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Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston is known for acting, with popular credits including The Killing Fields, Heaven's Gate, The Great Gatsby, Hannah and Her Sisters. The latest news panel tracks recent coverage and source links for fans who want current updates.

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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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Waterston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known for The Killing Fields, Heaven's Gate, The Great Gatsby, Hannah and Her Sisters.

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2026 Carousel as Sam movie 2024 The Six Triple Eight as Franklin Delano Roosevelt movie 2024 Merchant Ivory as Self movie 2024 A Case for Love as Self movie 2023 Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled as Self tv 2022 The Dropout as George Shultz tv 2021 Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time as Self (voice) movie 2020 The Man in the Woods as Headmaster Waldorf movie 2020 Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story as Self movie 2018 On the Basis of Sex as Erwin Griswold movie 2018 The Mayo Clinic as Charlie Mayo (voice) movie 2018 Jane Fonda in Five Acts as Self - (archive footage) movie 2017 Godless as Marshall John Cook tv 2017 Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators as Narrator (voice) movie 2017 Dateline: Saigon as Narrator (voice) movie 2016 Miss Sloane as George Dupont movie 2016 Anesthesia as Prof. Walter Zarrow movie 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest tv 2015 And It Was Good as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger movie 2015 Grace and Frankie as Sol Bergstein tv 2015 Dean Smith as Narrator movie 2015 Please Be Normal as Dad movie 2013 Jo tv 2012 The Newsroom as Charlie Skinner tv 2011 Prohibition as Reader (voice) tv 2010 The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear as Self movie 2007 Masters of Science Fiction tv 2006 The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods") movie 2005 The Colbert Report tv 2005 The Colbert Report as Self (uncredited) tv 2005 Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Jack McCoy tv 2004 Hammer and Cycle as Self - Narrator movie 2003 The Commission as J. Lee Rankin movie 2003 Le Divorce as Chester Walker movie 2002 The Matthew Shepard Story as Dennis Shepard movie 2000 A House Divided as David Dickson movie 1999 The Unfinished Journey as Narrator (voice) movie 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Jack McCoy tv 1999 In Bad Taste as Self movie 1999 Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs as Self / Host / Narrator movie 1999 Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels as Narrator movie 1999 Family Guy as Bruce Kaplan (voice) tv 1998 Exiled as Jack McCoy movie 1998 Miracle at Midnight as Dr. Karl Koster movie 1997 Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery as Thomas Jefferson (voice) tv 1997 The View as Self tv 1997 The View as Self - Guest tv 1997 Thomas Jefferson as Thomas Jefferson (voice) tv 1997 Shadow Conspiracy as The President movie 1996 The Proprietor as Harry Bancroft movie 1995 Nixon as Richard Helms movie 1995 The Journey of August King as Mooney Wright movie 1995 Amazing Stories: The Movie IV as Jordan Manmouth (archive footage) movie 1995 Time Life's Lost Civilizations as Narrator tv 1994 Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Tom Wingfield (archive footage) movie 1994 The Enemy Within as President William Foster movie 1994 Serial Mom as Eugene Sutphin movie 1994 David's Mother as John Nils movie 1994 Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker as Daniel Chamberlain movie 1993 I'll Fly Away: Then and Now as Forrest Bedford movie 1993 Homicide: Life on the Street as Jack McCoy tv 1992 Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice) movie 1992 HBO First Look tv 1991 Mindwalk as Jack Edwards movie 1991 I'll Fly Away as Forrest Bedford tv 1991 The Man in the Moon as Matthew Trant movie 1990 The Civil War as Abraham Lincoln (voice) tv 1990 Law & Order as Jack McCoy tv 1990 Night of 100 Stars III as Self movie 1990 A Captive in the Land as Royce movie 1989 The Nightmare Years as Bill Shirer tv 1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors as Ben movie 1989 Welcome Home as Woody movie 1989 Lantern Hill as Andrew Stuart movie 1989 Tales from the Crypt as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow") tv 1988 Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami as Jim Delmore movie 1988 Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln tv 1988 A Walk in the Woods as John Honeyman movie 1987 September as Peter movie 1987 Devil's Paradise as Jones movie

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Sam Waterston is known for acting, with popular credits including The Killing Fields, Heaven's Gate, The Great Gatsby, Hannah and Her Sisters. The latest news panel tracks recent coverage and source links for fans who want current updates.

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Sam Waterston is 85 years old, based on the birthday listed by TMDB.

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Sam Waterston is known for credits including The Killing Fields, Heaven's Gate, The Great Gatsby, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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