Sam Waterston
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
Credits
- 2024 · The Six Triple Eight as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 2024 · Merchant Ivory as Self
- 2022 · The Dropout as George Shultz
- 2021 · Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time as Self (voice)
- 2020 · The Man in the Woods as Headmaster Waldorf
- 2018 · On the Basis of Sex as Erwin Griswold
- 2018 · The Mayo Clinic as Charlie Mayo (voice)
- 2018 · Jane Fonda in Five Acts as Self - (archive footage)
- 2017 · Godless as Marshall John Cook
- 2016 · Anesthesia as Prof. Walter Zarrow
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Grace and Frankie as Sol Bergstein
- 2015 · Dean Smith as Narrator
- 2012 · The Newsroom as Charlie Skinner
- 2005 · The Colbert Report as
- 2005 · Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Jack McCoy
- 2003 · The Commission as J. Lee Rankin
- 2003 · Le Divorce as Chester Walker
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Jack McCoy
- 1999 · Family Guy as Bruce Kaplan (voice)
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · The View as Self - Guest
- 1997 · Shadow Conspiracy as The President
- 1995 · Nixon as Richard Helms
- 1994 · David's Mother as John Nils
- 1994 · Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker as Daniel Chamberlain
- 1993 · Homicide: Life on the Street as Jack McCoy
- 1992 · Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
- 1992 · HBO First Look as
- 1991 · Mindwalk as Jack Edwards
- 1991 · I'll Fly Away as Forrest Bedford
- 1991 · The Man in the Moon as Matthew Trant
- 1990 · The Civil War as Abraham Lincoln
- 1990 · Law & Order as Jack McCoy
- 1990 · Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- 1989 · Welcome Home as Woody
- 1989 · Lantern Hill as Andrew Stuart
- 1989 · Tales from the Crypt as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
- 1987 · September as Peter