
Jay O. Sanders
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.
Filmography

Remain

Girl From the North Country

His Three Daughters

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

Outrage

When You Finish Saving the World

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

The Road to Galena

Incidental Moments of the Day

And So We Come Forth

Tapes

What Do We Need to Talk About?

That Hopey Changey Thing

Regular Singing

Sweet and Sad

Sorry

The Assistant

NOVA: Decoding da Vinci

Uncle Vanya

DC Noir

Saving the Dead Sea

Secrets of the Dead: The Nero Files

The Violin Alone

Broken Places

NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers

NOVA: First Face of America

Vice

Ghosts of Stonehenge

NOVA: Holocaust Escape Tunnel

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

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

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

NOVA: Why Trains Crash

NOVA: Secrets of the Sky Tombs

Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts

Catfight

NOVA: Iceman Reborn

NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice

NOVA: Life's Rocky Start

NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare

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

Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse

NOVA: Secrets of Noah's Ark

Dawn of Humanity

NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

Northern Borders

The Mystery of Mona Lisa

The Gathering Swarms

NOVA: Cold Case JFK

NOVA: Ground Zero Supertower

The River

NOVA: Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?

Earth from Space

The Man Who Saved the World

NOVA: Secrets of the Viking Sword

A Novel Romance

I'm Coming Over

Green Lantern

Adventures in Plymptoons!

The Jewel

Nova: Building the Great Cathedrals

Edge of Darkness

Riddles of the Sphinx

Secrets of Stonehenge

I Hate Valentine's Day

The Undying

Revolutionary Road

Cadillac Records

NOVA: Arctic Dinosaurs

The Dissection of Thanksgiving

Kill the Day

NOVA: Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial

Greetings from the Shore

Happenstance

The Valley of Light

Wedding Daze

Half Nelson

The Day After Tomorrow

Hair High

Abby Singer

D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear

Salem Witch Trials

Dead Dog

The Last Brickmaker in America

Boss of Bosses

Along Came a Spider

My Husband's Double Life

My Husband's Double Life

Picnic

Wild Costa Rica

Tumbleweeds

Music of the Heart

ATF

The Secret Life of Girls

The Jack Bull

The Confession

Earthly Possessions

The Odd Couple II

Wrestling with Alligators

For Richer or Poorer

The Matchmaker

Kiss the Girls

Daylight

The Prosecutors

Silver Strand

Three Wishes

Down Came a Blackbird

The Big Green

Kiss of Death

Angels in the Outfield

Nobody's Children

State of Emergency

Rio Shannon

My Boyfriend's Back

Hostages

JFK

Meeting Venus

Defenseless

V.I. Warshawski

Mr. Destiny

Revealing Evidence - Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

Glory

Cold Sassy Tree

Just Like in the Movies

The Prince of Pennsylvania

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

The Misfit Brigade

A Doctor's Story

Cross Creek

Eddie Macon's Run

Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story

Hanky Panky

Starstruck

The Day Christ Died
