Sam Waterston
- Acting
- November 15, 1940 · 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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Waterston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Carousel · Sam
- The Six Triple Eight · Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Merchant Ivory · Self
- Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour · Self
- A Case for Love · Self
- Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled · Self
- The Dropout · George Shultz
- Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time · Self
- The Man in the Woods · Headmaster Waldorf
- Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story · Self
- On the Basis of Sex · Erwin Griswold
- The Mayo Clinic · Charlie Mayo (Voice)
- Jane Fonda in Five Acts · Self
- Godless · Marshall John Cook
- Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators · Narrator (Voice)
- Dateline: Saigon · Narrator (Voice)
- Miss Sloane · George Dupont
- Anesthesia · Prof. Walter Zarrow
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- And It Was Good · Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
- Grace and Frankie · Sol Bergstein
- Dean Smith · Narrator
- Please Be Normal · Dad
- Jo
- The Newsroom · Charlie Skinner
- Prohibition · Reader (Voice)
- The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear · Self
- Masters of Science Fiction
- The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays · John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
- The Colbert Report · Self
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury · Jack McCoy
- Hammer and Cycle · Self
- The Commission · J. Lee Rankin
- Le Divorce · Chester Walker
- The Matthew Shepard Story · Dennis Shepard
- A House Divided · David Dickson
- The Unfinished Journey · Narrator (Voice)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Jack McCoy
- In Bad Taste · Self
- Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs · Self / Host / Narrator
- Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels · Narrator
- Family Guy · Bruce Kaplan (Voice)
- Exiled · Jack McCoy
- Miracle at Midnight · Dr. Karl Koster
- Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery · Thomas Jefferson (Voice)
- The View · Self
- Thomas Jefferson · Thomas Jefferson (Voice)
- Shadow Conspiracy · The President
- The Proprietor · Harry Bancroft
- Nixon · Richard Helms
- The Journey of August King · Mooney Wright, Producer
- Amazing Stories: The Movie IV · Jordan Manmouth (archive footage)
- Time Life's Lost Civilizations · Narrator
- Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage · Tom Wingfield (archive footage)
- The Enemy Within · President William Foster
- Serial Mom · Eugene Sutphin
- David's Mother · John Nils
- Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker · Daniel Chamberlain
- I'll Fly Away: Then and Now · Forrest Bedford
- Homicide: Life on the Street · Jack McCoy
- Earth and the American Dream · Reader (Voice)
- HBO First Look
- Mindwalk · Jack Edwards
- I'll Fly Away · Forrest Bedford
- The Man in the Moon · Matthew Trant
- The Civil War · Abraham Lincoln (Voice)
- Law & Order · Jack McCoy
- Night of 100 Stars III · Self
- A Captive in the Land · Royce
- The Nightmare Years · Bill Shirer
- Crimes and Misdemeanors · Ben
- Welcome Home · Woody
- Lantern Hill · Andrew Stuart
- Tales from the Crypt · G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
- Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami · Jim Delmore
- Lincoln · Abraham Lincoln
- A Walk in the Woods · John Honeyman
- September · Peter
- Devil's Paradise · Jones
- Swimming to Cambodia · Additional Cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)