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Jay O. Sanders
Austin, Texas, USA
Jay Olcutt Sanders (born April 16, 1953) is an American film, theatre and television actor and playwright. He frequently appears in plays off-Broadway at The Public Theatre. He ha…
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Jay Olcutt Sanders (born April 16, 1953) is an American film, theatre and television actor and playwright. He frequently appears in plays off-Broadway at The Public Theatre. He has received a Drama Desk Award and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Sanders made his off-Broadway debut in a Shakespeare in the Park production of Henry V in 1976. He originated the role of Bradley in Sam Shepard's Buried Child (1978). He made his Broadway debut in the play Loose Ends (1979). He returned to Broadway in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1983), Saint Joan (1993), Pygmalion (2007), Girl from the North Country (2020), and Purlie Victorious (2023). He made his feature film debut in the comedy Starting Over (1979). He had notable roles in films such as Cross Creek (1983), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), Glory (1989), JFK (1991), Hostages (1992), Angels in the Outfield (1994), Music of the Heart (1999), Tumbleweeds (1999), and Revolutionary Road (2008). He took recurring roles in television series including Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, Blindspot, and Sneaky Pete. He has served as the narrator for the shows Wide Angle, Nova, and Secrets of the Dead. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay O. Sanders, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2027
Remain
Movie
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2026
Queens of Combat: Rome's Female Gladiators
Movie Narrator
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2025
The Rise & Fall of the Colosseum
Movie Narration
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2024
Girl From the North Country
Movie Nick Laine
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2024
Decoding the Universe: Quantum
Movie Self - Narrator
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2024
His Three Daughters
Movie Vincent
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2024
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
Movie Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee
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2024
Decoding the Universe
TV show Narrator
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2024
Decoding the Universe: Cosmos
Movie Self - Narrator
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2023
Outrage
Movie Frank Brand
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2023
When You Finish Saving the World
Movie Roger
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2022
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Movie Ambassador Jones
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2022
The Road to Galena
Movie John Baird
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2020
Incidental Moments of the Day
Movie Richard Apple
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2020
And So We Come Forth
Movie Richard Apple
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2020
Tapes
Movie
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2020
What Do We Need to Talk About?
Movie Richard Apple
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2020
Regular Singing
Movie Richard Apple
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2020
Sorry
Movie Richard Apple
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2020
That Hopey Changey Thing
Movie Richard Apple
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2020
Sweet and Sad
Movie Richard Apple
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2020
Stars in the House
TV show Self
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2020
The Assistant
Movie Boss (voice)
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2019
NOVA: Decoding da Vinci
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2019
Uncle Vanya
Movie Vanya
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2019
World War Speed: The Drugs That Won WWII
Movie Narrator
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2019
DC Noir
Movie Sgt. Peters
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2019
Saving the Dead Sea
Movie
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2019
Secrets of the Dead: The Nero Files
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2019
The Violin Alone
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2018
Broken Places
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2018
NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2018
NOVA: First Face of America
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2018
Vice
Movie Governor
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2017
Ghosts of Stonehenge
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2017
Manhunt
TV show Watson Bryant
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2017
Holocaust Escape Tunnel
Movie Narrator (voice)
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- 2017
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2017
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
Movie George Gabriel
