
Sam Waterston
Known For
Acting
Born
1940-11-15 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Most Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Jack McCoy

Family Guy
as Bruce Kaplan (voice)

Law & Order
as Jack McCoy

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest

Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Jeopardy!
as Self

The View
as Self

The View
as Self - Guest

The Colbert Report

Grace and Frankie
as Sol Bergstein

Homicide: Life on the Street
as Jack McCoy

Tales from the Crypt
as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")

Amazing Stories
as Jordan Manmouth

Dr. Kildare
as Mark

The Newsroom
as Charlie Skinner

The Civil War
as Abraham Lincoln

HBO First Look

Godless
as Marshall John Cook

People's Choice Awards
as Self - Presenter

The Dropout
as George Shultz