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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Actor

TV 101
Kevin Keegan
Get a Life!
Larry Potter
Obsessed
Dr. David Stillman
Pancho Barnes
Gene McKendry
The Warden
Axel

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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"