Sam Waterston actor

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 1984s 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.

Movies unavailable from Sam Waterston

The Killing Fields

Sydney Schanberg

Movie 1984

The Great Gatsby

Nick Carraway

Movie 1974

Hannah and Her Sisters

David (uncredited)

Movie 1986

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Ben

Movie 1989

Serial Mom

Eugene Sutphin

Movie 1994

September

Peter

Movie 1987

Capricorn One

Lt. Col. Peter Willis

Movie 1977

Hopscotch

Jack Cutter

Movie 1980

Le Divorce

Chester Walker

Movie 2003

Warning Sign

Cal Morse

Movie 1985

Rancho Deluxe

Cecil Colson

Movie 1975

Interiors

Mike

Movie 1978

The Journey of August King

Mooney Wright

Movie 1995

The Matthew Shepard Story

Dennis Shepard

Movie 2002

Shadow Conspiracy

The President

Movie 1997

The Man in the Moon

Matthew Trant

Movie 1991

Mindwalk

Jack Edwards

Movie 1991

The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

Self

Movie 2010

Welcome Home

Woody

Movie 1989

The Glass Menagerie

Tom Wingfield

Movie 1973

Generation

Desmond

Movie 1969

The Enemy Within

President William Foster

Movie 1994

Reflections of Murder

Michael Elliott

Movie 1974

The Proprietor

Harry Bancroft

Movie 1996

Merchant Ivory

Self

Movie 2024

Eagle's Wing

White Bull

Movie 1979

Swimming to Cambodia

Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)

Movie 1987

Journey into Fear

Mr. Graham

Movie 1975

The Room Upstairs

Travis Coles

Movie 1987

Miracle at Midnight

Dr. Karl Koster

Movie 1998

Nixon

Richard Helms

Movie 1995

Lantern Hill

Andrew Stuart

Movie 1989

Mahoney's Last Stand

Felix

Movie 1972

A Case for Love

Self

Movie 2024

David's Mother

John Nils

Movie 1994

I'll Fly Away: Then and Now

Forrest Bedford

Movie 1993

Dempsey

Doc Kearns

Movie 1983

Sweet William

William McClusky

Movie 1980

Cover Me Babe

Cameraman

Movie 1970

Night of 100 Stars III

Self

Movie 1990

Please Be Normal

Dad

Movie 2015

Anesthesia

Prof. Walter Zarrow

Movie 2016

Flagrant désir

Inspecteur Gerry Morrison

Movie 1986

Love Lives On

Bernie

Movie 1985

The Six Triple Eight

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Movie 2024

A Captive in the Land

Royce

Movie 1993

Much Ado About Nothing

Benedick

Movie 1973

Savages

James, the Limping Man

Movie 1972

A House Divided

David Dickson

Movie 2000

Miss Sloane

George Dupont

Movie 2016

Amazing Stories: The Movie IV

(archive footage)

Movie 1995

Fitzwilly

Oliver

Movie 1967

Devil's Paradise

Jones

Movie 1987

The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean

Andy

Movie 1966

Sweet Revenge

Le Clerq

Movie 1976

Finnegan Begin Again

Paul Broadbent

Movie 1985

In Defense of Kids

Paul Wilcox

Movie 1983

Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators

Narrator (voice)

Movie 2017

On the Basis of Sex

Erwin Griswold

Movie 2018

The Man in the Woods

Headmaster Waldorf

Movie 2020

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Tom Wingfield (archive footage)

Movie 1994

The Mayo Clinic

Charlie Mayo

Movie 2018

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")

Movie 2006

A Walk in the Woods

John Honeyman

Movie 1988

In Bad Taste

Self

Movie 1999

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

Self - Actor

Movie 2018

Dean Smith

Narrator

Movie 2015

Dateline: Saigon

Narrator (voice)

Movie 2017

Earth and the American Dream

Reader (voice)

Movie 1992

Friendly Fire

C.D.B. Bryan

Movie 1980

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Self (voice)

Movie 2021

Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs

Self / Host / Narrator

Movie 1999

Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story

Self

Movie 2020

The Commission

J. Lee Rankin

Movie 2003

The Unfinished Journey

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1999

And It Was Good

Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger

Movie 2015

Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour

Self (voice)

Movie

Tv series unavailable from Sam Waterston

Q.E.D.

Tv 1982

Tales from the Crypt

G.G. Devoe

Tv 1989

Jeopardy!

Tv 1984

Masters of Science Fiction

Tv 2007

The Colbert Report

Tv 2005

Homicide: Life on the Street

Tv 1993

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Travis Coles

Tv 1951

Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer

Tv 1980

The Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

Tv 1990

The View

Self

Tv 1997

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (voice)

Tv 1997

Family Guy

Bruce Kaplan (voice)

Tv 1999

Amazing Stories

Jordan Manmouth

Tv 1985

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

Self

Tv 2023

Time Life's Lost Civilizations

Narrator

Tv 1995

Tv 2013

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self

Tv 2015

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

Thomas Jefferson (voice)

Tv 1997

People's Choice Awards

Self - Presenter

Tv 1975

The Dropout

George Shultz

Tv 2022

The View

Self - Guest

Tv 1997

Saturday Night Live

Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Tv 1975

Prohibition

Reader (voice)

Tv 2011

HBO First Look

Tv 1992

All movies available from Sam Waterston

Heaven's Gate

The Fifth Missile

Games Mother Never Taught

Three

Terrorist on Trial: The U

Assault at West Point: Th

Who Killed Mary Whats'ern

The Boy Who Loved Trolls

Exiled

Just Between Friends

Law & Order

I'll Fly Away

The Newsroom

Dr. Kildare

Grace and Frankie

Lincoln

The Nightmare Years

Law & Order: Special Vict

Law & Order: Trial by Jur

Godless

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