Background
Waterston, Sam was born on November 15, 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Chychele and Alice Tucker (Atkinson) Waterston.
Waterston, Sam was born on November 15, 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Chychele and Alice Tucker (Atkinson) Waterston.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1962. Student, Sorbonne, Paris, 1961.
Actor: (theatre) Indians, Oh Dad Poor Dad, Halfway Up the Tree, Lunch Hour, Hamlet, The Tempest, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing (Obie, Drama Desk awards), Benefactors, 1986, A Walk in the Woods, 1988, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, 1993-1994 (Drama League award 1994), Shakespeare & Szekspir, 1994, Hamlet, 2008. (films) The Great Gatsby, 1975, Rancho Deluxe, 1976, Capricorn One, 1978, Interiors, 1978, Sweet William, 1978, Heaven's Gate, 1979, Eagle's Wing, 1983, The Killing Fields, 1984, Warning Sign, 1985, Savages, Hopscotch, 1980, Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986, Just Between Friends, 1986, The Devil's Paradise, September, 1987, Welcome Home, 1989, Crimes and Misdemeanors, 1990, Captive in the Land, 1990, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Man in the Moon, 1991, Mindwalk, 1991, Serial Mom, 1994, Nixon, 1995, The Proprietor, 1996, Shadow Conspiracy, 1997, Le Divorce, 2003. (television films) Much Ado About Nothing, 1974, The Glass Menagerie, 1975, Diabolique, 1975, Friendly Fire, 1978, Oppenheimer, 1982, Exiled, 1998, A House Divided, 2000, The Matthew Shepard Story, 2002.
(television series) Q.E.D., 1982, Terrorist on Trial: The United States versus Salim Ajami. (television miniseries) Oppenheimer, 1980, 82, Gore Vidal's Lincoln, 1988, Nightmare Years, 1989, Lost Civilizations, 1995 (Emmy award for best documentary 1996), Ken Burns' The Civil War, 1990, Thomas Jefferson, 1997. Television series Q.E.D., 1979, I'll Fly Away, 1991-1993 (Emmy award nomination, Lead actor, Drama, 1993), I'll Fly Away: Then and Now, 1993 (Emmy nomination, Lead Actor - Special, 1994), Law and Order.
1994-2010 (Screen Actors Guild award 1999), Miracle at Midnight, 1998. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, 1999, (documentary) Unfinished Journey, 1999.
Member Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of television and Radio Artists.
Married Lynn Louisa Woodruff, January 26, 1976. Children: Graham C., Elisabeth P., Katherine B. Child by previous marriage: James S.