Sam Waterston
Acting
Born: November 15, 1940 (age 85) · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Family Guy
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Miss Sloane
2016
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
On the Basis of Sex
2018
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989
The Killing Fields
1984
Serial Mom
1994
The Newsroom
2012
Godless
2017
The Six Triple Eight
2024
Photos (5)
Movies (78)
The Six Triple Eight
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Miss Sloane
George Dupont
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Ben
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway
Serial Mom
Eugene Sutphin
The Killing Fields
Sydney Schanberg
Hannah and Her Sisters
David (uncredited)
Heaven's Gate
Frank Canton
On the Basis of Sex
Erwin Griswold
Nixon
Richard Helms
Capricorn One
Lt. Col. Peter Willis
The Man in the Moon
Matthew Trant
Shadow Conspiracy
The President
Warning Sign
Cal Morse
Le Divorce
Chester Walker
Hopscotch
Jack Cutter
Anesthesia
Prof. Walter Zarrow
Interiors
Mike
Devil's Paradise
Jones
September
Peter
The Enemy Within
President William Foster
Fitzwilly
Oliver
Eagle's Wing
White Bull
The Mayo Clinic
Charlie Mayo (voice)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
Cover Me Babe
Cameraman
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Tom Wingfield (archive footage)
Exiled
Jack McCoy
The Room Upstairs
Travis Coles
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
Jim Delmore
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
Carousel
Sam
The Unfinished Journey
Narrator (voice)
Flagrant désir
Inspecteur Gerry Morrison
Mindwalk
Jack Edwards
Sweet Revenge
Le Clerq
Dateline: Saigon
Narrator (voice)
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Daniel Chamberlain
Just Between Friends
Harry Crandall
Sweet William
William McClusky
Miracle at Midnight
Dr. Karl Koster
The Matthew Shepard Story
Dennis Shepard
The Journey of August King
Mooney Wright
The Glass Menagerie
Tom
Three
Taylor
Rancho Deluxe
Cecil Colson
Journey into Fear
Mr. Graham
The Proprietor
Harry Bancroft
Finnegan Begin Again
Paul Broadbent
Friendly Fire
C.D.B. Bryan
The Man in the Woods
Headmaster Waldorf
Swimming to Cambodia
Additional Cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)
Welcome Home
Woody
Generation
Desmond
A House Divided
David Dickson
And It Was Good
Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
David's Mother
John Nils
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
Ofoeti
Love Lives On
Bernie
Dempsey
Doc Kearns
Lantern Hill
Andrew Stuart
Dean Smith
Narrator
Much Ado About Nothing
Benedick
A Captive in the Land
Royce
The Fifth Missile
Capt. Allard Renslow
The Commission
J. Lee Rankin
Reflections of Murder
Michael Elliott
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
Andy
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
Jordan Manmouth (archive footage)
Savages
James, the Limping Man
Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels
Narrator
Please Be Normal
Dad
Mahoney's Last Stand
Felix
A Walk in the Woods
John Honeyman
Games Mother Never Taught You
David Bentells
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
Narrator (voice)
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
Alex Monte
In Defense of Kids
Paul Wilcox
TV Shows (29)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Jack McCoy · 4 eps
Family Guy
Bruce Kaplan (voice) · 2 eps
Law & Order
Jack McCoy · 405 eps
The Colbert Report
1 eps
Homicide: Life on the Street
Jack McCoy · 2 eps
American Playhouse
Robert Oppenheimer · 7 eps
American Playhouse
John Honeyman · 1 eps
Dr. Kildare
Mark · 2 eps
Grace and Frankie
Sol Bergstein · 94 eps
Tales from the Crypt
G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow") · 1 eps
The Newsroom
Charlie Skinner · 25 eps
Amazing Stories
Jordan Manmouth · 1 eps
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Jack McCoy · 2 eps
The Dropout
George Shultz · 5 eps
HBO First Look
1 eps
Godless
Marshall John Cook · 7 eps
The Civil War
Abraham Lincoln (voice) · 9 eps
I'll Fly Away
Forrest Bedford · 39 eps
Prohibition
Reader (voice) · 3 eps
Masters of Science Fiction
1 eps
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln · 2 eps
Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer · 7 eps
Jo
1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Travis Coles · 1 eps
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Thomas Jefferson (voice) · 2 eps
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (voice) · 2 eps
The Nightmare Years
Bill Shirer · 4 eps
Q.E.D.
Professor Quentin Everett Deverill · 6 eps
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
Narrator · 10 eps
Self / Appearances (19)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited) · 2 eps
Jeopardy!
Self · 1 eps
The Colbert Report
Self (uncredited) · 1 eps
The View
Self · 1 eps
The View
Self - Guest · 1 eps
People's Choice Awards
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
Self · 3 eps
Merchant Ivory
Self
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Self
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
In Bad Taste
Self
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
Self - (archive footage)
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Self (voice)
A Case for Love
Self
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
Self / Host / Narrator
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
Self
Hammer and Cycle
Self - Narrator
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
Self (voice)