Jay O. Sanders

Acting · 2.0 popularity

Age

Movies

139

Born: April 16, 1953
From: Austin, Texas, USA

Biography

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.

Works

139 films

Green Lantern

20115.2

The Day After Tomorrow

20046.6

Kiss the Girls

19976.5

Glory

19897.5

JFK

19917.6

Revolutionary Road

20087.0

Starting Over

19796.4

Daylight

19966.1

Along Came a Spider

20016.3

Edge of Darkness

20106.4

Wedding Daze

20065.6

Half Nelson

20066.6

Cadillac Records

20087.1

Mr. Destiny

19906.3

His Three Daughters

20246.8

Kiss of Death

19955.7

Angels in the Outfield

19946.0

The Assistant

20206.3

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

19886.7

Remain

2027

When You Finish Saving the World

20235.8

The Big Green

19955.6

Catfight

20175.6

For Richer or Poorer

19976.0

Iceman Reborn

20167.7

The Jack Bull

19996.4

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

20226.8

Hanky Panky

19825.3

The Odd Couple II

19986.3

Music of the Heart

19996.7

ATF

19995.8

I Hate Valentine's Day

20095.4

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?

2017

Three Wishes

19956.3

The Valley of Light

20076.5

Boss of Bosses

20015.5

V.I. Warshawski

19914.8

Cross Creek

19836.5

NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice

20167.0

My Husband's Double Life

20015.5

Abby Singer

20036.8

D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear

20036.4

NOVA: Decoding da Vinci

20197.5

Endsville

200010.0

The Confession

19995.8

NOVA: Cold Case JFK

20137.5

Hair High

20046.4

Silver Strand

19954.4

My Boyfriend's Back

19935.7

The Misfit Brigade

19875.7

Happenstance

20071.0

The Prince of Pennsylvania

19885.6

Eddie Macon's Run

19835.9

Tapes

2020

The Undying

20094.5

The Matchmaker

19976.1

Defenseless

19914.9

Tumbleweeds

19996.4

Northern Borders

20155.8

Incidental Moments of the Day

2020

A Novel Romance

20116.9

The Rise & Fall of the Colosseum

2025

The Last Brickmaker in America

20018.0

Dead Dog

20014.5

Holocaust Escape Tunnel

20176.2

The Day Christ Died

19806.3

Wrestling with Alligators

199810.0

Just Like in the Movies

19898.3

The Dissection of Thanksgiving

2008

Uncle Vanya

2019

Regular Singing

2020

Girl From the North Country

20246.9

That Hopey Changey Thing

2020

And So We Come Forth

2020

State of Emergency

19945.7

Picnic

20005.3

Adventures in Plymptoons!

20112.0

Outrage

20234.9

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

19908.0

Sorry

20206.5

NOVA: Secrets of the Viking Sword

20127.5

DC Noir

20193.2

Cold Sassy Tree

19896.6

Wild Costa Rica

20008.0

The Secret Life of Girls

19996.5

Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time

20157.3

Ghosts of Stonehenge

20176.0

The Jewel

20116.6

Sweet and Sad

20206.5

Decoding the Universe: Quantum

2024

Nobody's Children

19945.8

The Road to Galena

20224.3

Saving the Dead Sea

2019

NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

20157.8

NOVA: Ground Zero Supertower

20137.0

Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story

19837.3

Hostages

19926.1

The River

20138.5

Queens of Combat: Rome's Female Gladiators

20268.0

What Do We Need to Talk About?

2020

Greetings from the Shore

20076.1

Earth from Space

20127.9

The Man Who Saved the World

20128.0

NOVA: Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?

20135.0

Earthly Possessions

19996.0

I'm Coming Over

20113.0

A Doctor's Story

19846.7

The Mystery of Mona Lisa

20146.0

NOVA: Life's Rocky Start

20168.1

Rio Shannon

1993

World War Speed: The Drugs That Won WWII

2019

The Gathering Swarms

20146.5

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry

2017

The Prosecutors

19968.0

Secrets of the Dead: The Nero Files

20194.0

Decoding the Universe: Cosmos

20248.0

Starstruck

19818.0

Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse

2015

Vice

2018

The Violin Alone

2019

Down Came a Blackbird

19958.1

NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers

20185.8

NOVA: Secrets of Noah's Ark

20156.0

NOVA: First Face of America

20187.4

NOVA: Arctic Dinosaurs

20087.2

The Revolt of Mother

1988

Meeting Venus

19915.9

NOVA: Secrets of the Sky Tombs

20177.5

Riddles of the Sphinx

20106.0

NOVA: Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial

20079.3

Secrets of Stonehenge

20108.0

NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare

20167.0

Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts

2016

Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

2024

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age

2017

Dawn of Humanity

20157.5

NOVA: Why Trains Crash

20177.0

Broken Places

2018

Kill the Day

2008