Jay O. Sanders
Jay Olcutt Sanders (born April 16, 1953) is an American film, theatre and television actor and playwright. He frequently appears in plays off-Broadway at The Public Theatre. He has received a Drama Desk Award and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Sanders made his off-Broadway debut in a Shakespeare in the Park production of Henry V in 1976. He originated the role of Bradley in Sam Shepard's Buried Child (1978). He made his Broadway debut in the play Loose Ends (1979). He returned to Broadway in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1983), Saint Joan (1993), Pygmalion (2007), Girl from the North Country (2020), and Purlie Victorious (2023). He made his feature film debut in the comedy Starting Over (1979). He had notable roles in films such as Cross Creek (1983), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), Glory (1989), JFK (1991), Hostages (1992), Angels in the Outfield (1994), Music of the Heart (1999), Tumbleweeds (1999), and Revolutionary Road (2008). He took recurring roles in television series including Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, Blindspot, and Sneaky Pete. He has served as the narrator for the shows Wide Angle, Nova, and Secrets of the Dead. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay O. Sanders, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Kate & Allie
5.9
Spenser: For Hire
6.677
L.A. Law
7.1
Roseanne
6.8
Crime Story
8
New York Undercover
7.1
Northern Exposure
7.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.6
Booker
5.1
Nature
8.1
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
6.333
The Outer Limits
7.7
Manhunt
7.586
ABC Afterschool Special
6.429
Person of Interest
8.072
NOVA
7.039
True Detective
8.28
Blue Bloods
7.8
Pan Am
6.427
Unforgettable
7.2
Body of Proof
7
Widows
0
Blindspot
7.4
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.6
Law & Order
7.4
Law & Order
7.4
Texas
5.7
Stars in the House
0
The Scarlet Letter
4.7
Chicago Med
8.3
Wonderland
10
Sneaky Pete
7.503
Miami Vice
7.447
Secrets of the Dead
6.3
The Good Wife
7.59
Decoding the Universe
0
Movies
The Day After Tomorrow
6.543
Along Came a Spider
6.33
Starstruck
0
JFK
7.599
D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear
6.4
The Matchmaker
6.2
The Misfit Brigade
5.778
My Boyfriend's Back
5.7
Wedding Daze
5.55
Half Nelson
6.645
Angels in the Outfield
5.953
Edge of Darkness
6.361
Kiss the Girls
6.524
The Big Green
5.5
The Road to Galena
4.4
V.I. Warshawski
4.7
The Man Who Saved the World
7
When You Finish Saving the World
5.888
Three Wishes
6.2
Dead Dog
3.2
Revealing Evidence - Stalking the Honolulu Strangler
0
Greetings from the Shore
5.8
Starting Over
6.369
The Secret Life of Girls
6
Down Came a Blackbird
8.2
Vice
0
Cross Creek
6.58
NOVA: Arctic Dinosaurs
7.2
Ghosts of Stonehenge
6
His Three Daughters
6.954
Wrestling with Alligators
10
Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
6
My Husband's Double Life
5.8
Outrage
4.618
The Confession
5.727
Earthly Possessions
6.042
Glory
7.5
Cold Sassy Tree
6.5
Revolutionary Road
6.989
The Last Brickmaker in America
7.6
Hair High
6.4
The Prosecutors
0
Daylight
6.107
The Gathering Swarms
6.5
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2
Music of the Heart
6.696
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
6.91
A Novel Romance
7.6
Cadillac Records
7.105
For Richer or Poorer
6
Nobody's Children
4.333
Salem Witch Trials
6.2
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
0
The Valley of Light
6.4
The River
8.5
The Undying
4.2
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
6.72
ATF
4.7
Hanky Panky
5.294
Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time
7.3
Just Like in the Movies
8
I'm Coming Over
3
I Hate Valentine's Day
5.4
Saving the Dead Sea
0
NOVA: Secrets of the Sky Tombs
7.5
A Doctor's Story
5
Eddie Macon's Run
5.735
NOVA: Secrets of the Viking Sword
7.5
Hostages
5.889
NOVA: Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial
9.3
Dawn of Humanity
7.5
NOVA: Iceman Reborn
7.667
NOVA: The Great Math Mystery
7.8
NOVA: Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?
5
The Day Christ Died
5.8
Abby Singer
6.333
The Dissection of Thanksgiving
0
NOVA: Ground Zero Supertower
7
NOVA: Cold Case JFK
7.5
NOVA: Life's Rocky Start
8.1
NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice
7
NOVA: Why Trains Crash
7
NOVA: Secrets of Noah's Ark
6
NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare
7
The Jewel
6.597
The Odd Couple II
6.3
Earth from Space
7.9
Tumbleweeds
6.5
Silver Strand
3.8
DC Noir
3.2
Boss of Bosses
5.6
NOVA: Holocaust Escape Tunnel
6.2
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
0
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
0
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age
0
Uncle Vanya
0
NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers
5.8
The Assistant
6.272
Rio Shannon
0
Broken Places
0
That Hopey Changey Thing
0
Meeting Venus
5.921
Green Lantern
5.174
Secrets of the Dead: The Nero Files
0
The Jack Bull
6.349
Mr. Destiny
6.258
Sweet and Sad
6.5
Sorry
6.5
Regular Singing
0
What Do We Need to Talk About?
0
Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts
0
The Prince of Pennsylvania
5.6
State of Emergency
4
And So We Come Forth
0
The Mystery of Mona Lisa
6
Tapes
0
Catfight
5.533
Northern Borders
5.8
Defenseless
5
Kiss of Death
5.671
Picnic
3.667
Incidental Moments of the Day
0
Riddles of the Sphinx
6
The Violin Alone
0
Secrets of Stonehenge
8
My Husband's Double Life
5.8
NOVA: Decoding da Vinci
7.5
Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse
0
NOVA: First Face of America
7.375
Happenstance
1
Wild Costa Rica
8
Girl From the North Country
6
Nova: Building the Great Cathedrals
0
Kill the Day
0
Remain
0