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Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston

Birthday: 1940-11-15 | Place of Birth: 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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Waterston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

as    Self (voice)

2020
The Man in the Woods

as    Headmaster Waldorf

2018
On the Basis of Sex

as    Erwin Griswold

2018
Jane Fonda in Five Acts

as    Self - Actor

2017
Godless

as    Marshall John Cook

2016
Anesthesia

as    Prof. Walter Zarrow

2015
Grace and Frankie

as    Sol Bergstein

2012
The Newsroom

as    Charlie Skinner

2003
Le Divorce

as    Chester Walker

1997
Thomas Jefferson

as    Thomas Jefferson (voice)

1997
Thomas Jefferson

as    Thomas Jefferson (voice)

1994
Serial Mom

as    Eugene Sutphin

1994
David's Mother

as    John Nils

1994
The Enemy Within

as    President William Foster

1993
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now

as    Forrest Bedford

1991
The Man in the Moon

as    Matthew Trant

1990
The Civil War

as    Abraham Lincoln

1990
Law & Order

as    Jack McCoy

1989
Lantern Hill

as    Andrew Stuart

1989
Crimes and Misdemeanors

as    Ben

1988
Lincoln

as    Abraham Lincoln

1987
September

as    Peter

1987
The Room Upstairs

as    Travis Coles

1986
Just Between Friends

as    Harry Crandall