Jason Robards

Actor Jul 26 (died age 78) Chicago, Illinois, USA 1948–2017 (69 year career)

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Biography

Jason Nelson Robards Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor. Known as an interpreter of the works of playwright Eugene O'Neill, Robards received two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. He is one of 24 performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.

Known For

Film

Once Upon a Time in the West

'Cheyenne'

Film

Philadelphia

Charles Wheeler

Film

Magnolia

Earl Partridge

Film

Enemy of the State

Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

Film

All the President's Men

Ben Bradlee

Film

Crimson Tide

Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

Film

Tora! Tora! Tora!

General Walter C. Short

Film

Johnny Got His Gun

Joe's Father

Filmography

Acting (158)

Movies (125)

Arthur Miller: Writer

2017

as Self (archive footage)

7.1

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

2016

as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)

7.6

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004

2006

as Joe's Father (video "One")

7.6

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006

as Self

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

That Moment: Magnolia Diary

2000

as Self

7.6

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

2000

as Self (archive footage)

Going Home

as Charles Barton

Magnolia

as Earl Partridge

My Best Fiend

as Self (archive footage)

7.3

Enemy of the State

1998

as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

The Real Macaw

as Grandpa Girdis

Beloved

as Mr. Bodwin

Heartwood

as Logan Reeser

A Thousand Acres

as Larry Cook

Truman

as Narrator (voice)

T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt

1996

as Narrator

Crimson Tide

1995

as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

My Antonia

as Josea Burden

Journey

as Marcus

The Great American West

as Narrator (voice)

The Paper

as Graham Keighley

Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital

1994

as Narrator

Little Big League

1994

as Thomas Heywood

5.9

The Enemy Within

1994

as General R. Pendleton Lloyd

Philadelphia

as Charles Wheeler

Heidi

as Großvater

La Classe américaine

as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)

7.6

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993

as The King

6.2

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

as Self

The Trial

as Doctor Huld

Lincoln

as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

6.8

Deceptions

1992

as Clay (voice)

Storyville

1992

as Clifford Fowler

5.1

When It Was a Game 2

1992

as Passage Narrator (voice)

9.0

The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library

1992

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Mark Twain and Me

1991

as Mark Twain

7.3

The Perfect Tribute

1991

as President Abraham Lincoln

6.0

Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale

1991

as Narrator (voice)

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

1991

as Narrator (voice)

7.5

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

1991

as Dr. Armand Hammer

5.5

When It Was a Game

1991

as (voice)

Quick Change

1990

as Chief Rotzinger

6.7

Night of 100 Stars III

as Self

Parenthood

as Frank Buckman

Dream a Little Dream

as Coleman Ettinger

Reunion

as Henry Strauss

Black Rainbow

as Walter Travis

Thomas Hart Benton

as Narrator (voice)

The Good Mother

as W. O. Muth

Bright Lights, Big City

1988

as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)

The Christmas Wife

as John Tanner

Inherit the Wind

as Harry Drummond

Breaking Home Ties

as Lloyd Wells

Laguna Heat

as Wade Shephard

Square Dance

as Dillard

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

1987

as Self

5.7

Portrait: Werner Herzog

1986

as Self (archive footage)

Johnny Bull

as Stephan Kovacs

The Last Frontier

as Ed Stenning

Empire City

1985

as Self - Narrator (voice)

9.0

The World of Tomorrow

1984

as Self / Narrator

1.0

America and Lewis Hine

as Voice

Sakharov

as Andrei Sakharov

You Can't Take it With You

1984

as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

The Day After

as Dr. Russell Oakes

Max Dugan Returns

as Max Dugan

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1983

as Charles Halloway

6.4

The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History

1983

as Self - Host

Night of 100 Stars

1982

as Self

6.7

Burden of Dreams

1982

as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

7.5

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

1981

as President Ulysses S. Grant

4.9

Raise the Titanic

1980

as Admiral James Sandecker

Caboblanco

as Gunther Beckdorff

Haywire

as Leland Hayward

Ghosts of Cape Horn

as Narrator

Melvin and Howard

1980

as Howard Hughes

6.4

F.D.R.: The Last Year

1980

as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

5.8

Hurricane

1979

as Capt. Charles Bruckner

4.7

Comes a Horseman

1978

as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

6.1

A Christmas to Remember

as Daniel Larson

Julia

as Dashiell Hammett

All the President's Men

1976

as Ben Bradlee

7.7

The Spy Who Never Was

1976

as Inspector Barkan

6.0

Addie and the King of Hearts

1976

as James "Jamie" Mills

6.5

The Easter Promise

1975

as James "Jamie" Mills

A Boy and His Dog

as Lou Craddock

Mr. Sycamore

as John Gwilt

A Moon for the Misbegotten

1975

as James Tyrone Jr.

6.0

The Country Girl

1974

as Frank Elgin

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973

as Governor Wallace

7.2

The Thanksgiving Treasure

1973

as James "Jamie" Mills

7.8

Old Faithful

1973

as Jason Robards

The House Without a Christmas Tree

1972

as James "Jamie" Mills

6.2

The War Between Men and Women

as Stephen Kozlenko

Johnny Got His Gun

as Joe's Father

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971

as Cesar Charron

5.1

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970

as General Walter C. Short

7.1

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

as Cable Hogue

Julius Caesar

as Marcus Brutus

Fools

as Matthew South

Operation Snafu

as Sam Armstrong

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968

as 'Cheyenne'

8.3

The Night They Raided Minsky's

as Raymond Paine

Isadora

as Paris Singer

Divorce American Style

as Nelson Downes

Hour of the Gun

as Doc Holliday

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1967

as Al Capone

6.3

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1967

as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

The Belle of 14th Street

1967

as Performer

6.8

The Face of Genius

1966

as Narrator (voice)

Noon Wine

1966

as Royal Earle Thompson

7.0

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

as Henry Drummond

Any Wednesday

as John Cleves

A Thousand Clowns

as Murray

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

as Abraham Lincoln

Act One

as George S. Kaufman

Tender Is the Night

as Dick Diver

Long Day's Journey Into Night

as Jamie Tyrone

By Love Possessed

as Julius Penrose

The Iceman Cometh

as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman

7.1

The Bat

1960

as Detective Anderson

5.0

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1959

as Robert Jordan

The Journey

as Paul Kedes

A Doll's House

as Dr. Rank

Television (33)

The West

1996

as Self - Brigham Young

Baseball

as (voice)

Heidi

as Grandfather

An Inconvenient Woman

as Jules Mendelson

The Civil War

as Ulysses S. Grant

American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

The Last Frontier

as Ed Stenning

Screen Two

as Doctor Huld

The Atlanta Child Murders

as Alvin Binder

The Long Hot Summer

as Will Varner

Reading Rainbow

as Self - Narrator (voice)

8.4

Broadway on Showtime

1979

as Erie Smith

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978

as Self

7.4

The Magic of David Copperfield

1978

7.0

Washington: Behind Closed Doors

1977

as President Richard Monckton

Ghost Story

as Elliot Brent

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

ABC Stage 67

as Royal Earle Thompson

6.2

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

The Danny Kaye Show

as Self

Play of the Week

Tony Awards

as Self - Host

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

Playhouse 90

as Robert Jordan

The Alcoa Hour

as Bert Palmer

The Oscars

as Self

General Electric Theater

as Col. Carter

Omnibus

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Dr. Rank

8.6

What's My Line?

1950

as Self - Mystery Guest

6.9

The Philco Television Playhouse

as Joe Grant

Studio One

as Frank Cameron

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self