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 Em...
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The Killing Fields
As Sydney Schanberg
Heaven's Gate
As Frank Canton
The Great Gatsby
As Nick Carraway
Hannah and Her Sisters
As David (uncredited)
Crimes and Misdemeanors
As Ben
Serial Mom
As Eugene Sutphin
September
As Peter
Capricorn One
As Lt. Col. Peter Willis
Hopscotch
As Jack Cutter
Le Divorce
As Chester Walker
Warning Sign
As Cal Morse
Rancho Deluxe
As Cecil Colson
Interiors
As Mike
The Journey of August King
As Mooney Wright
The Matthew Shepard Story
As Dennis Shepard
Shadow Conspiracy
As The President
The Man in the Moon
As Matthew Trant
Mindwalk
As Jack Edwards
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
As Self
Welcome Home
As Woody
The Glass Menagerie
As Tom Wingfield
Generation
As Desmond
The Enemy Within
As President William Foster
Reflections of Murder
As Michael Elliott
The Proprietor
As Harry Bancroft
Merchant Ivory
As Self
Eagle's Wing
As White Bull
The Fifth Missile
As Capt. Allard Renslow
Swimming to Cambodia
As Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)
Games Mother Never Taught You
As David Bentells
Journey into Fear
As Mr. Graham
The Room Upstairs
As Travis Coles
Miracle at Midnight
As Dr. Karl Koster
Three
As Taylor
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
As Prosecutor
Nixon
As Richard Helms
Lantern Hill
As Andrew Stuart
Mahoney's Last Stand
As Felix
A Case for Love
As Self
David's Mother
As John Nils
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
As Forrest Bedford
Dempsey
As Doc Kearns
Sweet William
As William McClusky
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
As Daniel Chamberlain
Cover Me Babe
As Cameraman
Night of 100 Stars III
As Self
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
As Alex Monte
Please Be Normal
As Dad
Anesthesia
As Prof. Walter Zarrow
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
As Ofoeti
Flagrant désir
As Inspecteur Gerry Morrison
Love Lives On
As Bernie
Exiled
As Jack McCoy
The Six Triple Eight
As Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Just Between Friends
As Harry Crandall
A Captive in the Land
As Royce
Much Ado About Nothing
As Benedick
Savages
As James, the Limping Man
A House Divided
As David Dickson
Miss Sloane
As George Dupont
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
As (archive footage)
Fitzwilly
As Oliver
Devil's Paradise
As Jones
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
As Andy
Sweet Revenge
As Le Clerq
Finnegan Begin Again
As Paul Broadbent
In Defense of Kids
As Paul Wilcox
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
As Narrator (voice)
On the Basis of Sex
As Erwin Griswold
The Man in the Woods
As Headmaster Waldorf
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
As Tom Wingfield (archive footage)
The Mayo Clinic
As Charlie Mayo
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
As John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
A Walk in the Woods
As John Honeyman
In Bad Taste
As Self
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
As Self - Actor
Dean Smith
As Narrator
Dateline: Saigon
As Narrator (voice)
Earth and the American Dream
As Reader (voice)
Friendly Fire
As C.D.B. Bryan
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
As Self (voice)
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
As Self / Host / Narrator
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
As Self
The Commission
As J. Lee Rankin
The Unfinished Journey
As Narrator (voice)
And It Was Good
As Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
As Self (voice)
Law & Order
As Jack McCoy
Q.E.D.
Tales from the Crypt
As G.G. Devoe
Jeopardy!
Masters of Science Fiction
The Colbert Report
I'll Fly Away
As Forrest Bedford
Homicide: Life on the Street
Hallmark Hall of Fame
As Travis Coles
Oppenheimer
As Robert Oppenheimer
The Civil War
As Abraham Lincoln
The View
As Self
The Newsroom
As Charlie Skinner
Dr. Kildare
As Mark
Thomas Jefferson
As Thomas Jefferson (voice)
Grace and Frankie
As Sol Bergstein
Family Guy
As Bruce Kaplan (voice)
Amazing Stories
As Jordan Manmouth
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
As Self
Lincoln
As Abraham Lincoln
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
As Narrator
Jo
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
As Self
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
As Thomas Jefferson (voice)
The Nightmare Years
As Bill Shirer
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
As Jack McCoy
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
As Jack McCoy
Godless
As Marshall John Cook
People's Choice Awards
As Self - Presenter
The Dropout
As George Shultz
Saturday Night Live
As Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Prohibition
As Reader (voice)
HBO First Look
