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