Sam Robards

Sam Prideaux Robards (born December 16, 1961) is an American actor. 2Early life Robards was born in New York City, the son of actor Jason Robards, Jr. and actress Lauren Bacall. He is an alumnus of Sarah Lawrence College. In the fall of 1980, he attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. 2Career 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. Robards appeared alongside his father in 1988's Bright Lights, Big City, in their only film collaboration (his father died in 2000). He co-starred with his mother in the 1993 Robert Altman film Prêt-à-Porter. He portrayed Harold Ross, first editor of The New Yorker, in the Dorothy Parker biographical film Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle in 1994 for writer-director Alan Rudolp