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J. Robert Oppenheimer

Acting Born Apr 22, 1904 New York City, New York, USA 23 credits

Biography

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist. A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is often credited as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project – the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer was among those who observed the Trinity test in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945.

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Fallen

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The Day After Trinity

as Self (archive footage)

Full filmography

  • Crusade in Europe (1949) as Self (archive footage)
  • To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb (2023) as Self (archive footage)
  • Hiroshima (2005) as Self (archive footage)
  • Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We? (2024) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Day After Trinity (1980) as Self (archive footage)
  • Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (1995) as Self (archive footage)
  • Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress (2019) as Self (archive footage)
  • Los Alamos: The Beginning (1982) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2008) as Self (archive footage)
  • Atomic People (2024) as Self (archive footage)
  • Awake: The Life of Yogananda (2014) as Self (archive footage)
  • A Compassionate Spy (2022) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Le Syndrome du Titanic (2009) as Self (archive sound)
  • Oppenheimer und die Bombe (2025) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965) as Self
  • Oppenheimer: The Real Story (2023) as Self (archive footage)
  • Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb (2015) as Self (archive footage)
  • Bellum - The Daemon of War (2021) as Self (archive footage)
  • Oppenheimer After Trinity (2023) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Moment in Time: The Manhattan Project (2000) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Destroyer of Worlds
  • Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945 (1970) as Self (voice) (archive footage)
  • Hugh Bradner Films (Los Alamos) (1945) as self