7.4
TV
Acting
Sam Waterston
- Born
- (age 85)
- Birthplace
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Credits
- 125 titles
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."
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Signature work
Known For
7.4
TV
8.0
TV
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.4
Movie
Miss Sloane
7.3
Movie
On the Basis of Sex
8.0
TV
Tales from the Crypt
7.4
Movie
Crimes and Misdemeanors
7.5
Movie
The Killing Fields
6.7
Movie
Serial Mom
8.1
TV
The Newsroom
7.7
TV
Godless
7.6
Movie
The Six Triple Eight
7.3
TV
Law & Order
6.8
Movie
Capricorn One
6.3
Movie
The Great Gatsby
6.7
Movie
Heaven's Gate
6.8
Movie
Nixon
6.8
Movie
Interiors
7.4
Movie
The Man in the Moon
Acting credits 125
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Carousel Film | Sam |
| 2024 | The Six Triple Eight Film | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 2024 | Merchant Ivory Film | Self |
| 2024 | Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour Film | Self (voice) |
| 2024 | A Case for Love Film | Self |
| 2023 | Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled TV | Self (3 ep) |
| 2022 | The Dropout TV | George Shultz (5 ep) |
| 2021 | Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time Film | Self (voice) |
| 2020 | The Man in the Woods Film | Headmaster Waldorf |
| 2020 | Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story Film | Self |
| 2018 | On the Basis of Sex Film | Erwin Griswold |
| 2018 | The Mayo Clinic Film | Charlie Mayo (voice) |
| 2018 | Jane Fonda in Five Acts Film | Self - (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Godless TV | Marshall John Cook (7 ep) |
| 2017 | Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators Film | Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Dateline: Saigon Film | Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | Miss Sloane Film | George Dupont |
| 2016 | Anesthesia Film | Prof. Walter Zarrow |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV | Self - Guest (2 ep) |
| 2015 | And It Was Good Film | Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger |
| 2015 | Grace and Frankie TV | Sol Bergstein (94 ep) |
| 2015 | Dean Smith Film | Narrator |
| 2015 | Please Be Normal Film | Dad |
| 2013 | Jo TV | (1 ep) |
| 2012 | The Newsroom TV | Charlie Skinner (25 ep) |
| 2011 | Prohibition TV | Reader (voice) (3 ep) |
| 2010 | The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear Film | Self |
| 2007 | Masters of Science Fiction TV | (1 ep) |
| 2006 | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays Film | John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods") |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report TV | Self (uncredited) (1 ep) |
| 2005 | Law & Order: Trial by Jury TV | Jack McCoy (2 ep) |
| 2004 | Hammer and Cycle Film | Self - Narrator |
| 2003 | The Commission Film | J. Lee Rankin |
| 2003 | Le Divorce Film | Chester Walker |
| 2002 | The Matthew Shepard Story Film | Dennis Shepard |
| 2000 | A House Divided Film | David Dickson |
| 1999 | The Unfinished Journey Film | Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit TV | Jack McCoy (4 ep) |
| 1999 | In Bad Taste Film | Self |
| 1999 | Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs Film | Self / Host / Narrator |
| 1999 | Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels Film | Narrator |
| 1999 | Family Guy TV | Bruce Kaplan (voice) (2 ep) |
| 1998 | Exiled Film | Jack McCoy |
| 1998 | Miracle at Midnight Film | Dr. Karl Koster |
| 1997 | Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery TV | Thomas Jefferson (voice) (2 ep) |
| 1997 | The View TV | Self, Self - Guest (1 ep) |
| 1997 | Thomas Jefferson TV | Thomas Jefferson (voice) (2 ep) |
| 1997 | Shadow Conspiracy Film | The President |
| 1996 | The Proprietor Film | Harry Bancroft |
| 1995 | Nixon Film | Richard Helms |
| 1995 | The Journey of August King Film | Mooney Wright |
| 1995 | Amazing Stories: The Movie IV Film | Jordan Manmouth (archive footage) |
| 1995 | Time Life's Lost Civilizations TV | Narrator (10 ep) |
| 1994 | Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage Film | Tom Wingfield (archive footage) |
| 1994 | The Enemy Within Film | President William Foster |
| 1994 | Serial Mom Film | Eugene Sutphin |
| 1994 | David's Mother Film | John Nils |
| 1994 | Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker Film | Daniel Chamberlain |
| 1993 | I'll Fly Away: Then and Now Film | Forrest Bedford |
| 1993 | Homicide: Life on the Street TV | Jack McCoy (2 ep) |
Crew credits 1
| Year | Title | Job |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | The Journey of August King Film | Producer |