
Jay O. Sanders
Biography
Jay Olcutt Sanders (born April 16, 1953) is an American actor. He is noted for his TV roles as Bill Weller on Blindspot, Jack Bryant on Manhunt, Chief Tom Lidell on The Sinner, Det. John Maynard on Widows, Capt. Joseph Hannah on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and mob lawyer Steven Kordo in NBC's detective series Crime Story (1986-1988), as well as his film roles on The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Green Lantern (2011), and the Alex Cross films starring Morgan Freeman. He has appeared in many other notable films, including Glory (1989), Mr. Destiny (1990), JFK (1991), Angels in the Outfield (1994), The Big Green (1995), Daylight (1996), The Matchmaker (1997), For Richer or Poorer (1997), Tumbleweeds (1999), Music of the Heart (1999), Half Nelson (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), and Revolutionary Road (2008). He is also known as the narrator for the PBS series Wide Angle from 2002–2009 and has served as narrator for a number of Nova episodes and documentary specials starting in 2007. He is the voice of D.S. McKenna in the Red Dead Redemption video game series.
Filmography

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

Sweet and Sad

Sorry

Regular Singing

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

Women of a Certain Age

What Did You Expect?

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

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
