Sam Waterston

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1940-11-15 (84 years old)

Place of Birth Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Also Known As 샘 워터스톤

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 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

Actor

2024
2024
2022
The Dropout

as George Shultz

2021
2020
The Man in the Woods

as Headmaster Waldorf

2018
On the Basis of Sex

as Erwin Griswold

2018
The Mayo Clinic

as Charlie Mayo

2018
Jane Fonda in Five Acts

as Self - Actor

2017
Dateline: Saigon

as Narrator (voice)

2017
Godless

as Marshall John Cook

2016
Miss Sloane

as George Dupont

2016
Anesthesia

as Prof. Walter Zarrow

2015
And It Was Good

as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger

2015
Dean Smith

as Narrator

2015
2015
Grace and Frankie

as Sol Bergstein

2013
2012
The Newsroom

as Charlie Skinner

2011
Prohibition

as Reader (voice)

2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

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

2005
2003
The Commission

as J. Lee Rankin

2003
Le Divorce

as Chester Walker

2002
The Matthew Shepard Story

as Dennis Shepard

2000
A House Divided

as David Dickson

1999
The Unfinished Journey

as Narrator (voice)

1999
In Bad Taste

as Self

1999
Family Guy

as Bruce Kaplan (voice)

1998
Exiled

as Jack McCoy

1998
Miracle at Midnight

as Dr. Karl Koster

1997
Shadow Conspiracy

as The President

1997
The View

as Self

1997
The View

as Self - Guest

1997
Thomas Jefferson

as Thomas Jefferson (voice)

1996
The Proprietor

as Harry Bancroft

1995
Nixon

as Richard Helms

1995
1995
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV

as (archive footage)

1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

as Tom Wingfield (archive footage)

1994
The Enemy Within

as President William Foster

1994
Serial Mom

as Eugene Sutphin

1994
David's Mother

as John Nils

1993
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now

as Forrest Bedford

1992
1991
Mindwalk

as Jack Edwards

1991
The Man in the Moon

as Matthew Trant

1991
I'll Fly Away

as Forrest Bedford

1990
The Civil War

as Abraham Lincoln

1990
Law & Order

as Jack McCoy

1989
Welcome Home

as Woody

1989
Lantern Hill

as Andrew Stuart

1989
The Nightmare Years

as Bill Shirer

1989
Tales from the Crypt

as G.G. Devoe

1988
A Walk in the Woods

as John Honeyman

1988
Lincoln

as Abraham Lincoln

1987
September

as Peter

1987
1987
Swimming to Cambodia

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

1987
The Room Upstairs

as Travis Coles

1986
Flagrant désir

as Inspecteur Gerry Morrison

1986
Just Between Friends

as Harry Crandall

1986
The Fifth Missile

as Capt. Allard Renslow

1986
Hannah and Her Sisters

as David (uncredited)

1985
Warning Sign

as Cal Morse

1985
Love Lives On

as Bernie

1985
Finnegan Begin Again

as Paul Broadbent

1985
Amazing Stories

as Jordan Manmouth

1984
The Killing Fields

as Sydney Schanberg

1983
Dempsey

as Doc Kearns

1983
In Defense of Kids

as Paul Wilcox

1982
1982
1980
Heaven's Gate

as Frank Canton

1980
Friendly Fire

as C.D.B. Bryan

1980
Hopscotch

as Jack Cutter

1980
Sweet William

as William McClusky

1980
Oppenheimer

as Robert Oppenheimer

1979
Eagle's Wing

as White Bull

1978
Interiors

as Mike

1977
Capricorn One

as Lt. Col. Peter Willis

1976
Sweet Revenge

as Le Clerq

1975
Journey into Fear

as Mr. Graham

1975
Rancho Deluxe

as Cecil Colson

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1975
People's Choice Awards

as Self - Presenter

1974
Reflections of Murder

as Michael Elliott

1974
The Great Gatsby

as Nick Carraway

1973
The Glass Menagerie

as Tom Wingfield

1973
1972
Savages

as James, the Limping Man

1970
Cover Me Babe

as Cameraman

1969
Three

as Taylor

1969
Generation

as Desmond

1967
Fitzwilly

as Oliver

1961
Dr. Kildare

as Mark

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Travis Coles

Producer