Sam Waterston
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
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- Born:
- Nov 15, 1940 In Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 106
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Carousel
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Six Triple Eight 2024-12-06
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Carousel | 2026 | |
| Movie | The Six Triple Eight | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 2024-12-06 |
| Movie | Merchant Ivory | Self | 2024-08-30 |
| Series | The Dropout | George Shultz | 2022-03-03 |
| Movie | Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time | Self (voice) | 2021-11-19 |
| Movie | The Man in the Woods | Headmaster Waldorf | 2020-11-24 |
| Movie | Jane Fonda in Five Acts | Self - (archive footage) | 2018-01-21 |
| Movie | On the Basis of Sex | Erwin Griswold | 2018-12-25 |
| Series | Godless | Marshall John Cook | 2017-11-22 |
| Movie | Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators | Narrator (voice) | 2017-06-17 |
| Movie | Dateline: Saigon | Narrator (voice) | 2017-03-07 |
| Movie | Miss Sloane | George Dupont | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | Anesthesia | Prof. Walter Zarrow | 2016-01-08 |
| Movie | Please Be Normal | Dad | 2015-03-20 |
| Series | Grace and Frankie | Sol Bergstein | 2015-05-08 |
| Movie | And It Was Good | Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger | 2015-06-05 |
| Series | Jo | Unknown | 2013-01-17 |
| Series | The Newsroom | Charlie Skinner | 2012-06-24 |
| Series | Prohibition | Reader (voice) | 2011-10-02 |
| Movie | The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear | Self | 2010-10-30 |
| Series | Masters of Science Fiction | Unknown | 2007-08-04 |
| Movie | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods") | 2006-05-02 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Series | Law & Order: Trial by Jury | Jack McCoy | 2005-03-03 |
| Movie | Le Divorce | Chester Walker | 2003-08-08 |
| Movie | The Commission | J. Lee Rankin | 2003-11-07 |
| Movie | The Matthew Shepard Story | Dennis Shepard | 2002-03-16 |
| Movie | A House Divided | David Dickson | 2000-07-30 |
| Series | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Jack McCoy | 1999-09-20 |
| Series | Family Guy | Unknown | 1999-01-31 |
| Movie | In Bad Taste | Self | 1999-09-03 |
| Movie | Exiled | Jack McCoy | 1998-11-08 |
| Movie | Miracle at Midnight | Dr. Karl Koster | 1998-03-17 |
| Movie | Shadow Conspiracy | The President | 1997-01-25 |
| Series | Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson (voice) | 1997-02-18 |
| Series | Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery | Thomas Jefferson (voice) | 1997-11-04 |
| Movie | The Proprietor | Harry Bancroft | 1996-09-09 |
| Movie | Amazing Stories: The Movie IV | (archive footage) | 1995-08-18 |
| Movie | The Journey of August King | Mooney Wright | 1995-09-14 |
| Movie | Nixon | Richard Helms | 1995-12-22 |
| Movie | Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker | Daniel Chamberlain | 1994-02-26 |
| Movie | David's Mother | John Nils | 1994-04-10 |
| Movie | The Enemy Within | President William Foster | 1994-08-24 |
| Movie | Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Tom Wingfield (archive footage) | 1994-12-19 |
| Movie | Serial Mom | Eugene Sutphin | 1994-04-13 |
| Movie | A Captive in the Land | Royce | 1993-01-15 |
| Series | Homicide: Life on the Street | Unknown | 1993-01-31 |
| Movie | I'll Fly Away: Then and Now | Forrest Bedford | 1993-10-11 |
| Movie | Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice) | 1992-10-01 |
| Movie | Mindwalk | Jack Edwards | 1991-12-05 |
| Movie | The Man in the Moon | Matthew Trant | 1991-09-30 |
| Series | I'll Fly Away | Forrest Bedford | 1991-10-07 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 |
| Series | Law & Order | Jack McCoy | 1990-09-13 |
| Series | The Civil War | Abraham Lincoln | 1990-09-23 |
| Series | The Nightmare Years | Bill Shirer | 1989-11-17 |
| Series | Tales from the Crypt | Unknown | 1989-06-10 |
| Movie | Welcome Home | Woody | 1989-09-29 |
| Movie | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Ben | 1989-10-13 |
| Movie | Lantern Hill | Andrew Stuart | 1989-08-29 |
| Series | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | 1988-03-27 |
| Movie | Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami | Jim Delmore | 1988-12-30 |
| Movie | The Room Upstairs | Travis Coles | 1987-01-31 |
| Movie | Swimming to Cambodia | Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage) | 1987-03-13 |
| Movie | September | Peter | 1987-12-18 |
| Movie | Devil's Paradise | Jones | 1987-05-07 |
| Movie | Hannah and Her Sisters | David (uncredited) | 1986-02-07 |
| Movie | The Fifth Missile | Capt. Allard Renslow | 1986-02-23 |
| Movie | Just Between Friends | Harry Crandall | 1986-03-21 |
| Movie | Flagrant désir | Inspecteur Gerry Morrison | 1986-06-11 |
| Movie | Finnegan Begin Again | Paul Broadbent | 1985-02-24 |
| Movie | Love Lives On | Bernie | 1985-03-31 |
| Movie | Warning Sign | Cal Morse | 1985-08-23 |
| Series | Jeopardy! | Unknown | 1984-09-10 |
| Movie | The Boy Who Loved Trolls | Ofoeti | 1984-10-29 |
| Movie | The Killing Fields | Sydney Schanberg | 1984-11-23 |
| Movie | Dempsey | Doc Kearns | 1983-09-28 |
| Movie | In Defense of Kids | Paul Wilcox | 1983-04-06 |
| Movie | Games Mother Never Taught You | David Bentells | 1982-11-27 |
| Series | Q.E.D. | 1982-03-23 | |
| Movie | Sweet William | William McClusky | 1980-04-11 |
| Movie | Hopscotch | Jack Cutter | 1980-09-26 |
| Movie | Heaven's Gate | Frank Canton | 1980-11-19 |
| Series | Oppenheimer | Robert Oppenheimer | 1980-10-29 |
| Movie | Friendly Fire | C.D.B. Bryan | 1980-11-09 |
| Movie | Eagle's Wing | White Bull | 1979-07-26 |
| Movie | Interiors | Mike | 1978-08-02 |
| Movie | Capricorn One | Lt. Col. Peter Willis | 1977-12-10 |
| Movie | Sweet Revenge | Le Clerq | 1976-06-06 |
| Movie | Rancho Deluxe | Cecil Colson | 1975-03-14 |
| Series | Saturday Night Live | Unknown | 1975-10-11 |
| Movie | Journey into Fear | Mr. Graham | 1975-08-08 |
| Movie | The Great Gatsby | Nick Carraway | 1974-03-27 |
| Movie | Reflections of Murder | Michael Elliott | 1974-11-24 |
| Movie | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | 1973-02-02 |
| Movie | The Glass Menagerie | Tom Wingfield | 1973-12-16 |
| Movie | Mahoney's Last Stand | Felix | 1972-11-01 |
| Movie | Savages | James, the Limping Man | 1972-06-27 |
| Movie | Who Killed Mary Whats'ername? | Alex Monte | 1971-12-11 |
| Movie | Cover Me Babe | Cameraman | 1970-10-01 |
| Movie | Generation | Desmond | 1969-12-15 |
| Movie | Three | Taylor | 1969-12-23 |
| Movie | Fitzwilly | Oliver | 1967-12-20 |
| Movie | The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean | Andy | 1966-10-01 |
| Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-27 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |