Sam Waterston
Known for Acting
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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Waterston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Journey into Fear
1975
as Mr. Graham
Miss Sloane
2016
as George Dupont
The Six Triple Eight
2024
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Nixon
1995
as Richard Helms
The Great Gatsby
1974
as Nick Carraway
On the Basis of Sex
2018
as Erwin Griswold
Heaven's Gate
1980
as Frank Canton
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
as David (uncredited)
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989
as Ben
Interiors
1978
as Mike
The Man in the Moon
1991
as Matthew Trant
The Killing Fields
1984
as Sydney Schanberg
Serial Mom
1994
as Eugene Sutphin
Anesthesia
2016
as Prof. Walter Zarrow
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
The Mayo Clinic
2018
as Charlie Mayo (voice)
Fitzwilly
1967
as Oliver
Capricorn One
1977
as Lt. Col. Peter Willis
Merchant Ivory
2024
as Self
Le Divorce
2003
as Chester Walker