Acting credits
122
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Sam Waterston
Acting
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1.5
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Movies: 89Series: 33Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 8975
IMDb ID: nm0001832
Known for: Acting
Born: November 15, 1940
Age: 85
Place of birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1951 - 2026
Years active: 76
Average TMDB rating: 6.8
Wikidata: Q284876
Also known as
Samuel Atkinson Waterston
Other jobs
Producer (1)
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."
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Movie credits linked with Sam Waterston.
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2026 Movie
7.5
The Six Triple Eight
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2024 Movie
7.7
Merchant Ivory
as Self
2024 Movie
A Case for Love
as Self
2024 Movie
6.8
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
as Self (voice)
2021 Movie
4.8
The Man in the Woods
as Headmaster Waldorf
2020 Movie
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
as Self
2020 Movie
7.3
On the Basis of Sex
as Erwin Griswold
2018 Movie
7.0
The Mayo Clinic
as Charlie Mayo (voice)
2018 Movie
7.3
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self - (archive footage)
2018 Movie
7.3
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
as Narrator (voice)
2017 Movie
8.0
Dateline: Saigon
as Narrator (voice)
2017 Movie
7.4
Miss Sloane
as George Dupont
2016 Movie
5.8
Anesthesia
as Prof. Walter Zarrow
2016 Movie
And It Was Good
as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
2015 Movie
6.0
Dean Smith
as Narrator
2015 Movie
3.3
Please Be Normal
as Dad
2015 Movie
5.9
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
as Self
2010 Movie
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
2006 Movie
Hammer and Cycle
as Self - Narrator
2004 Movie
1.0
The Commission
as J. Lee Rankin
2003 Movie
4.9
Le Divorce
as Chester Walker
2003 Movie
5.4
The Matthew Shepard Story
as Dennis Shepard
2002 Movie
5.0
A House Divided
as David Dickson
2000 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Sam Waterston.
7.7
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
as Self • 3 eps
2023 Series
7.3
The Dropout
as George Shultz • 5 eps
2022 Series
7.7
Godless
as Marshall John Cook • 7 eps
2017 Series
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
2015 Series
7.7
Grace and Frankie
as Sol Bergstein • 94 eps
2015 Series
6.3
Jo
1 eps
2013 Series
8.1
The Newsroom
as Charlie Skinner • 25 eps
2012 Series
7.9
Prohibition
as Reader (voice) • 3 eps
2011 Series
6.2
Masters of Science Fiction
1 eps
2007 Series
6.9
The Colbert Report
1 eps
2005 Series
8.1
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Jack McCoy • 2 eps
2005 Series
7.9
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Jack McCoy • 4 eps
1999 Series
7.4
Family Guy
as Bruce Kaplan (voice) • 2 eps
1999 Series
7.5
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
as Thomas Jefferson (voice) • 2 eps
1997 Series
4.3
The View
as Self • 1 eps
1997 Series
8.0
Thomas Jefferson
as Thomas Jefferson (voice) • 2 eps
1997 Series
6.0
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
as Narrator • 10 eps
1995 Series
8.1
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Jack McCoy • 2 eps
1993 Series
4.9
HBO First Look
1 eps
1992 Series
7.4
I'll Fly Away
as Forrest Bedford • 39 eps
1991 Series
7.9
The Civil War
as Abraham Lincoln • 9 eps
1990 Series
7.3
Law & Order
as Jack McCoy • 405 eps
1990 Series
5.0
The Nightmare Years
as Bill Shirer • 4 eps
1989 Series
8.0
Tales from the Crypt
as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow") • 1 eps
1989 Series