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Sam Waterston

Acting · Born November 15, 1940 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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."

Movies with Sam Waterston

• Miss Sloane (2016) — George Dupont
• The Six Triple Eight (2024) — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Heaven's Gate (1980) — Frank Canton
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) — David (uncredited)
• Capricorn One (1977) — Lt. Col. Peter Willis
• The Man in the Moon (1991) — Matthew Trant
• The Killing Fields (1984) — Sydney Schanberg
• On the Basis of Sex (2018) — Erwin Griswold
• The Great Gatsby (1974) — Nick Carraway
• Serial Mom (1994) — Eugene Sutphin
• Nixon (1995) — Richard Helms
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) — Ben

TV shows with Sam Waterston

• Law & Order (1990) — Jack McCoy
• American Playhouse (1982) — Robert Oppenheimer
• Grace and Frankie (2015) — Sol Bergstein
• The Newsroom (2012) — Charlie Skinner
• The Dropout (2022) — George Shultz
• I'll Fly Away (1991) — Forrest Bedford
• Godless (2017) — Marshall John Cook
• The Civil War (1990) — Abraham Lincoln (voice)