Birth Name: Samuel Atkinson Waterston
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date of Birth: November 15, 1940
Ethnicity:
*Scottish (father)
*English (mother)
Sam Waterston is an American actor. His father, George Chychele Waterston, was an immigrant from Leith, Scotland. His mother, Alice Tucker (Atkinson), born in Brookline, Massachusetts, was of English descent.
Sam’s paternal grandfather was George Waterston.
Sam’s maternal grandparents were Robert Whitman Atkinson (the son of Edward Atkinson and Mary Caroline Heath) and Elizabeth Bispham Page (the daughter of Edward Augustus Page and Josephine Augusta Bispham).
Source: Genealogy of Sam Waterston – http://www.wargs.com
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