Sam Robards Movies and Career Information

Sam Prideaux Robards (born December 16, 1961) is an American actor. Robards was born in New York City, the son of actors Jason Robards and Lauren Bacall. He began his acting career in 1980 in an off-Broadway production of Album, and made his feature film debut in director Paul Mazursky's 1982 film Tempest. He married fellow actor Suzy Amis in 1985. Their marriage produced a son, Jasper, and ended in divorce in 1993. In 1997, Robards married Danish model Sidsel Jensen, and they have two sons together. He is an alumnus of Sarah Lawrence College. Robards appeared alongside his father in 1988's Bright Lights, Big City, in their only film collaboration together (His father died in 2000.) He also costarred with his mother in the 1993 Robert Altman film Prêt-à-Porter. Robards portrayed Harold Ross, first editor of The New Yorker, in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle in 1994 for writer-director Alan Rudolph. His film résumé also includes "Fandango", Casualties of War, American Beauty, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Life as a House and The Other Side of the Tracks. In the theatre, Robards was nominated for Broadway's 2002 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role – Play) for Arthur Miller's