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Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston

Total Box Office:
 $8.9M
Highest Rated:
100% Swimming To Cambodia (1987)
Lowest Rated:
0% The Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
Birthday:
Nov 15
Birthplace:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Bio:
Educated at Yale and the Sorbonne, Sam Waterston, born November 15th, 1940, is far more than the "general purpose actor" he was pegged to be by one well-known film historian. A respected player on the stage, screen, and television, Waterston has cultivated a loyal following with his quietly…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies | TV series

MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen
  • Narrator
-- 2013
58% September
  • Peter
-- 2013
Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray
  • Abraham Lincoln
-- 2011
Friendly Fire
  • Actor
-- 2006
36% Le Divorce
  • Chester Walker
$8.9M 2003
Much Ado About Nothing
  • Actor
-- 2002
The Matthew Shepard Story
  • Actor
-- 2002
Echoes From the White House
  • Actor
-- 2000
House Divided
  • David Dickson
-- 2000
Exiled (Exiled: A Law & Order Movie)
  • Exec. Asst. DA Jack McCoy
-- 1998
Miracle at Midnight
  • Director
  • Actor
-- 1998
0% The Shadow Conspiracy
  • President
-- 1997
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
  • Actor
-- 1997
Thomas Jefferson
  • Thomas Jefferson
-- 1996
The Proprietor
  • Harry Bancroft
-- 1996
57% The Journey of August King
  • Mooney Wright
-- 1995
Lost Civilizations - Complete Set
  • Actor
-- 1995
David's Mother
  • Actor
-- 1994
60% Serial Mom
  • Eugene Sutphin
-- 1994
Assault at West Point
  • Daniel Chamberlain
-- 1994
The Enemy Within
  • President William Foster
-- 1994
Captive in the Land
  • Royce
-- 1991
88% Mindwalk
  • Jack Edwards
-- 1991
89% The Man in the Moon
  • Matthew Trant
-- 1991
Lantern Hill (Jane of Lantern Hill)
  • Andrew Stuart
-- 1990
Welcome Home
  • Woody
-- 1989
The Nightmare Years
  • Actor
-- 1989
92% Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • Ben
-- 1989
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami (Hostile Witness)
  • Actor
-- 1988
Gore Vidal's Lincoln
  • Abraham Lincoln
-- 1988
In the Hands of the Enemy
  • Actor
-- 1988
The Room Upstairs
  • Travis Coles
-- 1987
Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait
  • Actor
-- 1987
100% Swimming To Cambodia
  • Actor
-- 1987
33% Just Between Friends
  • Harry Crandall
-- 1986
Views of a Vanishing Frontier
  • Narrator
-- 1986
91% Hannah and Her Sisters
  • David
-- 1986
20% Warning Sign
  • Cal Morse
-- 1985
Finnegan Begin Again
  • Paul Broadbent
-- 1984
91% The Killing Fields
  • Sydney Schanberg
  • Director
-- 1984
In Defense of Kids
  • Actor
-- 1983
Dempsey
  • Doc Kearns
-- 1983
Mastermind: Target London
  • Actor
-- 1982
Mastermind - Infernal Device
  • Actor
-- 1982
Mastermind - The Great Motor Race
  • Actor
-- 1982
75% Hopscotch
  • Cutter
-- 1980
56% Heaven's Gate
  • Frank Canton
-- 1980
Sweet William
  • William McClusky
-- 1979
Friendly Fire
  • C.D. Bryan
-- 1979
Eagle's Wing
  • White Bull
-- 1979
61% Capricorn One
  • Peter Willis
-- 1978
77% Interiors
  • Mike
-- 1978
Sweet Revenge (Dandy, the All American Girl)
  • Le Clerq
-- 1976
67% Rancho Deluxe
  • Cecil Colson
-- 1975
Journey Into Fear (Burn Out)
  • Graham
-- 1974
37% The Great Gatsby
  • Nick Carraway
-- 1974
Reflections of Murder
  • Michael Elliot
-- 1974
A Delicate Balance
  • Actor
-- 1973
The Glass Menagerie
  • Tom Wingfield
-- 1973
Savages
  • James
-- 1972
Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name
  • Alex
-- 1971
Death of a Hooker
  • Actor
-- 1971
Cover Me Babe (Run Shadow Run)
  • Cameraman
-- 1970
Three
  • Taylor
-- 1969
Generation
  • Desmond
-- 1969
Fitzwilly (A Garden of Cucumbers)
  • Oliver
-- 1967

Movies | TV series

TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
60% Law & Order
  • ADA Jack McCoy
  • ADA Jack Mccoy
  • Jack McCoy
1990-2010
65% The Newsroom
  • Charlie Skinner
2012-2013
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • McCoy
  • DA Jack McCoy
1999-2013

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    1. Nick Carraway: There was music from my neighbor's house through those summer nights. In his enchanted gardens, men and girls came and went like moths, among the whispering and the champagne and the stars. I believe that few people were actually invited to these parties. They just went. They got into automobiles that bore them out to Long Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby's door. Come for the party with a simplicity of heart that was it's own ticket of admission.
    From The Great Gatsby. Submitted by Helen O (5 months ago)
    1. Nick Carraway: They're a rotten bunch. You're worth the whole lot of them put together! [in reference to Jay Gatsby]
    From The Great Gatsby. Submitted by Chris C (16 months ago)

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