Sam Waterston
ActingAlso Known As
Samuel Atkinson Waterston
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.
Movies
(90 total)
Miss Sloane
as George Dupont
Hannah and Her Sisters
as David (uncredited)
On the Basis of Sex
as Erwin Griswold
The Killing Fields
as Sydney Schanberg
Serial Mom
as Eugene Sutphin
The Six Triple Eight
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Great Gatsby
as Nick Carraway
Capricorn One
as Lt. Col. Peter Willis
Heaven's Gate
as Frank Canton
Nixon
as Richard Helms
Interiors
as Mike
The Man in the Moon
as Matthew Trant
September
as Peter
Hopscotch
as Jack Cutter
Le Divorce
as Chester Walker
Anesthesia
as Prof. Walter Zarrow
Shadow Conspiracy
as The President
Warning Sign
as Cal Morse
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self - (archive footage)
TV Shows
(35 total)
Family Guy
as Bruce Kaplan (voice)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Jack McCoy
Tales from the Crypt
as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
The Newsroom
as Charlie Skinner
Godless
as Marshall John Cook
Law & Order
as Jack McCoy
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Grace and Frankie
as Sol Bergstein
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
The Dropout
as George Shultz
The Colbert Report
as Self (uncredited)
Amazing Stories
as Jordan Manmouth
Jeopardy!
as Self
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Jack McCoy
The Civil War
as Abraham Lincoln
The View
as Self
The View
as Self - Guest
Prohibition
as Reader (voice)