About
Sam Waterston
Overview
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."
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Known for
Acting |
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| 2024 | The Six Triple Eight | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2024 | Merchant Ivory | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2024 | A Case for Love | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time | Actor | Self (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2020 | The Man in the Woods | Actor | Headmaster Waldorf | 59 Average |
| 2020 | Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2018 | On the Basis of Sex | Actor | Erwin Griswold | 69 Fair |
| 2018 | The Mayo Clinic | Actor | Charlie Mayo | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Jane Fonda in Five Acts | Actor | Self - Actor | 60 Fair |
| 2017 | Godless | Actor | Marshall John Cook | 76 Good |
| 2017 | Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2017 | Dateline: Saigon | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Miss Sloane | Actor | George Dupont | 71 Good |
| 2016 | Anesthesia | Actor | Prof. Walter Zarrow | 58 Average |
| 2015 | And It Was Good | Actor | Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger | N/A N/A |
| 2015 | Grace and Frankie | Actor | Sol Bergstein | 75 Good |
| 2015 | Dean Smith | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Please Be Normal | Actor | Dad | N/A N/A |
| 2012 | The Newsroom | Actor | Charlie Skinner | 80 Very good |
| 2011 | Prohibition | Actor | Reader (voice) | 73 Good |
| 2010 | The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2006 | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Actor | John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods") | N/A N/A |
| 2003 | The Commission | Actor | J. Lee Rankin | N/A N/A |
| 2003 | Le Divorce | Actor | Chester Walker | 56 Average |
| 2002 | The Matthew Shepard Story | Actor | Dennis Shepard | 59 Average |
| 2000 | A House Divided | Actor | David Dickson | 59 Average |
| 1999 | The Unfinished Journey | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
| 1999 | In Bad Taste | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs | Actor | Self / Host / Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 1998 | Exiled | Actor | Jack McCoy | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Miracle at Midnight | Actor | Dr. Karl Koster | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery | Actor | Thomas Jefferson (voice) | 70 Good |
| 1997 | Thomas Jefferson | Actor | Thomas Jefferson (voice) | 71 Good |
| 1997 | Shadow Conspiracy | Actor | The President | 57 Average |
| 1996 | The Proprietor | Actor | Harry Bancroft | N/A N/A |
| 1995 | Nixon | Actor | Richard Helms | 63 Fair |
| 1995 | The Journey of August King | Actor | Mooney Wright | 59 Average |
| 1995 | Amazing Stories: The Movie IV | Actor | (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 1995 | Time Life's Lost Civilizations | Actor | Narrator | 69 Fair |
| 1994 | Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Actor | Tom Wingfield (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 1994 | The Enemy Within | Actor | President William Foster | 58 Average |
| 1994 | Serial Mom | Actor | Eugene Sutphin | 63 Fair |
| 1994 | David's Mother | Actor | John Nils | 59 Average |
| 1994 | Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker | Actor | Daniel Chamberlain | 59 Average |
| 1993 | I'll Fly Away: Then and Now | Actor | Forrest Bedford | 59 Average |
| 1993 | A Captive in the Land | Actor | Royce | 58 Average |
| 1992 | Earth and the American Dream | Actor | Reader (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1991 | Mindwalk | Actor | Jack Edwards | 59 Average |
| 1991 | I'll Fly Away | Actor | Forrest Bedford | 69 Fair |
| 1991 | The Man in the Moon | Actor | Matthew Trant | 64 Fair |
| 1990 | The Civil War | Actor | Abraham Lincoln | 76 Good |
| 1990 | Night of 100 Stars III | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1989 | The Nightmare Years | Actor | Bill Shirer | 69 Fair |
| 1989 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Actor | Ben | 68 Fair |
| 1989 | Welcome Home | Actor | Woody | 58 Average |
| 1989 | Lantern Hill | Actor | Andrew Stuart | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami | Actor | Prosecutor | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Lincoln | Actor | Abraham Lincoln | 70 Good |
| 1988 | A Walk in the Woods | Actor | John Honeyman | N/A N/A |
| 1987 | September | Actor | Peter | 59 Average |
| 1987 | Devil's Paradise | Actor | Jones | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Swimming to Cambodia | Actor | Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 1987 | The Room Upstairs | Actor | Travis Coles | 58 Average |
| 1986 | Flagrant désir | Actor | Inspecteur Gerry Morrison | 59 Average |
| 1986 | Just Between Friends | Actor | Harry Crandall | 58 Average |
| 1986 | The Fifth Missile | Actor | Capt. Allard Renslow | 59 Average |
| 1986 | Hannah and Her Sisters | Actor | David (uncredited) | 69 Fair |
| 1985 | Warning Sign | Actor | Cal Morse | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Love Lives On | Actor | Bernie | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Finnegan Begin Again | Actor | Paul Broadbent | 59 Average |
| 1984 | The Killing Fields | Actor | Sydney Schanberg | 68 Fair |
| 1984 | The Boy Who Loved Trolls | Actor | Ofoeti | N/A N/A |
| 1983 | Dempsey | Actor | Doc Kearns | 58 Average |
| 1983 | In Defense of Kids | Actor | Paul Wilcox | 59 Average |
| 1982 | Games Mother Never Taught You | Actor | David Bentells | N/A N/A |
| 1982 | Q.E.D. | Actor | 69 Fair |
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| 1980 | Heaven's Gate | Actor | Frank Canton | 62 Fair |
| 1980 | Friendly Fire | Actor | C.D.B. Bryan | 59 Average |
| 1980 | Oppenheimer | Actor | Robert Oppenheimer | 69 Fair |
| 1980 | Hopscotch | Actor | Jack Cutter | 61 Fair |
| 1980 | Sweet William | Actor | William McClusky | 58 Average |
| 1979 | Eagle's Wing | Actor | White Bull | 58 Average |
| 1978 | Interiors | Actor | Mike | 62 Fair |
| 1977 | Capricorn One | Actor | Lt. Col. Peter Willis | 62 Fair |
| 1976 | Sweet Revenge | Actor | Le Clerq | 59 Average |
| 1975 | Journey into Fear | Actor | Mr. Graham | 59 Average |
| 1975 | Rancho Deluxe | Actor | Cecil Colson | 58 Average |
| 1974 | Reflections of Murder | Actor | Michael Elliott | 59 Average |
| 1974 | The Great Gatsby | Actor | Nick Carraway | 60 Fair |
| 1973 | The Glass Menagerie | Actor | Tom Wingfield | 59 Average |
| 1973 | Much Ado About Nothing | Actor | Benedick | 59 Average |
| 1972 | Mahoney's Last Stand | Actor | Felix | 59 Average |
| 1972 | Savages | Actor | James, the Limping Man | 58 Average |
| 1971 | Who Killed Mary Whats'ername? | Actor | Alex Monte | 58 Average |
| 1970 | Cover Me Babe | Actor | Cameraman | 58 Average |
| 1969 | Three | Actor | Taylor | 58 Average |
| 1969 | Generation | Actor | Desmond | 59 Average |
| 1967 | Fitzwilly | Actor | Oliver | 59 Average |
| 1966 | The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean | Actor | Andy | 59 Average |
| Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour | Actor | Self (voice) | N/A N/A |
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Production |
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| 1995 | The Journey of August King | Production | Producer | 59 Average |