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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

Sam Waterston

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Sam Waterston
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: November 15
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Samuel Atkinson Waterston
Lincoln
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