Sam Waterston
Acting1940Cambridge, 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."
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Known For
Acting History
Future
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
as Self (voice)
2026
2024
2023
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
TVas Self• 3 eps
2022
The Dropout
TVas George Shultz• 5 eps
2021
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
as Self (voice)
2020
The Man in the Woods
as Headmaster Waldorf
2018
On the Basis of Sex
as Erwin Griswold
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self - (archive footage)
The Mayo Clinic
as Charlie Mayo (voice)
2017
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
as Narrator (voice)
Dateline: Saigon
as Narrator (voice)
Godless
TVas Marshall John Cook• 7 eps
2016
Anesthesia
as Prof. Walter Zarrow
Miss Sloane
as George Dupont
2015
Please Be Normal
as Dad
Dean Smith
as Narrator
And It Was Good
as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
Grace and Frankie
TVas Sol Bergstein• 94 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TVas Self - Guest
2013
2012
The Newsroom
TVas Charlie Skinner• 25 eps
2011
Prohibition
TVas Reader (voice)
2010
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
TVas Jack McCoy• 2 eps
2004
Hammer and Cycle
as Self - Narrator
2003
The Commission
as J. Lee Rankin
Le Divorce
as Chester Walker
2002
The Matthew Shepard Story
as Dennis Shepard
2000
A House Divided
as David Dickson
Family Guy
TVas Bruce Kaplan (voice)• 2 eps
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TVas Jack McCoy• 4 eps
1999
American Journey
as Narrator (voice)
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
as Self / Host / Narrator
1998
Exiled
as Jack McCoy
Miracle at Midnight
as Dr. Karl Koster
1997
Shadow Conspiracy
as The President
The View
TVas Self / Self - Guest
Homicide: Life on the Street
TVas Jack McCoy• 2 eps
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
TVas Thomas Jefferson (voice)
Thomas Jefferson
TVas Thomas Jefferson (voice)
1996
The Proprietor
as Harry Bancroft
1995
Nixon
as Richard Helms
The Journey of August King
as Mooney Wright
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
as (archive footage)
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
TVas Narrator
The Journey of August King
Producer
1994
David's Mother
as John Nils
The Enemy Within
as President William Foster
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Daniel Chamberlain
Serial Mom
as Eugene Sutphin
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Tom Wingfield (archive footage)
Law & Order
TVas Jack McCoy• 405 eps
1993
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
as Forrest Bedford
Tales from the Crypt
TVas G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")• 1 eps
1992
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
1991
1990
1989
Welcome Home
as Woody
Crimes and Misdemeanors
as Ben
Lantern Hill
as Andrew Stuart
The Nightmare Years
TVas Bill Shirer
1988
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
as Jim Delmore
A Walk in the Woods
as John Honeyman
Lincoln
TVas Abraham Lincoln
1987
Swimming to Cambodia
as Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)
Devil's Paradise
as Jones
The Room Upstairs
as Travis Coles
September
as Peter
1986
Just Between Friends
as Harry Crandall
Hannah and Her Sisters
as David (uncredited)
The Fifth Missile
as Capt. Allard Renslow
Flagrant désir
as Inspecteur Gerry Morrison
Amazing Stories
TVas Jordan Manmouth• 1 eps
1985
Warning Sign
as Cal Morse
Love Lives On
as Bernie
Finnegan Begin Again
as Paul Broadbent
People's Choice Awards
TVas Self - Presenter• 1 eps
1984
1983
Dempsey
as Doc Kearns
In Defense of Kids
as Paul Wilcox
1982
Games Mother Never Taught You
as David Bentells
1980
Friendly Fire
as C.D.B. Bryan
Hopscotch
as Jack Cutter
Heaven's Gate
as Frank Canton
Sweet William
as William McClusky
Oppenheimer
TVas Robert Oppenheimer
1979
Eagle's Wing
as White Bull
1978
Interiors
as Mike
1977
Capricorn One
as Lt. Col. Peter Willis
1976
Sweet Revenge
as Le Clerq
1975
Journey into Fear
as Mr. Graham
Rancho Deluxe
as Cecil Colson
Saturday Night Live
TVas Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1974
The Great Gatsby
as Nick Carraway
Reflections of Murder
as Michael Elliott
1973
Much Ado About Nothing
as Benedick
The Glass Menagerie
as Tom Wingfield
1972
Mahoney's Last Stand
as Felix
Savages
as James, the Limping Man
1971
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
as Alex Monte
1970
Cover Me Babe
as Cameraman
1969
Three
as Taylor
Generation
as Desmond
1967
Fitzwilly
as Oliver
1966
1965
Dr. Kildare
TVas Mark• 2 eps
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TVas Travis Coles