Sam Waterston

Actor

Born: November 15, 1940 (age 85)
From: 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…

Filmography (91)

Carousel (2026)
Sam
The Six Triple Eight (2024)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Merchant Ivory (2024)
Self
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour (2024)
Self (voice)
A Case for Love (2024)
Self
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021)
Self (voice)
The Man in the Woods (2020)
Headmaster Waldorf
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story (2020)
Self
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
Erwin Griswold
The Mayo Clinic (2018)
Charlie Mayo (voice)
Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)
Self - (archive footage)
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators (2017)
Narrator (voice)
Dateline: Saigon (2017)
Narrator (voice)
Miss Sloane (2016)
George Dupont
Anesthesia (2016)
Prof. Walter Zarrow
And It Was Good (2015)
Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
Dean Smith (2015)
Narrator
Please Be Normal (2015)
Dad
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear (2010)
Self
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)
John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
Hammer and Cycle (2004)
Self - Narrator
The Commission (2003)
J. Lee Rankin
Le Divorce (2003)
Chester Walker
The Matthew Shepard Story (2002)
Dennis Shepard
A House Divided (2000)
David Dickson
The Unfinished Journey (1999)
Narrator (voice)
In Bad Taste (1999)
Self
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs (1999)
Self / Host / Narrator
Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels (1999)
Narrator
Exiled (1998)
Jack McCoy