Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 15, 1940 (age 86)
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
- Samuel Atkinson Waterston
Sam Waterston
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.
Known For - Movies
Miss Sloane
as George Dupont
Hannah and Her Sisters
as David (uncredited)
Nixon
as Richard Helms
The Six Triple Eight
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Capricorn One
as Lt. Col. Peter Willis
The Great Gatsby
as Nick Carraway
Heaven's Gate
as Frank Canton
Serial Mom
as Eugene Sutphin
The Killing Fields
as Sydney Schanberg
Crimes and Misdemeanors
as Ben
Known For - TV Shows
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Jack McCoy
Law & Order
as Jack McCoy
Family Guy
as Bruce Kaplan (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
Jeopardy!
as Self
The Colbert Report
The Colbert Report
as Self (uncredited)
The View
as Self
The View
as Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
as Self (uncredited)