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Sam Robards

Sam Robards

Highest Rated: 87% American Beauty (1999)

Lowest Rated: 13% Catch That Kid (2004)

Birthday: Dec 16, 1961

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

The handsome, easy-going son of famed actors Jason Robards and Lauren Bacall, Sam Robards studied acting and appeared in several plays Off-Broadway before making an impressive screen debut as a suitor to Molly Ringwald in Paul Mazursky's "Tempest" (1982), a savvy adaptation of Shakespeare's deserted island fantasy. He next drunkenly avoided commitment in the coming-of-age drama "Fandango," featuring a then unknown Kevin Costner and Robards' wife-to-be Suzy Amis, before Lewis Gilbert's "Not Quite Jerusalem" (both 1985) saw him play a happy-go-lucky American volunteer for kibbutz life romantically involved with Joanna Pacula. The film adaptation of Jay McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City" (1988) marked his first association with actor Michael J Fox and the only time to date he has acted in a movie with his father. That same year, he had a supporting role in "Bird," Clint Eastwood's heartfelt biopic of famed jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. He also portrayed Chaplain Kirk in Brian De Palma's flawed yet majestic Vietnam film, "Casualties of War" (1989), which reteamed him with Fox.

Highest rated movies

87% American Beauty
84% Casualties of War
83% Where Is Kyra? 78% Beautiful Girls 76% A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 76% Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
70% Hamlet
63% Fandango

Photos

FANDANGO, Chuck Bush, Sam Robards, Judd Nelson, Kevin Costner, 1985. © Warner Bros. NOT QUITE PARADISE, (aka NOT QUITE JERUSALEM), from left: Joanna Pacula, Sam Robards, 1985. ©Anchor Bay Entertainment FANDANGO, Chuck Bush, Kevin Costner, Sam Robards, Brian Cesak, Judd Nelson, 1985. FANDANGO, Sam Robards, Kevin Costner, Brian Cesak, Chuck Bush, Judd Nelson, 1985, (c)Warner Bros. AMERICAN BEAUTY, Sam Robards, Kevin Spacey, Scott Bakula, 1999 PERESTROIKA, from left: director Slava Tsukerman, Sam Robards, on set, 2009. FANDANGO, Kevin Costner, Sam Robards, 1985 A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Sam Robards, Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, 2001 FANDANGO, Kevin Costner, Judd Nelson, Sam Robards, 1985. FANDANGO, Kevin Costner, Sam Robards, 1985. © Warner Bros. PERESTROIKA, Sam Robards (center of frame), 2009. PERESTROIKA, Sam Robards, 2009.
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
27% 34% Space Cadet Calvin Simpson (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Isle of Hope William (Character) - 2022
83% 52% Where Is Kyra? Unknown (Character) $7.0K 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Her Secret Sessions Jack (Character) - 2016
20% 46% The Art of Getting By Jack (Character) $1.4M 2011
41% 46% The Rebound Frank (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 50% The Other Side of the Tracks David (Character) - 2008
57% 33% Perestroika Sasha (Character) $21.7K 2007
23% 55% Awake Clayton Beresford Sr. (Character) $14.4M 2007
14% 25% Surviving Eden Gary (Character) - 2004
13% 47% Catch That Kid Tom (Character) $16.7M 2004
No Score Yet 50% The Blackwater Lightship Paul (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 100% Marmalade Unknown (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 38% Obsessed David Stillman (Character) - 2002
47% 88% Life as a House David Dokos (Character) $15.6M 2001
76% 64% A.I.: Artificial Intelligence Henry Swinton (Character) $78.6M 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Warden Axel (Character) - 2001
70% No Score Yet Hamlet Fortinbras (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 48% Black and Blue Mike Riordan (Character) - 1999
87% 93% American Beauty Jim Berkley (Character) $130.1M 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love From Ground Zero Henry (Voice) - 1999
No Score Yet 40% Dinner & Driving Frank (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 58% The Man Who Captured Eichmann David (Character) - 1996
78% 80% Beautiful Girls Steve Rossmore (Character) $10.6M 1996
No Score Yet 0% Donor Unknown Dr. David Bausch (Character) - 1995
24% 27% Ready to Wear (Pret-a-Porter) Regina's Assistant (Character) $10.7M 1994
76% 61% Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Harold Ross (Character) $2.1M 1994
84% 75% Casualties of War Chaplain Kirk (Character) $17.0M 1989
No Score Yet 50% Into Thin Air Stephen Walker (Character) - 1985
63% 77% Fandango Kenneth Waggener (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Not Quite Paradise Mike (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number Unknown (Character) - 1983
55% 73% Tempest Freddy (Character) - 1982

TV

Credit
58% 85% Limitless Unknown (Guest Star) 2015
73% 84% Twisted Kyle Masterson (Character) 2013-2014
97% 87% Treme Tim Feeny (Guest Star) 2012-2013
76% 60% Body of Proof Unknown (Guest Star) 2011
93% 91% The Good Wife Jarvis Bowes (Guest Star) 2011
No Score Yet 80% Blue Bloods Roger Carson (Guest Star) 2011
84% 79% Gossip Girl Howie 'The Captain' Archibald (Guest Star) 2007-2008 2010-2011
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 1993 2009
No Score Yet 65% CSI: Miami Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
81% 95% The West Wing Greg Brock (Guest Star) 2004-2005
No Score Yet 71% Law & Order: Criminal Intent Unknown (Guest Star) 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Clubhouse Unknown (Guest Star) 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Daily Show Guest 2001
70% 79% Sex and the City Tom Reymi (Guest Star) 2000
68% No Score Yet Spin City Unknown (Guest Star) 1998-1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Maximum Bob Unknown (Character) 1998
91% 60% Murder One Unknown (Guest Star) 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Outer Limits Ben Kohler (Character) 1995