Sam Waterston

Waterston, Sam Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Anesthesia

  2014, role: actor , character name: Prof. Walter Zarrow
• Play in Full Screen Never the Same: The Prisoner-of-War Experience

  2013, role: actor , character name: General Beebe
• Play in Full Screen The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Audience Member
• Play in Full Screen The Path to Violence

  2013, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen

  2013, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen And It Was Good

  2013, role: actor , character name: Doctor
• Play in Full Screen And It Was Good

  2013, role: actor , character name: Judge Alexander Baas
• Play in Full Screen Please Be Normal

  2013, role: actor , character name: Dad
• Play in Full Screen And It Was Good

  2013, role: actor , character name: Gravedigger
• Play in Full Screen Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray

  2011, role: actor , character name: Abraham Lincoln
• Play in Full Screen Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen President Lincoln's Inauguration Re-enactment

  2011, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The Last Boat Out

  2010, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 61st Annual Tony Awards

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter: Best Revival of a Play
• Play in Full Screen AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 100 Greatest War Films

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Saturday Night Live: The Best of Commercial Parodies

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hammer and Cycle

  2004, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union Address

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - as Abraham Lincoln
• Play in Full Screen 101 Most Unforgettable SNL Moments

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Le divorce

  2003, role: actor , character name: Chester Walker
• Play in Full Screen The Commission

  2003, role: actor , character name: J. Lee Rankin
• Play in Full Screen Restore America Honors

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Matthew Shepard Story

  2002, role: actor , character name: Dennis Shepard
• Play in Full Screen Echoes from the White House

  2001, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen A House Divided

  2000, role: actor , character name: David Dickson
• Play in Full Screen A House Divided

  2000, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen In Bad Taste

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
• Play in Full Screen The Unfinished Journey

  1999, role: actor , character name: Narration
• Play in Full Screen Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs

  1999, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Miracle at Midnight

  1998, role: actor , character name: Dr. Karl Koster
• Play in Full Screen 4th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Exiled

  1998, role: actor , character name: Jack McCoy
• Play in Full Screen Shadow Conspiracy

  1997, role: actor , character name: The President
• Play in Full Screen The 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee: Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series
• Play in Full Screen Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

  1997, role: actor , character name: Thomas Jefferson
• Play in Full Screen The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Liv Ullmann scener fra et liv

  1997, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Thomas Jefferson

  1997, role: actor , character name: Thomas Jefferson
• Play in Full Screen The Proprietor

  1996, role: actor , character name: Harry Bancroft
• Play in Full Screen The Journey of August King

  1995, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Journey of August King

  1995, role: actor , character name: Mooney Wright
• Play in Full Screen The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards

  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a TV-Series - Drama
• Play in Full Screen The Visionaries

  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself - Host
• Play in Full Screen Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

  1994, role: actor , character name: Daniel Chamberlain
• Play in Full Screen A Gala for the President at Ford's Theatre

  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen David's Mother

  1994, role: actor , character name: John Nils
• Play in Full Screen The Enemy Within

  1994, role: actor , character name: President William Foster

Famous quotes by Sam Waterston:

"Painting is very interesting."

"I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it."

"I think the bait for doing something really is always the part."

"If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like."

"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."

"If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln."

"I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent."

"Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it."

"If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln."

"I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft."

"I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV."

"I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject."

"There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking."

"As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one."

"The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure."

"I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular."

"I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest."

"Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too."

"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."

Sam Waterston