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

Family Guy

as Bruce Kaplan (voice)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Jack McCoy

Miss Sloane

as George Dupont

Hannah and Her Sisters

as David (uncredited)

On the Basis of Sex

as Erwin Griswold

Tales from the Crypt

as G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")

Crimes and Misdemeanors

as Ben

The Killing Fields

as Sydney Schanberg

Serial Mom

as Eugene Sutphin

The Newsroom

as Charlie Skinner