Sam Waterston
Born: 1940-11-15 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2024
- Merchant Ivory as Self
- The Six Triple Eight as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- A Case for Love as Self
2023
2022
- The Dropout as George Shultz
2021
- Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time as Self (voice)
2020
- The Man in the Woods as Headmaster Waldorf
- Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story as Self
2018
- On the Basis of Sex as Erwin Griswold
- Jane Fonda in Five Acts as Self - (archive footage)
- The Mayo Clinic as Charlie Mayo (voice)
2017
- Godless as Marshall John Cook
- Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators as Narrator (voice)
- Dateline: Saigon as Narrator (voice)
2016
- Anesthesia as Prof. Walter Zarrow
- Miss Sloane as George Dupont
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- Grace and Frankie as Sol Bergstein
- Dean Smith as Narrator
- And It Was Good as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
- Please Be Normal as Dad
2013
2012
- The Newsroom as Charlie Skinner
2011
- Prohibition as Reader (voice)
2010
2006
- The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
2005
- The Colbert Report
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Jack McCoy
2004
- Hammer and Cycle as Self - Narrator
2003
- Le Divorce as Chester Walker
- The Commission as J. Lee Rankin
2002
- The Matthew Shepard Story as Dennis Shepard
2000
- A House Divided as David Dickson
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Jack McCoy
- Family Guy as Bruce Kaplan (voice)
- In Bad Taste as Self
- The Unfinished Journey as Narrator (voice)
- Law and Order: Justice as Jack McCoy
- Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs as Self / Host / Narrator
- Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels as Narrator
1998
- Exiled as Jack McCoy
- Miracle at Midnight as Dr. Karl Koster
1997
- The View as Self
- Shadow Conspiracy as The President
- Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
- Thomas Jefferson as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
1996
- The Proprietor as Harry Bancroft
1995
- Nixon as Richard Helms
- The Journey of August King as Mooney Wright
- Amazing Stories: The Movie IV as (archive footage)
- Time Life's Lost Civilizations as Narrator
1994
- David's Mother as John Nils
- Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker as Daniel Chamberlain
- Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Tom Wingfield (archive footage)
- Serial Mom as Eugene Sutphin
- The Enemy Within as President William Foster
1993
- Homicide: Life on the Street as Jack McCoy
- I'll Fly Away: Then and Now as Forrest Bedford
- A Captive in the Land as Royce
1992
- HBO First Look
- Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
1991
- Mindwalk as Jack Edwards
- The Man in the Moon as Matthew Trant
- I'll Fly Away as Forrest Bedford
1990
- Law & Order as Jack McCoy
- The Civil War as Abraham Lincoln
- Night of 100 Stars III as Self
1989
- Tales from the Crypt as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
- Lantern Hill as Andrew Stuart
- Welcome Home as Woody
- Crimes and Misdemeanors as Ben
- The Nightmare Years as Bill Shirer
1988
- Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami as Jim Delmore
- Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
- A Walk in the Woods as John Honeyman
1987
- September as Peter
- Devil's Paradise as Jones
- The Room Upstairs as Travis Coles
- Swimming to Cambodia as Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)
1986
- Hannah and Her Sisters as David (uncredited)
- The Fifth Missile as Capt. Allard Renslow
- Flagrant désir as Inspecteur Gerry Morrison
- Just Between Friends as Harry Crandall
1985
- Amazing Stories as Jordan Manmouth
- Warning Sign as Cal Morse
- Love Lives On as Bernie
- Finnegan Begin Again as Paul Broadbent
1984
- Jeopardy! as Self
- The Killing Fields as Sydney Schanberg
- The Boy Who Loved Trolls as Ofoeti
1983
- Dempsey as Doc Kearns
- In Defense of Kids as Paul Wilcox
1982
- Q.E.D.
- Games Mother Never Taught You as David Bentells
1980
- Hopscotch as Jack Cutter
- Friendly Fire as C.D.B. Bryan
- Heaven's Gate as Frank Canton
- Oppenheimer as Robert Oppenheimer
- Sweet William as William McClusky
1979
- Eagle's Wing as White Bull
1978
- Interiors as Mike
1977
- Capricorn One as Lt. Col. Peter Willis
1976
- Sweet Revenge as Le Clerq
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- Rancho Deluxe as Cecil Colson
- People's Choice Awards as Self - Presenter
- Journey into Fear as Mr. Graham
1974
- The Great Gatsby as Nick Carraway
- Reflections of Murder as Michael Elliott
1973
- The Glass Menagerie as Tom Wingfield
- Much Ado About Nothing as Benedick
1972
- Savages as James, the Limping Man
- Mahoney's Last Stand as Felix
1971
- Who Killed Mary Whats'ername? as Alex Monte
1970
- Cover Me Babe as Cameraman
1969
- Three as Taylor
- Generation as Desmond
1967
- Fitzwilly as Oliver
1966
- The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean as Andy
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Mark
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Travis Coles