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.
Sydney Schanberg
The Killing Fields
Frank Canton
Heaven's Gate
Nick Carraway
The Great Gatsby
David (uncredited)
Hannah and Her Sisters
Ben
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Eugene Sutphin
Serial Mom
Peter
September
Lt. Col. Peter Willis
Capricorn One
Jack Cutter
Hopscotch
Chester Walker
Le Divorce
Cal Morse
Warning Sign
Cecil Colson
Rancho Deluxe
Mike
Interiors
Mooney Wright
The Journey of August King
Dennis Shepard
The Matthew Shepard Story
The President
Shadow Conspiracy
Matthew Trant
The Man in the Moon
Jack Edwards
Mindwalk
Self
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Woody
Welcome Home
Tom Wingfield
The Glass Menagerie
Desmond
Generation
President William Foster
The Enemy Within
Michael Elliott
Reflections of Murder
Harry Bancroft
The Proprietor
Self
Merchant Ivory
White Bull
Eagle's Wing
Capt. Allard Renslow
The Fifth Missile
Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)
Swimming to Cambodia
David Bentells
Games Mother Never Taught You
Mr. Graham
Journey into Fear
Travis Coles
The Room Upstairs
Dr. Karl Koster
Miracle at Midnight
Taylor
Three
Jim Delmore
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
Richard Helms
Nixon
Andrew Stuart
Lantern Hill
Felix
Mahoney's Last Stand
Self
A Case for Love
John Nils
David's Mother
Forrest Bedford
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
Doc Kearns
Dempsey
William McClusky
Sweet William
Daniel Chamberlain
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Cameraman
Cover Me Babe
Self
Night of 100 Stars III
Alex Monte
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
Dad
Please Be Normal
Prof. Walter Zarrow
Anesthesia
Ofoeti
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
Inspecteur Gerry Morrison
Flagrant désir
Bernie
Love Lives On
Jack McCoy
Exiled
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Six Triple Eight
Harry Crandall
Just Between Friends
Royce
A Captive in the Land
Benedick
Much Ado About Nothing
James, the Limping Man
Savages
David Dickson
A House Divided
George Dupont
Miss Sloane
(archive footage)
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
Oliver
Fitzwilly
Jones
Des Teufels Paradies
Andy
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
Le Clerq
Sweet Revenge
Paul Broadbent
Finnegan Begin Again
Paul Wilcox
In Defense of Kids
Narrator (voice)
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
Erwin Griswold
On the Basis of Sex
Headmaster Waldorf
The Man in the Woods
Tom Wingfield (archive footage)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Charlie Mayo (voice)
The Mayo Clinic
John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
John Honeyman
A Walk in the Woods
Self
In Bad Taste
Self - Actor
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
Narrator
Dean Smith
Narrator (voice)
Dateline: Saigon
Reader (voice)
Earth and the American Dream
C.D.B. Bryan
Friendly Fire
Self (voice)
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Self / Host / Narrator
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
Self
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
J. Lee Rankin
The Commission
Narrator (voice)
The Unfinished Journey
Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
And It Was Good
Self (voice)
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
Self - Narrator
Hammer and Cycle
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
88
Gender
Male
Birthday
1940-11-15
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
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