Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

November 14, 1940 (84 years old)

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

Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs

Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

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