Sam Waterston

An active humanitarian, Waterston also donates considerable time to organizations such as Refugees International, Citymeals-on-Wheels, The United Way, and The Episcopal Actor's Guild of America. She died in New York, New York from cancer. Waterston, who takes an active interest in Lincoln, has portrayed Lincoln on stage and screen (The Civil War, Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Abe Lincoln in Illinois on Broadway). She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures at 1612 Vine Street. He is also on the Advisory Committee for the Lincoln Bicentennial, celebrating Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday. Ames was married three times including a marriage to the actor Bruce Cabot from 1933 until 1937. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Killing Fields.. By the end of the decade Ames' popularity had diminished and she retired in the early 1940s.

Waterston is a six time Emmy Award nominee, winner of the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild awards. She made thirty films during the 1930s with her biggest success in George White's Scandals (1934), a film which was also notable as the debut of Alice Faye. Forrest Bedford in I'll Fly Away. With the advent of talking pictures, Ames popularity grew and she was usually cast as society women, or in musicals. Besides Law & Order, he has played other television roles include D.A. A strikingly glamorous woman, Ames was soon cast in small film roles in silent films. Other films include The Great Gatsby, Rancho Deluxe, Journey Into Fear, Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate, Hopscotch, The Killing Fields (nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor), Interiors, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Mindwalk and Serial Mom. Born Adrienne Ruth McClure in Fort Worth, Texas, Ames began her film career in 1927 as a stand-in for Pola Negri.

His first film was Fitzwilly in 1967. Adrienne Ames (August 3, 1907 - May 31 - 1947) was an American film actress. Waterston grew up at the Brooks School, a boarding school in North Andover, Massachusetts. He attended the Groton School (another prep school), Yale University, and the Sorbonne. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Waterston is equally at home on the stage, in movies, and on television. Sam Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor noted particularly for his portrayal of Executive Assistant District Attorney John "Jack" McCoy on the long-running NBC television series Law & Order, as well as for his many motion picture roles.