Jay O. Sanders
Acting
Born April 16, 1953 · Austin, Texas, USA
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.
Films (135)
Remain
2027
Queens of Combat: Rome's Female Gladiators
2026
Girl From the North Country
2024
His Three Daughters
2024
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
2024
Outrage
2023
When You Finish Saving the World
2023
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
2022
The Road to Galena
2022
Incidental Moments of the Day
2020
And So We Come Forth
2020
Tapes
2020
What Do We Need to Talk About?
2020
That Hopey Changey Thing
2020
Regular Singing
2020
Sweet and Sad
2020
Sorry
2020
The Assistant
2020
NOVA: Decoding da Vinci
2019
Uncle Vanya
2019
DC Noir
2019
Saving the Dead Sea
2019
Secrets of the Dead: The Nero Files
2019
The Violin Alone
2019
Broken Places
2018
NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers
2018
NOVA: First Face of America
2018
Vice
2018
Ghosts of Stonehenge
2017
Holocaust Escape Tunnel
2017
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age
2017
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
2017
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
2017
NOVA: Why Trains Crash
2017
NOVA: Secrets of the Sky Tombs
2017
Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts
2016
Catfight
2016
NOVA: Iceman Reborn
2016
NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice
2016
NOVA: Life's Rocky Start
2016
NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare
2016
Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time
2015
Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse
2015
NOVA: Secrets of Noah's Ark
2015
Dawn of Humanity
2015
NOVA: The Great Math Mystery
2015
Northern Borders
2015
The Mystery of Mona Lisa
2014
The Gathering Swarms
2014
NOVA: Cold Case JFK
2013
NOVA: Ground Zero Supertower
2013
The River
2013
NOVA: Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?
2013
The Man Who Saved the World
2012
NOVA: Secrets of the Viking Sword
2012
Earth from Space
2012
A Novel Romance
2011
I'm Coming Over
2011
Green Lantern
2011
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011
The Jewel
2011
Edge of Darkness
2010
Riddles of the Sphinx
2010
Secrets of Stonehenge
2010
I Hate Valentine's Day
2009
The Undying
2009
Revolutionary Road
2008
Cadillac Records
2008
NOVA: Arctic Dinosaurs
2008
The Dissection of Thanksgiving
2008
Kill the Day
2008
NOVA: Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial
2007
Greetings from the Shore
2007
Happenstance
2007
The Valley of Light
2007
Wedding Daze
2006
Half Nelson
2006
The Day After Tomorrow
2004
Hair High
2004
Abby Singer
2003
D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear
2003
Salem Witch Trials
2002
Dead Dog
2001
The Last Brickmaker in America
2001
Boss of Bosses
2001
Along Came a Spider
2001
My Husband's Double Life
2001
Picnic
2000
Wild Costa Rica
2000
Earthly Possessions
1999
Tumbleweeds
1999
Music of the Heart
1999
ATF
1999
The Secret Life of Girls
1999
The Jack Bull
1999
The Confession
1999
The Odd Couple II
1998
Wrestling with Alligators
1998
For Richer or Poorer
1997
The Matchmaker
1997
Kiss the Girls
1997
Daylight
1996
The Prosecutors
1996
Silver Strand
1995
Three Wishes
1995
Down Came a Blackbird
1995
The Big Green
1995
Kiss of Death
1995
Angels in the Outfield
1994
Nobody's Children
1994
State of Emergency
1994
Rio Shannon
1993
My Boyfriend's Back
1993
Hostages
1992
JFK
1991
Meeting Venus
1991
Defenseless
1991
V.I. Warshawski
1991
Mr. Destiny
1990
Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler
1990
Glory
1989
Cold Sassy Tree
1989
Just Like in the Movies
1989
The Prince of Pennsylvania
1988
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
The Revolt of Mother
1988
The Misfit Brigade
1987
A Doctor's Story
1984
Cross Creek
1983
Eddie Macon's Run
1983
Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
1983
Hanky Panky
1982
Starstruck
1981
The Day Christ Died
1980
Starting Over
1979