Actor

Sam Waterston

November 15, 1940 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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."

Notable work

7.4
Family Guy (1999)
as Bruce Kaplan (voice)
8
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
as Jack McCoy
7.4
Miss Sloane (2016)
as George Dupont
7.5
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
as David (uncredited)
7.3
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
as Erwin Griswold
8
Tales from the Crypt (1989)
as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
7.4
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
as Ben
7.5
The Killing Fields (1984)
as Sydney Schanberg
6.7
Serial Mom (1994)
as Eugene Sutphin
8.1
The Newsroom (2012)
as Charlie Skinner
7.7
Godless (2017)
as Marshall John Cook
7.6
The Six Triple Eight (2024)
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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