Sam Waterston
Actor
- Born
- November 15, 1940 (age 85) · 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."
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Known for
Miss Sloane
November 25, 2016
Hannah and Her Sisters
February 7, 1986
On the Basis of Sex
December 25, 2018
Crimes and Misdemeanors
October 13, 1989
The Killing Fields
November 23, 1984
Serial Mom
April 13, 1994
The Six Triple Eight
December 6, 2024
Capricorn One
December 10, 1977
The Great Gatsby
March 27, 1974
Heaven's Gate
November 19, 1980
Nixon
December 22, 1995
Interiors
August 2, 1978
Acting90
- 2026Carousel as Sam
- 2024The Six Triple Eight as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 2024Merchant Ivory as Self
- 2024Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour as Self (voice)
- 2024A Case for Love as Self
- 2021Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time as Self (voice)
- 2020The Man in the Woods as Headmaster Waldorf
- 2020Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story as Self
- 2018On the Basis of Sex as Erwin Griswold
- 2018