Actor info
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Name :
Sam Waterston
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Born :
November 15, 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (85 years old)
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Known for :
Acting
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Gender :
Male
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Film career :
91 films (1966–2026)
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Also known as :
Samuel Atkinson Waterston
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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.
Notable films
- The Six Triple Eight (2024) as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Miss Sloane (2016) as George Dupont
- The Man in the Moon (1991) as Matthew Trant
- The Killing Fields (1984) as Sydney Schanberg
- Heaven's Gate (1980) as Frank Canton
