Sam Waterston
Acting
Born: 1940-11-15 · 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
🎬 Movies (20)
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")
📺 TV Shows (20)
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023
Self
The Dropout
2022
George Shultz
Godless
2017
Marshall John Cook
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Self - Guest
Grace and Frankie
2015
Sol Bergstein
Jo
2013
The Newsroom
2012
Charlie Skinner
Prohibition
2011
Reader (voice)
Masters of Science Fiction
2007
The Colbert Report
2005
The Colbert Report
2005
Self (uncredited)
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
Jack McCoy
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Jack McCoy
Family Guy
1999
Bruce Kaplan (voice)
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
1997
Thomas Jefferson (voice)
The View
1997
Self
The View
1997
Self - Guest
Thomas Jefferson
1997
Thomas Jefferson (voice)
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
1995
Narrator
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Jack McCoy