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Sam Robards

Date of birth: 1961-12-16

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Known for: Acting

Also known as:

Sam Robards

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.

Movie Credits

American Beauty
4

American Beauty

1999-09-15

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life ar

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
3.5

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001-06-29

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertr

Prêt-à-Porter
2.6

Prêt-à-Porter

1994-12-23

During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue an

Fandango
3.4

Fandango

1985-01-25

In 1971, five college buddies from the University of Texas embark on a final road trip odyssey acros

Catch That Kid
2.8

Catch That Kid

2004-02-06

A determined twelve-year-old mountain climber takes drastic action to save her injured father by pla

The Rebound
3.3

The Rebound

2009-09-16

Upon discovering her husband's infidelity, Sandy leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. There,

Life as a House
3.5

Life as a House

2001-10-25

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
2.9

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

1994-09-07

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed w

Bird
3.4

Bird

1988-06-01

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema

Perestroika
1.9

Perestroika

2009-03-20

Top astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg has spent the past 17 years working in the United States. An invi

Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
0

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

1983-05-22

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

The Ballad of Little Jo
2.9

The Ballad of Little Jo

1993-08-20

After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive th

Not Quite Paradise
2.4

Not Quite Paradise

1985-03-28

Six young volunteers from different backgrounds travel to Israel to spend a summer working on a kibb

Black and Blue
3.4

Black and Blue

1999-11-17

After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program an

Love from Ground Zero
0

Love from Ground Zero

1998-09-30

Love From Ground Zero follows three strangers across the back roads of America with the ashes of a m

Awake
3.3

Awake

2007-11-28

While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which

Grand Street
2.5

Grand Street

2014-05-02

Camilla Reilly’s elegant life has come undone. Once a fast-track film executive living in a luxuriou

Isle of Hope
0

Isle of Hope

2022-12-09

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

Obsessed
2.4

Obsessed

2002-09-22

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

Pancho Barnes
2.5

Pancho Barnes

1988-10-25

Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly.

On Golden Pond
4.5

On Golden Pond

2001-04-29

Character-driven story about an elderly man coming to terms with his age, and the nearing of death;

Bright Lights, Big City
2.8

Bright Lights, Big City

1988-04-01

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the me

Che: Part One
3.4

Che: Part One

2008-09-05

The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore

Bounce
2.9

Bounce

2000-11-15

Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tic

Space Cadet
2.7

Space Cadet

2024-07-04

Tiffany "Rex" Simpson has always dreamed of going to space, and her "doctored" application lands her

Beautiful Girls
3.3

Beautiful Girls

1996-02-09

During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifel

Isle Child
0

Isle Child

2025-04-25

When a Korean-American adoptee discovers his birthmother is terminally ill, he must decide whether t

Where Is Kyra?
2.8

Where Is Kyra?

2018-04-06

Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her t

The Warden
3.5

The Warden

2001-01-12

The Art of Getting By
3.3

The Art of Getting By

2011-06-17

George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever havin

The Man Who Captured Eichmann
3

The Man Who Captured Eichmann

1996-11-08

Set in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former

Into Thin Air
3.5

Into Thin Air

1985-10-29

Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from

Donor Unknown
4

Donor Unknown

1995-11-01

Type A insurance fraud investigator Nick Stillman has his life extended by a heart transplant, only

The Late Bloomer
2.7

The Late Bloomer

2016-10-07

A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against

Hamlet
1.9

Hamlet

2000-12-10

A revised version of the Shakespeare play set in turn-of-the-20th-century America, where a prince se

Dinner and Driving
3.3

Dinner and Driving

1997-01-01

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

The Other Side of the Tracks
2.1

The Other Side of the Tracks

2008-03-28

A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed te

Tempest
3

Tempest

1982-08-13

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the succes

Casualties of War
3.6

Casualties of War

1989-08-18

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessaril

The Blackwater Lightship
3

The Blackwater Lightship

2004-02-04

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

Surviving Eden
0.5

Surviving Eden

2004-03-01

A documentary crew captures the capitalistic trappings a reality show winner falls into during his s

Marmalade
0

Marmalade

2004-06-14

Marmalade is a romantic comedy about a fashion model who gets too old to continue her work. Her demi

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
2.9

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

1997-04-30

David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in d

Her Secret Sessions
0

Her Secret Sessions

2016-01-01

After losing her daughter and a difficult divorce, an attractive woman finds herself exploring the w

Punch
0

Punch

2025-10-28

As Jacob tears through Nottingham in a whirlwind of drugs, girls, and bar fights, he makes a fatal m