Acting
Sam Waterston
EN, DE, FR cinema · 90 credits
Born
15 November 1940 (age 85)
Birthplace
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Also known as Samuel Atkinson 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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Waterston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
Merchant Ivory
as Self
The Six Triple Eight
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
as Self (voice)
The Man in the Woods
as Headmaster Waldorf
On the Basis of Sex
as Erwin Griswold
The Mayo Clinic
as Charlie Mayo (voice)
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
as Narrator (voice)
Dateline: Saigon
as Narrator (voice)
Anesthesia
as Prof. Walter Zarrow
Miss Sloane
as George Dupont
Dean Smith
as Narrator
And It Was Good
as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
Hammer and Cycle
as Self - Narrator
Le Divorce
as Chester Walker
The Commission
as J. Lee Rankin
The Matthew Shepard Story
as Dennis Shepard
A House Divided
as David Dickson
In Bad Taste
as Self
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
as Self / Host / Narrator
The Unfinished Journey
as Narrator (voice)
Miracle at Midnight
as Dr. Karl Koster
Exiled
as Jack McCoy
Shadow Conspiracy
as The President
The Proprietor
as Harry Bancroft
The Journey of August King
as Mooney Wright, Producer
Nixon
as Richard Helms
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
as Jordan Manmouth (archive footage)
Serial Mom
as Eugene Sutphin
The Enemy Within
as President William Foster
David's Mother
as John Nils
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Daniel Chamberlain
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Tom Wingfield (archive footage)
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
1993
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
as Forrest Bedford
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
The Man in the Moon
as Matthew Trant
Mindwalk
as Jack Edwards
Welcome Home
as Woody
Lantern Hill
as Andrew Stuart
A Walk in the Woods
as John Honeyman
September
as Peter
Swimming to Cambodia
as Additional Cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)
The Room Upstairs
as Travis Coles
Devil's Paradise
as Jones
Hannah and Her Sisters
as David (uncredited)
The Fifth Missile
as Capt. Allard Renslow
Flagrant désir
as Inspecteur Gerry Morrison
Just Between Friends
as Harry Crandall
Warning Sign
as Cal Morse
Love Lives On
as Bernie
Finnegan Begin Again
as Paul Broadbent
The Killing Fields
as Sydney Schanberg
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
as Ofoeti
Dempsey
as Doc Kearns
In Defense of Kids
as Paul Wilcox
Games Mother Never Taught You
as David Bentells
Heaven's Gate
as Frank Canton
Hopscotch
as Jack Cutter
Sweet William
as William McClusky
Friendly Fire
as C.D.B. Bryan
Eagle's Wing
as White Bull
Interiors
as Mike
Capricorn One
as Lt. Col. Peter Willis
Sweet Revenge
as Le Clerq
Rancho Deluxe
as Cecil Colson
Journey into Fear
as Mr. Graham
The Great Gatsby
as Nick Carraway
Reflections of Murder
as Michael Elliott
Much Ado About Nothing
as Benedick
Mahoney's Last Stand
as Felix
Savages
as James, the Limping Man
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
as Alex Monte
Cover Me Babe
as Cameraman
Generation
as Desmond
Three
as Taylor
Fitzwilly
as Oliver