Sam Waterston
Department: Acting
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
The Killing Fields
1984
Heaven's Gate
1980
The Great Gatsby
1974
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989
Serial Mom
1994
September
1987
Capricorn One
1977
Hopscotch
1980
Le Divorce
2003
Warning Sign
1985
Rancho Deluxe
1975
Interiors
1978
The Journey of August King
1995
The Matthew Shepard Story
2002
Shadow Conspiracy
1997
The Man in the Moon
1991
Mindwalk
1991
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
2010
Welcome Home
1989
The Glass Menagerie
1973
Generation
1969
The Enemy Within
1994
Reflections of Murder
1974
The Proprietor
1996
Merchant Ivory
2024
Eagle's Wing
1979
The Fifth Missile
1986
Swimming to Cambodia
1987
Games Mother Never Taught You
1982
Journey into Fear
1975
The Room Upstairs
1987
Miracle at Midnight
1998
Three
1969
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
1988
Nixon
1995
Lantern Hill
1989
Mahoney's Last Stand
1972
A Case for Love
2024
David's Mother
1994
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
1993
Dempsey
1983
Sweet William
1980
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
Cover Me Babe
1970
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
1971
Please Be Normal
2015
Anesthesia
2016
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
1984
Flagrant désir
1986
Love Lives On
1985
Exiled
1998
The Six Triple Eight
2024
Just Between Friends
1986
A Captive in the Land
1990
Much Ado About Nothing
1973
Savages
1972
A House Divided
2000
Miss Sloane
2016
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
1995
Fitzwilly
1967
Devil's Paradise
1987
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
1966
Sweet Revenge
1976
Finnegan Begin Again
1985
In Defense of Kids
1983
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
2017
On the Basis of Sex
2018
The Man in the Woods
2020
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
The Mayo Clinic
2018
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
A Walk in the Woods
1988
In Bad Taste
1999
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
2018
Dean Smith
2015
Dateline: Saigon
2017
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Friendly Fire
1980
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
2021
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
1999
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
2020
The Commission
2003
The Unfinished Journey
1999
And It Was Good
2015
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
—
Hammer and Cycle
2004
Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels
1999
Carousel
2026
Law & Order
1990
Q.E.D.
1982
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Jeopardy!
1984
Masters of Science Fiction
2007
The Colbert Report
2005
I'll Fly Away
1991
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Oppenheimer
1980
The Civil War
1990
The View
1997
The Newsroom
2012
Dr. Kildare
1961
Thomas Jefferson
1997
Grace and Frankie
2015
Family Guy
1999
Amazing Stories
1985
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023
Lincoln
1988
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
1995
Jo
2013
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
1997
The Nightmare Years
1989
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
Godless
2017
People's Choice Awards
1975
The Dropout
2022
The View
1997
Prohibition
2011
HBO First Look
1992
The Colbert Report
2005
Saturday Night Live
1975