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Sam Waterston Acting Filmography (89)

A Case for Love

The Six Triple Eight

2024·Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

2021·Self (voice)

The Man in the Woods

2020·Headmaster Waldorf

Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story

On the Basis of Sex

2018·Erwin Griswold

The Mayo Clinic

2018·Charlie Mayo (voice)

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

2018·Self - (archive footage)

Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators

2017·Narrator (voice)

Dateline: Saigon

2017·Narrator (voice)

2016·Prof. Walter Zarrow

2016·George Dupont

Please Be Normal

And It Was Good

2015·Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger

The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

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

Hammer and Cycle

2004·Self - Narrator

2003·Chester Walker

2003·J. Lee Rankin

The Matthew Shepard Story

2002·Dennis Shepard

A House Divided

2000·David Dickson

Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs

1999·Self / Host / Narrator

The Unfinished Journey

1999·Narrator (voice)

Here Am I, Send Me: The Story of Jonathan Daniels

Miracle at Midnight

1998·Dr. Karl Koster

1998·Jack McCoy

Shadow Conspiracy

1997·The President

1996·Harry Bancroft

The Journey of August King

1995·Mooney Wright

1995·Richard Helms

Amazing Stories: The Movie IV

1995·(archive footage)

1994·Eugene Sutphin

The Enemy Within

1994·President William Foster

1994·John Nils

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

1994·Daniel Chamberlain

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

1994·Tom Wingfield (archive footage)

I'll Fly Away: Then and Now

1993·Forrest Bedford

Earth and the American Dream

1992·Reader (voice)

The Man in the Moon

1991·Matthew Trant

1991·Jack Edwards

Night of 100 Stars III

A Captive in the Land

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989·Andrew Stuart

Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami

1988·Jim Delmore

A Walk in the Woods

1988·John Honeyman

Swimming to Cambodia

1987·Additional Cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)

The Room Upstairs

1987·Travis Coles

Devil's Paradise

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986·David (uncredited)

The Fifth Missile

1986·Capt. Allard Renslow

Flagrant désir

1986·Inspecteur Gerry Morrison

Just Between Friends

1986·Harry Crandall

1985·Cal Morse

Finnegan Begin Again

1985·Paul Broadbent

The Killing Fields

1984·Sydney Schanberg

The Boy Who Loved Trolls

1983·Doc Kearns

In Defense of Kids

1983·Paul Wilcox

Games Mother Never Taught You

1982·David Bentells

1980·Frank Canton

1980·Jack Cutter

1980·William McClusky

1980·C.D.B. Bryan

1979·White Bull

1977·Lt. Col. Peter Willis

1975·Cecil Colson

Journey into Fear

1975·Mr. Graham

The Great Gatsby

1974·Nick Carraway

Reflections of Murder

1974·Michael Elliott

The Glass Menagerie

1973·Tom Wingfield

Much Ado About Nothing

Mahoney's Last Stand

1972·James, the Limping Man

Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?

1971·Alex Monte

1970·Cameraman

The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean