Sam Waterston
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."…
Filmography
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994 · 9.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · 8.8
A Walk in the Woods
1988 · 8.5
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
1966 · 8.2
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 · 8.1
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005 · 8.1
The Newsroom
2012 · 8.1
The Civil War
1990 · 8.0
Dateline: Saigon
2017 · 8.0
Lantern Hill
1989 · 8.0
Love Lives On
1985 · 8.0
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · 8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · 8.0
Line of Fire
2026 · 7.9
Prohibition
2011 · 7.9
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
1997 · 7.8
Godless
2017 · 7.8
Grace and Frankie
2015 · 7.7
Thomas Jefferson
1997 · 7.7
The Glass Menagerie
1973 · 7.7
The Six Triple Eight
2024 · 7.6
Amazing Stories
1985 · 7.5
I'll Fly Away
1991 · 7.5
The Killing Fields
1984 · 7.5
Lincoln
1988 · 7.5
Miracle at Midnight
1998 · 7.5
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986 · 7.5
The Man in the Moon
1991 · 7.4
Family Guy
1999 · 7.4
The Dropout
2022 · 7.4
Miss Sloane
2016 · 7.4
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989 · 7.4
On the Basis of Sex
2018 · 7.3
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
2017 · 7.3
Law & Order
1990 · 7.3
Q.E.D.
1982 · 7.1
Swimming to Cambodia
1987 · 7.1
The Colbert Report
2005 · 7.0
The Mayo Clinic
2018 · 7.0
Hopscotch
1980 · 7.0
Friendly Fire
1980 · 7.0
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
1988 · 7.0
The Journey of August King
1995 · 6.9
Mindwalk
1991 · 6.9
Nixon
1995 · 6.8
Interiors
1978 · 6.8
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
1995 · 6.8
Reflections of Murder
1974 · 6.8
Capricorn One
1977 · 6.8
Heaven's Gate
1980 · 6.7
Oppenheimer
1980 · 6.7
Serial Mom
1994 · 6.7
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · 6.7
American Playhouse
1982 · 6.6
Welcome Home
1989 · 6.6
The Nightmare Years
1989 · 6.5
A House Divided
2000 · 6.5
The Unfinished Journey
1999 · 6.5
Finnegan Begin Again
1985 · 6.5
Jo
2013 · 6.3
Fitzwilly
1967 · 6.3
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994 · 6.3
The Proprietor
1996 · 6.3
The Great Gatsby
1974 · 6.3
Masters of Science Fiction
2007 · 6.2
September
1987 · 6.2
Dempsey
1983 · 6.2
Journey into Fear
1975 · 6.0
Dean Smith
2015 · 6.0
Much Ado About Nothing
1973 · 6.0
Warning Sign
1985 · 6.0
Exiled
1998 · 5.9
The Enemy Within
1994 · 5.8
Dr. Kildare
1961 · 5.7
Anesthesia
2016 · 5.7
Devil's Paradise
1987 · 5.7
Mahoney's Last Stand
1972 · 5.7
Sweet Revenge
1976 · 5.7
A Captive in the Land
1990 · 5.6
The Matthew Shepard Story
2002 · 5.6
HBO First Look
1992 · 5.5
Generation
1969 · 5.5
The Fifth Missile
1986 · 5.5
Eagle's Wing
1979 · 5.4
Flagrant désir
1986 · 5.3
Rancho Deluxe
1975 · 5.3
Savages
1972 · 5.3
Just Between Friends
1986 · 5.2
Three
1969 · 5.2
Le Divorce
2003 · 4.9
Shadow Conspiracy
1997 · 4.9
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
1971 · 4.9
The Room Upstairs
1987 · 4.8
Cover Me Babe
1970 · 4.7
The Man in the Woods
2020 · 4.6
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
1984 · 4.5
The Commission
2003 · 4.5
Sweet William
1980 · 4.2
Please Be Normal
2015 · 3.3
Carousel
2026 · 0.0
And It Was Good
2015 · 0.0
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · 0.0
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
1995 · 0.0
Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels
1999 · 0.0