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Sam Waterston is a producer, director and actor from the US with a net worth of $15 million. Born on 15th November 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he is known for his performance as Sydney Schanberg in “The Killing Fields” of 1984, for which he has been nominated for the Oscars. Sam has also been praised for the casting as Jack McCoy in the television series “Law & Order” on NBC. He has won the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globe awards.

In fact, Sam has received nominations for many Screen Actors Guild, Emmy, BAFTA, and Golden Globe awards, because of acting in more than 80 films and TV productions during a career spanning 45 years. He has a lot of loyal followers because of his quiet charismatic and solid performances. He has got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, something that showcases his immense talent. He got it in January 2010. With his reputation spreading, the wealth of Sam has grown too.

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Sam has three other siblings. Alice Tucker, his mother, was into landscape painting. George Chychele Waterston, his father, was a language teacher and semanticist. Waterston attended Brooks School (this is where his father was the teacher), and later the Groton School. He had a scholarship for Yale University and went to it naturally in 1958. Waterston graduated in 1962 with a BA. After this, he went to the Clinton Playhouse. Sam has also been to the American Actors Workshop and the Sorbonne in Paris.

There are several stage credits for Sam Waterston. He played Benedick in “Much Ado About Nothing” of Shakespeare for which he received an award. He also got the title role for “Hamlet”. Sam does theater even now, particularly in the summer. He is seen performing in New Haven’s Yale Repertory Theatre and the Long Wharf Theatre.

Earnings & Financial Data

Date

Category

Description

Amount

2016

Box Office Sales

Worldwide box office sales of the movies Anesthesia as Professor Walter Zarrow and Miss Sloane as George Dupont

$9,160,000

2012

Salary

Salary for every episode of the television show The Newsroom as Charlie Skinner

$65,000

2010

Salary

Salary from the NBC television series Law & Order as Jack McCoy

$2,500,000

2003

Box Office Sales

Worldwide box office sales of the movie Le Divorce as Chester Walker

$12,990,000

1997

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie Shadow Conspiracy as the President of the United States

$2,310

1995

Box Office Sales

Worldwide box office sales of the movie Nixon as Richard Helms and box office sales of the movie The Journey of August King as Mooney Wright and the film's producer

$34,680,000

1994

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie Serial Mom as Eugene Sutphin, DDS

$7,880,000

1991

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movies Mindwalk as Jack Edwards and The Man in the Moon as Matthew Trant

$3,620,000

1989

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movies Welcome Home as Woody and Crimes and Misdemeanors as Ben

$19,280,000

1987

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie September as Peter

$486,430

1986

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movies Hannah and Her Sisters as David and Just Between Friends as Harry Crandall

$46,490,000

1985

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie Warning Sign as Cal Morse

$1,920,000

1984

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie The Killing Fields as Sydney Schanberg

$34,700,000

1980

Box Office Sales

Worldwide box office sales of the movie and Heaven's Gate as Frank Canton and box office sales of the movie Hopscotch as Joe Cutter

$16,480,000

1978

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie Interiors as Mike

$10,430,000

1974

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie The Great Gatsby as Nick Carraway

$26,530,000

1967

Box Office Sales

Box office sales of the movie Fitzwilly as Oliver

$2,100,000