Sam Waterston
Acting
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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Waterston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: November 15, 1940
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Known For
People's Choice Awards
An American awards show recognizing people in entertainment, voted online by the general public and fans.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
The inner workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment, and continuing through the prosecutors' complicated process of building a case, investigating leads and preparing witnesses for trial.
Homicide: Life on the Street
An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
David's Mother
Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been dodging 'The System' to keep her son with her, instead of putting him in an institution. Each feels they know what's best for David. But their opinions are not the same. Sally's developing relationship with John Nils is caught in the middle.
The Newsroom
A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.
Lantern Hill
Jane, a young Toronto girl, tries to reunite her estranged parents during the 1930’s, sick of her strict private school and abusive, nasty grandmother.
Love Lives On
A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
In Bad Taste
A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers. The life and death of the actor Divine is also discussed.
Dateline: Saigon
How does a nation slip into war? Dateline-Saigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists -The New York Times' David Halberstam, the Associated Press' Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and legendary photojournalist Horst Faas, and UPI's Neil Sheehan -- during the early years of the Vietnam War as President John F. Kennedy is secretly committing US troops to what is initially dismissed by some as 'a nice little war in a land of tigers and elephants.' 'When the government is telling the truth, reporters become a relatively unimportant conduit to what is happening,' Halberstam tells us. 'But when the government doesn't tell the truth, begins to twist the truth, hide the truth, then the journalist becomes involuntarily infinitely more important.'
Filmography
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
as Self
as Self
as George Shultz
as Self (voice)
as Headmaster Waldorf
as Erwin Griswold
as Charlie Mayo (voice)
as Self - (archive footage)
as Marshall John Cook
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as George Dupont
as Prof. Walter Zarrow
as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
as Sol Bergstein
as Narrator
as Dad
as Charlie Skinner
as Reader (voice)
as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
as Jack McCoy
as Self - Narrator
as J. Lee Rankin
as Chester Walker
as Dennis Shepard
as David Dickson
as Narrator (voice)
as Jack McCoy
as Self
as Self / Host / Narrator
as Bruce Kaplan (voice)
as Jack McCoy
as Dr. Karl Koster
as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
as The President
as Harry Bancroft
as Richard Helms
as Mooney Wright
as (archive footage)
as Narrator
as Tom Wingfield (archive footage)
as President William Foster
as Eugene Sutphin
as John Nils
as Daniel Chamberlain
as Jack McCoy
as Reader (voice)
as Jack Edwards
as Forrest Bedford
as Matthew Trant
as Abraham Lincoln
as Jack McCoy
as Self
as Royce
as Bill Shirer
as Ben
as Woody
as Andrew Stuart
as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
as Jim Delmore
as Abraham Lincoln
as John Honeyman
as Peter
as Jones
as Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)
as Travis Coles
as Inspecteur Gerry Morrison
as Harry Crandall
as Capt. Allard Renslow
as David (uncredited)
as Jordan Manmouth
as Cal Morse
as Bernie
as Paul Broadbent
as Sydney Schanberg
as Ofoeti
as Self
as Doc Kearns
as Paul Wilcox
as David Bentells
as Frank Canton
as C.D.B. Bryan
as Robert Oppenheimer
as Jack Cutter
as William McClusky
as White Bull
as Mike
as Lt. Col. Peter Willis
as Le Clerq
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
as Mr. Graham
as Cecil Colson
as Self - Presenter
as Michael Elliott
as Nick Carraway
as Tom Wingfield
as Benedick
as Felix
as James, the Limping Man
as Alex Monte
as Cameraman
as Taylor
as Desmond
as Oliver
as Mark
as Travis Coles
as Self (voice)