Jay O. Sanders

Jay O. Sanders

Birthday: 1953-04-16

Place of birth: Austin, Texas, USA

Also known as: Jay Sanders , Jay Olcutt Sanders , جی او. ساندرس

imdb_id: nm0761587

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.

Played in movies:

Wrestling with Alligators

Score: 10.0

NOVA: Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial

Score: 9.3

The River

Score: 8.5

Down Came a Blackbird

Score: 8.2

NOVA: Life's Rocky Start

Score: 8.1

Wild Costa Rica

Score: 8.0

Secrets of Stonehenge

Score: 8.0

Just Like in the Movies

Score: 8.0

Earth from Space

Score: 7.9

NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

Score: 7.8

NOVA: Iceman Reborn

Score: 7.7

JFK

Score: 7.6

A Novel Romance

Score: 7.6

The Last Brickmaker in America

Score: 7.6

NOVA: Decoding da Vinci

Score: 7.5

NOVA: Cold Case JFK

Score: 7.5

Dawn of Humanity

Score: 7.5

NOVA: Secrets of the Viking Sword

Score: 7.5

NOVA: Secrets of the Sky Tombs

Score: 7.5

Glory

Score: 7.5

NOVA: First Face of America

Score: 7.4

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

Score: 7.3

NOVA: Arctic Dinosaurs

Score: 7.2

Cadillac Records

Score: 7.1

NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare

Score: 7.0

NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice

Score: 7.0

NOVA: Why Trains Crash

Score: 7.0

NOVA: Ground Zero Supertower

Score: 7.0

The Man Who Saved the World

Score: 7.0

Revolutionary Road

Score: 7.0

His Three Daughters

Score: 6.9

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Score: 6.9

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Score: 6.7

Music of the Heart

Score: 6.7

The Jewel

Score: 6.6

Half Nelson

Score: 6.6

Cross Creek

Score: 6.6

The Day After Tomorrow

Score: 6.5

Sorry

Score: 6.5

Sweet and Sad

Score: 6.5

Tumbleweeds

Score: 6.5

The Gathering Swarms

Score: 6.5

Cold Sassy Tree

Score: 6.5

Kiss the Girls

Score: 6.5

The Valley of Light

Score: 6.4

Edge of Darkness

Score: 6.4

D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear

Score: 6.4

Starting Over

Score: 6.4

Hair High

Score: 6.4

The Jack Bull

Score: 6.3

Abby Singer

Score: 6.3

Along Came a Spider

Score: 6.3

The Odd Couple II

Score: 6.3

The Assistant

Score: 6.3

Mr. Destiny

Score: 6.3

NOVA: Holocaust Escape Tunnel

Score: 6.2

Salem Witch Trials

Score: 6.2

Three Wishes

Score: 6.2

The Matchmaker

Score: 6.2

Daylight

Score: 6.1

Earthly Possessions

Score: 6.0

Girl From the North Country

Score: 6.0

Riddles of the Sphinx

Score: 6.0

The Mystery of Mona Lisa

Score: 6.0

NOVA: Secrets of Noah's Ark

Score: 6.0

Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story

Score: 6.0

Ghosts of Stonehenge

Score: 6.0

The Secret Life of Girls

Score: 6.0

For Richer or Poorer

Score: 6.0

Angels in the Outfield

Score: 6.0

Meeting Venus

Score: 5.9

When You Finish Saving the World

Score: 5.9

Hostages

Score: 5.9

My Husband's Double Life

Score: 5.8

Northern Borders

Score: 5.8

NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers

Score: 5.8

The Day Christ Died

Score: 5.8

My Husband's Double Life

Score: 5.8

Greetings from the Shore

Score: 5.8

The Misfit Brigade

Score: 5.8

Eddie Macon's Run

Score: 5.7

My Boyfriend's Back

Score: 5.7

The Confession

Score: 5.7

Kiss of Death

Score: 5.7

The Prince of Pennsylvania

Score: 5.6

Boss of Bosses

Score: 5.6

Wedding Daze

Score: 5.6

The Big Green

Score: 5.6

Catfight

Score: 5.5

I Hate Valentine's Day

Score: 5.4

Hanky Panky

Score: 5.3

Green Lantern

Score: 5.2

Defenseless

Score: 5.0

NOVA: Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?

Score: 5.0

A Doctor's Story

Score: 5.0

ATF

Score: 4.7

V.I. Warshawski

Score: 4.7

Outrage

Score: 4.6

Nobody's Children

Score: 4.3

The Road to Galena

Score: 4.3

The Undying

Score: 4.2

State of Emergency

Score: 4.0

Secrets of the Dead: The Nero Files

Score: 4.0

Silver Strand

Score: 3.8

Picnic

Score: 3.7

DC Noir

Score: 3.2

Dead Dog

Score: 3.2

I'm Coming Over

Score: 3.0

Adventures in Plymptoons!

Score: 2.0

Happenstance

Score: 1.0

Remain

Score: 0.0

Kill the Day

Score: 0.0

Nova: Building the Great Cathedrals

Score: 0.0

Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse

Score: 0.0

The Violin Alone

Score: 0.0

Incidental Moments of the Day

Score: 0.0

Tapes

Score: 0.0

And So We Come Forth

Score: 0.0

Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts

Score: 0.0

What Do We Need to Talk About?

Score: 0.0

Regular Singing

Score: 0.0

That Hopey Changey Thing

Score: 0.0

Broken Places

Score: 0.0

Rio Shannon

Score: 0.0

Uncle Vanya

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

The Dissection of Thanksgiving

Score: 0.0

Saving the Dead Sea

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

The Prosecutors

Score: 0.0

Vice

Score: 0.0

Revealing Evidence - Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

Score: 0.0

Starstruck

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Wonderland

Score: 10.0

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Chicago Med

Score: 8.3

True Detective

Score: 8.3

Person of Interest

Score: 8.1

Nature

Score: 8.1

Crime Story

Score: 8.0

Northern Exposure

Score: 7.9

Blue Bloods

Score: 7.8

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.7

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Score: 7.6

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Score: 7.6

The Good Wife

Score: 7.6

Manhunt

Score: 7.6

Sneaky Pete

Score: 7.5

Miami Vice

Score: 7.5

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Blindspot

Score: 7.4

New York Undercover

Score: 7.2

Unforgettable

Score: 7.2

L.A. Law

Score: 7.1

NOVA

Score: 7.0

Body of Proof

Score: 6.9

Roseanne

Score: 6.8

Spenser: For Hire

Score: 6.7

Pan Am

Score: 6.4

ABC Afterschool Special

Score: 6.4

Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years

Score: 6.3

Secrets of the Dead

Score: 6.3

Kate & Allie

Score: 5.9

Texas

Score: 5.7

Booker

Score: 5.1

The Scarlet Letter

Score: 4.7

Decoding the Universe

Score: 0.0

Stars in the House

Score: 0.0

Widows

Score: 0.0