Sam Waterston
Date of Birth: 15 Nov 1940
Country: USA
Biography: Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston 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 Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild-, BAFTA- and Emmy Awards, having starred in over eighty film...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 62 (Actor)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (62)
- The Right Thing (2022) - S21 E1
- Impossible Dream (2022) - S21 E2
- Filtered Life (2022) - S21 E3
- Fault Lines (2022) - S21 E4
- Free Speech (2022) - S21 E5
- Wicked Game (2022) - S21 E6
- Legacy (2022) - S21 E7
- Severance (2022) - S21 E8
- The Great Pretender (2022) - S21 E9
- Black and Blue (2022) - S21 E10
- Gimme Shelter - Part Three (2022) - S22 E1
- Battle Lines (2022) - S22 E2
- Second Chance (2023) - S22 E11
- Almost Famous (2023) - S22 E12
- Mammon (2023) - S22 E13
- Heroes (2023) - S22 E14
- Camouflage (2022) - S22 E3
- Benefit of the Doubt (2022) - S22 E4
- 12 Seconds (2022) - S22 E5
- Fear and Loathing (2023) - S22 E15
- Deadline (2023) - S22 E16
- Bias (2023) - S22 E17
- Collateral Damage (2023) - S22 E18
- Private Lives (2023) - S22 E19
- Class Retreat (2023) - S22 E20
- Appraisal (2023) - S22 E21
- Open Wounds (2023) - S22 E22
- Chain of Command (2022) - S22 E8
- Only the Lonely (2022) - S22 E7
- Vicious Cycle (2022) - S22 E6
- The System (2022) - S22 E9
- Land of Opportunity (2023) - S22 E10
- Freedom of Expression (2024) - S23 E1
- Human Innovation (2024) - S23 E2
- Turn the Page (2024) - S23 E3
- Unintended Consequences (2024) - S23 E4
- Last Dance (2024) - S23 E5
The film's title indicates the themes of two separate stories: 1) a renowned opthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship...which ends up in murder; and 2) an ethically frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss. (MGM)
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In this modern-day comedy of manners, American sisters Isabel (Hudson) and Roxy (Watts) come face to face with the complicated social mores of French society. Cultures clash and scandals ensue as the sisters learn what it really takes to be an American in Paris. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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During a Thanksgiving Day party we make aquaintance with a numerous and problematic family. The leading characters are three sisters: Lee, the woman of Frederick, an old misanthrope painter; Holly, who dreams of becoming a writer, or an actress; Hannah, famous actress, beautiful, intelligent, good mother, good wife, good sister, in short perfect, the pivot of the family...
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An American citizen is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" ethnic cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians. (imdb)
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After handsome 17-year-old Court Foster moves back into the long vacant Foster ranch, 14-year-old Dani Trant falls in love for the first time... (imdb)
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A sweet mother takes a little too much at heart for the defence of her family. (imdb)
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Everyone is gathering at Lane's place for the weekend, and everyone's in love. Unfortunately, each beloved loves somebody else... (imdb)
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Gray tells about his participation in the film "The Killing Fields" and the background story about the troubles of Cambodia.
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A psychological study of the effect a mother has on her adult daughters and their mixed and often bitter... (imdb)
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A CIA agent tired of his incompetent colleagues retires and dares them to stop him from publishing an embarrassing book of memoirs. (imdb)
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A US politician (Sam Waterston) visits his poet friend (John Heard) in Mont. St. Michael, France. While... (imdb)
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Michael Cimino's bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming. Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clashes with a hired gun, Nathan Champion, over the woman they both love (imdb)
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The Glass Menagerie (1973) - TV Movie
Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a "gentleman caller" appears, things move to crisis point. (imdb)
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Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. (imdb)
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Classic conspiracy tale about the first manned mission to Mars. All appears to be going well until the astronauts are pulled off the ship just before launch by shadowy government types and whisked off to a film studio in the desert. It transpires that the space vehicle has a major defect which NASA just daren't admit. (imdb)
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The Matthew Shepard Story (2002) - TV Movie
In 1998, a young gay man by the name of Matthew Shepard was robbed, viciously beaten and left tied to a fence to die. Although he was soon found by the police and hospitalized, he soon expired. This film recounts the events after the conviction of the two men responsible for this hate motivated murder... (imdb)
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David's Mother (1994) - TV Movie
Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been dodging 'The System' to keep her son with her, instead of putting him in an institution. Each feels they know what's best for David. But their opinions are not the same. Sally's developing relationship with John Nils is caught in the middle. (imdb)
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Bobby Bishop (Sheen) is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenko has time to tell Bishop about some conspiracy in the White House but then immediately gets killed by an assassin. Now bad guys are after Bobby as the only man who knows about a plot. Bishop must now not only survive, but to stop the conspirators from achieving their goal. And he doesn't know whom to trust. (imdb)
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In an ultra secret laboratory for the developing of biological weapons, covered as "Biotek", a research center for agriculture, a serious accident occurs, spreading a sinister bacteria in the laboratory. The security guard of the complex, closes and seals the building, with all the personnel inside, making very difficult the struggle for survival, not to mention the actions that the relatives of the enclosed people are thinking to do. (imdb)
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The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King. (imdb)
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The Enemy Within (1994) - TV Movie
Colonel Casey discovers what appears to be plans by General Lloyd to use fake military excercises to assist Jack Giddings in his plans to remove President Foster from office. Colonel Casey, and President Foster must find evidence that there is a coup planned and stop it, before it takes place. Unfortunately, there isn't much time. (imdb)
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Two drifters, of wildly different backgrounds, become cattle rustlers in modern-day Montana. (imdb)
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Reflections of Murder (1974) - TV Movie
The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.
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Student filmmaker lets nothing stand in the way of his getting a studio contract. (imdb)
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Thomas Jefferson (1997) - TV Mini-Series
A biographical film about The United States' influential and profoundly enigmatic Founding Father. (imdb)
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Lincoln (1988) - TV Mini-Series
Abraham Lincoln the man, from his arrival in Washington to his assassination.
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Martin Sheen's inexperienced trapper finds himself fighting with Sam Waterston's nonosyllabic Kiowa warrior over the possession of a beautiful white horse, the Eagle's Wing, across a harsh and primitive landscape in a time "before the legends began." (imdb)
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Lahti plays a crass, cynical TV news reporter who makes friends with aerobics instructor Mary Tyler Moore and is soon having dinner with Moore and her family--only to discover Mary's husband (Ted Danson) is Lahti's secret affair. (imdb)
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The Fifth Missile (1986) - TV Movie
The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is to make its victims hallucinate, and the sub's captain imagines that he has been given an order to actually attack Russia. He prepares to do exactly that (imdb)
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Two college friends, traveling in Europe, find themselves rivals for the attentions of a mysterious woman.
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This remake of the Orson Welles film stars Sam Waterston as a researcher who finds himself entangled in intrigue and danger in Turkey. (allmovie.com)
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This film documents the exploration expedition led by Meriwether Lewis William Clark into the interior of North America in the early 19th century. We follow the Corps of Discovery as they winded their way across the unknown territory gained in the Louisana Purchase by the United States in their futile search for the legendary Northwest Passage.
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A young woman with a long rap sheet who steals cars for a living is befriended by a public defender who tries to steer her straight. But her goal is to steal and subsequently sell enough cars (sometimes the same car more than once) to buy a new Ferrari. (imdb)
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Jake died in Vietnam; his family mourned him, then moved on. When he reappears, quite alive, the question is, what must he do and how will his family respond to him? (imdb)
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Finnegan Begin Again (1985) - TV Movie
Robert Preston is retired and taking care of his senile wife. He can't get her to allow him to throw anything out and their house has become unmanageable. He meets Mary Tyler Moore who is dating a man with whom she is hopelessly mismatched. They become confidants and each allows the other to share their life and experiences with them.
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The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets, Whittaker was court-martialed on the grounds that he staged his own assault to avoid taking a philosophy exam. His defense attorneys consisted of a racist and a Harvard Graduate who squabble over how best to present his defense. (imdb)
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Dempsey (1983) - TV Movie
True story about Jack Dempsey, one of the most famous professional US boxers who made his name in the 1920's as the world heavyweight champion and media sensation. (imdb)
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Using transcripts from the Warren Commission Report, this film documents the workings of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. (imdb)
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Friendly Fire (1979) - TV Movie
When they try to learn how how their son died in Vietnam, the Mullens meet lies and evasion on all sides. (imdb)
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Jim Bolton, a well-off businessman from Chicago hears that his daughter Doris is pregnant in New York. Since he did not even know she was seeing anyone he fears the worst. Unbeknownst to him, his daughter and the father of his grandchild, Walter marry shortly before Jim's arrival in New York. Upon his arrival he is shocked to hear that Doris and Walter plan not only a natural childbirth but the birth will take place in their apartment NOT a hospital. (imdb)
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Oppenheimer (1980) - TV Mini-Series
Biography of the American physicist who led the U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II, only to find himself suspected as a security risk in the 1950s because of his increasing ambivalence about the effect of his life's work. (imdb)
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Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor. (imdb)
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An Arab terrorist is smuggled out of West Beirut by American secret forces, he is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and killing five innocent people including a five-year-old child. An unprecedented trial commences as he is charged under a new Federal statute declaring murder of American civilians overseas a felony. Resnick, a Law Professor at a prestigious university hasn't fought a case in years. But he is one of the all time best defense lawyers in the country.
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The Newsroom (2012) - TV Series
A newsroom undergoes some changes in its workings and morals as a new team is brought in, bringing unexpected results for its existing news anchor. (imdb)
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Law & Order (1990) - TV Series
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Set in the heart of the claret country, the Medoc. A cop is asked to look into the death of a member of one of France's big wine dynasties. The family say the death was an accident but the cop is not so sure. (explore.bfi.org.uk)
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MISS SLOANE is a ruthless lobbyist who is notorious for her unparalleled talent and her desire to win at all costs, even when it puts her own career at risk. The thriller pulls back the curtain on how the political game is played on Capitol Hill as Sloane faces off against the most influential powers in D.C.
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A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxer who knew her is appalled by the lack of interest shown in the case by the police or anybody else in the neighborhood, and decides to investigate the case himself. (imdb)
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Godless (2017) - TV Mini-Series
Frank Griffin, an outlaw terrorizing the 1880s American West, hunts down Roy Goode, his partner turned enemy. Roy hides out at a ranch as Frank's chase leads him to La Belle, New Mexico - a town mysteriously made up entirely of women. (imdb)
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A young woman has a perfect love affair with a zealous writer. When she finds out that he's also a highly manipulative womanizer, it's too late - she's already too much in love to quit him. Things start to get really complicated. (imdb)
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I'll Fly Away (1991) - TV Series
Forrest Bedford is a Southern lawyer in the late 1950's, generally content with his privileged life. But the winds of change are blowing, and he becomes increasingly involved with civil rights cases. Meanwhile, Lilly Harper, who cares for his children, is on her own journey of political and personal awareness.
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A girl's abilities as a clairvoyant are used as a roadside attraction. She quickly finds great success, but tragedy ensues. (imdb)
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The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights and what she had to overcome in order to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. (imdb)
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A House Divided (2000) - TV Movie
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and
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The Mayo Clinic: Faith - Hope - Science tells the story of a unique medical institution that has been called a "Medical Mecca," the "Supreme Court of Medicine," and the "place for hope where there is no hope." (imdb)
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The Boy Who Loved Trolls (1984) - TV Movie
Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist.
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On a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her friends, a disgraced quarterback, a shunned ex-cop, and the headmaster's wife, agree to go search for her. As they do, they confront the lies, ghost stories, and demonization that their idyllic school was built on.
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Miracle at Midnight (1998) - TV Movie
A Danish family tries to help their Jewish neighbours escape from the Nazis. (imdb)
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The Dropout (2022) - TV Mini-Series
TV series that chronicles Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' attempt to revolutionize the healthcare industry after dropping out of college and starting a technology company.
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