Actor
Sam Waterston
- Born November 15, 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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."
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Known for
Family Guy1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999
Miss Sloane2016
Hannah and Her Sisters1986
On the Basis of Sex2018
Tales from the Crypt1989
Crimes and Misdemeanors1989
The Killing Fields1984
Filmography
- 2026Line of FireSeriesThomas Barnes
- 2026CarouselFilmSam
- 2024The Six Triple EightFilmFranklin Delano Roosevelt
- 2024Merchant IvoryFilmSelf
- 2024A Case for LoveFilmSelf
- 2024Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest HourFilmSelf (voice)
- 2023Liv Ullmann: A Road Less TravelledSeriesSelf
- 2022The DropoutSeriesGeorge Shultz
- 2021Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in TimeFilmSelf (voice)
- 2020The Man in the WoodsFilmHeadmaster Waldorf
- 2020Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold StoryFilmSelf
- 2018On the Basis of SexFilmErwin Griswold
- 2018Jane Fonda in Five ActsFilmSelf - Actor (archive footage)
- 2018The Mayo ClinicFilmCharlie Mayo (voice)
- 2017GodlessSeriesMarshall John Cook
- 2017Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's CreatorsFilmNarrator (voice)
- 2017Dateline: SaigonFilmNarrator (voice)
- 2016Miss SloaneFilmGeorge Dupont
- 2016AnesthesiaFilmProf. Walter Zarrow
- 2015Grace and FrankieSeriesSol Bergstein
- 2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSeriesSelf - Guest
- 2015Please Be NormalFilmDad
- 2015Dean SmithFilmNarrator
- 2015And It Was GoodFilmJudge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
- 2013JoSeries
- 2012The NewsroomSeriesCharlie Skinner
- 2011ProhibitionSeriesReader (voice)
- 2010The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or FearFilmSelf
- 2007Masters of Science FictionSeries
- 2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The PlaysFilmJohn Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
- 2005The Colbert ReportSeriesSelf (uncredited)
- 2005Law & Order: Trial by JurySeriesJack McCoy
- 2004Hammer and CycleFilmSelf - Narrator
- 2003Le DivorceFilmChester Walker
- 2003The CommissionFilmJ. Lee Rankin
- 2002The Matthew Shepard StoryFilmDennis Shepard
- 2000A House DividedFilmDavid Dickson
- 1999Family GuySeriesBruce Kaplan (voice)
- 1999Law & Order: Special Victims UnitSeriesJack McCoy
- 1999In Bad TasteFilmSelf
- 1999The Unfinished JourneyFilmNarrator (voice)
- 1999Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize PhotographsFilmSelf / Host / Narrator
- 1999Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan DanielsFilmNarrator
- 1998ExiledFilmJack McCoy
- 1998Miracle at MidnightFilmDr. Karl Koster
- 1997The ViewSeriesSelf, Self - Guest
- 1997Shadow ConspiracyFilmThe President
- 1997Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of DiscoverySeriesThomas Jefferson (voice)
- 1997Thomas JeffersonSeriesThomas Jefferson (voice)
- 1996The ProprietorFilmHarry Bancroft
- 1995NixonFilmRichard Helms
- 1995The Journey of August KingFilmMooney Wright, Producer
- 1995Time Life's Lost CivilizationsSeriesNarrator
- 1995Amazing Stories: The Movie IVFilmJordan Manmouth (archive footage)
- 1994Serial MomFilmEugene Sutphin
- 1994The Enemy WithinFilmPresident William Foster
- 1994Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson WhittakerFilmDaniel Chamberlain
- 1994David's MotherFilmJohn Nils
- 1994Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American StageFilmTom Wingfield (archive footage)
- 1993Homicide: Life on the StreetSeriesJack McCoy
- 1993I'll Fly Away: Then and NowFilmForrest Bedford
- 1992HBO First LookSeries
- 1992Earth and the American DreamFilmReader (voice)
- 1991The Man in the MoonFilmMatthew Trant
- 1991MindwalkFilmJack Edwards
- 1991I'll Fly AwaySeriesForrest Bedford
- 1990Law & OrderSeriesJack McCoy
- 1990The Civil WarSeriesAbraham Lincoln (voice)
- 1990A Captive in the LandFilmRoyce
- 1990Night of 100 Stars IIIFilmSelf
- 1989Tales from the CryptSeriesG.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
- 1989Crimes and MisdemeanorsFilmBen
- 1989Welcome HomeFilmWoody
- 1989The Nightmare YearsSeriesBill Shirer
- 1989Lantern HillFilmAndrew Stuart
- 1988LincolnSeriesAbraham Lincoln
- 1988Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim AjamiFilmJim Delmore
- 1988A Walk in the WoodsFilmJohn Honeyman
- 1987SeptemberFilmPeter
- 1987Swimming to CambodiaFilmAdditional Cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)