Sam Waterston Parents: Meet Alice Tucker Atkinson, George Chychele Waterston

Sam Waterston is the third of four siblings born to his parents, Alice Tucker Atkinson and George Chychele Waterston.

Sam Waterston’s mother Alice Tucker Atkinson is a landscape painter of English ancestry. Alice Tucker is a descendant of passengers on the Mayflower.

Sam Waterston’s father, George Chychele Waterston was a semanticist, language teacher, and an emigrant from Leith, Scotland.

There is no readily available information regarding Sam Waterston’s parents, date of birth, age, height, body measurements, educational background, academic qualifications, siblings and childhood.

Samuel Atkinson Waterston was born on November 15, 1940, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the United States of America. He was raised alongside his siblings Ellen Waterston, George Waterston and Roberta Waterston.

Sam Waterston completed his high school education at the Groton School in 1958. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale College in 1962. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and the American Actors Workshop.

Sam Waterston began his career in theatre on the New York stage. In 1975, he starred as Hamlet at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.

Sam Waterston has a career span of 50 years and has starred in over 80 film and television productions. Sam Waterston was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2012.