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Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston

ActingBorn November 15, 1940 (age 85)Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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.

Filmography

2026
Carousel

as Sam

Movie
2024
The Six Triple Eight

as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Movie
2024Movie
2024Movie
2022
The Dropout

as George Shultz

TV
2021Movie
2020
The Man in the Woods

as Headmaster Waldorf

Movie
2018
On the Basis of Sex

as Erwin Griswold

Movie
2018
The Mayo Clinic

as Charlie Mayo (voice)

Movie
2018
Jane Fonda in Five Acts

as Self - (archive footage)

Movie
2017
Godless

as Marshall John Cook

TV
2017
Dateline: Saigon

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2016
Miss Sloane

as George Dupont

Movie
2016
Anesthesia

as Prof. Walter Zarrow

Movie
2015
And It Was Good

as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger

Movie
2015
Grace and Frankie

as Sol Bergstein

TV
2015
Dean Smith

as Narrator

Movie
2015Movie
2013TV
2012
The Newsroom

as Charlie Skinner

TV
2011
Prohibition

as Reader (voice)

TV
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

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

Movie
2005
The Colbert Report

as Self (uncredited)

TV
2005TV
2004
Hammer and Cycle

as Self - Narrator

Movie
2003
The Commission

as J. Lee Rankin

Movie
2003
Le Divorce

as Chester Walker

Movie
2002
The Matthew Shepard Story

as Dennis Shepard

Movie
2000
A House Divided

as David Dickson

Movie
1999
The Unfinished Journey

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1999Movie
1999
Family Guy

as Bruce Kaplan (voice)

TV
1998
Exiled

as Jack McCoy

Movie
1998
Miracle at Midnight

as Dr. Karl Koster

Movie
1997
The View

as Self

TV
1997
The View

as Self - Guest

TV
1997
Thomas Jefferson

as Thomas Jefferson (voice)

TV
1997
Shadow Conspiracy

as The President

Movie
1996
The Proprietor

as Harry Bancroft

Movie
1995
Nixon

as Richard Helms

Movie
1995Movie
1995
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV

as Jordan Manmouth (archive footage)

Movie
1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

as Tom Wingfield (archive footage)

Movie
1994
The Enemy Within

as President William Foster

Movie
1994
Serial Mom

as Eugene Sutphin

Movie
1994
David's Mother

as John Nils

Movie
1993
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now

as Forrest Bedford

Movie
1993TV
1992Movie
1991
Mindwalk

as Jack Edwards

Movie
1991
I'll Fly Away

as Forrest Bedford

TV
1991
The Man in the Moon

as Matthew Trant

Movie
1990
The Civil War

as Abraham Lincoln (voice)

TV
1990
Law & Order

as Jack McCoy

TV
1990Movie
1990Movie
1989
The Nightmare Years

as Bill Shirer

TV
1989
Welcome Home

as Woody

Movie
1989
Lantern Hill

as Andrew Stuart

Movie
1989
Tales from the Crypt

as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")

TV
1988
Lincoln

as Abraham Lincoln

TV
1988
A Walk in the Woods

as John Honeyman

Movie
1987
September

as Peter

Movie
1987Movie
1987
Swimming to Cambodia

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

Movie
1987
The Room Upstairs

as Travis Coles

Movie
1986
Flagrant désir

as Inspecteur Gerry Morrison

Movie
1986
Just Between Friends

as Harry Crandall

Movie
1986
The Fifth Missile

as Capt. Allard Renslow

Movie
1986
Hannah and Her Sisters

as David (uncredited)

Movie
1985
Amazing Stories

as Jordan Manmouth

TV
1985
Warning Sign

as Cal Morse

Movie
1985
Love Lives On

as Bernie

Movie
1985
Finnegan Begin Again

as Paul Broadbent

Movie
1984
The Killing Fields

as Sydney Schanberg

Movie
1984Movie
1984
Jeopardy!

as Self

TV
1983
Dempsey

as Doc Kearns

Movie
1983
In Defense of Kids

as Paul Wilcox

Movie
1982Movie
1982TV
1980
Heaven's Gate

as Frank Canton

Movie
1980
Friendly Fire

as C.D.B. Bryan

Movie
1980
Oppenheimer

as Robert Oppenheimer

TV
1980
Hopscotch

as Jack Cutter

Movie
1980
Sweet William

as William McClusky

Movie
1979
Eagle's Wing

as White Bull

Movie
1978
Interiors

as Mike

Movie
1977
Capricorn One

as Lt. Col. Peter Willis

Movie
1976
Sweet Revenge

as Le Clerq

Movie
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self (uncredited)

TV
1975
Journey into Fear

as Mr. Graham

Movie
1975
Rancho Deluxe

as Cecil Colson

Movie
1975
People's Choice Awards

as Self - Presenter

TV
1974
Reflections of Murder

as Michael Elliott

Movie
1974
The Great Gatsby

as Nick Carraway

Movie
1973
The Glass Menagerie

as Tom Wingfield

Movie
1973Movie
1972Movie
1972
Savages

as James, the Limping Man

Movie
1971Movie
1971
Film '72

as Self

TV
1970
Cover Me Babe

as Cameraman

Movie
1969
Three

as Taylor

Movie
1969
Generation

as Desmond

Movie
1967
Fitzwilly

as Oliver

Movie
1961TV
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Travis Coles

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayNovember 15, 1940
Place of BirthCambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Popularity2.0
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