Sam Waterston
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.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1940-11-15 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Known for
- Family Guy (1999) — Bruce Kaplan (voice)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) — Jack McCoy
- Miss Sloane (2016) — George Dupont
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) — David (uncredited)
- On the Basis of Sex (2018) — Erwin Griswold
- Tales from the Crypt (1989) — G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) — Ben
- The Killing Fields (1984) — Sydney Schanberg
- Serial Mom (1994) — Eugene Sutphin
- The Newsroom (2012) — Charlie Skinner
- Godless (2017) — Marshall John Cook
- The Six Triple Eight (2024) — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Law & Order (1990) — Jack McCoy
- Saturday Night Live (1975) — Self (uncredited)
- Capricorn One (1977) — Lt. Col. Peter Willis
- The Great Gatsby (1974) — Nick Carraway