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Sam Waterston

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1940-11-15 (84 years old)

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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Filmography

all 124

Movies 89

TV Shows 35

self 15

Narrator 6

Sam Waterston

Biography

Filmography

all 124

Movies 89

TV Shows 35

self 15

Narrator 6

Voice 4

Producer 1

The Six Triple Eight (2024)

Merchant Ivory (2024)

A Case for Love (2024)

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled (2023)

The Dropout (2022)

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021)

The Man in the Woods (2020)

Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story (2020)

On the Basis of Sex (2018)

The Mayo Clinic (2018)

Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)

Godless (2017)

Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators (2017)

Dateline: Saigon (2017)

Ken Burns: America's Storyteller (2017)

Miss Sloane (2016)

Anesthesia (2016)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)

And It Was Good (2015)

Grace and Frankie (2015)

Dean Smith (2015)

Please Be Normal (2015)

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen (2013)

Jo (2013)

The Newsroom (2012)

Prohibition (2011)

The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear (2010)

Masters of Science Fiction (2007)

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)

The Colbert Report (2005)

Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005)

The Commission (2003)

Le Divorce (2003)

The Matthew Shepard Story (2002)

A House Divided (2000)

The Unfinished Journey (1999)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)

In Bad Taste (1999)

Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs (1999)

Family Guy (1999)

Exiled (1998)

Miracle at Midnight (1998)

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997)

The View (1997)

Thomas Jefferson (1997)

Shadow Conspiracy (1997)

The Proprietor (1996)

Nixon (1995)

The Journey of August King (1995)

Amazing Stories: The Movie IV (1995)

Time Life's Lost Civilizations (1995)

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994)

The Enemy Within (1994)

Serial Mom (1994)

David's Mother (1994)

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker (1994)

I'll Fly Away: Then and Now (1993)

Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)

A Captive in the Land (1993)

Earth and the American Dream (1992)

HBO First Look (1992)

Warburg: A Man of Influence (1992)

Mindwalk (1991)

I'll Fly Away (1991)

The Man in the Moon (1991)

The Civil War (1990)

Law & Order (1990)

Night of 100 Stars III (1990)

The Nightmare Years (1989)

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1940-11-15 (84 years old)

Birth Name
Samuel Atkinson Waterston

Birth Place
Cambridge, United States

Relationships
Barbara Rutledge Johns (1964 - 1969)

Spouse
Lynn Louisa Woodruff

Children
Elisabeth Waterston, Katherine Waterston, James Waterston, Graham Waterston

Father
George Chychele Waterston

Mother
Alice Tucker Atkinson

Citizenships
United States

Also Known As
샘 워터스톤

Awards
Emmy Award, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame