Sam Waterston

Born: 1940-11-15, 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."

Filmography

• Law & Order (1990)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
• Family Guy (1999)
• Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)
• Dr. Kildare (1961)
• Grace and Frankie (2015)
• Tales from the Crypt (1989)
• The Newsroom (2012)
• Amazing Stories (1985)
• Godless (2017)
• The Dropout (2022)
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005)
• The Civil War (1990)
• Miss Sloane (2016)
• The Six Triple Eight (2024)
• Serial Mom (1994)
• Capricorn One (1977)
• On the Basis of Sex (2018)
• Heaven's Gate (1980)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
• Nixon (1995)
• Warning Sign (1985)
• Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
• The Killing Fields (1984)
• Le Divorce (2003)
• The Man in the Moon (1991)
• Interiors (1978)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
• Anesthesia (2016)