Born 1940 (age 85) · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Appears in 124 titles

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.

Filmography

Miss Sloane
7.4
Miss Sloane
2016
as George Dupont
Hannah and Her Sisters
7.5
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
as David (uncredited)
On the Basis of Sex
7.3
On the Basis of Sex
2018
as Erwin Griswold
Crimes and Misdemeanors
7.4
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989
as Ben
The Killing Fields
7.5
The Killing Fields
1984
as Sydney Schanberg
Serial Mom
6.7
Serial Mom
1994
as Eugene Sutphin
The Six Triple Eight
7.5
The Six Triple Eight
2024
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Great Gatsby
6.3
The Great Gatsby
1974
as Nick Carraway
Capricorn One
6.8
Capricorn One
1977
as Lt. Col. Peter Willis
Heaven's Gate
6.8
Heaven's Gate
1980
as Frank Canton
Nixon
6.9
Nixon
1995
as Richard Helms
Interiors
6.8
Interiors
1978
as Mike
The Man in the Moon
7.4
The Man in the Moon
1991
as Matthew Trant
September
6.2
September
1987
as Peter
Hopscotch
7.0
Hopscotch
1980
as Jack Cutter
Le Divorce
4.9
Le Divorce
2003
as Chester Walker
Anesthesia
5.7
Anesthesia
2016
as Prof. Walter Zarrow
Shadow Conspiracy
5.0
Shadow Conspiracy
1997
as The President
Warning Sign
6.0
Warning Sign
1985
as Cal Morse
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
7.1
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
2018
as Self - (archive footage)