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Sam Robards

  • Birthplace: New York, New York
  • Birthday: December 16, 1961

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-lu…more

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Career Milestones

  • 2007

    Cast in the psychological thriller "Awake" with Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba

  • 2006

    Played the pompous megalomaniac producer of a reality TV program in "Surviving Eden"

  • 2005

    Co-starred in Henry Jaglom's "Going Shopping" with Victoria Foyt, Lee Grant and Bruce Davison

  • 2004

    Played a father that gets critically injured in "Catch that Kid"

  • 2001

    Acted in the live CBS broadcast of "On Golden Pond"

Awards

  • 1999

    Online Film Critics Society Award: Best Ensemble

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