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Sam Waterston

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1940-11-15 (Age: 86)

Place of Birth

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Sam Waterston

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 contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography (90)

⭐ 0 Role: Sam

Carousel

2026
⭐ 0 Role: Self (archive footage)

Saturday Night Live: 50th Anniversary Special

2025
⭐ 7.5 Role: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Six Triple Eight

2024
⭐ 7.7 Role: Self

Merchant Ivory

2024
⭐ 0 Role: Self

A Case for Love

2024
⭐ 6.8 Role: Self (voice)

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

2021
⭐ 4.8 Role: Headmaster Waldorf

The Man in the Woods

2020
⭐ 0 Role: Self

Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story

2020
⭐ 7.3 Role: Erwin Griswold

On the Basis of Sex

2018
⭐ 7.0 Role: Charlie Mayo (voice)

The Mayo Clinic

2018
⭐ 7.1 Role: Self - (archive footage)

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

2018
⭐ 7.3 Role: Narrator (voice)

Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators

2017
⭐ 8.0 Role: Narrator (voice)

Dateline: Saigon

2017
⭐ 7.4 Role: George Dupont

Miss Sloane

2016
⭐ 5.7 Role: Prof. Walter Zarrow

Anesthesia

2016