FrameThrower · Actors · Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston
4 films · 239 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1980–1994
Born 15 November 1940 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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 and television productions during his forty-five year career. Allmovie has characterised Waterston as having "cultivated a loyal following with his quietly charismatic, unfailingly solid performances."
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 239 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1980–1994
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 239 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sam takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 44% natural — the look of the work Sam takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 239 frames from Sam Waterston's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.