The son of a Mayflower descendent, Sam Waterston was born in Cambridge, Mass., on Nov. 15, 1940, attending Yale University, the Sorbonne and the American Actors Workshop before taking on television and movie roles.His big break came with a 1973 television adaptation of Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie" and the film version of The Great Gatsby (1974) with Mia Farrow. That pairing led to a subsequent string of Woody Allen films -- Interiors (1978), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) -- and an Oscar nomination for The Killing Fields (1984).
Despite his impressive film résumé, Waterston is perhaps best known for his Emmy-nominated portrayal of District Attorney Jack McCoy on the long-running detective drama "Law & Order." He continues to perform in both live theater and film, donning a beard more than once to play Abraham Lincoln.
AddThe Killing FieldsSam Waterston portrays Sydney Schanberg, the New York Times journalist who won a Pulitzer for his coverage of the civil war in Cambodia. Aided by his translator, Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor), Schanberg shines a light on the tragedy and madness of the bloody conflict. This harrowing drama based... Read More
AddSwimming to CambodiaMonologuist Spalding Gray spins his brilliant conversational web in this one-man reminiscence (based on his hit Broadway show) about his small role in the 1984 movie The Killing Fields. Gray's musings encompass such varied subjects as Southeast Asian politics and the availability of sex and drugs in... Read More
AddThe Glass MenagerieKatharine Hepburn makes her television dramatic debut as overbearing matriarch Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams's poignant play. Amanda's unrealistic dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter (Joanna Miles) and her aspiring writer son (Sam Waterston).... Read More
AddRancho DeluxeSet against the backdrop of Montana's Big Sky country, director Frank Perry's comic Western centers on bumbling cattle rustlers Jack McKee (Jeff Bridges) and Cecil Colson (Sam Waterston). As the duo plots to poach a cattle baron's herd, they run afoul of lawmen nearly as inept as the two thieves.... Read More
AddMiracle at MidnightA valiant Danish doctor (Sam Waterston) and his family struggle against Nazi oppression and try to help their Jewish countrymen survive the Holocaust by escaping across the Baltic Sea to neutral Sweden. Co-starring Mia Farrow, this taut and suspenseful movie originally aired on television's "The... Read More
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