Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 15, 1940
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Credits
125 titles
Sam Waterston
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.
Known For
Filmography
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The Six Triple Eight
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Merchant Ivory
Self
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
Self (voice)
A Case for Love
Self
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
Self
The Dropout
George Shultz
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Self (voice)
The Man in the Woods
Headmaster Waldorf
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
Self
On the Basis of Sex
Erwin Griswold
The Mayo Clinic
Charlie Mayo (voice)
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
Self - (archive footage)
Godless
Marshall John Cook
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
Narrator (voice)
Dateline: Saigon
Narrator (voice)
Miss Sloane
George Dupont
Anesthesia
Prof. Walter Zarrow
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
And It Was Good
Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
Grace and Frankie
Sol Bergstein
Dean Smith
Narrator
Please Be Normal
Dad
Jo
The Newsroom
Charlie Skinner
Prohibition
Reader (voice)
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Self
Masters of Science Fiction
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
The Colbert Report
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Jack McCoy
Hammer and Cycle
Self - Narrator
The Commission
J. Lee Rankin
Le Divorce
Chester Walker
The Matthew Shepard Story
Dennis Shepard
A House Divided
David Dickson
The Unfinished Journey
Narrator (voice)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Jack McCoy
In Bad Taste
Self
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
Self / Host / Narrator
Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels
Narrator
Family Guy
Bruce Kaplan (voice)
Exiled
Jack McCoy
Miracle at Midnight
Dr. Karl Koster
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Thomas Jefferson (voice)
The View
Self
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (voice)
Shadow Conspiracy
The President
The Proprietor
Harry Bancroft
Nixon
Richard Helms