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.
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Movies (34)
The Six Triple Eight
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2024
Merchant Ivory
as Self
2024
A Case for Love
as Self
2024
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
as Self (voice)
2021
The Man in the Woods
as Headmaster Waldorf
2020
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
as Self
2020
On the Basis of Sex
as Erwin Griswold
2018
The Mayo Clinic
as Charlie Mayo (voice)
2018
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self - Actor
2018
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
as Narrator (voice)
2017
Dateline: Saigon
as Narrator (voice)
2017
Miss Sloane
as George Dupont
2016
Anesthesia
as Prof. Walter Zarrow
2016
And It Was Good
as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
2015
Dean Smith
as Narrator
2015
Please Be Normal
as Dad
2015
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
as Self
2010
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
2006
Hammer and Cycle
as Self - Narrator
2004
The Commission
as J. Lee Rankin
2003
Le Divorce
as Chester Walker
2003
The Matthew Shepard Story
as Dennis Shepard
2002
A House Divided
as David Dickson
2000
The Unfinished Journey
as Narrator (voice)
1999
In Bad Taste
as Self
1999
Law and Order: Justice
as Jack McCoy
1999
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
as Self / Host / Narrator
1999
Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels
as Narrator
1999
Exiled
as Jack McCoy
1998
Miracle at Midnight
as Dr. Karl Koster
1998
Shadow Conspiracy
as The President
1997
The Proprietor
as Harry Bancroft
1996
Nixon
as Richard Helms
1995
The Journey of August King
as Mooney Wright
1995
TV Shows (16)
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
as Self
2023
The Dropout
as George Shultz
2022
Godless
as Marshall John Cook
2017
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
Grace and Frankie
as Sol Bergstein
2015
Jo
2013
The Newsroom
as Charlie Skinner
2012
Prohibition
as Reader (voice)
2011
Masters of Science Fiction
2007
The Colbert Report
2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Jack McCoy
2005
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Jack McCoy
1999
Family Guy
as Bruce Kaplan (voice)
1999
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
1997
The View
as Self
1997
Thomas Jefferson
as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
1997