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Aliases: 샘 워터스톤

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Movie Involvements: 68

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
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8
Law & Order
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7

Law & Order

(1990) Jack McCoy
Dr. Kildare
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5

Dr. Kildare

(1961) Mark
The Newsroom
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8

The Newsroom

(2012) Charlie Skinner
The Dropout
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7

The Dropout

(2022) George Shultz
People's Choice Awards
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9

People's Choice Awards

(1975) Self - Presenter
Godless
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8

Godless

(2017) Marshall John Cook
The Great Gatsby
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6

The Great Gatsby

(1974) Nick Carraway

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Self
2023 Self
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
2014 Frank Canton
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
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 Forrest Bedford
Matthew Trant
1990 Abraham Lincoln
Jack McCoy
Jack Edwards
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
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Actor
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
1995 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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