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Sam Waterston
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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…
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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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2026
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Movie Sam
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2024
The Six Triple Eight
Movie Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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2024
Merchant Ivory
Movie Self
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2024
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
Movie Self (voice)
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2024
A Case for Love
Movie Self
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2023
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
TV show Self
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2022
The Dropout
TV show George Shultz
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2021
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Movie Self (voice)
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2020
The Man in the Woods
Movie Headmaster Waldorf
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2020
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
Movie Self
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2018
On the Basis of Sex
Movie Erwin Griswold
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2018
The Mayo Clinic
Movie Charlie Mayo (voice)
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2018
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
Movie Self - (archive footage)
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2017
Godless
TV show Marshall John Cook
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2017
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
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2017
Dateline: Saigon
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2016
Miss Sloane
Movie George Dupont
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2016
Anesthesia
Movie Prof. Walter Zarrow
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Guest
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2015
And It Was Good
Movie Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
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2015
Grace and Frankie
TV show Sol Bergstein
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2015
Dean Smith
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2015
Please Be Normal
Movie Dad
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2013
Jo
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2012
The Newsroom
TV show Charlie Skinner
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2011
Prohibition
TV show Reader (voice)
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2010
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Movie Self
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2007
Masters of Science Fiction
TV show
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2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Movie John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
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2005
The Colbert Report
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2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
TV show Jack McCoy
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2004
Hammer and Cycle
Movie Self - Narrator
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2003
The Commission
Movie J. Lee Rankin
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2003
Le Divorce
Movie Chester Walker
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2002
The Matthew Shepard Story
Movie Dennis Shepard
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2000
A House Divided
Movie David Dickson
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1999
The Unfinished Journey
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV show Jack McCoy
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1999
In Bad Taste
Movie Self
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1999
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
Movie Self / Host / Narrator
