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.
Awards & recognition
- Emmy Award
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Tony Award — Best Actor in a Play · 1994 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actor · 1985 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
David's Mother
The Newsroom
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Homicide: Life on the Street
Dateline: Saigon
Tales from the Crypt
Prohibition
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Civil War
Merchant Ivory
Godless
Grace and Frankie
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
The Six Triple Eight
Miracle at Midnight
Hannah and Her Sisters
Amazing Stories
The Killing Fields
Friendly Fire
Thomas Jefferson
Lincoln
Miss Sloane
Family Guy
The Man in the Moon
Crimes and Misdemeanors
The Dropout
On the Basis of Sex
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
Law & Order
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
The Mayo Clinic
The Proprietor
Hopscotch
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
The Colbert Report
Nixon
Saturday Night Live
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Jeopardy!
Capricorn One
Interiors
Serial Mom
Heaven's Gate
The Great Gatsby
Masters of Science Fiction
September
Fitzwilly
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Journey into Fear