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Sam Waterston
0 FOLLOWERS • 38 CREDITS • NOV 15, 1940 • 83
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."
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Known For
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Saturday Night Live
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
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Law & Order: Trial by Jury
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Family Guy
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Homicide: Life on the Street
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Amazing Stories
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The Colbert Report
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People's Choice Awards
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Dr. Kildare
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Tales from the Crypt
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HBO First Look
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Jeopardy!
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The Dropout
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Nixon
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Prohibition
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Earth and the American Dream
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Miss Sloane
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Godless
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The Newsroom
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Jane Fonda in Five Acts
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
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The Great Gatsby
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Grace and Frankie
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On the Basis of Sex
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Dean Smith
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September
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Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
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The Civil War
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The Enemy Within
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The Man in the Moon
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Lincoln
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Law & Order
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Miracle at Midnight
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I'll Fly Away
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Oppenheimer
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