Sam Waterston
Birthday: 1940-11-15
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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.
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The Killing Fields
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
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Heaven's Gate
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing...
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The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste...
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Hannah and Her Sisters
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murde...
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Serial Mom
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuc...
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September
After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Steph...
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Capricorn One
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn...
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Hopscotch
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to r...
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Le Divorce
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a p...
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Warning Sign
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Rancho Deluxe
Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contempo...
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Interiors
When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally gl...
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The Journey of August King
The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. Augus...
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The Matthew Shepard Story
In a senseless act of hatred, openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. This ...
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Shadow Conspiracy
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The Man in the Moon
Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster thr...
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Mindwalk
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Sonia meets Jack and Tom. Sonia is a Norwegian physicist ...
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The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” Who among us has not wanted to open their ...
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Welcome Home
Jake died in Vietnam; his family mourned him, then moved on. When he reappears, quite alive, the que...
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The Glass Menagerie
Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southe...
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Generation
Newlyweds shock the bride's father with plans for natural childbirth in a Greenwich Village loft....
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The Enemy Within
A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and...
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Reflections of Murder
The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. The...
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The Proprietor
An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being pla...
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Merchant Ivory
The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership,...
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Eagle's Wing
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the ...
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The Fifth Missile
The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken b...
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Swimming to Cambodia
Spalding Gray sits behind a desk throughout the entire film and recounts his exploits and chance enc...
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Games Mother Never Taught You
Hard-working career wife Laura becomes the first female executive in an all-male office and is disma...
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Journey into Fear
U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab bus...
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The Room Upstairs
A Boston teacher decides to turn her old home into a boarding house to pull in some much-needed extr...
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Miracle at Midnight
Gripping historical drama presents a triumphant celebration of the human spirit. The true-life story...
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Three
Two college friends, traveling in Europe, find themselves rivals for the attentions of a mysterious ...
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Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
There is no question that the Arab terrorist portrayed by Robert Davi is guilty of killing five US c...
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Nixon
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...
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Lantern Hill
Jane, a young Toronto girl, tries to reunite her estranged parents during the 1930’s, sick of her st...
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Mahoney's Last Stand
"A truly remarkable performance!" - Charlie Chaplin In this rare and virtually unseen film we follo...
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A Case for Love
“A Case for Love” is a heartfelt yet personally challenging movie inspired by the teachings and writ...
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David's Mother
Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. N...
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I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
Lilly Taylor returns to her hometown for the first time in thirty years, where she remembers the dra...
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Dempsey
Nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards in 1984, this made-for-TV movie follows the true story of Am...
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Sweet William
William is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naïve Ann, ...
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Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tie...
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Cover Me Babe
Student filmmaker lets nothing stand in the way of his getting a studio contract....
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Night of 100 Stars III
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....
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Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxe...
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Please Be Normal
Victor is a struggling playwright and theater director and his girlfriend Mary is expecting their fi...
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Anesthesia
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy...
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The Boy Who Loved Trolls
Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist....
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Flagrant désir
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers mai...
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Love Lives On
A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fas...
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Exiled
NYPD Detective Mike Logan, who was reassigned to Staten Island after punching a corrupt politician, ...
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The Six Triple Eight
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible missio...
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Just Between Friends
Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don't know however that they have more in comm...
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A Captive in the Land
An American meteorologist attempts to rescue an injured Soviet airman. A killer storm soon maroons t...
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Much Ado About Nothing
Don Pedro and his men (Teddy Roosevelt Roughriders) have returned from the wars. After Beatrice turn...
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Savages
A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following i...
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A House Divided
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon retu...
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Miss Sloane
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control leg...
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Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
Four tales are compiled from the popular television series. After a death row inmate (Patrick Swayze...
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Fitzwilly
When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she i...
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Devil's Paradise
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he ...
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The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
Written, directed, and self-financed by Juleen Compton, The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean is the story ...
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Sweet Revenge
A young woman with a long rap sheet who steals cars for a living is befriended by a public defender ...
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Finnegan Begin Again
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drift...
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In Defense of Kids
When a female lawyer finds a girl hiding in the back of her car, it starts her thinking, and she dec...
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Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators
We all know Curious George. But what about his creators, Hans and Margret Rey? From fleeing Nazi Ger...
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On the Basis of Sex
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before ...
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The Man in the Woods
On a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her frie...
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and ...
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The Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Clinic tells the story of a unique medical institution that has been called a "Medical Mecc...
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broa...
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A Walk in the Woods
A true story about one US and one USSR delegate who, during 1982 talks in Geneva between USA and USS...
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In Bad Taste
A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow fi...
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Jane Fonda in Five Acts
Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has lived a li...
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Dean Smith
Coach, mentor, social activist ...the life and legacy of Dean Smith, North Carolina's legendary bask...
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Dateline: Saigon
How does a nation slip into war? Dateline-Saigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitz...
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Earth and the American Dream
A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From ...
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Friendly Fire
In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them...
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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
A documentary 33 years in the making. A director and friend of Kurt Vonnegut seeks through his archi...
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Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs, hosted by Sam Waterston, tells the comp...
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Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
The summer Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived in Connecticut inspired one of the world's most beloved ...
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The Commission
Using transcripts from the Warren Commission Report, this film documents the workings of the Warren ...
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The Unfinished Journey
A multimedia short created for the U.S. millennium celebrations, The Unfinished Journey reflects on ...
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And It Was Good
A couple reunites after a long separation to find themselves in a world that seems designed for thei...
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Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour
On April 17, 1975, the face of Cambodia would forever be changed. As Khmer Rouge soldiers marched in...
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Hammer and Cycle
A group of college students leave New Haven, CT on bicycles and plan a 4,000-mile adventure to benef...
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Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels
The story of New Hampshire native Jonathan Daniels, who was deeply affected by the events of the civ...
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Carousel
A divorced doctor’s carefully constructed life in Cleveland is upended when his daughter’s debate as...
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Law and Order: Justice
This special explores the duality of justice in New York City, dividing its focus between police inv...
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