Jay O. Sanders

Acting · 1.9 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

The Day After Tomorrow

20046.6

Green Lantern

20115.2

Kiss the Girls

19976.5

Glory

19897.5

Daylight

19966.1

Revolutionary Road

20087.0

JFK

19917.6

Starting Over

19796.4

Along Came a Spider

20016.3

Edge of Darkness

20106.4

Wedding Daze

20065.6

Cadillac Records

20087.1

Angels in the Outfield

19946.0

Half Nelson

20066.6

Mr. Destiny

19906.3

The Assistant

20206.3

Remain

2027

Kiss of Death

19955.7

His Three Daughters

20246.8

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

19886.7

When You Finish Saving the World

20235.8

The Big Green

19955.6

Catfight

20175.6

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

20226.8

For Richer or Poorer

19976.0

The Jack Bull

19996.4

Iceman Reborn

20167.7

Music of the Heart

19996.7

Hanky Panky

19825.3

The Odd Couple II

19986.3

ATF

19995.8

The Valley of Light

20076.5

I Hate Valentine's Day

20095.4

My Husband's Double Life

20015.5

NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice

20167.0

Abby Singer

20036.8

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

2017

Boss of Bosses

20015.5

V.I. Warshawski

19914.8

Hair High

20046.4

NOVA: Decoding da Vinci

20197.5

The Prince of Pennsylvania

19885.6

Tapes

2020

Three Wishes

19956.3

Endsville

200010.0

Cross Creek

19836.5

NOVA: Cold Case JFK

20137.5

Eddie Macon's Run

19835.9

The Confession

19995.8

D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear

20036.4

Happenstance

20071.0

The Misfit Brigade

19875.7

The Undying

20094.5

The Matchmaker

19976.1

Silver Strand

19954.4

My Boyfriend's Back

19935.7

Wrestling with Alligators

199810.0

A Novel Romance

20116.9

Incidental Moments of the Day

2020

Just Like in the Movies

19898.3

The Last Brickmaker in America

20018.0

Northern Borders

20155.8

Defenseless

19914.9

Uncle Vanya

2019

Girl From the North Country

20246.9

Dead Dog

20014.5

The Dissection of Thanksgiving

2008

Cold Sassy Tree

19896.6

Tumbleweeds

19996.4

The Rise & Fall of the Colosseum

2025

That Hopey Changey Thing

2020

The Day Christ Died

19806.3

State of Emergency

19945.7

NOVA: Secrets of the Viking Sword

20127.5

Regular Singing

2020

The Secret Life of Girls

19996.5

Holocaust Escape Tunnel

20176.2

Adventures in Plymptoons!

20112.0

Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story

19837.3

Sorry

20206.5

Outrage

20234.9

And So We Come Forth

2020

The Man Who Saved the World

20128.0

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

19908.0

Picnic

20005.3

What Do We Need to Talk About?

2020

DC Noir

20193.2

Wild Costa Rica

20008.0

Saving the Dead Sea

2019

Sweet and Sad

20206.5

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

20157.3

NOVA: Ground Zero Supertower

20137.0

Nobody's Children

19945.8

Meeting Venus

19915.9

Earth from Space

20127.9

Decoding the Universe: Quantum

2024

Hostages

19926.1

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

2017

The Road to Galena

20224.3

The Jewel

20116.6

The Gathering Swarms

20146.5

The Prosecutors

19968.0

NOVA: Secrets of the Sky Tombs

20177.5

Earthly Possessions

19996.0

A Doctor's Story

19846.7

Starstruck

19818.0

NOVA: Life's Rocky Start

20168.1

Ghosts of Stonehenge

20176.0

I'm Coming Over

20113.0

NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

20157.8

Greetings from the Shore

20076.1

The Revolt of Mother

1988

NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers

20185.8

The River

20138.5

NOVA: Arctic Dinosaurs

20087.2

NOVA: Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?

20135.0

Riddles of the Sphinx

20106.0

Queens of Combat: Rome's Female Gladiators

20268.0

The Violin Alone

2019

Vice

2018

Down Came a Blackbird

19958.1

NOVA: First Face of America

20187.4

Rio Shannon

1993

The Mystery of Mona Lisa

20146.0

World War Speed: The Drugs That Won WWII

2019

Secrets of Stonehenge

20108.0

Secrets of the Dead: The Nero Files

20194.0

Broken Places

2018

NOVA: Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial

20079.3

NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare

20167.0

NOVA: Secrets of Noah's Ark

20156.0

NOVA: Why Trains Crash

20177.0

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

2017

Decoding the Universe: Cosmos

20248.0

Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts

2016

Dawn of Humanity

20157.5

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

2024

Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse

2015

Kill the Day

2008