Sam Waterston
Acting
- Born:
- 1940-11-15
- Place of birth:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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
Filmography
Carousel
The Six Triple Eight
Merchant Ivory
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
A Case for Love
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
The Dropout
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
The Man in the Woods
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
On the Basis of Sex
The Mayo Clinic
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
Godless
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
Dateline: Saigon
Miss Sloane
Anesthesia
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
And It Was Good
Grace and Frankie
Dean Smith
Please Be Normal
Jo
The Newsroom
Prohibition
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Masters of Science Fiction
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
The Colbert Report
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Hammer and Cycle
The Commission
Le Divorce
The Matthew Shepard Story
A House Divided
The Unfinished Journey
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
In Bad Taste
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels
Family Guy
Exiled
Miracle at Midnight
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
The View
Thomas Jefferson
Shadow Conspiracy
The Proprietor
Nixon
The Journey of August King
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
The Enemy Within
Serial Mom
David's Mother
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
Homicide: Life on the Street
Earth and the American Dream
HBO First Look
Mindwalk
I'll Fly Away
The Man in the Moon
The Civil War
Law & Order
Night of 100 Stars III
A Captive in the Land
The Nightmare Years
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Welcome Home
Lantern Hill
Tales from the Crypt
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
Lincoln
A Walk in the Woods
September
Devil's Paradise
Swimming to Cambodia
The Room Upstairs
Flagrant désir
Just Between Friends
The Fifth Missile
Hannah and Her Sisters
Amazing Stories
Warning Sign
Love Lives On
Finnegan Begin Again
The Killing Fields
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
Jeopardy!
Dempsey
In Defense of Kids
Games Mother Never Taught You
Q.E.D.
American Playhouse
Heaven's Gate
Friendly Fire
Oppenheimer
Hopscotch
Sweet William
Eagle's Wing
Interiors
Capricorn One
Sweet Revenge
Saturday Night Live
Journey into Fear
Rancho Deluxe
People's Choice Awards
Reflections of Murder
The Great Gatsby
The Glass Menagerie
Much Ado About Nothing
Mahoney's Last Stand
Savages
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
Film '72
Cover Me Babe
Three
Generation
Fitzwilly
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
Dr. Kildare
Hallmark Hall of Fame