Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor, producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in The Killing Fields (1984), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, and his starring role as Jack McCoy on the long-running NBC television series Law & Order (1994–2010), which brought him Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards. 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 fifty-year career. He has also starred in numerous stage productions. Allmovie has characterised Waterston as having "cultivated a loyal following with his quietly charismatic, unfailingly solid performances."
Waterston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2012.
Waterston, the third of four siblings (Roberta, George, and Ellen), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother, Alice Tucker (née Atkinson), a landscape painter, was of English ancestry, and a descendant of Mayflower passengers. His father, George Chychele Waterston, was an immigrant from Leith, Scotland, and a semanticist and language teacher.
Actors: Raul Casso (actor), Raúl Castillo (actor), Kevin Corrigan (actor), Tony Gillan (actor), Ian Jelinek (actor), Wylie Jelinek (actor), Pedro Pascal (actor), Andy Powers (actor), Yul Vazquez (actor), Aaron Roman Weiner (actor), Sarita Choudhury (actress), Catherine Kellner (actress), Lauren Ruff (actress), Jillian Severin (actress), Femi Alao (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Jonas Daniel Alexander (actor), Will Brigham (actor), Oliver Brooke (actor), Graham Cheadle (actor), Graham Cheadle (actor), Luke Goddard (actor), Josh Heslehurst (actor), Simon Matthew Naylor (actor), Lee Starkey (actor), Richard Thirlwall (actor), Mark Wood (actor), Sheryl Hadley (actress), Kelly Wood (actress), Alex McDonnell (producer), Oliver Mitchell (writer),
Genres: History, Short,Actors: Ian Brennan (actor), Jake Brennan (actor), Miles Elliot (actor), Jorge Garcia (actor), Armani Jackson (actor), Matt Jones (actor), Peter Kwong (actor), Aiden Lovekamp (actor), Sam Ly (actor), Brandi Marie (actor), Jack McBrayer (actor), Cooper Roth (actor), Leigh Whannell (actor), Rainn Wilson (actor), Jared Breeze (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi,Actors: Anthony Backman (actor), Jeremy Batiste (actor), Julia Bellows (actor), Chris Burkert (actor), Trevor Darke (actor), Drennon Davis (actor), Cameron Dean (actor), Mitch Eakins (actor), Jacques Freydont (actor), Grant T. Gardner (actor), Frank Gilson (actor), John James Hickey (actor), Michael Holmes (actor), Michael Holmes (actor), Kevin Avery (actor),
Plot: Walter Kipling is an introverted yet determined inventor at Zspace Industries with a dream of being a hero in space exploration. When he's passed over for a fellowship on an upcoming launch in favor of the beautiful Katherine White, Walter returns to his daily grind in the math lab. But when Shuttle 9 goes missing, Walter and his childhood solar-powered space helmet may be Katherine's only chance for coming back to Earth alive. Walter will have one desperate last chance to be the "somebody" he dreamed.
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance,Actors: Jack Chon (actor), Leandro De la Torre (actor), Leandro De la Torre (actor), El Dedo (actor), Nicolas Fontana (actor), Fernando Giangiacomo (actor), Martín Gloviar (actor), Ezequiel Hansen (actor), Alejo Iglesias (actor), Joe (actor), Kato (actor), Gustavo Lapoule (actor), Jet Lee (actor), Bruce Lii (actor), J.R. Bookwalter (actor),
Plot: Extreme urban violence reigns in Argentina. Senator Beccar Varela rises as the only way to stop violence with his "zero tolerance" politic. People doesn't suspect that Beccar is the head of the nazi gang that causes the violence. When members of the gang torture and rape a retarded man, a mysterious Masked avenger begins his brutal revenge against the gangs and the corrupt politics.
Keywords: absurdism, avant-garde, avenger, blood, bloodbath, bodily-dismemberment, brutality, cruelty, dismemberment, eye-patchActors: Douglas Bennett (actor), Justin Cudworth (actor), Breck Wilson (actor), Michelle Haner (actress), Adrian Lee (actress), Ben Bowman (producer), Emily Branham (producer), Kenneth Cole (producer), Scott Edelstein (producer), Isaac Feder (producer), Elizabeth Francis (producer), Darin Heinemann (producer), Lori Wagner (producer), Justin Francis (writer), Rebecca Pietri (costume designer),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Joseph Batzel (actor), Bob Bedore (actor), Dustin Breau (actor), Todd Bridges (actor), K.C. Clyde (actor), Bobby Edner (actor), Frank Gerrish (actor), Hal Linden (actor), Joey Miyashima (actor), Richard Moll (actor), Alan Peterson (actor), Oscar Rowland (actor), David Seaman (actor), George Stapleford (actor), Scott Baio (actor),
Plot: Stephen Hitchcock is a divorced accountant who has a clever son, Kevin. Stephen's sister Vivian wants him to go on a blind date with a friend of hers called Sandy. They arrange a meeting in a shopping mall. Norman Byers is a computer expert. He has broken into a computer and has found some very important numbers. He arranges to hand them over to his accomplice Kelly Jordan in the same shopping mall where Stephen is supposed to meet his blind date. But Norman is chased by two shady looking guys and hasn't got time. He decides to put the numbers in Stephen's shopping bag and tells Kelly to retrieve it. When Stephen assumes Kelly is the blind date he is looking for, he takes her with him to a restaurant. Little does he know he's carrying all kinds of trouble around in his bag. Those numbers are wanted by a lot of people, or so it seems.
Keywords: blind-date, bound-and-gagged, computer-expert, divorced-father, father-son-relationship, shopping-bag, shopping-mall, tied-to-a-chairActors: Mark Borchardt (actor), Anthony Calianno (actor), Jerry Don Clark (actor), Barak Epstein (actor), Eric Fleming (actor), Daniel Garner (actor), Joe Grisaffi (actor), Shanti Guy (actor), Jonathan Haug (actor), Mark Hosack (actor), Lloyd Kaufman (actor), Hollin Lange (actor), David Lowery (actor), Thaddeus Matula (actor), Ramzi Abed (actor),
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Short,Actors: Lew Ayres (actor), Vince Barnett (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Raymond Borzage (actor), Jim Farley (actor), James Flavin (actor), Frankie Genardi (actor), Ralf Harolde (actor), William Harrigan (actor), Warren Hymer (actor), Dickie Jones (actor), Paul Kelly (actor), Billy Lee (actor), Sidney Miller (actor), Oscar Apfel (actor),
Plot: Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls in love with Laura Grant, Tim's sweetheart, and complications quickly arise.
Keywords: 1930s, b-movie, bodyguard, children, cigarette-smoking, doctor, extortion, gang-leader, gang-member, held-at-gunpointActors: Danny Borzage (actor), George Brent (actor), George Brent (actor), Milton Brown (actor), Charles Edward Bull (actor), Thomas Carr (actor), Cyril Chadwick (actor), Colin Chase (actor), Harvey Clark (actor), Elmer Dewey (actor), John Webb Dillon (actor), Thomas Durant (actor), Bob Fleming (actor), Willie Fung (actor), Chief John Big Tree (actor),
Plot: Springfield, Illinois. Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west, but Marsh, a contractor, is sceptical. Abraham Lincoln looks on as their children, Davy Brandon and Miriam Marsh, play together. Brandon sets off with Davy to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy buries his father... Years pass. It is 1862 and Lincoln signs the bill authorizing construction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railways. Marsh is principal contractor and Miriam is engaged to Jesson, the chief engineer... Crews of Chinese, Italians, and Irish work to build the railway while resisting Indian attack. When the pay train is delayed by Indian ambush, the Italians go on strike. Miriam persuades them to return to work... Marsh needs to find a shortcut through the Black Hills. To finish on time, he needs to shorten the route by 200 miles. Bauman, the biggest land owner, wants the route to stay the same - through his land. Marsh has entrusted Jesson with finding the new route. Bauman has Ruby, a saloon girl, persuade Jesson to do otherwise... Davy, now a pony express rider, recalls his father's discovery. He sets off to find the pass. He goes alone, except for Jesson...
Keywords: american-indian, epic, intercontinental-railroad, native-american, railway, springfield-illinois, street-shootout, trainYou've lost that steam
And so behind
Can't get up front
From this
Earth fed machine
Wrong breathing mouth
Can't get behind
Lift me up
Lift me up
I can't get up front from this
Trains on new tracks
Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor, producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in The Killing Fields (1984), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, and his starring role as Jack McCoy on the long-running NBC television series Law & Order (1994–2010), which brought him Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards. 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 fifty-year career. He has also starred in numerous stage productions. Allmovie has characterised Waterston as having "cultivated a loyal following with his quietly charismatic, unfailingly solid performances."
Waterston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2012.
Waterston, the third of four siblings (Roberta, George, and Ellen), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother, Alice Tucker (née Atkinson), a landscape painter, was of English ancestry, and a descendant of Mayflower passengers. His father, George Chychele Waterston, was an immigrant from Leith, Scotland, and a semanticist and language teacher.