Sam Waterston

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

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

Personal Info

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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