Sam Waterston

Acting · Born 1940-11-15 in 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…

Filmography

• The Killing Fields as Sydney Schanberg
• Heaven's Gate as Frank Canton
• The Great Gatsby as Nick Carraway
• Hannah and Her Sisters as David (uncredited)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors as Ben
• Serial Mom as Eugene Sutphin
• September as Peter
• Capricorn One as Lt. Col. Peter Willis
• Hopscotch as Jack Cutter
• Le Divorce as Chester Walker