Sam Waterston
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA — Nov 15 1940
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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. Al…
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Jack McCoy
Law & Order
Jack McCoy
Family Guy
Bruce Kaplan (voice)
Jeopardy!
Self
Homicide: Life on the Street
Jack McCoy
Dr. Kildare
Mark
Grace and Frankie
Sol Bergstein
Tales from the Crypt
G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
Amazing Stories
Jordan Manmouth
People's Choice Awards
Self - Presenter
The Newsroom
Charlie Skinner
HBO First Look
Godless
Marshall John Cook
The Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
The Dropout
George Shultz
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Jack McCoy
I'll Fly Away
Forrest Bedford
Jo
Masters of Science Fiction
Prohibition
Reader (voice)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Travis Coles
Hannah and Her Sisters
David (uncredited)
Miss Sloane
George Dupont
Nixon
Richard Helms
The Six Triple Eight
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Serial Mom
Eugene Sutphin
Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
Capricorn One
Lt. Col. Peter Willis
Heaven's Gate
Frank Canton
The Man in the Moon
Matthew Trant
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
The Killing Fields
Sydney Schanberg
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Ben
On the Basis of Sex
Erwin Griswold
Journey into Fear
Mr. Graham
Q.E.D.
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
Self
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (voice)
Le Divorce
Chester Walker
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Thomas Jefferson (voice)
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
Anesthesia
Prof. Walter Zarrow
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
September
Peter
Interiors
Mike
The Mayo Clinic
Charlie Mayo (voice)
Exiled
Jack McCoy
Hopscotch
Jack Cutter
The Enemy Within
President William Foster
Fitzwilly
Oliver
Shadow Conspiracy
The President
The Man in the Woods
Headmaster Waldorf
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Self
Rancho Deluxe
Cecil Colson
Warning Sign
Cal Morse
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
Dempsey
Doc Kearns
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Daniel Chamberlain
Eagle's Wing
White Bull
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
Narrator
Friendly Fire
C.D.B. Bryan
The Unfinished Journey
Narrator (voice)
The Room Upstairs
Travis Coles
Merchant Ivory
Self
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Tom Wingfield (archive footage)
Carousel
Sam
Sweet William
William McClusky
Mindwalk
Jack Edwards
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
Self - (archive footage)
The Nightmare Years
Bill Shirer
Just Between Friends
Harry Crandall
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
Jim Delmore
Swimming to Cambodia
Additional Cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)
Finnegan Begin Again
Paul Broadbent
Cover Me Babe
Cameraman
Lantern Hill
Andrew Stuart
Generation
Desmond
The Glass Menagerie
Tom Wingfield
David's Mother
John Nils
The Journey of August King
Mooney Wright
Welcome Home
Woody
The Matthew Shepard Story
Dennis Shepard
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
Alex Monte
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
Self
A House Divided
David Dickson
Reflections of Murder
Michael Elliott
The Proprietor
Harry Bancroft
Love Lives On
Bernie
In Defense of Kids
Paul Wilcox
The Commission
J. Lee Rankin
Miracle at Midnight
Dr. Karl Koster
In Bad Taste
Self
And It Was Good
Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
Devil's Paradise
Jones
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
(archive footage)
A Walk in the Woods
John Honeyman
Savages
James, the Limping Man
Sweet Revenge
Le Clerq
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
Ofoeti
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
Forrest Bedford
A Case for Love
Self
Three
Taylor
A Captive in the Land
Royce
Games Mother Never Taught You
David Bentells
Much Ado About Nothing
Benedick
Flagrant désir
Inspecteur Gerry Morrison
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Self (voice)
Mahoney's Last Stand
Felix
Dateline: Saigon
Narrator (voice)
Hammer and Cycle
Self - Narrator
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
Andy
The Fifth Missile
Capt. Allard Renslow
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
Narrator (voice)
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
Self / Host / Narrator
Please Be Normal
Dad
Dean Smith
Narrator
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
Self (voice)
Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels
Narrator