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:
- 93
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Merchant Ivory Family - An Oral History
- Latest Project:
- Movie Six Triple Eight 2024
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Merchant Ivory Family - An Oral History | Himself | 2024 |
| Movie | Six Triple Eight | 2024 | |
| 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 - Actor | 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 | 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 | 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 | Law & Order: Trial by Jury | Unknown | 2005-03-03 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Movie | Le Divorce | Chester Walker | 2003-08-08 |
| Movie | Empire | 2003-04-10 | |
| Movie | The Matthew Shepard Story | Dennis Shepard | 2002-03-16 |
| Movie | In Bad Taste | Self | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | A House Divided | David Dickson | 2000-07-30 |
| Series | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Unknown | 1999-09-20 |
| 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 |
| Movie | The Proprietor | Harry Bancroft | 1996-09-09 |
| 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 | I'll Fly Away: Then and Now | Forrest Bedford | 1993-10-11 |
| Series | Homicide: Life on the Street | Unknown | 1993-01-31 |
| Movie | Earth and the American Dream | 1992-10-01 | |
| Movie | The Man in the Moon | Matthew Trant | 1991-09-30 |
| Series | I'll Fly Away | 1991-10-07 | |
| Movie | Mindwalk | Jack Edwards | 1990-09-09 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Lantern Hill | Andrew Stuart | 1989-08-29 |
| Series | Tales from the Crypt | Unknown | 1989-06-10 |
| Movie | Welcome Home | Woody | 1989-09-29 |
| Series | The Nightmare Years | Bill Shirer | 1989-11-17 |
| Movie | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Ben | 1989-10-13 |
| Movie | Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami | Prosecutor | 1988-12-30 |
| Series | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | 1988-03-27 |
| Movie | September | Peter | 1987-12-18 |
| Movie | The Room Upstairs | Travis Coles | 1987-01-31 |
| Movie | Devil's Paradise | Jones | 1987-05-07 |
| Movie | Hannah and Her Sisters | David | 1986-02-07 |
| Movie | Just Between Friends | Harry Crandall | 1986-03-21 |
| Movie | The Fifth Missile | Capt. Allard Renslow | 1986-02-23 |
| Movie | Flagrant désir | Inspecteur Gerry Morrison | 1986-06-11 |
| Movie | Warning Sign | Cal Morse | 1985-08-23 |
| Movie | Love Lives On | Bernie | 1985-03-31 |
| Series | Jeopardy! | Unknown | 1984-09-10 |
| Movie | The Killing Fields | Sydney Schanberg | 1984-11-23 |
| Movie | The Boy Who Loved Trolls | Ofoeti | 1984-10-29 |
| Movie | Dempsey | Doc Kearns | 1983-09-28 |
| Series | Q.E.D. | 1982-03-23 | |
| Movie | Sweet William | William McClusky | 1980-04-11 |
| Movie | Hopscotch | Jack Cutter | 1980-09-26 |
| Movie | Friendly Fire | C.D.B. Bryan | 1980-11-09 |
| Series | Oppenheimer | Robert Oppenheimer | 1980-10-29 |
| Movie | Heaven's Gate | Frank Canton | 1980-11-19 |
| 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 | 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 | 1972-01-01 |
| 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 | Three | Taylor | 1969-12-23 |
| Movie | Generation | Desmond | 1969-12-15 |
| Movie | Fitzwilly | Oliver | 1967-12-20 |
| Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-27 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |