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