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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
The Six Triple Eight
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Miss Sloane
as George Dupont
The Man in the Moon
as Matthew Trant
The Killing Fields
as Sydney Schanberg
The Great Gatsby
as Nick Carraway
Serial Mom
as Eugene Sutphin
Hannah and Her Sisters
as David (uncredited)
On the Basis of Sex
as Erwin Griswold
Le Divorce
as Chester Walker
Heaven's Gate
as Frank Canton
