Sam Waterston
Current Interest
2.6
Current interest in this person
Rating Distribution
Based on 61 rated titles
Title
Year
Attention
The Six Triple Eight
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2024
50.3
Capricorn One
as Lt. Col. Peter Willis
1977
49.8
Miss Sloane
as George Dupont
2016
49.6
Heaven's Gate
as Frank Canton
1980
49.3
The Killing Fields
as Sydney Schanberg
1984
49.1
On the Basis of Sex
as Erwin Griswold
2018
46.6
The Great Gatsby
as Nick Carraway
1974
45.4
The Man in the Moon
as Matthew Trant
1991
45.2
Hannah and Her Sisters
as David (uncredited)
1986
44.7
Serial Mom
as Eugene Sutphin
1994
44.7
Crimes and Misdemeanors
as Ben
1989
38.7
Interiors
as Mike
1978
34.7
Le Divorce
as Chester Walker
2003
32.9
Hopscotch
as Jack Cutter
1980
32.7
Shadow Conspiracy
as The President
1997
30.2
Warning Sign
as Cal Morse
1985
27.0
The Enemy Within
as President William Foster
1994
25.1
Anesthesia
as Prof. Walter Zarrow
2016
23.8
The Matthew Shepard Story
as Dennis Shepard
2002
23.0
September
as Peter
1987
22.0
The Newsroom
as Charlie Skinner
2012
21.2
Eagle's Wing
as White Bull
1979
20.3
Exiled
as Jack McCoy
1998
20.1
Fitzwilly
as Oliver
1967
20.1
Grace and Frankie
as Sol Bergstein
2015
17.9
The Journey of August King
as Mooney Wright
1995
16.8
Carousel
2026
16.0
Merchant Ivory
as Self
2024
15.9
Godless
as Marshall John Cook
2017
15.8
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
as Self
2010
15.5
Miracle at Midnight
as Dr. Karl Koster
1998
12.2
Dateline: Saigon
as Narrator (voice)
2017
11.8
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
as Daniel Chamberlain
1994
11.6
Welcome Home
as Woody
1989
10.2
The Mayo Clinic
as Charlie Mayo (voice)
2018
10.1
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self - (archive footage)
2018
9.9
Swimming to Cambodia
as Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage)
1987
9.6
Journey into Fear
as Mr. Graham
1975
8.4
Rancho Deluxe
as Cecil Colson
1975
7.5
The Man in the Woods
as Headmaster Waldorf
2020
7.1
Mindwalk
as Jack Edwards
1991
6.2
And It Was Good
as Judge Alexander Baas / Doctor / Gravedigger
2015
5.0
The Civil War
as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
1990
4.7
In Bad Taste
as Self
1999
4.4
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
as Ofoeti
1984
3.2
Savages
as James, the Limping Man
1972
3.0
Cover Me Babe
as Cameraman
1970
2.5
Sweet Revenge
as Le Clerq
1976
2.3
Three
as Taylor
1969
2.2
Sweet William
as William McClusky
1980
2.1
A House Divided
as David Dickson
2000
1.9
The Glass Menagerie
as Tom Wingfield
1973
1.7
The Room Upstairs
as Travis Coles
1987
1.7
The Unfinished Journey
as Narrator (voice)
1999
1.4
Generation
as Desmond
1969
0.8
The Commission
as J. Lee Rankin
2003
0.8
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
as Self (voice)
2021
0.8
Reflections of Murder
as Michael Elliott
1974
0.6
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
as Self
2020
0.1
Hammer and Cycle
as Self - Narrator
2004
0.1
Prohibition
as Reader (voice)
2011
0.1
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
1997
0.1Frequently Asked Questions About Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston has appeared in 62 titles, including 56 movies and 6 television shows.
The earliest title currently listed in Sam Waterston's filmography is Fitzwilly (1967).
The most recent title featuring Sam Waterston is Carousel (2026).
One of the highest rated titles featuring Sam Waterston is The Civil War with an IMDb rating of 9.
Sam Waterston has been active for approximately 59 years, with credits spanning from 1967 to 2026.
Titles featuring Sam Waterston currently have an average IMDb rating of 6.8.
The busiest years in Sam Waterston's career include 1980, 1987, 1994.
