Acting
Sam Waterston
1940 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
30 films
Bio
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."
Filmography
Miss Sloane
George Dupont
The Six Triple Eight
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Serial Mom
Eugene Sutphin
Capricorn One
Lt. Col. Peter Willis
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway
Le Divorce
Chester Walker
Warning Sign
Cal Morse
Shadow Conspiracy
The President
The Killing Fields
Sydney Schanberg
Heaven's Gate
Frank Canton
On the Basis of Sex
Erwin Griswold
Hannah and Her Sisters
David (uncredited)