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.
173 acting credits
Acting · 173
Law & Order
1990
Person of Interest
2011
Blue Bloods
2010
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
The Good Wife
2009
NOVA
1974
Chicago Med
2015
True Detective
2014
Miami Vice
1984
Blindspot
2015
Body of Proof
2011
Unforgettable
2011
Damages
2007
L.A. Law
1986
Nature
1982
The Outer Limits
1995
Northern Exposure
1990
New York Undercover
1994
Stars in the House
2020
Sneaky Pete
2015
ABC Afterschool Special
1972
Kate & Allie
1984
Spenser: For Hire
1985
Manhunt
2017
Crime Story
1986
The Day After Tomorrow
2004
Booker
1989
Green Lantern
2011
Pan Am
2011
Glory
1989
Texas
1980
JFK
1991
Roseanne
1988
Secrets of the Dead
2000
Revolutionary Road
2008
The Valley of Light
2007
Kiss the Girls
1997
Daylight
1996
Wonderland
2000
Along Came a Spider
2001
Edge of Darkness
2010
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
1995
Angels in the Outfield
1994
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
Wedding Daze
2006
The Assistant
2020
Cadillac Records
2008
His Three Daughters
2024
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
2022
When You Finish Saving the World
2023
Kiss of Death
1995
Mr. Destiny
1990
Half Nelson
2006
Catfight
2017
Remain
2027
The Scarlet Letter
1979
The Jack Bull
1999
Widows
2002
Salem Witch Trials
2003
My Husband's Double Life
2001
For Richer or Poorer
1997
Salem Witch Trials
2002
The Big Green
1995
The Confession
1999
The Odd Couple II
1998
My Boyfriend's Back
1993
I Hate Valentine's Day
2009
Starting Over
1979
Three Wishes
1995
Music of the Heart
1999
Hanky Panky
1982
V.I. Warshawski
1991
The Misfit Brigade
1987
Boss of Bosses
2001
The Matchmaker
1997
The Prince of Pennsylvania
1988
Hair High
2004
Cold Sassy Tree
1989
Tumbleweeds
1999
Abby Singer
2003
A Novel Romance
2011
Defenseless
1991
Decoding the Universe
2024
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011
Eddie Macon's Run
1983
Picnic
2000
Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler
1990
The Day Christ Died
1980
Cross Creek
1983
Nobody's Children
1994
Hostages
1992
The Last Brickmaker in America
2001
The Man Who Saved the World
2012
ATF
1999
State of Emergency
1994
D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear
2003
Rio Shannon
1993
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
2017
Dead Dog
2001
Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
1983
Greetings from the Shore
2007
The Secret Life of Girls
1999
Northern Borders
2015
Earthly Possessions
1999
Vice
2018
Meeting Venus
1991
Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time
2015
A Doctor's Story
1984
NOVA: Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial
2007
Outrage
2023
Sorry
2020
Down Came a Blackbird
1995
I'm Coming Over
2011
The Prosecutors
1996
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
2024
The Jewel
2011
The River
2013
DC Noir
2019
Girl From the North Country
2024
NOVA: The Great Math Mystery
2015
Just Like in the Movies
1989
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
2017
That Hopey Changey Thing
2020
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age
2017
Silver Strand
1995
What Do We Need to Talk About?
2020
The Road to Galena
2022
Wrestling with Alligators
1998
And So We Come Forth
2020
Broken Places
2018
Riddles of the Sphinx
2010
Happenstance
2007
Saving the Dead Sea
2019
Starstruck
1981
Uncle Vanya
2019
Sweet and Sad
2020
The Mystery of Mona Lisa
2014
Regular Singing
2020
The Undying
2009
The Dissection of Thanksgiving
2008
NOVA: Secrets of the Viking Sword
2012
Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts
2016
NOVA: Life's Rocky Start
2016
Dawn of Humanity
2015
The Rise & Fall of the Colosseum
2025
NOVA: Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?
2013
Incidental Moments of the Day
2020
Holocaust Escape Tunnel
2017
Secrets of Stonehenge
2010
NOVA: First Face of America
2018
The Revolt of Mother
1988
Tapes
2020
Ghosts of Stonehenge
2017
NOVA: Ground Zero Supertower
2013
NOVA: Iceman Reborn
2016
The Violin Alone
2019
Kill the Day
2008
NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers
2018
NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare
2016
NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice
2016
Secrets of the Dead: The Nero Files
2019
The Gathering Swarms
2014
NOVA: Arctic Dinosaurs
2008
Wild Costa Rica
2000
Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse
2015
Earth from Space
2012
NOVA: Secrets of Noah's Ark
2015
Queens of Combat: Rome's Female Gladiators
2026
NOVA: Secrets of the Sky Tombs
2017
NOVA: Cold Case JFK
2013
NOVA: Decoding da Vinci
2019
NOVA: Why Trains Crash
2017