Sam Waterston
- Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Birthday: November 15, 1940
A lanky, quietly intense, classically-trained actor, Sam Waterston entered film in the mid-1960s, most typically cast as pensive dreamers and intelligent yet essentially ordinary middle-class types. He languished in several forgettable features while piling up impressive credits on the New York stage until he scored as Tom in a fine TV adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" (ABC, 1973), opposite Katharine Hepburn. Waterston garnered further attention and acclaim, and made his most significant inroads into features…more
