Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston

1940-11-15 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Male 124 Known Credits

Biography

Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor and occasional producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in 1984's The Killing Fields, and his Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning portrayal of Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order. He has been nominated for multiple Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild-, BAFTA- and Emmy Awards, having starred in over eighty film and television productions during his forty-five year career. Allmovie has characterised Waterston as having "cultivated a loyal following with his quietly charismatic, unfailingly solid performances." Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Waterston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1940-11-15

Place of Birth

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Known Credits

124

Known For

Acting

Also Known As

Samuel Atkinson Waterston

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Known For Movies

Known For TV Shows

Movie Credits

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")

Warning Sign

1985

Cal Morse

The Killing Fields

1984

Sydney Schanberg

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

1994

Tom Wingfield (archive footage)

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

2018

Self - (archive footage)

The Six Triple Eight

2024

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Man in the Moon

1991

Matthew Trant

The Enemy Within

1994

President William Foster

The Journey of August King

1995

Mooney Wright

Amazing Stories: The Movie IV

1995

(archive footage)

The Great Gatsby

1974

Nick Carraway

The Glass Menagerie

1973

Tom Wingfield

The Matthew Shepard Story

2002

Dennis Shepard

Miss Sloane

2016

George Dupont

Serial Mom

1994

Eugene Sutphin

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986

David (uncredited)

The Man in the Woods

2020

Headmaster Waldorf

On the Basis of Sex

2018

Erwin Griswold

Love Lives On

1985

Bernie

Heaven's Gate

1980

Frank Canton

Capricorn One

1977

Lt. Col. Peter Willis

The Fifth Missile

1986

Capt. Allard Renslow

Hopscotch

1980

Jack Cutter

Le Divorce

2003

Chester Walker

Interiors

1978

Mike

Swimming to Cambodia

1987

Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)

Eagle's Wing

1979

White Bull

The Unfinished Journey

1999

Narrator (voice)

Nixon

1995

Richard Helms

In Defense of Kids

1983

Paul Wilcox

Sweet Revenge

1976

Le Clerq

Three

1969

Taylor

Anesthesia

2016

Prof. Walter Zarrow

The Commission

2003

J. Lee Rankin

Shadow Conspiracy

1997

The President

Mindwalk

1991

Jack Edwards

Earth and the American Dream

1992

Reader (voice)

Savages

1972

James, the Limping Man

Welcome Home

1989

Woody

Rancho Deluxe

1975

Cecil Colson

Fitzwilly

1967

Oliver

September

1987

Peter

Miracle at Midnight

1998

Dr. Karl Koster

Dempsey

1983

Doc Kearns

Friendly Fire

1980

C.D.B. Bryan

David's Mother

1994

John Nils

A House Divided

2000

David Dickson

Exiled

1998

Jack McCoy

Law and Order: Justice

1999

Jack McCoy

The Room Upstairs

1987

Travis Coles

The Mayo Clinic

2018

Charlie Mayo (voice)

And It Was Good

2015

Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger

Reflections of Murder

1974

Michael Elliott

Journey into Fear

1975

Mr. Graham

In Bad Taste

1999

Self

A Walk in the Woods

1988

John Honeyman

Just Between Friends

1986

Harry Crandall

Sweet William

1980

William McClusky

Flagrant désir

1986

Inspecteur Gerry Morrison

Cover Me Babe

1970

Cameraman

The Proprietor

1996

Harry Bancroft

Finnegan Begin Again

1985

Paul Broadbent

Lantern Hill

1989

Andrew Stuart

Generation

1969

Desmond

Dean Smith

2015

Narrator

Dateline: Saigon

2017

Narrator (voice)

I'll Fly Away: Then and Now

1993

Forrest Bedford

Hammer and Cycle

2004

Self - Narrator

TV Credits

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

Jack McCoy (4 episodes)

Family Guy

1999

Bruce Kaplan (voice) (2 episodes)

Law & Order

1990

Jack McCoy (405 episodes)

Saturday Night Live

1975

Self - Cameo (uncredited) (3 episodes)

Jeopardy!

1984

Self (1 episodes)

The Colbert Report

2005

(1 episodes)

The View

1997

Self (1 episodes)

Grace and Frankie

2015

Sol Bergstein (94 episodes)

Homicide: Life on the Street

1993

Jack McCoy (2 episodes)

Tales from the Crypt

1989

G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow") (1 episodes)

Dr. Kildare

1961

Mark (2 episodes)

The Newsroom

2012

Charlie Skinner (25 episodes)

Amazing Stories

1985

Jordan Manmouth (1 episodes)

Godless

2017

Marshall John Cook (7 episodes)

HBO First Look

1992

(1 episodes)

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

2005

Jack McCoy (2 episodes)

The Dropout

2022

George Shultz (5 episodes)

The Civil War

1990

Abraham Lincoln (9 episodes)

Jo

2013

(1 episodes)

People's Choice Awards

1975

Self - Presenter (1 episodes)

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

1997

Thomas Jefferson (voice) (2 episodes)

I'll Fly Away

1991

Forrest Bedford (39 episodes)

Prohibition

2011

Reader (voice) (3 episodes)

Oppenheimer

1980

Robert Oppenheimer (7 episodes)

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

Travis Coles (1 episodes)

Lincoln

1988

Abraham Lincoln (2 episodes)

Q.E.D.

1982

(7 episodes)

Thomas Jefferson

1997

Thomas Jefferson (voice) (2 episodes)

The Nightmare Years

1989

Bill Shirer (4 episodes)

Time Life's Lost Civilizations

1995

Narrator (10 episodes)

Movie Production Credits

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