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:
- 102
- First Appeared:
- In the series Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951-12-24
- Latest Project:
- Movie Six Triple Eight 2025
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Six Triple Eight | 2025 | |
| 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 |
| Movie | Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators | Narrator (voice) | 2017-06-17 |
| Movie | Dateline: Saigon | Narrator (voice) | 2017-03-07 |
| Series | Godless | Marshall John Cook | 2017-11-22 |
| Movie | Anesthesia | Prof. Walter Zarrow | 2016-01-08 |
| Movie | Miss Sloane | George Dupont | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | Please Be Normal | Dad | 2015-03-20 |
| Movie | And It Was Good | Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger | 2015-06-05 |
| Series | Grace and Frankie | Sol Bergstein | 2015-05-08 |
| 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 | Law & Order: Trial by Jury | Jack McCoy | 2005-03-03 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Movie | Le Divorce | Chester Walker | 2003-08-08 |
| Movie | The Matthew Shepard Story | Dennis Shepard | 2002-03-16 |
| Movie | A House Divided | David Dickson | 2000-07-30 |
| Series | Family Guy | Unknown | 1999-01-31 |
| Movie | In Bad Taste | Self | 1999-09-03 |
| Series | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Jack McCoy | 1999-09-20 |
| Movie | Miracle at Midnight | Dr. Karl Koster | 1998-03-17 |
| Movie | Exiled | Jack McCoy | 1998-11-08 |
| 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 | 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 | Serial Mom | Eugene Sutphin | 1994-04-13 |
| Movie | Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Tom Wingfield (archive footage) | 1994-12-19 |
| Movie | The Enemy Within | President William Foster | 1994-08-24 |
| Movie | A Captive in the Land | Royce | 1993-01-15 |
| 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 | Reader (voice) | 1992-10-01 |
| Movie | The Man in the Moon | Matthew Trant | 1991-09-30 |
| Series | I'll Fly Away | Forrest Bedford | 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 |
| Series | Tales from the Crypt | Unknown | 1989-06-10 |
| Movie | Lantern Hill | Andrew Stuart | 1989-08-29 |
| Movie | Welcome Home | Woody | 1989-09-29 |
| Series | The Nightmare Years | Bill Shirer | 1989-11-17 |
| Movie | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Ben | 1989-10-13 |
| Series | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | 1988-03-27 |
| Movie | Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami | Prosecutor | 1988-12-30 |
| Movie | Swimming to Cambodia | Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage) | 1987-03-13 |
| Movie | The Room Upstairs | Travis Coles | 1987-01-31 |
| Movie | Devil's Paradise | Jones | 1987-05-07 |
| Movie | September | Peter | 1987-12-18 |
| 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 | Warning Sign | Cal Morse | 1985-08-23 |
| Movie | Love Lives On | Bernie | 1985-03-31 |
| 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 | In Defense of Kids | Paul Wilcox | 1983-04-06 |
| Movie | Dempsey | Doc Kearns | 1983-09-28 |
| Series | Q.E.D. | 1982-03-23 | |
| Movie | Games Mother Never Taught You | David Bentells | 1982-11-27 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Heaven's Gate | Frank Canton | 1980-11-19 |
| Series | Oppenheimer | Robert Oppenheimer | 1980-10-29 |
| 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 | The Glass Menagerie | Tom Wingfield | 1973-12-16 |
| Movie | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | 1973-02-02 |
| Movie | Savages | James, the Limping Man | 1972-06-27 |
| Movie | Mahoney's Last Stand | Felix | 1972-11-01 |
| 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 |