Sam Waterston
Acting
1940-11-15 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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
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2026 · Movie
The Six Triple Eight
2024 · Movie
Merchant Ivory
2024 · Movie
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
2024 · Movie
A Case for Love
2024 · Movie
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023 · Series
The Dropout
2022 · Series
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
2021 · Movie
The Man in the Woods
2020 · Movie
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
2020 · Movie
On the Basis of Sex
2018 · Movie
The Mayo Clinic
2018 · Movie
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
2018 · Movie
Godless
2017 · Series
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
2017 · Movie
Dateline: Saigon
2017 · Movie
Miss Sloane
2016 · Movie
Anesthesia
2016 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
And It Was Good
2015 · Movie
Grace and Frankie
2015 · Series
Dean Smith
2015 · Movie
Please Be Normal
2015 · Movie
Jo
2013 · Series
The Newsroom
2012 · Series
Prohibition
2011 · Series
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
2010 · Movie
Masters of Science Fiction
2007 · Series
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · Movie
The Colbert Report
2005 · Series
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005 · Series
Hammer and Cycle
2004 · Movie
The Commission
2003 · Movie
Le Divorce
2003 · Movie
The Matthew Shepard Story
2002 · Movie
A House Divided
2000 · Movie
The Unfinished Journey
1999 · Movie
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
In Bad Taste
1999 · Movie
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
1999 · Movie
Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels
1999 · Movie
Family Guy
1999 · Series
Exiled
1998 · Movie
Miracle at Midnight
1998 · Movie
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
1997 · Series
The View
1997 · Series
Thomas Jefferson
1997 · Series
Shadow Conspiracy
1997 · Movie
The Proprietor
1996 · Movie
Nixon
1995 · Movie
The Journey of August King
1995 · Movie
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
1995 · Movie
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
1995 · Series
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994 · Movie
The Enemy Within
1994 · Movie
Serial Mom
1994 · Movie
David's Mother
1994 · Movie
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994 · Movie
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
1993 · Movie
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 · Series
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · Movie
HBO First Look
1992 · Series
Mindwalk
1991 · Movie
I'll Fly Away
1991 · Series
The Man in the Moon
1991 · Movie
The Civil War
1990 · Series
Law & Order
1990 · Series
Night of 100 Stars III
1990 · Movie
A Captive in the Land
1990 · Movie
The Nightmare Years
1989 · Series
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989 · Movie
Welcome Home
1989 · Movie
Lantern Hill
1989 · Movie
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · Series
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
1988 · Movie
Lincoln
1988 · Series
A Walk in the Woods
1988 · Movie
September
1987 · Movie
Devil's Paradise
1987 · Movie
Swimming to Cambodia
1987 · Movie
The Room Upstairs
1987 · Movie
Flagrant désir
1986 · Movie
Just Between Friends
1986 · Movie
The Fifth Missile
1986 · Movie
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986 · Movie
Amazing Stories
1985 · Series
Warning Sign
1985 · Movie
Love Lives On
1985 · Movie
Finnegan Begin Again
1985 · Movie
The Killing Fields
1984 · Movie
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
1984 · Movie
Jeopardy!
1984 · Series
Dempsey
1983 · Movie
In Defense of Kids
1983 · Movie
Games Mother Never Taught You
1982 · Movie
Q.E.D.
1982 · Series
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
Heaven's Gate
1980 · Movie
Friendly Fire
1980 · Movie
Oppenheimer
1980 · Series
Hopscotch
1980 · Movie
Sweet William
1980 · Movie
Eagle's Wing
1979 · Movie
Interiors
1978 · Movie
Capricorn One
1977 · Movie
Sweet Revenge
1976 · Movie
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
Journey into Fear
1975 · Movie
Rancho Deluxe
1975 · Movie
People's Choice Awards
1975 · Series
Reflections of Murder
1974 · Movie
The Great Gatsby
1974 · Movie
The Glass Menagerie
1973 · Movie
Much Ado About Nothing
1973 · Movie
Mahoney's Last Stand
1972 · Movie
Savages
1972 · Movie
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
1971 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
Cover Me Babe
1970 · Movie
Three
1969 · Movie
Generation
1969 · Movie
Fitzwilly
1967 · Movie
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
1966 · Movie
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series