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Sam Waterston
- Name: Sam Waterston
- Birthday: 1940-11-15
- Also known as: Samuel Atkinson Waterston
- Place of birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Popularity: 1.9817
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... Read More
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Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Carousel | 2026-01-22 |
| The Six Triple Eight as Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 2024-12-06 |
| Merchant Ivory as Self | 2024-08-30 |
| A Case for Love as Self | 2024-01-23 |
| Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time as Self (voice) | 2021-11-19 |
| The Man in the Woods as Headmaster Waldorf | 2020-11-24 |
| Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story as Self | 2020-09-01 |
| On the Basis of Sex as Erwin Griswold | 2018-12-25 |
| The Mayo Clinic as Charlie Mayo (voice) | 2018-09-25 |
| Jane Fonda in Five Acts as Self - (archive footage) | 2018-01-21 |
| Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators as Narrator (voice) | 2017-06-17 |
| Dateline: Saigon as Narrator (voice) | 2017-03-07 |
| Miss Sloane as George Dupont | 2016-11-25 |
| Anesthesia as Prof. Walter Zarrow | 2016-01-08 |
| And It Was Good as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger | 2015-06-05 |
| Dean Smith as Narrator | 2015-03-25 |
| Please Be Normal as Dad | 2015-03-20 |
| The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear as Self | 2010-10-30 |
| The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods") | 2006-05-02 |
| Hammer and Cycle as Self - Narrator | 2004-04-09 |
| The Commission as J. Lee Rankin | 2003-11-07 |
| Le Divorce as Chester Walker | 2003-08-08 |
| The Matthew Shepard Story as Dennis Shepard | 2002-03-16 |
| A House Divided as David Dickson | 2000-07-30 |
| The Unfinished Journey as Narrator (voice) | 1999-12-31 |
| In Bad Taste as Self | 1999-09-03 |
| Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs as Self / Host / Narrator | 1999-07-18 |
| Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels as Narrator | 1999-02-25 |
| Exiled as Jack McCoy | 1998-11-08 |
| Miracle at Midnight as Dr. Karl Koster | 1998-03-17 |
| Shadow Conspiracy as The President | 1997-01-25 |
| The Proprietor as Harry Bancroft | 1996-09-09 |
| Nixon as Richard Helms | 1995-12-22 |
| The Journey of August King as Mooney Wright | 1995-09-14 |
| Amazing Stories: The Movie IV as (archive footage) | 1995-08-18 |
| Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Tom Wingfield (archive footage) | 1994-12-19 |
| The Enemy Within as President William Foster | 1994-08-24 |
| Serial Mom as Eugene Sutphin | 1994-04-13 |
| David's Mother as John Nils | 1994-04-10 |
| Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker as Daniel Chamberlain | 1994-02-26 |
| I'll Fly Away: Then and Now as Forrest Bedford | 1993-10-11 |
| Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice) | 1992-10-01 |
| Mindwalk as Jack Edwards | 1991-12-05 |
| The Man in the Moon as Matthew Trant | 1991-09-30 |
| Night of 100 Stars III as Self | 1990-05-21 |
| A Captive in the Land as Royce | 1990-01-07 |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors as Ben | 1989-10-13 |
| Welcome Home as Woody | 1989-09-29 |
| Lantern Hill as Andrew Stuart | 1989-08-29 |
| Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami as Jim Delmore | 1988-12-30 |
| A Walk in the Woods as John Honeyman | 1988-01-01 |
| September as Peter | 1987-12-18 |
| Devil's Paradise as Jones | 1987-05-07 |
| Swimming to Cambodia as Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage) | 1987-03-13 |
| The Room Upstairs as Travis Coles | 1987-01-31 |
| Flagrant désir as Inspecteur Gerry Morrison | 1986-06-11 |
| Just Between Friends as Harry Crandall | 1986-03-21 |
| The Fifth Missile as Capt. Allard Renslow | 1986-02-23 |
| Hannah and Her Sisters as David (uncredited) | 1986-02-07 |
| Warning Sign as Cal Morse | 1985-08-23 |
| Love Lives On as Bernie | 1985-03-31 |
| Finnegan Begin Again as Paul Broadbent | 1985-02-24 |
| The Killing Fields as Sydney Schanberg | 1984-11-23 |
| The Boy Who Loved Trolls as Ofoeti | 1984-10-29 |
| Dempsey as Doc Kearns | 1983-09-28 |
| In Defense of Kids as Paul Wilcox | 1983-04-06 |
| Games Mother Never Taught You as David Bentells | 1982-11-27 |
| Heaven's Gate as Frank Canton | 1980-11-19 |
| Friendly Fire as C.D.B. Bryan | 1980-11-09 |
| Hopscotch as Jack Cutter | 1980-09-26 |
| Sweet William as William McClusky | 1980-04-11 |
| Eagle's Wing as White Bull | 1979-07-26 |
| Interiors as Mike | 1978-08-02 |
| Capricorn One as Lt. Col. Peter Willis | 1977-12-10 |
| Sweet Revenge as Le Clerq | 1976-06-06 |
| Journey into Fear as Mr. Graham | 1975-08-08 |
| Rancho Deluxe as Cecil Colson | 1975-03-14 |
| Reflections of Murder as Michael Elliott | 1974-11-24 |
| The Great Gatsby as Nick Carraway | 1974-03-27 |
| The Glass Menagerie as Tom Wingfield | 1973-12-16 |
| Much Ado About Nothing as Benedick | 1973-02-02 |
| Mahoney's Last Stand as Felix | 1972-11-01 |
| Savages as James, the Limping Man | 1972-06-27 |
| Who Killed Mary Whats'ername? as Alex Monte | 1971-12-11 |
| Cover Me Babe as Cameraman | 1970-10-01 |
| Three as Taylor | 1969-12-23 |
| Generation as Desmond | 1969-12-15 |
| Fitzwilly as Oliver | 1967-12-20 |
| The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean as Andy | 1966-10-01 |
