Portrait of Carl Sagan

Acting

Carl Sagan

Career

Active from 1969 to 2025, with a break from 1998 to 2013, busiest in 2014 with 2 main titles.

Leading roles
3
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score80/100
Highest rated
Poster for Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
GoodWatch score88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 8 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 3.6 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 4.5 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 0.9 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 6.6 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 5.2 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 7.4 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Carl Sagan Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Crime
    0.4, average 3.6
  • Violence
    1.3, average 4.1
  • Coming of Age
    0.4, average 3.0
  • Physical Comedy
    0.2, average 2.4

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Cosmic Perspective 2
  • Poetic Narration 2
  • Existential Wonder 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

    Movies and TV shows

    11
    Type
    Role
    Score
    Decade
    Genre
    Group by

    2020s

    2 titles ยท average score 73
    Bookworms
    Bookworms (2025)

    as (himself)

    Piece by Piece
    Piece by Piece (2024)
    GoodWatch score 73

    as Carl Sagan (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

    2010s

    3 titles ยท average score 78
    Star Stuff: A Story of Carl Sagan
    Star Stuff: A Story of Carl Sagan (2015)

    Writer

    Wanderers
    Wanderers (2014)
    GoodWatch score 73

    as Voice

    Owned & Operated
    Owned & Operated (2012)
    GoodWatch score 83

    as Carl Sagan

    2000s

    1 title ยท average score 72
    An Inconvenient Truth
    An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
    GoodWatch score 72

    Thanks

    1990s

    2 titles ยท average score 71
    Contact
    Contact (1997)
    GoodWatch score 71

    Novel, Original Story

    We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot
    We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot (1996)

    Writer

    1980s

    1 title ยท average score 89
    Threads
    Threads (1984)
    GoodWatch score 89

    Scientific Consultant

    1970s

    1 title ยท average score 79
    NOVA
    NOVA (1974)
    GoodWatch score 79

    TV show

    1960s

    1 title
    The Violent Universe
    The Violent Universe (1969)

    as Narrator