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Samuel Atkinson Waterston
Sam Waterston
Acting
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
Filmography
Movies
Carousel
as Sam
The Six Triple Eight
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Merchant Ivory
as Self
A Case for Love
as Self
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
as Self (voice)
The Man in the Woods
as Headmaster Waldorf
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
as Self
On the Basis of Sex
as Erwin Griswold
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self - (archive footage)
The Mayo Clinic
as Charlie Mayo (voice)
TV Shows
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
as Self · 3 ep.
The Dropout
as George Shultz · 5 ep.
Godless
as Marshall John Cook · 7 ep.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest · 2 ep.
Grace and Frankie
as Sol Bergstein · 94 ep.
Jo
1 ep.
The Newsroom
as Charlie Skinner · 25 ep.
Prohibition
as Reader (voice) · 3 ep.
Masters of Science Fiction
1 ep.
The Colbert Report
as Self (uncredited) · 1 ep.
