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

Miss Sloane

2016

George Dupont

The Six Triple Eight

2024

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Man in the Moon

1991

Matthew Trant

Heaven's Gate

1980

Frank Canton

Serial Mom

1994

Eugene Sutphin

The Great Gatsby

1974

Nick Carraway

The Killing Fields

1984

Sydney Schanberg

Nixon

1995

Richard Helms

On the Basis of Sex

2018

Erwin Griswold

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986

David (uncredited)

Capricorn One

1977

Lt. Col. Peter Willis

Le Divorce

2003

Chester Walker

Hopscotch

1980

Jack Cutter

Interiors

1978

Mike

Shadow Conspiracy

1997

The President

Fitzwilly

1967

Oliver

Anesthesia

2016

Prof. Walter Zarrow

The Unfinished Journey

1999

Narrator (voice)

September

1987

Peter

Exiled

1998

Jack McCoy

The Mayo Clinic

2018

Charlie Mayo (voice)

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

2018

Self - (archive footage)

Amazing Stories: The Movie IV

1995

Jordan Manmouth (archive footage)

The Fifth Missile

1986

Capt. Allard Renslow

The Enemy Within

1994

President William Foster

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

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

Mindwalk

1991

Jack Edwards

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

1994

Tom Wingfield (archive footage)

Earth and the American Dream

1992

Reader (voice)

Journey into Fear

1975

Mr. Graham

The Journey of August King

1995

Mooney Wright

David's Mother

1994

John Nils

Warning Sign

1985

Cal Morse

Rancho Deluxe

1975

Cecil Colson

The Matthew Shepard Story

2002

Dennis Shepard

The Man in the Woods

2020

Headmaster Waldorf

The Glass Menagerie

1973

Tom Wingfield

Swimming to Cambodia

1987

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

Just Between Friends

1986

Harry Crandall

Eagle's Wing

1979

White Bull

Miracle at Midnight

1998

Dr. Karl Koster

Welcome Home

1989

Woody

Three

1969

Taylor

The Room Upstairs

1987

Travis Coles

Friendly Fire

1980

C.D.B. Bryan

In Bad Taste

1999

Self

Sweet Revenge

1976

Le Clerq

Generation

1969

Desmond

The Proprietor

1996

Harry Bancroft

Lantern Hill

1989

Andrew Stuart

Dempsey

1983

Doc Kearns

Savages

1972

James, the Limping Man

A House Divided

2000

David Dickson

Reflections of Murder

1974

Michael Elliott

Dean Smith

2015

Narrator

And It Was Good

2015

Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger

Flagrant désir

1986

Inspecteur Gerry Morrison

Finnegan Begin Again

1985

Paul Broadbent

The Commission

2003

J. Lee Rankin

I'll Fly Away: Then and Now

1993

Forrest Bedford

Love Lives On

1985

Bernie

Dateline: Saigon

2017

Narrator (voice)

Cover Me Babe

1970

Cameraman

A Walk in the Woods

1988

John Honeyman

In Defense of Kids

1983

Paul Wilcox

Sweet William

1980

William McClusky

Hammer and Cycle

2004

Self - Narrator

TV Credits

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

Jack McCoy (4 episodes)

Law & Order

1990

Jack McCoy (405 episodes)

Family Guy

1999

Bruce Kaplan (voice) (2 episodes)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

Self - Guest (2 episodes)

Saturday Night Live

1975

Self (uncredited) (2 episodes)

The Colbert Report

2005

(1 episodes)

The View

1997

Self (1 episodes)

Jeopardy!

1984

Self (1 episodes)

Dr. Kildare

1961

Mark (2 episodes)

Homicide: Life on the Street

1993

Jack McCoy (2 episodes)

Grace and Frankie

2015

Sol Bergstein (94 episodes)

Tales from the Crypt

1989

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

Amazing Stories

1985

Jordan Manmouth (1 episodes)

The Newsroom

2012

Charlie Skinner (25 episodes)

People's Choice Awards

1975

Self - Presenter (1 episodes)

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

2005

Jack McCoy (2 episodes)

Film '72

1971

Self (1 episodes)

Godless

2017

Marshall John Cook (7 episodes)

HBO First Look

1992

(1 episodes)

I'll Fly Away

1991

Forrest Bedford (39 episodes)

The Civil War

1990

Abraham Lincoln (voice) (9 episodes)

The Dropout

2022

George Shultz (5 episodes)

Jo

2013

(1 episodes)

Prohibition

2011

Reader (voice) (3 episodes)

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

Travis Coles (1 episodes)

Oppenheimer

1980

Robert Oppenheimer (7 episodes)

Q.E.D.

1982

(7 episodes)

Lincoln

1988

Abraham Lincoln (2 episodes)

Thomas Jefferson

1997

Thomas Jefferson (voice) (2 episodes)

Time Life's Lost Civilizations

1995

Narrator (10 episodes)

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

1997

Thomas Jefferson (voice) (2 episodes)

The Nightmare Years

1989

Bill Shirer (4 episodes)

Movie Production Credits

TV Production Credits

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