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Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston

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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The Six Triple Eight

2024

A Case for Love

2024

as Self

Merchant Ivory

2023

as Self

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

2023

as Self

The Dropout

2022

as George Shultz

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

2021

as Self (voice)

The Man in the Woods

2020

as Headmaster Waldorf

Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story

2020

as Self

On the Basis of Sex

2018

as Erwin Griswold

The Mayo Clinic

2018

as Charlie Mayo

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

2018

as Self - Actor

Godless

2017

as Marshall John Cook

Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators

2017

as Narrator (voice)

Dateline: Saigon

2017

as Narrator (voice)

Miss Sloane

2016

as George Dupont

Anesthesia

2016

as Prof. Walter Zarrow

And It Was Good

2015

as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger

Grace and Frankie

2015

as Sol Bergstein

Dean Smith

2015

as Narrator

Please Be Normal

2015

as Dad

Jo

2013

The Newsroom

2012

as Charlie Skinner

Prohibition

2011

as Reader (voice)

The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

2010

as Self

Masters of Science Fiction

2007

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

2005

as Jack McCoy

The Commission

2003

as J. Lee Rankin

Le Divorce

2003

as Chester Walker

The Matthew Shepard Story

2002

as Dennis Shepard

A House Divided

2000

as David Dickson

The Unfinished Journey

1999

as Narrator (voice)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

as Jack McCoy

In Bad Taste

1999

as Self

Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs

1999

as Self / Host / Narrator

Family Guy

1999

as Bruce Kaplan (voice)

Exiled

1998

as Jack McCoy

Miracle at Midnight

1998

as Dr. Karl Koster

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

1997

as Thomas Jefferson (voice)

Thomas Jefferson

1997

as Thomas Jefferson (voice)

Shadow Conspiracy

1997

as The President

The Proprietor

1996

as Harry Bancroft

Nixon

1995

as Richard Helms

The Journey of August King

1995

as Mooney Wright

Time Life's Lost Civilizations

1995

as Narrator

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

1994

as Tom Wingfield (archive footage)

The Enemy Within

1994

as President William Foster

Serial Mom

1994

as Eugene Sutphin

David's Mother

1994

as John Nils

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

1994

as Daniel Chamberlain

I'll Fly Away: Then and Now

1993

as Forrest Bedford

Homicide: Life on the Street

1993

A Captive in the Land

1993

as Royce

Earth and the American Dream

1992

as Reader (voice)

HBO First Look

1992

I'll Fly Away

1991

as Forrest Bedford

The Man in the Moon

1991

as Matthew Trant

The Civil War

1990

as Abraham Lincoln

Law & Order

1990

as Jack McCoy

Mindwalk

1990

as Jack Edwards

Night of 100 Stars III

1990

as Self

The Nightmare Years

1989

as Bill Shirer

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989

as Ben

Welcome Home

1989

as Woody

Lantern Hill

1989

as Andrew Stuart

Tales from the Crypt

1989

as G.G. Devoe

Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami

1988

as Prosecutor

Lincoln

1988

as Abraham Lincoln

A Walk in the Woods

1988

as John Honeyman

September

1987

as Peter

Devil's Paradise

1987

as Jones

Swimming to Cambodia

1987

as Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)

The Room Upstairs

1987

as Travis Coles

Flagrant désir

1986

as Inspecteur Gerry Morrison

Just Between Friends

1986

as Harry Crandall

The Fifth Missile

1986

as Capt. Allard Renslow

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986

as David (uncredited)

Amazing Stories

1985

as Jordan Manmouth

Warning Sign

1985

as Cal Morse

Love Lives On

1985

as Bernie

Finnegan Begin Again

1985

as Paul Broadbent

The Killing Fields

1984

as Sydney Schanberg

The Boy Who Loved Trolls

1984

as Ofoeti

Jeopardy!

1984

Dempsey

1983

as Doc Kearns

In Defense of Kids

1983

as Paul Wilcox

Games Mother Never Taught You

1982

as David Bentells

Q.E.D.

1982

Heaven's Gate

1980

as Frank Canton

Friendly Fire

1980

as C.D.B. Bryan

Oppenheimer

1980

as Robert Oppenheimer

Hopscotch

1980

as Jack Cutter

Sweet William

1980

as William McClusky

Eagle's Wing

1979

as White Bull

Interiors

1978

as Mike

Capricorn One

1977

as Lt. Col. Peter Willis

Sweet Revenge

1976

as Le Clerq

Journey into Fear

1975

as Mr. Graham

Rancho Deluxe

1975

as Cecil Colson

People's Choice Awards

1975

as Self - Presenter

Reflections of Murder

1974

as Michael Elliott

The Great Gatsby

1974

as Nick Carraway

The Glass Menagerie

1973

as Tom Wingfield

Much Ado About Nothing

1973

as Benedick

Mahoney's Last Stand

1972

as Felix

Savages

1972

as James, the Limping Man

Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?

1971

as Alex Monte

Cover Me Babe

1970

as Cameraman

Three

1969

as Taylor

Generation

1969

as Desmond

Fitzwilly

1967

as Oliver

The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean

1966

as Andy

Dr. Kildare

1961

as Mark

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Travis Coles

Amazing Stories: The Movie IV

as (archive footage)