Acting credits
123
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Sam Waterston
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.6
Moderate attention
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Movies: 89Series: 34Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 8975
IMDb ID: nm0001832
Known for: Acting
Born: November 15, 1940
Age: 85
Place of birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1951 - 2026
Years active: 76
Average TMDB rating: 6.8
Wikidata: Q284876
Also known as
Samuel Atkinson Waterston
Other jobs
Producer (1)
Biography
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Sam Waterston.
as Sam
Carousel
2026 • Movie
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Six Triple Eight
2024 • Movie
as Self
Merchant Ivory
2024 • Movie
as Self (voice)
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
2024 • Movie
as Self
A Case for Love
2024 • Movie
as Self (voice)
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
2021 • Movie
as Headmaster Waldorf
The Man in the Woods
2020 • Movie
as Self
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
2020 • Movie
as Erwin Griswold
On the Basis of Sex
2018 • Movie
as Charlie Mayo (voice)
The Mayo Clinic
2018 • Movie
as Self - (archive footage)
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
2018 • Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
2017 • Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Dateline: Saigon
2017 • Movie
as George Dupont
Miss Sloane
2016 • Movie
as Prof. Walter Zarrow
Anesthesia
2016 • Movie
as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
And It Was Good
2015 • Movie
as Narrator
Dean Smith
2015 • Movie
as Dad
Please Be Normal
2015 • Movie
as Self
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
2010 • Movie
as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 • Movie
as Self - Narrator
Hammer and Cycle
2004 • Movie
as J. Lee Rankin
The Commission
2003 • Movie
as Chester Walker
Le Divorce
2003 • Movie
as Dennis Shepard
The Matthew Shepard Story
2002 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Sam Waterston.
as Self • 3 eps
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023 • Series
as George Shultz • 5 eps
The Dropout
2022 • Series
as Marshall John Cook • 7 eps
Godless
2017 • Series
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 • Series
as Sol Bergstein • 94 eps
Grace and Frankie
2015 • Series
1 eps
Jo
2013 • Series
as Charlie Skinner • 25 eps
The Newsroom
2012 • Series
as Reader (voice) • 3 eps
Prohibition
2011 • Series
1 eps
Masters of Science Fiction
2007 • Series
1 eps
The Colbert Report
2005 • Series
as Jack McCoy • 2 eps
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005 • Series
as Jack McCoy • 4 eps
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 • Series
as Bruce Kaplan (voice) • 2 eps
Family Guy
1999 • Series
as Thomas Jefferson (voice) • 2 eps
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
1997 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
The View
1997 • Series
as Thomas Jefferson (voice) • 2 eps
Thomas Jefferson
1997 • Series
as Narrator • 10 eps
Time Life's Lost Civilizations
1995 • Series
as Jack McCoy • 2 eps
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 • Series
1 eps
HBO First Look
1992 • Series
as Forrest Bedford • 39 eps
I'll Fly Away
1991 • Series
as Abraham Lincoln (voice) • 9 eps
The Civil War
1990 • Series
as Jack McCoy • 405 eps
Law & Order
1990 • Series
as Bill Shirer • 4 eps
The Nightmare Years
1989 • Series
as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow") • 1 eps
Tales from the Crypt
1989 • Series