Sam Waterston

13 titles·Since 1977

November 15, 1940 · 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 (13)

The Six Triple Eight

2024 · Franklin Delano Roosevelt

On the Basis of Sex

2018 · Erwin Griswold

Grace and Frankie

2015 · Sol Bergstein

Serial Mom

1994 · Eugene Sutphin

Mindwalk

1991 · Jack Edwards

The Man in the Moon

1991 · Matthew Trant

The Civil War

1990 · Abraham Lincoln (voice)

September

1987 · Peter

Warning Sign

1985 · Cal Morse

The Killing Fields

1984 · Sydney Schanberg

Heaven's Gate

1980 · Frank Canton

Hopscotch

1980 · Jack Cutter

Capricorn One

1977 · Lt. Col. Peter Willis

November 15, 1940 · 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.