
Sam Waterston
Actor
Born: November 15, 1940 (85 years old)
Place of birth: Cambridge, 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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Waterston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (73)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951, ★ 8.6)
- The Killing Fields (1984, ★ 7.5)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, ★ 7.5)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, ★ 7.4)
- The Man in the Moon (1991, ★ 7.3)
- The Glass Menagerie (1973, ★ 7.6)
- Miracle at Midnight (1998, ★ 7.3)
- David's Mother (1994, ★ 8.1)
- The Six Triple Eight (2024, ★ 7.5)
- Miss Sloane (2016, ★ 7.4)
- On the Basis of Sex (2018, ★ 7.3)
- In Bad Taste (1999, ★ 8)
- Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018, ★ 7.2)
- Law & Order (1990, ★ 7.3)
- Tales from the Crypt (1989, ★ 8)
- I'll Fly Away (1991, ★ 7.4)
- Homicide: Life on the Street (1993, ★ 8.1)
- The Civil War (1990, ★ 7.9)
- The Newsroom (2012, ★ 8.1)
- Hopscotch (1980, ★ 7)
- The Mayo Clinic (2018, ★ 7)
- Thomas Jefferson (1997, ★ 7.3)
- Grace and Frankie (2015, ★ 7.7)
- Family Guy (1999, ★ 7.4)
- Amazing Stories (1985, ★ 7.5)
- Lincoln (1988, ★ 7.3)
- Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997, ★ 7.5)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999, ★ 7.9)
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005, ★ 8.1)
- Godless (2017, ★ 7.7)