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."
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TV credits
Rated 7.7 out of 10
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023
Rated 7.3 out of 10
The Dropout
2022
Rated 7.7 out of 10
Godless
2017
Rated 6.1 out of 10
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Rated 7.7 out of 10
Grace and Frankie
2015
Rated 6.3 out of 10
Jo
2013
Rated 8.1 out of 10
The Newsroom
2012
Rated 7.9 out of 10
Prohibition
2011
Rated 6.2 out of 10
Masters of Science Fiction
2007
Rated 6.9 out of 10
The Colbert Report
2005
Rated 8.1 out of 10
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
Rated 8.0 out of 10
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Rated 7.4 out of 10
Family Guy
1999
Rated 7.6 out of 10
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
1997
Rated 4.3 out of 10
The View
1997
Rated 7.5 out of 10
Thomas Jefferson
1997
Rated 6.8 out of 10
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
1995
Rated 8.1 out of 10
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Rated 5.5 out of 10
HBO First Look
1992
Rated 7.5 out of 10
I'll Fly Away
1991
Rated 7.9 out of 10
The Civil War
1990
Rated 7.3 out of 10
Law & Order
1990
Rated 6.5 out of 10
The Nightmare Years
1989
Rated 8.0 out of 10
Tales from the Crypt
1989