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."
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Acting History
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2024The Six Triple Eight as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2024Merchant Ivory as Self
2024A Case for Love as Self
2023Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled as Self
2022The Dropout as George Shultz
2021Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time as Self (voice)
2020The Man in the Woods as Headmaster Waldorf
2020Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story as Self
2018On the Basis of Sex as Erwin Griswold
2018The Mayo Clinic as Charlie Mayo (voice)
2018Jane Fonda in Five Acts as Self - (archive footage)
2017Godless as Marshall John Cook
2017Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators as Narrator (voice)
2017Dateline: Saigon as Narrator (voice)
2016Miss Sloane as George Dupont
2016Anesthesia as Prof. Walter Zarrow
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015And It Was Good as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
2015Grace and Frankie as Sol Bergstein
2015Dean Smith as Narrator
2015Please Be Normal as Dad
2013Jo
2012The Newsroom as Charlie Skinner
2011Prohibition as Reader (voice)
2010The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear as Self
2007Masters of Science Fiction
2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
2005The Colbert Report
2005Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Jack McCoy
2004Hammer and Cycle as Self - Narrator
2003The Commission as J. Lee Rankin
2003Le Divorce as Chester Walker
2002The Matthew Shepard Story as Dennis Shepard
2000A House Divided as David Dickson
1999The Unfinished Journey as Narrator (voice)
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Jack McCoy
1999In Bad Taste as Self
1999Law and Order: Justice as Jack McCoy
1999Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs as Self / Host / Narrator
1999Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels as Narrator
1999Family Guy as Bruce Kaplan (voice)
1998Exiled as Jack McCoy
1998Miracle at Midnight as Dr. Karl Koster
1997Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
1997The View as Self
1997The View as Self - Guest
1997Thomas Jefferson as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
1997Shadow Conspiracy as The President
1996The Proprietor as Harry Bancroft
1995Nixon as Richard Helms
1995The Journey of August King as Mooney Wright
1995Amazing Stories: The Movie IV as (archive footage)
1995Time Life's Lost Civilizations as Narrator
1994Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Tom Wingfield (archive footage)
1994The Enemy Within as President William Foster
1994Serial Mom as Eugene Sutphin
1994David's Mother as John Nils
1994Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker as Daniel Chamberlain
1993I'll Fly Away: Then and Now as Forrest Bedford
1993Homicide: Life on the Street as Jack McCoy
1992Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
1992HBO First Look
1991Mindwalk as Jack Edwards
1991I'll Fly Away as Forrest Bedford
1991The Man in the Moon as Matthew Trant
1990The Civil War as Abraham Lincoln
1990Law & Order as Jack McCoy
1990Night of 100 Stars III as Self
1990A Captive in the Land as Royce
1989The Nightmare Years as Bill Shirer
1989Crimes and Misdemeanors as Ben
1989Welcome Home as Woody
1989Lantern Hill as Andrew Stuart
1989Tales from the Crypt as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
1988Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami as Jim Delmore
1988Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
1988A Walk in the Woods as John Honeyman
1987September as Peter
1987Devil's Paradise as Jones
1987Swimming to Cambodia as Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)
1987The Room Upstairs as Travis Coles
1986Flagrant désir as Inspecteur Gerry Morrison
1986Just Between Friends as Harry Crandall
1986The Fifth Missile as Capt. Allard Renslow
1986Hannah and Her Sisters as David (uncredited)
1985Amazing Stories as Jordan Manmouth
1985Warning Sign as Cal Morse
1985Love Lives On as Bernie
1985Finnegan Begin Again as Paul Broadbent
1984The Killing Fields as Sydney Schanberg
1984The Boy Who Loved Trolls as Ofoeti
1984Jeopardy! as Self
1983Dempsey as Doc Kearns
1983In Defense of Kids as Paul Wilcox
1982Games Mother Never Taught You as David Bentells
1982Q.E.D.
1980Heaven's Gate as Frank Canton
1980Friendly Fire as C.D.B. Bryan
1980Oppenheimer as Robert Oppenheimer
1980Hopscotch as Jack Cutter
1980Sweet William as William McClusky
1979Eagle's Wing as White Bull
1978Interiors as Mike
1977Capricorn One as Lt. Col. Peter Willis
1976Sweet Revenge as Le Clerq
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975Journey into Fear as Mr. Graham
1975Rancho Deluxe as Cecil Colson
1975People's Choice Awards as Self - Presenter
1974Reflections of Murder as Michael Elliott
1974The Great Gatsby as Nick Carraway
1973The Glass Menagerie as Tom Wingfield
1973Much Ado About Nothing as Benedick
1972Mahoney's Last Stand as Felix
1972Savages as James, the Limping Man
1971Who Killed Mary Whats'ername? as Alex Monte
1970Cover Me Babe as Cameraman
1969Three as Taylor
1969Generation as Desmond
1967Fitzwilly as Oliver
1966The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean as Andy
1961Dr. Kildare as Mark
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Travis Coles
—Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour as Self (voice)