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Sam Waterston

English
Filmography

The Dropout

2022
as George Shultz

Unstuck in Time

2021
as Sam Waterston

The Man in the Woods

2020
as Headmaster Waldorf

On the Basis of Sex

2018
as Erwin Griswold

The Mayo Clinic

2018
as Charlie Mayo

Ken Burns: America's Storyteller

2017
as Sam Waterston

Dateline: Saigon

2016
as Narrator

Miss Sloane

2016
as George Dupont

Anesthesia

2016
as Prof. Walter Zarrow

Dean Smith

2015
as Narrator

Grace and Frankie

2015
as Sol Bergstein

Please Be Normal

2014
as Dad

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen

2013
as Narrator

The Newsroom (2012)

2012
as Charlie Skinner

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006
as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")

The Divorce

2003
as Chester Walker

The Matthew Shepard Story

2002
as Dennis Shepard

Exiled: A Law & Order Movie

1998
as Jack McCoy

Miracle at Midnight

1998
as Dr. Karl Koster

Shadow Conspiracy

1997
as The President

Thomas Jefferson

1997
as Thomas Jefferson (voice)

The Proprietor

1996
as Harry Bancroft

Nixon

1995
as Richard Helms

The Journey of August King

1995
as Mooney Wright

Lost Civilizations

1995
as Narrator

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

1994
as Daniel Chamberlain

The Enemy Within

1994
as President William Foster

David's Mother

1994
as John Nils

Serial Mom

1994
as Eugene Sutphin

I'll Fly Away: Then and Now

1993
as Forrest Bedford

I'll Fly Away

1991
as Forrest Bedford

The Man in the Moon

1991
as Matthew Trant

A Captive in the Land

1990
as Royce

The Civil War

1990
as Abraham Lincoln

Mindwalk

1990
as Jack Edwards

Law & Order

1990
as Jack McCoy

Welcome Home

1989
as Woody

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989
as Ben

Lantern Hill

1989
as Andrew Stuart

Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami

1988
as Jim Delmore

Gore Vidal's Lincoln

1988
as Abraham Lincoln

The Room Upstairs

1987
as Travis Coles

Des Teufels Paradies

1987
as Jones

September

1987
as Peter

Just Between Friends

1986
as Harry Crandall

Flagrant désir

1986
as Inspecteur Gerry Morrison

The Fifth Missile

1986
as Capt. Allard Renslow

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986
as David

Finnegan Begin Again

1985
as Paul Broadbent

Love Lives On

1985
as Bernie

Warning Sign

1985
as Cal Morse

The Killing Fields

1984
as Sydney Schanberg

The Boy Who Loved Trolls

1984
as Ofoeti

In Defense of Kids

1983
as Paul Wilcox

Dempsey

1983
as Doc Kearns

Q.E.D.

1982

Sweet William

1980
as William McClusky

Heaven's Gate

1980
as Frank Canton

Hopscotch

1980
as Jack Cutter

Oppenheimer (1980)

1980
as Robert Oppenheimer

Eagle's Wing

1979
as White Bull

Friendly Fire

1979
as C.D.B. Bryan

Interiors

1978
as Mike

Capricorn One

1977
as Lt. Col. Peter Willis

Sweet Revenge

1976
as Le Clerq

Journey Into Fear

1975
as Mr. Graham

Rancho Deluxe

1975
as Cecil Colson

Reflections of Murder

1974
as Michael Elliott

The Great Gatsby

1974
as Nick Carraway

Much Ado About Nothing

1973
as Benedick

The Glass Menagerie

1973
as Tom Wingfield

Mahoney's Last Stand

1972
as Felix

Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?

1971
as Alex Monte

Cover Me Babe

1970
as Cameraman

Three

1969
as Taylor

Generation

1969
as Desmond

Fitzwilly

1967
as Oliver

The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean

1966
as Andy

Six Triple Eight

Director

Episode Law & Order
New York Minute 		2005
Episode Law & Order
House of Cards 		2005

Producer

Movie The Journey of August King 1995

Guest Star

Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sam Waterston, Sophia Bush, John Oliver 		2022
Episode Ken Burns Films
The Mayo Clinic: Faith - Hope - Science 		2018
Episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Undiscovered Country 		2018
Episode Prohibition
A Nation of Scofflaws 		2011
Episode Prohibition
A Nation of Drunkards 		2011
Episode Prohibition
A Nation of Hypocrites 		2011
Episode Masters of Science Fiction
A Clean Escape 		2007
Episode The Colbert Report
Tony Bennett 		2007
Episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Blinded 		2007
Episode Jeopardy!
2006 Celebrity Jeopardy! Game 3 		2006
Episode Law & Order: Trial by Jury
The Abominable Showman 		2005
Episode Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Skeleton (2) 		2005
Episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Entitled (1) 		2000
Episode Family Guy
Brian in Love 		2000
Episode Family Guy
Road to Rhode Island 		2000
Episode Homicide: Life on the Street
Sideshow (2) 		1999
Episode Homicide: Life on the Street
Baby, It's You (2) 		1997
Episode Jeopardy!
1997 Celebrity Jeopardy! Game 4 		1997
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Sam Waterston 		1995
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Sam Waterston 		1992
Episode American Experience
Views of a Vanishing Frontier 		1988
Episode Amazing Stories (1985)
Mirror, Mirror 		1986