Kiefer Sutherland

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Skid Row

Synopsis: This 1991 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Kiefer Sutherland and features musical guest Skid Row. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
The Nutcracker Prince

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Megan Follows, Mike McDonald, Peter Boretski, Phyllis Diller, Peter O'Toole

Synopsis: Based on E.T.A. Hoffman's classic book The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, this animated holiday tale utilizes the vocal talents of such stars as Kiefer Sutherland, Peter O'Toole and Phyllis Diller. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

11/21/90
Flatliners

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: Despite its occasional lapses into silly self-consciousness, Flatliners is one of the most intriguing and well-constructed supernatural thrillers of the 1990s. A group of brilliant medical students decide to literally play with life and death. They put themselves in suspended animation Read More

8/10/90
Young Guns 2

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William L. Petersen

Synopsis: Only three of the original five "young guns" -- Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) -- return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group Read More

8/1/90
Chicago Joe and the Showgirl

Actors: Emily Lloyd, Kiefer Sutherland, Patsy Kensit, Keith Allen, Liz Fraser

Synopsis: Director Bernard Rose and screenwriter David Yallop were inspired by the real-life Hulten/Jones murder case of 1944, famously known as The Cleft Chin Murder Case, after a London cabbie was found murdered. It was a sensation in England, where American soldier Karl Hulten and British showgirl Read More

7/27/90
Flashback

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland, Carol Kane, Paul Dooley, Cliff De Young

Synopsis: A yuppie and a hippie are the offbeat pairing of this character comedy in the tradition of earlier mismatched buddy films such as Midnight Run (1988). Kiefer Sutherland is uptight, 26-year-old FBI agent John Buckner, who's been assigned to escort an aging counterculture radical named Huey Walker (Dennis Hopper Read More

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