Sam Waterston
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
Carousel
2026
as Sam
The Six Triple Eight
2024
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Merchant Ivory
2024
as Self
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
2024
as Self (voice)
A Case for Love
2024
as Self
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
2021
as Self (voice)
The Man in the Woods
2020
as Headmaster Waldorf
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
2020
as Self
On the Basis of Sex
2018
as Erwin Griswold
The Mayo Clinic
2018
as Charlie Mayo (voice)
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
2018
as Self - (archive footage)
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
2017
as Narrator (voice)
Dateline: Saigon
2017
as Narrator (voice)
Miss Sloane
2016
as George Dupont
Anesthesia
2016
as Prof. Walter Zarrow
And It Was Good
2015
as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
Dean Smith
2015
as Narrator
Please Be Normal
2015
as Dad
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
2010
as Self
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
Hammer and Cycle
2004
as Self - Narrator
The Commission
2003
as J. Lee Rankin
Le Divorce
2003
as Chester Walker
The Matthew Shepard Story
2002
as Dennis Shepard