
Birthday
1940/11/15 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Also know as
샘 워터스톤, Samuel Atkinson Waterston, سام واترستون
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 ...Read more

(1984) The Killing Fields
as Sydney Schanberg

(1980) Heaven's Gate
as Frank Canton

(1974) The Great Gatsby
as Nick Carraway

(1986) Hannah and Her Sisters
as David (uncredited)

(1989) Crimes and Misdemeanors
as Ben

(1994) Serial Mom
as Eugene Sutphin

(1987) September
as Peter

(1977) Capricorn One
as Lt. Col. Peter Willis

(1980) Hopscotch
as Jack Cutter

(2003) Le Divorce
as Chester Walker

(1985) Warning Sign
as Cal Morse

(1975) Rancho Deluxe
as Cecil Colson

(1978) Interiors
as Mike

(1995) The Journey of August King
as Mooney Wright

(2002) The Matthew Shepard Story
as Dennis Shepard

(1997) Shadow Conspiracy
as The President

(1991) The Man in the Moon
as Matthew Trant

(1991) Mindwalk
as Jack Edwards

(2010) The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
as Self

(1989) Welcome Home
as Woody

(1973) The Glass Menagerie
as Tom Wingfield

(1969) Generation
as Desmond

(1994) The Enemy Within
as President William Foster

(1974) Reflections of Murder
as Michael Elliott

(1996) The Proprietor
as Harry Bancroft

(2024) Merchant Ivory
as Self

(1979) Eagle's Wing
as White Bull

(1986) The Fifth Missile
as Capt. Allard Renslow

(1987) Swimming to Cambodia
as Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)

(1982) Games Mother Never Taught You
as David Bentells

(1975) Journey into Fear
as Mr. Graham

(1987) The Room Upstairs
as Travis Coles

(1998) Miracle at Midnight
as Dr. Karl Koster

(1969) Three
as Taylor

(1988) Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
as Jim Delmore

(1995) Nixon
as Richard Helms

(1989) Lantern Hill
as Andrew Stuart

(1972) Mahoney's Last Stand
as Felix

(2024) A Case for Love
as Self

(1994) David's Mother
as John Nils
(1993) I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
as Forrest Bedford

(1983) Dempsey
as Doc Kearns

(1980) Sweet William
as William McClusky

(1994) Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Daniel Chamberlain

(1970) Cover Me Babe
as Cameraman

(1990) Night of 100 Stars III
as Self

(1971) Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
as Alex Monte

(2015) Please Be Normal
as Dad

(2016) Anesthesia
as Prof. Walter Zarrow

(1984) The Boy Who Loved Trolls
as Ofoeti

(1986) Flagrant désir
as Inspecteur Gerry Morrison

(1985) Love Lives On
as Bernie

(1998) Exiled
as Jack McCoy

(2024) The Six Triple Eight
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

(1986) Just Between Friends
as Harry Crandall

(1993) A Captive in the Land
as Royce

(1973) Much Ado About Nothing
as Benedick

(1972) Savages
as James, the Limping Man

(2000) A House Divided
as David Dickson

(2016) Miss Sloane
as George Dupont

(1995) Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
as (archive footage)

(1967) Fitzwilly
as Oliver

(1987) Devil's Paradise
as Jones

(1966) The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
as Andy

(1976) Sweet Revenge
as Le Clerq

(1985) Finnegan Begin Again
as Paul Broadbent

(1983) In Defense of Kids
as Paul Wilcox

(2017) Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
as Narrator (voice)

(2018) On the Basis of Sex
as Erwin Griswold

(2020) The Man in the Woods
as Headmaster Waldorf

(1994) Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Tom Wingfield (archive footage)

(2018) The Mayo Clinic
as Charlie Mayo (voice)

(2006) The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")

(1988) A Walk in the Woods
as John Honeyman

(1999) In Bad Taste
as Self

(2018) Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self - Actor

(2015) Dean Smith
as Narrator

(2017) Dateline: Saigon
as Narrator (voice)

(1992) Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)

(1980) Friendly Fire
as C.D.B. Bryan

(2021) Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
as Self (voice)

(1999) Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
as Self / Host / Narrator

(2020) Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
as Self

(2003) The Commission
as J. Lee Rankin

(1999) The Unfinished Journey
as Narrator (voice)

(2015) And It Was Good
as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger

Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
as Self (voice)

(2004) Hammer and Cycle
as Self - Narrator

(1999) Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels
as Narrator
Carousel
as ---

(1999) Law and Order: Justice
as Jack McCoy

(1990) Law & Order
as Jack McCoy

(1982) Q.E.D.
as ---

(1989) Tales from the Crypt
as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")

(1984) Jeopardy!
as Self

(2007) Masters of Science Fiction
as ---

(2005) The Colbert Report
as ---

(1991) I'll Fly Away
as Forrest Bedford

(1993) Homicide: Life on the Street
as Jack McCoy

(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Travis Coles

(1980) Oppenheimer
as Robert Oppenheimer

(1990) The Civil War
as Abraham Lincoln

(1997) The View
as Self

(2012) The Newsroom
as Charlie Skinner

(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Mark

(1997) Thomas Jefferson
as Thomas Jefferson (voice)

(2015) Grace and Frankie
as Sol Bergstein

(1999) Family Guy
as Bruce Kaplan (voice)

(1985) Amazing Stories
as Jordan Manmouth

(2023) Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
as Self

(1988) Lincoln
as Abraham Lincoln

(1995) Time Life's Lost Civilizations
as Narrator

(2013) Jo
as ---

(2015) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self

(1997) Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
as Thomas Jefferson (voice)

(1989) The Nightmare Years
as Bill Shirer

(1999) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Jack McCoy

(2005) Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Jack McCoy

(2017) Godless
as Marshall John Cook

(1975) People's Choice Awards
as Self - Presenter

(2022) The Dropout
as George Shultz

(1997) The View
as Self - Guest

(1975) Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

(2011) Prohibition
as Reader (voice)

(1992) HBO First Look
as ---