Birthday:
Nov 15, 1940
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Killing Fields | Sydney Schanberg | 1984 |
| Heaven's Gate | Frank Canton | 1980 |
| The Great Gatsby | Nick Carraway | 1974 |
| Hannah and Her Sisters | David (uncredited) | 1986 |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors | Ben | 1989 |
| Serial Mom | Eugene Sutphin | 1994 |
| September | Peter | 1987 |
| Capricorn One | Lt. Col. Peter Willis | 1977 |
| Hopscotch | Jack Cutter | 1980 |
| Le Divorce | Chester Walker | 2003 |
| Warning Sign | Cal Morse | 1985 |
| Rancho Deluxe | Cecil Colson | 1975 |
| Interiors | Mike | 1978 |
| The Journey of August King | Mooney Wright | 1995 |
| The Matthew Shepard Story | Dennis Shepard | 2002 |
| Shadow Conspiracy | The President | 1997 |
| The Man in the Moon | Matthew Trant | 1991 |
| Mindwalk | Jack Edwards | 1991 |
| The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear | Self | 2010 |
| Welcome Home | Woody | 1989 |
| The Glass Menagerie | Tom Wingfield | 1973 |
| Generation | Desmond | 1969 |
| The Enemy Within | President William Foster | 1994 |
| Reflections of Murder | Michael Elliott | 1974 |
| The Proprietor | Harry Bancroft | 1996 |
| Merchant Ivory | Self | 2024 |
| Eagle's Wing | White Bull | 1979 |
| The Fifth Missile | Capt. Allard Renslow | 1986 |
| Swimming to Cambodia | Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage) | 1987 |
| Games Mother Never Taught You | David Bentells | 1982 |
| Journey into Fear | Mr. Graham | 1975 |
| The Room Upstairs | Travis Coles | 1987 |
| Miracle at Midnight | Dr. Karl Koster | 1998 |
| Three | Taylor | 1969 |
| Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami | Prosecutor | 1988 |
| Nixon | Richard Helms | 1995 |
| Lantern Hill | Andrew Stuart | 1989 |
| Mahoney's Last Stand | Felix | 1972 |
| A Case for Love | Self | 2024 |
| David's Mother | John Nils | 1994 |
| I'll Fly Away: Then and Now | Forrest Bedford | 1993 |
| Dempsey | Doc Kearns | 1983 |
| Sweet William | William McClusky | 1980 |
| Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker | Daniel Chamberlain | 1994 |
| Cover Me Babe | Cameraman | 1970 |
| Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990 |
| Who Killed Mary Whats'ername? | Alex Monte | 1971 |
| Please Be Normal | Dad | 2015 |
| Anesthesia | Prof. Walter Zarrow | 2016 |
| The Boy Who Loved Trolls | Ofoeti | 1984 |
| Flagrant désir | Inspecteur Gerry Morrison | 1986 |
| Love Lives On | Bernie | 1985 |
| Exiled | Jack McCoy | 1998 |
| The Six Triple Eight | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 2024 |
| Just Between Friends | Harry Crandall | 1986 |
| A Captive in the Land | Royce | 1993 |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | 1973 |
| Savages | James, the Limping Man | 1972 |
| A House Divided | David Dickson | 2000 |
| Miss Sloane | George Dupont | 2016 |
| Amazing Stories: The Movie IV | (archive footage) | 1995 |
| Fitzwilly | Oliver | 1967 |
| Devil's Paradise | Jones | 1987 |
| The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean | Andy | 1966 |
| Sweet Revenge | Le Clerq | 1976 |
| Finnegan Begin Again | Paul Broadbent | 1985 |
| In Defense of Kids | Paul Wilcox | 1983 |
| Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators | Narrator (voice) | 2017 |
| On the Basis of Sex | Erwin Griswold | 2018 |
| The Man in the Woods | Headmaster Waldorf | 2020 |
| Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Tom Wingfield (archive footage) | 1994 |
| The Mayo Clinic | Charlie Mayo | 2018 |
| The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods") | 2006 |
| A Walk in the Woods | John Honeyman | 1988 |
| In Bad Taste | Self | 1999 |
| Jane Fonda in Five Acts | Self - Actor | 2018 |
| Dean Smith | Narrator | 2015 |
| Dateline: Saigon | Narrator (voice) | 2017 |
| Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice) | 1992 |
| Friendly Fire | C.D.B. Bryan | 1980 |
| Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time | Self (voice) | 2021 |
| Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs | Self / Host / Narrator | 1999 |
| Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story | Self | 2020 |
| The Commission | J. Lee Rankin | 2003 |
| The Unfinished Journey | Narrator (voice) | 1999 |
| And It Was Good | Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger | 2015 |
| Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour | Self (voice) | 1970 | Series | Cast | Year |
| Law & Order | Jack McCoy | 1990 |
| Q.E.D. | 1982 | |
| Tales from the Crypt | G.G. Devoe | 1989 |
| Jeopardy! | 1984 | |
| Masters of Science Fiction | 2007 | |
| The Colbert Report | 2005 | |
| I'll Fly Away | Forrest Bedford | 1991 |
| Homicide: Life on the Street | 1993 | |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Travis Coles | 1951 |
| Oppenheimer | Robert Oppenheimer | 1980 |
| The Civil War | Abraham Lincoln | 1990 |
| The View | Self | 1997 |
| The Newsroom | Charlie Skinner | 2012 |
| Dr. Kildare | Mark | 1961 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson (voice) | 1997 |
| Grace and Frankie | Sol Bergstein | 2015 |
| Family Guy | Bruce Kaplan (voice) | 1999 |
| Amazing Stories | Jordan Manmouth | 1985 |
| Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled | Self | 2023 |
| Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | 1988 |
| Time Life's Lost Civilizations | Narrator | 1995 |
| Jo | 2013 | |
| The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015 |
| Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery | Thomas Jefferson (voice) | 1997 |
| The Nightmare Years | Bill Shirer | 1989 |
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Jack McCoy | 1999 |
| Law & Order: Trial by Jury | Jack McCoy | 2005 |
| Godless | Marshall John Cook | 2017 |
| People's Choice Awards | Self - Presenter | 1975 |
| The Dropout | George Shultz | 2022 |
| The View | Self - Guest | 1997 |
| Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) | 1975 |
| Prohibition | Reader (voice) | 2011 |
| HBO First Look | 1992 |
