Sam Waterston
Age: N/A | From: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: 샘 워터스톤 , Samuel Atkinson Waterston , سام واترستون
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Movie Involvements: 69
TV Involvements: 19
Most Famous Work
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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Waterston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(1999) Jack McCoy
Law & Order
(1990) Jack McCoy
Dr. Kildare
(1961) Mark
The Newsroom
(2012) Charlie Skinner
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
(2005) Jack McCoy
The Dropout
(2022) George Shultz
Godless
(2017) Marshall John Cook
The Six Triple Eight
(2024) Franklin Delano RooseveltActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2023 | Self | |
| 2022 | George Shultz | |
| 2021 | Self (voice) | |
| 2020 | Headmaster Waldorf | |
| Self | ||
| 2018 | Erwin Griswold | |
| Charlie Mayo | ||
| Self - Actor | ||
| 2017 | Marshall John Cook | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2016 | George Dupont | |
| Prof. Walter Zarrow | ||
| 2015 | Self | |
| Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger | ||
| Sol Bergstein | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Dad | ||
| 2013 | N/A | |
| 2012 | Charlie Skinner | |
| 2011 | Reader (voice) | |
| 2010 | Self | |
| 2007 | N/A | |
| 2006 | John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods") | |
| 2005 | N/A | |
| Jack McCoy | ||
| 2003 | J. Lee Rankin | |
| Chester Walker | ||
| 2002 | Dennis Shepard | |
| 2000 | David Dickson | |
| 1999 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Jack McCoy | ||
| Self | ||
| Self / Host / Narrator | ||
| Bruce Kaplan (voice) | ||
| 1998 | Jack McCoy | |
| Dr. Karl Koster | ||
| 1997 | Thomas Jefferson (voice) | |
| Self | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Thomas Jefferson (voice) | ||
| The President | ||
| 1996 | Harry Bancroft | |
| 1995 | Richard Helms | |
| Mooney Wright | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1994 | Tom Wingfield (archive footage) | |
| President William Foster | ||
| Eugene Sutphin | ||
| John Nils | ||
| Daniel Chamberlain | ||
| 1993 | Forrest Bedford | |
| N/A | ||
| Royce | ||
| 1992 | Reader (voice) | |
| N/A | ||
| 1991 | Jack Edwards | |
| Forrest Bedford | ||
| Matthew Trant | ||
| 1990 | Abraham Lincoln | |
| Jack McCoy | ||
| Self | ||
| 1989 | Bill Shirer | |
| Ben | ||
| Woody | ||
| Andrew Stuart | ||
| G.G. Devoe | ||
| 1988 | Prosecutor | |
| Abraham Lincoln | ||
| John Honeyman | ||
| 1987 | Peter | |
| Jones | ||
| Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage) | ||
| Travis Coles | ||
| 1986 | Inspecteur Gerry Morrison | |
| Harry Crandall | ||
| Capt. Allard Renslow | ||
| David (uncredited) | ||
| 1985 | Jordan Manmouth | |
| Cal Morse | ||
| Bernie | ||
| Paul Broadbent | ||
| 1984 | Sydney Schanberg | |
| Ofoeti | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1983 | Doc Kearns | |
| Paul Wilcox | ||
| 1982 | David Bentells | |
| N/A | ||
| 1980 | Frank Canton | |
| C.D.B. Bryan | ||
| Robert Oppenheimer | ||
| Jack Cutter | ||
| William McClusky | ||
| 1979 | White Bull | |
| 1978 | Mike | |
| 1977 | Lt. Col. Peter Willis | |
| 1976 | Le Clerq | |
| 1975 | Self - Cameo (uncredited) | |
| Mr. Graham | ||
| Cecil Colson | ||
| Self - Presenter | ||
| 1974 | Michael Elliott | |
| Nick Carraway | ||
| 1973 | Tom Wingfield | |
| Benedick | ||
| 1972 | Felix | |
| James, the Limping Man | ||
| 1971 | Alex Monte | |
| 1970 | Cameraman | |
| 1969 | Taylor | |
| Desmond | ||
| 1967 | Oliver | |
| 1966 | Andy | |
| 1961 | Mark | |
| 1951 | Travis Coles | |
| Self (voice) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |