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Sam Waterston
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 Man in the Moon
as Matthew Trant

The Six Triple Eight
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

On the Basis of Sex
as Erwin Griswold

Miss Sloane
as George Dupont

The Great Gatsby
as Nick Carraway

The Killing Fields
as Sydney Schanberg

Hannah and Her Sisters
as David (uncredited)

Serial Mom
as Eugene Sutphin

Heaven's Gate
as Frank Canton

Capricorn One
as Lt. Col. Peter Willis