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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

2024
The Six Triple Eight

as    Franklin Delano Roosevelt

2024
A Case for Love

as    Self

2021
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

as    Self (voice)

2020
The Man in the Woods

as    Headmaster Waldorf

2018
The Mayo Clinic

as    Charlie Mayo

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
Please Be Normal

as    Dad

2015
And It Was Good

as    Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger

2015
Grace and Frankie

as    Sol Bergstein

2014
Heaven's Gate: The Butcher's Cut

as    Frank Canton

2012
The Newsroom

as    Charlie Skinner

2004
Hammer and Cycle

as    Self - Narrator

2003
Le Divorce

as    Chester Walker

2003
The Commission

as    J. Lee Rankin

2002
The Matthew Shepard Story

as    Dennis Shepard

2000
A House Divided

as    David Dickson