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: Acting

Born: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1940-11-15

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1966	The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean	Andy	77
2	1967	Fitzwilly	Oliver	61
3	1969	Generation	Desmond	45
4	1969	Three	Taylor	50
5	1970	Cover Me Babe	Cameraman	46
6	1971	Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?	Alex Monte	46
7	1972	Savages	James, the Limping Man	50
8	1972	Mahoney's Last Stand	Felix	54
9	1973	Much Ado About Nothing	Benedick	50
10	1973	The Glass Menagerie	Tom Wingfield	76
11	1974	The Great Gatsby	Nick Carraway	63
12	1974	Reflections of Murder	Michael Elliott	70
13	1975	Rancho Deluxe	Cecil Colson	54
14	1975	Journey into Fear	Mr. Graham	56
15	1976	Sweet Revenge	Le Clerq	59
16	1977	Capricorn One	Lt. Col. Peter Willis	68
17	1978	Interiors	Mike	68
18	1979	Eagle's Wing	White Bull	53
19	1980	Sweet William	William McClusky	40
20	1980	Hopscotch	Jack Cutter	69
21	1980	Friendly Fire	C.D.B. Bryan	75
22	1980	Heaven's Gate	Frank Canton	68
23	1982	Games Mother Never Taught You	David Bentells	0
24	1983	In Defense of Kids	Paul Wilcox	50
25	1983	Dempsey	Doc Kearns	60
26	1984	The Boy Who Loved Trolls	Ofoeti	0
27	1984	The Killing Fields	Sydney Schanberg	75
28	1985	Finnegan Begin Again	Paul Broadbent	63
29	1985	Love Lives On	Bernie	80
30	1985	Warning Sign	Cal Morse	60
31	1986	Hannah and Her Sisters	David (uncredited)	75
32	1986	The Fifth Missile	Capt. Allard Renslow	60
33	1986	Just Between Friends	Harry Crandall	52
34	1986	Flagrant désir	Inspecteur Gerry Morrison	50
35	1987	The Room Upstairs	Travis Coles	40
36	1987	Swimming to Cambodia	Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)	67
37	1987	Devil's Paradise	Jones	35
38	1987	September	Peter	62
39	1988	A Walk in the Woods	John Honeyman	0
40	1988	Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami	Prosecutor	60
41	1989	Lantern Hill	Andrew Stuart	80
42	1989	Welcome Home	Woody	58
43	1989	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Ben	74
44	1990	Night of 100 Stars III	Self	40
45	1991	The Man in the Moon	Matthew Trant	74
46	1991	Mindwalk	Jack Edwards	68
47	1992	Earth and the American Dream	Reader (voice)	67
48	1993	A Captive in the Land	Royce	50
49	1993	I'll Fly Away: Then and Now	Forrest Bedford	80
50	1994	Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker	Daniel Chamberlain	63
51	1994	David's Mother	John Nils	85
52	1994	Serial Mom	Eugene Sutphin	67
53	1994	The Enemy Within	President William Foster	57
54	1994	Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage	Tom Wingfield (archive footage)	0
55	1995	Amazing Stories: The Movie IV	(archive footage)	0
56	1995	The Journey of August King	Mooney Wright	67
57	1995	Nixon	Richard Helms	69
58	1996	The Proprietor	Harry Bancroft	0
59	1997	Shadow Conspiracy	The President	49
60	1998	Miracle at Midnight	Dr. Karl Koster	73
61	1998	Exiled	Jack McCoy	55
62	1999	Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs	Self / Host / Narrator	0
63	1999	In Bad Taste	Self	80
64	1999	The Unfinished Journey	Narrator (voice)	60
65	2000	A House Divided	David Dickson	50
66	2002	The Matthew Shepard Story	Dennis Shepard	58
67	2003	Le Divorce	Chester Walker	50
68	2003	The Commission	J. Lee Rankin	0
69	2004	Hammer and Cycle	Self - Narrator	0
70	2006	The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays	John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")	0
71	2010	The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear	Self	59
72	2015	Please Be Normal	Dad	40
73	2015	Dean Smith	Narrator	60
74	2015	And It Was Good	Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger	0
75	2016	Anesthesia	Prof. Walter Zarrow	58
76	2016	Miss Sloane	George Dupont	74
77	2017	Dateline: Saigon	Narrator (voice)	80
78	2017	Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators	Narrator (voice)	70
79	2018	Jane Fonda in Five Acts	Self - Actor	75
80	2018	The Mayo Clinic	Charlie Mayo	70
81	2018	On the Basis of Sex	Erwin Griswold	74
82	2020	Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story	Self	0
83	2020	The Man in the Woods	Headmaster Waldorf	37
84	2021	Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time	Self (voice)	67
85	2024	A Case for Love	Self	0
86	2024	Merchant Ivory	Self	77
87	2024	The Six Triple Eight	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	77
88		Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour	Self (voice)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Travis Coles	87
2	1961	Dr. Kildare	Mark	54
3	1975	People's Choice Awards	Self - Presenter	88
4	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	70
5	1980	Oppenheimer	Robert Oppenheimer	67
6	1982	Q.E.D.		68
7	1984	Jeopardy!		69
8	1985	Amazing Stories	Jordan Manmouth	75
9	1988	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	72
10	1989	Tales from the Crypt	G.G. Devoe	80
11	1989	The Nightmare Years	Bill Shirer	50
12	1990	Law & Order	Jack McCoy	74
13	1990	The Civil War	Abraham Lincoln	81
14	1991	I'll Fly Away	Forrest Bedford	73
15	1992	HBO First Look		49
16	1993	Homicide: Life on the Street		80
17	1995	Time Life's Lost Civilizations	Narrator	60
18	1997	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson (voice)	87
19	1997	The View	Self	45
20	1997	The View	Self - Guest	45
21	1997	Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery	Thomas Jefferson (voice)	75
22	1999	Family Guy	Bruce Kaplan (voice)	74
23	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Jack McCoy	79
24	2005	Law & Order: Trial by Jury	Jack McCoy	80
25	2005	The Colbert Report		68
26	2007	Masters of Science Fiction		62
27	2011	Prohibition	Reader (voice)	79
28	2012	The Newsroom	Charlie Skinner	81
29	2013	Jo		63
30	2015	Grace and Frankie	Sol Bergstein	77
31	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	65
32	2017	Godless	Marshall John Cook	78
33	2022	The Dropout	George Shultz	73
34	2023	Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled	Self	80