Sam Waterston

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1940-11-15 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Sam 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 quietl...

Acting

1984

The Killing Fields

as Sydney Schanberg

1980

Heaven's Gate

as Frank Canton

1974

The Great Gatsby

as Nick Carraway

1986

Hannah and Her Sisters

as David (uncredited)

1994

Serial Mom

as Eugene Sutphin

1987

September

as Peter

1977

Capricorn One

as Lt. Col. Peter Willis

1980

Hopscotch

as Jack Cutter

2003

Le Divorce

as Chester Walker

1985

Warning Sign

as Cal Morse

1975

Rancho Deluxe

as Cecil Colson

1978

Interiors

as Mike

1995

2002

The Matthew Shepard Story

as Dennis Shepard

1997

Shadow Conspiracy

as The President

1991

The Man in the Moon

as Matthew Trant

1991

Mindwalk

as Jack Edwards

1989

Welcome Home

as Woody

1973

The Glass Menagerie

as Tom Wingfield

1969

Generation

as Desmond

1994

The Enemy Within

as President William Foster

1974

Reflections of Murder

as Michael Elliott

1996

The Proprietor

as Harry Bancroft

2024

1979

Eagle's Wing

as White Bull

1986

The Fifth Missile

as Capt. Allard Renslow

1987

Swimming to Cambodia

as Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)

1982

1975

Journey into Fear

as Mr. Graham

1987

The Room Upstairs

as Travis Coles

1998

Miracle at Midnight

as Dr. Karl Koster

1969

Three

as Taylor

1995

Nixon

as Richard Helms

1989

Lantern Hill

as Andrew Stuart

2024

1994

David's Mother

as John Nils

1993

I'll Fly Away: Then and Now

as Forrest Bedford

1983

Dempsey

as Doc Kearns

1980

Sweet William

as William McClusky

1970

Cover Me Babe

as Cameraman

2016

Anesthesia

as Prof. Walter Zarrow

1986

Flagrant désir

as Inspecteur Gerry Morrison

1985

Love Lives On

as Bernie

1998

Exiled

as Jack McCoy

2024

The Six Triple Eight

as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1986

Just Between Friends

as Harry Crandall

1973

1972

Savages

as James, the Limping Man

2000

A House Divided

as David Dickson

2016

Miss Sloane

as George Dupont

1995

Amazing Stories: The Movie IV

as (archive footage)

1967

Fitzwilly

as Oliver

1987

1976

Sweet Revenge

as Le Clerq

1985

Finnegan Begin Again

as Paul Broadbent

1983

In Defense of Kids

as Paul Wilcox

2018

On the Basis of Sex

as Erwin Griswold

2020

The Man in the Woods

as Headmaster Waldorf

1994

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

as Tom Wingfield (archive footage)

2018

The Mayo Clinic

as Charlie Mayo (voice)

2006

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")

1988

A Walk in the Woods

as John Honeyman

1999

2018

2015

Dean Smith

as Narrator

2017

Dateline: Saigon

as Narrator (voice)

1992

1980

Friendly Fire

as C.D.B. Bryan

2003

The Commission

as J. Lee Rankin

1999

The Unfinished Journey

as Narrator (voice)

2015

And It Was Good

as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger

2004

Hammer and Cycle

as Self - Narrator

Production

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