Sam Waterston
Born: 1940-11-15
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Sam Waterston

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.

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit7.9
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order7.3
Law & Order
1990
Family Guy7.4
Family Guy
1999
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Saturday Night Live7.0
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Colbert Report6.9
The Colbert Report
2005
The Colbert Report6.9
The Colbert Report
2005
Jeopardy!6.8
Jeopardy!
1984
The View4.4
The View
1997
The View4.4
The View
1997
Homicide: Life on the Street8.1
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Dr. Kildare5.7
Dr. Kildare
1961