Acting

Sam Waterston

Born 1940-11-15 · 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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as Sam
2026
The Six Triple Eight
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2024
Merchant Ivory
as Self
2024
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
as Self (voice)
2024
A Case for Love
as Self
2024
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
as Self
2023
The Dropout
as George Shultz
2022
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
as Self (voice)
2021
The Man in the Woods
as Headmaster Waldorf
2020
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
as Self
2020
On the Basis of Sex
as Erwin Griswold
2018
The Mayo Clinic
as Charlie Mayo (voice)
2018
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self - (archive footage)
2018
Godless
as Marshall John Cook
2017
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
as Narrator (voice)
2017
Dateline: Saigon
as Narrator (voice)
2017
Miss Sloane
as George Dupont
2016
Anesthesia
as Prof. Walter Zarrow
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
And It Was Good
as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
2015
Grace and Frankie
as Sol Bergstein
2015
Dean Smith
as Narrator
2015
Please Be Normal
as Dad
2015
Jo
2013
The Newsroom
as Charlie Skinner
2012
Prohibition
as Reader (voice)
2011
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
as Self
2010
Masters of Science Fiction
2007
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
2006
The Colbert Report
2005
The Colbert Report
as Self (uncredited)
2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Jack McCoy
2005
Hammer and Cycle
as Self - Narrator
2004
The Commission
as J. Lee Rankin
2003
Le Divorce
as Chester Walker
2003
The Matthew Shepard Story
as Dennis Shepard
2002
A House Divided
as David Dickson
2000
The Unfinished Journey
as Narrator (voice)
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Jack McCoy
1999
In Bad Taste
as Self
1999
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
as Self / Host / Narrator
1999
Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels
as Narrator
1999
Family Guy
as Bruce Kaplan (voice)
1999
Exiled
as Jack McCoy
1998
Miracle at Midnight
as Dr. Karl Koster
1998
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
1997
The View
as Self
1997
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
Thomas Jefferson
as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
1997
Shadow Conspiracy
as The President
1997
The Proprietor
as Harry Bancroft
1996
Nixon
as Richard Helms
1995
The Journey of August King
as Mooney Wright
1995
The Journey of August King
Producer
1995
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
as Jordan Manmouth (archive footage)
1995
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
as Narrator
1995
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Tom Wingfield (archive footage)
1994
The Enemy Within
as President William Foster
1994
Serial Mom
as Eugene Sutphin
1994
David's Mother
as John Nils
1994
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Daniel Chamberlain
1994
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
as Forrest Bedford
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Jack McCoy
1993
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
1992
HBO First Look
1992
Mindwalk
as Jack Edwards
1991
I'll Fly Away
as Forrest Bedford
1991
The Man in the Moon
as Matthew Trant
1991
The Civil War
as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
1990
Law & Order
as Jack McCoy
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
1990
A Captive in the Land
as Royce
1990
The Nightmare Years
as Bill Shirer
1989
Crimes and Misdemeanors
as Ben
1989
Welcome Home
as Woody
1989
Lantern Hill
as Andrew Stuart
1989
Tales from the Crypt
as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
1989
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
as Jim Delmore
1988
Lincoln
as Abraham Lincoln
1988
A Walk in the Woods
as John Honeyman
1988