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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.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 60% | 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% | 78% | 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% | 90% | 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% | 78% | 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% | No Score Yet | Murder One | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Outer Limits | Ben Kohler (Character) | 1995 |