Biography
Sam Prideaux Robards (born December 16, 1961) is an American actor. He is best known for his film roles in American Beauty (1999) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). For his performance in the Broadway production of The Man Who Had All the Luck, he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Robards, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Isle Child
2025
as Thomas Miller
When a Korean-American adoptee discovers his birthmother is terminally ill, he must decide whether to preserve his American identity or uncover his va...
Space Cadet
2024
as Rex's Dad (Calvin Simpson)
Tiffany "Rex" Simpson has always dreamed of going to space, and her "doctored" application lands her in NASA's ultra-competitive astronaut training pr...
Isle of Hope
2022
as William
A university professor tries to reconcile with her mother after the woman suffers a life-threatening stroke.
Where Is Kyra?
2018
as Carl
Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and myst...
The Late Bloomer
2016
as Dr. Lawson
A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the change...
Her Secret Sessions
2016
as Jack
After losing her daughter and a difficult divorce, an attractive woman finds herself exploring the world of online dating, but her adventures lead her...
Grand Street
2014
as Gary
Camilla Reilly’s elegant life has come undone. Once a fast-track film executive living in a luxurious SoHo loft, she finds herself unemployed, broke, ...
The Art of Getting By
2011
as Jack Sargent
George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally,...
The Rebound
2009
as Frank
Upon discovering her husband's infidelity, Sandy leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. There, she befriends Aram, a guy whose wife only married ...
Perestroika
2009
as Alexander aka "Sasha" Greenberg
Top astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg has spent the past 17 years working in the United States. An invitation to speak at a Congress on Cosmology in his ...
Che: Part One
2008
as Tad Szulc
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobili...
The Other Side of the Tracks
2008
as David
A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident.
Awake
2007
as Clayton Beresford Sr.
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the oper...
Manderlay
2005
Thanks
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal...
Marmalade
2004
as Roger
Marmalade is a romantic comedy about a fashion model who gets too old to continue her work. Her demise in her professional life happens as her persona...
Surviving Eden
2004
as Gary Gold
A documentary crew captures the capitalistic trappings a reality show winner falls into during his short-lived stint with fame and fortune.
Catch That Kid
2004
as Tom Phillips
A determined twelve-year-old mountain climber takes drastic action to save her injured father by planning a high-stakes bank heist, using her skills a...
The Blackwater Lightship
2004
as Paul
A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
Obsessed
2002
as David Stillman
A woman claims she had an affair with a married neurosurgeon and stands trial for allegedly harassing him.
Life as a House
2001
as David Dokos
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in ...
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
as Henry Swinton
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually b...
On Golden Pond
2001
as Bill Ray
Character-driven story about an elderly man coming to terms with his age, and the nearing of death; a middle-aged woman attempting to enter into a fat...
The Warden
2001
as Axel
Hamlet
2000
as Fortinbras
A revised version of the Shakespeare play set in turn-of-the-20th-century America, where a prince seeks revenge against his father's killer.
Bounce
2000
as Todd Exner
Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tickets with a stranger just before boarding a long-d...
Black and Blue
1999
as Mike Riordan
After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.
American Beauty
1999
as Jim Berkley
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daug...
Love from Ground Zero
1998
as Henry (voice)
Love From Ground Zero follows three strangers across the back roads of America with the ashes of a mutual friend. Using a series of old postcards as a...
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
as Avraham Aviel (voice)
David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination made...
Dinner and Driving
1997
as Frank
A newly married couple faces problems in the form of siblings, friends and exes.
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
1996
as David
Set in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who ran from Germany t...
Beautiful Girls
1996
as Steve Rossmore
During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connec...
Donor Unknown
1995
as David Bausch
Type A insurance fraud investigator Nick Stillman has his life extended by a heart transplant, only to be dismayed to discover that his donor was murd...
Prêt-à-Porter
1994
as Regina's Assistant
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
as Harold Ross
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted w...
The Ballad of Little Jo
1993
as Jasper Hill
After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
Casualties of War
1989
as Chaplain Kirk
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
Pancho Barnes
1988
as Gene McKendry
Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly.
Bird
1988
as Moscowitz
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict bu...
Bright Lights, Big City
1988
as Rich Vanier
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
Into Thin Air
1985
as Stephen Walker
Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investiga...
Not Quite Paradise
1985
as Mike
Six young volunteers from different backgrounds travel to Israel to spend a summer working on a kibbutz, a communal farm where they can find adventure...
Fandango
1985
as Kenneth Waggener
In 1971, five college buddies from the University of Texas embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain...
Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
1983
as Daniel Timerman
An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent.
Tempest
1982
as Freddy
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in f...