Acting

Sam Waterston

1940-11-15 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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 & TV shows

80 credits

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999 · Jack McCoy

Not in this catalog

Family Guy

1999 · Bruce Kaplan (voice)

Not in this catalog

Law & Order

1990 · Jack McCoy

Not in this catalog

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015 · Self - Guest

Not in this catalog

Saturday Night Live

1975 · Self (uncredited)

Not in this catalog

Jeopardy!

1984 · Self

Not in this catalog

The Colbert Report

2005

Not in this catalog

The Colbert Report

2005 · Self (uncredited)

Not in this catalog

The View

1997 · Self

Not in this catalog

The View

1997 · Self - Guest

Not in this catalog

Homicide: Life on the Street

1993 · Jack McCoy

Not in this catalog

American Playhouse

1982 · Robert Oppenheimer

Not in this catalog

American Playhouse

1982 · John Honeyman

Not in this catalog

Grace and Frankie

2015 · Sol Bergstein

Not in this catalog

No poster

Film '72

1971 · Self

Not in this catalog

Dr. Kildare

1961 · Mark

Not in this catalog

Tales from the Crypt

1989 · G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")

Not in this catalog

The Newsroom

2012 · Charlie Skinner

Not in this catalog

Amazing Stories

1985 · Jordan Manmouth

Not in this catalog

People's Choice Awards

1975 · Self - Presenter

Not in this catalog

The Dropout

2022 · George Shultz

Not in this catalog

HBO First Look

1992

Not in this catalog

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

2005 · Jack McCoy

Not in this catalog

Godless

2017 · Marshall John Cook

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

The Six Triple Eight

2024 · Franklin Delano Roosevelt

MOVIE

Miss Sloane

2016 · George Dupont

The Civil War

1990 · Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Not in this catalog

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

2023 · Self

Not in this catalog

I'll Fly Away

1991 · Forrest Bedford

Not in this catalog

Prohibition

2011 · Reader (voice)

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986 · David (uncredited)

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

The Killing Fields

1984 · Sydney Schanberg

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

On the Basis of Sex

2018 · Erwin Griswold

MOVIE

Heaven's Gate

1980 · Frank Canton

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

The Great Gatsby

1974 · Nick Carraway

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Nixon

1995 · Richard Helms

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Serial Mom

1994 · Eugene Sutphin

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989 · Ben

Not in this catalog

Masters of Science Fiction

2007

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Capricorn One

1977 · Lt. Col. Peter Willis

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Shadow Conspiracy

1997 · The President

Not in this catalog

Jo

2013

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MOVIE

The Man in the Moon

1991 · Matthew Trant

Not in this catalog

Oppenheimer

1980 · Robert Oppenheimer

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Le Divorce

2003 · Chester Walker

MOVIE

Warning Sign

1985 · Cal Morse

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Anesthesia

2016 · Prof. Walter Zarrow

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Hopscotch

1980 · Jack Cutter

Not in this catalog

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Travis Coles

Not in this catalog

Lincoln

1988 · Abraham Lincoln

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Devil's Paradise

1987 · Jones

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Q.E.D.

1982 · Professor Quentin Everett Deverill

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

The Mayo Clinic

2018 · Charlie Mayo (voice)

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Interiors

1978 · Mike

Not in this catalog

The Nightmare Years

1989 · Bill Shirer

Not in this catalog

Thomas Jefferson

1997 · Thomas Jefferson (voice)

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Merchant Ivory

2024 · Self

Not in this catalog

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

1997 · Thomas Jefferson (voice)

Not in this catalog

Time Life's Lost Civilizations

1995 · Narrator

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Eagle's Wing

1979 · White Bull

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MOVIE

Fitzwilly

1967 · Oliver

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MOVIE

The Enemy Within

1994 · President William Foster

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Miracle at Midnight

1998 · Dr. Karl Koster

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

September

1987 · Peter

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006 · John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

1994 · Tom Wingfield (archive footage)

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami

1988 · Jim Delmore

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Journey into Fear

1975 · Mr. Graham

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Earth and the American Dream

1992 · Reader (voice)

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Night of 100 Stars III

1990 · Self

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Rancho Deluxe

1975 · Cecil Colson

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Mindwalk

1991 · Jack Edwards

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Carousel

2026 · Sam

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

The Matthew Shepard Story

2002 · Dennis Shepard

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Finnegan Begin Again

1985 · Paul Broadbent

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Three

1969 · Taylor

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Dateline: Saigon

2017 · Narrator (voice)

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Flagrant désir

1986 · Inspecteur Gerry Morrison

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Friendly Fire

1980 · C.D.B. Bryan

Not in this catalog

MOVIE

Exiled

1998 · Jack McCoy

Not in this catalog