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Sam Waterston

American actor, producer and director (born 1940)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1940-01-01
Works: 1

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The killing fields

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Film & TV

Acting · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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…

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Carousel — Sam2026
Merchant Ivory — Self2024
A Case for Love — Self2024
The Six Triple Eight — Franklin Delano Roosevelt2024
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled — Self2023
The Dropout — George Shultz2022
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time — Self (voice)2021
The Man in the Woods — Headmaster Waldorf2020
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story — Self2020
On the Basis of Sex — Erwin Griswold2018

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Listeners: 80
Total plays: 291

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,272x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,493x
The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 8,846x

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Key facts

Born: Samuel Atkinson Waterston , ( 1940-11-15 ) November 15, 1940 (age 85) , Cambridge, Massachusetts , U.S.
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 1962–present
Spouses: Barbara Rutledge Johns ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1975 ) Lynn Louisa Woodruff ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1976 )
Children: 4, including James and Katherine
Awards: Full list

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Key dates

Born: 1 January 1940

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Sam
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Cambridge
Occupation: actor
Educated at: Groton School
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Award: star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Samuel Atkinson Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor. Waterston is known for his work in theater, television, and film. He has received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two BAFTA Awards. His acting career has spanned over five decades acting on stage and screen. Waterston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2012.

Waterston studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and the American Actors Workshop. He started his career in theater on the New York City stage, appearing in multiple revivals of Shakespeare. Waterston starred in numerous productions at the Public Theatre including Indians (1969), The Trial of Catonsville Nine (1970), A Doll's House (1975), Hamlet (1975), Measure for Measure (1977), and Benefactors (1980). He portrayed Abraham Lincoln on Broadway in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1993) where he received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination.