ACTING
Sam Waterston
- Born
- Nov 15, 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
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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MOST-RATED TMDB CREDITS
Known for
Family Guy
TV · 1999
Bruce Kaplan (voice)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV · 1999
Jack McCoy
Miss Sloane
Movie · 2016
George Dupont
Hannah and Her Sisters
Movie · 1986
David (uncredited)
On the Basis of Sex
Movie · 2018
Erwin Griswold
Tales from the Crypt
TV · 1989
G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Movie · 1989
Ben
The Killing Fields
Movie · 1984
Sydney Schanberg
Serial Mom
Movie · 1994
Eugene Sutphin
The Newsroom
TV · 2012
Charlie Skinner
Godless
TV · 2017
Marshall John Cook
The Six Triple Eight
Movie · 2024
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FILMOGRAPHY
126 movie & TV credits
- 2026Line of FireTV · Thomas Barnes
- 2026CarouselMovie · Sam
- 2024The Six Triple EightMovie · Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 2024Merchant IvoryMovie · Self
- 2024Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest HourMovie · Self (voice)
- 2024A Case for LoveMovie · Self
- 2023Liv Ullmann: A Road Less TravelledTV · Self
- 2022The DropoutTV · George Shultz
- 2021Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in TimeMovie · Self (voice)
- 2020The Man in the WoodsMovie · Headmaster Waldorf
- 2020Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold StoryMovie · Self
- 2018On the Basis of SexMovie · Erwin Griswold
- 2018The Mayo ClinicMovie · Charlie Mayo (voice)
- 2018Jane Fonda in Five ActsMovie · Self - Actor (archive footage)
- 2017GodlessTV · Marshall John Cook
- 2017Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's CreatorsMovie · Narrator (voice)
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