Sam Robards

Sam Robards

1961-12-16 New York City, New York, USA 45 Credits

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.

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Isle Child

Isle Child

2025

as Thomas Miller

Acting

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

Space Cadet

2024

as Rex's Dad (Calvin Simpson)

5.5
Acting

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

Isle of Hope

2022

as William

Acting

A university professor tries to reconcile with her mother after the woman suffers a life-threatening stroke.

Where Is Kyra?

Where Is Kyra?

2018

as Carl

5.6
Acting

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

The Late Bloomer

2016

as Dr. Lawson

5.5
Acting

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

Her Secret Sessions

2016

as Jack

Acting

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

Grand Street

2014

as Gary

8.0
Acting

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

The Art of Getting By

2011

as Jack Sargent

6.6
Acting

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

The Rebound

2009

as Frank

6.5
Acting

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

Perestroika

2009

as Alexander aka "Sasha" Greenberg

3.8
Acting

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

Che: Part One

2008

as Tad Szulc

6.8
Acting

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

The Other Side of the Tracks

2008

as David

4.0
Acting

A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident.

Awake

Awake

2007

as Clayton Beresford Sr.

6.5
Acting

While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the oper...

Manderlay

Manderlay

2005

Thanks

6.9

In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal...

Marmalade

Marmalade

2004

as Roger

Acting

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

Surviving Eden

2004

as Gary Gold

Acting

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

Catch That Kid

2004

as Tom Phillips

5.6
Acting

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

The Blackwater Lightship

2004

as Paul

6.3
Acting

A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.

Obsessed

Obsessed

2002

as David Stillman

5.1
Acting

A woman claims she had an affair with a married neurosurgeon and stands trial for allegedly harassing him.

Life as a House

Life as a House

2001

as David Dokos

7.1
Acting

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

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001

as Henry Swinton

7.0
Acting

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

On Golden Pond

2001

as Bill Ray

9.0
Acting

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

The Warden

2001

as Axel

7.0
Acting
Hamlet

Hamlet

2000

as Fortinbras

4.7
Acting

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

Bounce

2000

as Todd Exner

5.8
Acting

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

Black and Blue

1999

as Mike Riordan

6.8
Acting

After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.

American Beauty

American Beauty

1999

as Jim Berkley

8.0
Acting

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)

Acting

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

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

1997

as Avraham Aviel (voice)

5.8
Acting

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

Dinner and Driving

1997

as Frank

6.5
Acting

A newly married couple faces problems in the form of siblings, friends and exes.

The Man Who Captured Eichmann

The Man Who Captured Eichmann

1996

as David

5.9
Acting

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

Beautiful Girls

1996

as Steve Rossmore

6.7
Acting

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

8.0
Acting

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

Prêt-à-Porter

1994

as Regina's Assistant

5.2
Acting

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

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

1994

as Harold Ross

5.8
Acting

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

The Ballad of Little Jo

1993

as Jasper Hill

5.9
Acting

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

Casualties of War

1989

as Chaplain Kirk

7.2
Acting

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

Pancho Barnes

Pancho Barnes

1988

as Gene McKendry

5.0
Acting

Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly.

Bird

Bird

1988

as Moscowitz

6.8
Acting

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

Bright Lights, Big City

1988

as Rich Vanier

5.7
Acting

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

Into Thin Air

1985

as Stephen Walker

7.0
Acting

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

Not Quite Paradise

1985

as Mike

5.5
Acting

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

Fandango

1985

as Kenneth Waggener

6.7
Acting

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

Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

1983

as Daniel Timerman

Acting

An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent.

Tempest

Tempest

1982

as Freddy

6.0
Acting

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in f...