Sam Waterston
Born
1940-11-15
Place of birth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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 ha...
Known for
Family Guy
Bruce Kaplan (voice)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Jack McCoy
Miss Sloane
George Dupont
Hannah and Her Sisters
David (uncredited)
On the Basis of Sex
Erwin Griswold
Tales from the Crypt
G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Ben
The Killing Fields
Sydney Schanberg
Serial Mom
Eugene Sutphin
The Newsroom
Charlie Skinner
Godless
Marshall John Cook
Law & Order
Jack McCoy
The Six Triple Eight
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway
Capricorn One
Lt. Col. Peter Willis