Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston

11/15/1940 (85 years old)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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Waterston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography (125 titles)

CarouselMovie

Carousel

Sam · 2026

The Six Triple Eight7.6Movie

The Six Triple Eight

Franklin Delano Roosevelt · 2024

Merchant Ivory7.7Movie

Merchant Ivory

Self · 2024

Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest HourMovie

Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour

Self (voice) · 2024

A Case for LoveMovie

A Case for Love

Self · 2024

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled8.0Show

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

Self · 2023

The Dropout7.3Show

The Dropout

George Shultz · 2022

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time6.8Movie

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Self (voice) · 2021

The Man in the Woods4.6Movie

The Man in the Woods

Headmaster Waldorf · 2020

Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold StoryMovie

Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story

Self · 2020

On the Basis of Sex7.3Movie

On the Basis of Sex

Erwin Griswold · 2018

The Mayo Clinic7.0Movie

The Mayo Clinic

Charlie Mayo (voice) · 2018

Jane Fonda in Five Acts7.1Movie

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

Self - (archive footage) · 2018

Godless7.7Show

Godless

Marshall John Cook · 2017

Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators7.3Movie

Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators

Narrator (voice) · 2017

Dateline: Saigon8.0Movie

Dateline: Saigon

Narrator (voice) · 2017

Miss Sloane7.4Movie

Miss Sloane

George Dupont · 2016

Anesthesia5.7Movie

Anesthesia

Prof. Walter Zarrow · 2016

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert6.1Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self - Guest · 2015

And It Was GoodMovie

And It Was Good

Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger · 2015

Grace and Frankie7.7Show

Grace and Frankie

Sol Bergstein · 2015

Dean Smith6.0Movie

Dean Smith

Narrator · 2015

Please Be Normal3.3Movie

Please Be Normal

Dad · 2015

Jo6.3Show

Jo

2013

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