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
• Hannah and Her Sisters as David (uncredited)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors as Ben
• The Man in the Moon as Matthew Trant
• The Six Triple Eight as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Miss Sloane as George Dupont
• On the Basis of Sex as Erwin Griswold
• Heaven's Gate as Frank Canton
• The Great Gatsby as Nick Carraway
• Serial Mom as Eugene Sutphin

TV

• Tales from the Crypt as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
• Homicide: Life on the Street as Jack McCoy
• The Civil War as Abraham Lincoln
• The Newsroom as Charlie Skinner
• Grace and Frankie as Sol Bergstein
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Jack McCoy
• Godless as Marshall John Cook
• Law & Order as Jack McCoy
• Q.E.D.
• Jeopardy! as Self