Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston

Acting
Born 1940-11-15 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 8 credit(s) Popularity 1.6
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-, Scree...
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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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The Dropout poster
The Dropout
as George Shultz
2022-03-03
Godless poster
Godless
as Marshall John Cook
2017-11-22
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert poster
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015-09-08
The Newsroom poster
The Newsroom
as Charlie Skinner
2012-06-24
Prohibition poster
Prohibition
as Reader (voice)
2011-10-02
Masters of Science Fiction poster
Masters of Science Fiction
2007-08-04
The Colbert Report poster
The Colbert Report
2005-10-17

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