J. Robert Oppenheimer
Acting • Born 1904-04-22 – Died 1967-02-18
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.
Filmography
23 credits
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
The Day After Trinity
Movie • 1981
Self (archive footage)
Oppenheimer After Trinity
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Movie • 1995
Self (archive footage)
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Oppenheimer: The Real Story
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Hugh Bradner Films (Los Alamos)
Movie • 1945
self
The Moment in Time: The Manhattan Project
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Movie • 1965
Self
Los Alamos: The Beginning
Movie • 1982
Self (archive footage)
Bellum - The Daemon of War
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We?
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
A Compassionate Spy
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Le syndrome du Titanic
Movie • 2009
Self (archive sound)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945
Movie • 1970
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Atomic People
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
The Destroyer of Worlds
Movie
Hiroshima
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Crusade in Europe
TV • 1949
Self (archive footage)
Oppenheimer und die Bombe
TV • 2025
Self (archive footage)