Sam Waterston
Acting
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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
Carousel
2026
The Six Triple Eight
2024
Merchant Ivory
2024
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
2024
A Case for Love
2024
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023
The Dropout
2022
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
2021
The Man in the Woods
2020
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
2020
On the Basis of Sex
2018
The Mayo Clinic
2018
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
2018
Godless
2017
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
2017
Dateline: Saigon
2017
Miss Sloane
2016
Anesthesia
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
And It Was Good
2015
Grace and Frankie
2015
Dean Smith
2015
Please Be Normal
2015
Jo
2013
The Newsroom
2012
Prohibition
2011
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
2010
Masters of Science Fiction
2007
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
The Colbert Report
2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
Hammer and Cycle
2004
The Commission
2003
Le Divorce
2003
The Matthew Shepard Story
2002
A House Divided
2000
The Unfinished Journey
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
In Bad Taste
1999
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
1999
Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels
1999
Family Guy
1999
Exiled
1998
Miracle at Midnight
1998
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
1997
The View
1997
Thomas Jefferson
1997
Shadow Conspiracy
1997
The Proprietor
1996
Nixon
1995
The Journey of August King
1995
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
1995
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
1995
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
The Enemy Within
1994
Serial Mom
1994
David's Mother
1994
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Earth and the American Dream
1992
HBO First Look
1992
Mindwalk
1991
I'll Fly Away
1991
The Man in the Moon
1991
The Civil War
1990
Law & Order
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
A Captive in the Land
1990
The Nightmare Years
1989
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989
Welcome Home
1989
Lantern Hill
1989
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
1988
Lincoln
1988
A Walk in the Woods
1988
September
1987
Devil's Paradise
1987
Swimming to Cambodia
1987
The Room Upstairs
1987
Flagrant désir
1986
Just Between Friends
1986
The Fifth Missile
1986
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
Amazing Stories
1985
Warning Sign
1985
Love Lives On
1985
Finnegan Begin Again
1985
The Killing Fields
1984
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
1984
Jeopardy!
1984
Dempsey
1983
In Defense of Kids
1983
Games Mother Never Taught You
1982
Q.E.D.
1982
Heaven's Gate
1980
Friendly Fire
1980
Oppenheimer
1980
Hopscotch
1980
Sweet William
1980
Eagle's Wing
1979
Interiors
1978
Capricorn One
1977
Sweet Revenge
1976
Saturday Night Live
1975
Journey into Fear
1975
Rancho Deluxe
1975
People's Choice Awards
1975
Reflections of Murder
1974
The Great Gatsby
1974
The Glass Menagerie
1973
Much Ado About Nothing
1973
Mahoney's Last Stand
1972
Savages
1972
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
1971
Film '72
1971
Cover Me Babe
1970
Three
1969
Generation
1969
Fitzwilly
1967
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
1966
Dr. Kildare
1961
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Serial Mom: Surreal Moments