Jason Robards
Known for Acting · 159 credits
- Born
- 1922-07-26
- Died
- 2000-12-26
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Jason Robards Jr. · Джейсон Робардс · Jason Nelson Robards Jr.
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
TV Shows (35)
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Self - Presenter
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
Screen Two
1985
as Doctor Huld
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Joe Grant / Mason
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Studio One
1948
as Frank Cameron / Prisoner / Walter Osgood / Leonard O'Brien
Omnibus
1952
Ghost Story
1972
as Elliot Brent
Film '72
1971
as Self
Reading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Playhouse 90
1956
as Robert Jordan
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
as Self
Baseball
1994
as (voice)
The Civil War
1990
as Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
ABC Stage 67
1966
as Royal Earle Thompson
The Magic of David Copperfield
1978
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Dr. Rank / Marcus / Abe Lincoln / Frank Elgin
The Alcoa Hour
1955
as Bert Palmer
Play of the Week
1959
The Long Hot Summer
1985
as Will Varner
The West
1996
as Self - Brigham Young
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
as Alvin Binder
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960
as Detective Anderson
An Inconvenient Woman
1991
as Jules Mendelson
General Electric Theater
1953
as Col. Carter
Broadway on Showtime
1979
as Erie Smith
Heidi
1993
as Grandfather
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
1977
as President Richard Monckton
The Last Frontier
1986
as Ed Stenning
The Iceman Cometh
1960
as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
Movies (124)
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
as 'Cheyenne'
All the President's Men
1976
as Ben Bradlee
Enemy of the State
1998
as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
Magnolia
1999
as Earl Partridge
Philadelphia
1993
as Charles Wheeler
Crimson Tide
1995
as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
Empire City
1985
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
as General Walter C. Short
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
as Governor Wallace
The Good Mother
1988
as W. O. Muth
Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983
as Charles Halloway
Act One
1963
as George S. Kaufman
By Love Possessed
1961
as Julius Penrose
Divorce American Style
1967
as Nelson Downes
Quick Change
1990
as Chief Rotzinger
A Thousand Acres
1997
as Larry Cook
Inherit the Wind
1988
as Harry Drummond
The Journey
1959
as Paul Kedes
The Day After
1983
as Dr. Russell Oakes
A Boy and His Dog
1975
as Lou Craddock
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
as Self (archive footage)
America and Lewis Hine
1984
as Voice
The Enemy Within
1994
as General R. Pendleton Lloyd
When It Was a Game
1991
as (voice)
The Perfect Tribute
1991
as President Abraham Lincoln
Parenthood
1989
as Frank Buckman
My Best Fiend
1999
as Self (archive footage)
The Paper
1994
as Graham Keighley
When It Was a Game 2
1992
as Passage Narrator (voice)
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
as Self (archive footage)
Little Big League
1994
as Thomas Heywood
Thomas Hart Benton
1989
as Narrator (voice)
Tender Is the Night
1962
as Dick Diver
Johnny Got His Gun
1971
as Joe's Father
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970
as Cable Hogue
Hour of the Gun
1967
as Doc Holliday
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000
as Self
La Classe américaine
1993
as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
Black Rainbow
1989
as Walter Travis
Comes a Horseman
1978
as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
Square Dance
1987
as Dillard
Bright Lights, Big City
1988
as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
Raise the Titanic
1980
as Admiral James Sandecker
A Thousand Clowns
1965
as Murray
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971
as Cesar Charron
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993
as The King
The Christmas Wife
1988
as John Tanner
Mark Twain and Me
1991
as Mark Twain
Hurricane
1979
as Capt. Charles Bruckner
The Trial
1993
as Doctor Huld
Dream a Little Dream
1989
as Coleman Ettinger
Heidi
1993
as Großvater
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1981
as President Ulysses S. Grant
Breaking Home Ties
1987
as Lloyd Wells
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
Reunion
1989
as Henry Strauss
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967
as Al Capone
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
Beloved
1998
as Mr. Bodwin
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The Real Macaw
1998
as Grandpa Girdis
Julia
1977
as Dashiell Hammett
Julius Caesar
1970
as Marcus Brutus
Fools
1970
as Matthew South
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991
as Dr. Armand Hammer
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966
as Henry Drummond
Journey
1995
as Marcus
The Country Girl
1974
as Frank Elgin
Truman
1997
as Narrator (voice)
The Face of Genius
1966
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1991
as Narrator (voice)
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
A Doll's House
1959
as Dr. Rank
The World of Tomorrow
1984
as Self / Narrator
Haywire
1980
as Leland Hayward
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993
as Self
Max Dugan Returns
1983
as Max Dugan
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Old Faithful
1973
as Jason Robards
The War Between Men and Women
1972
as Stephen Kozlenko
Going Home
2000
as Charles Barton
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1967
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Isadora
1968
as Paris Singer
Burden of Dreams
1982
as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Operation Snafu
1970
as Sam Armstrong
The Bat
1960
as Detective Anderson
A Moon for the Misbegotten
1975
as James Tyrone Jr.
The Spy Who Never Was
1976
as Inspector Barkan
Melvin and Howard
1980
as Howard Hughes
The Iceman Cometh
1960
as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1962
as Jamie Tyrone
Storyville
1992
as Clifford Fowler
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
1996
as Narrator
The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968
as Raymond Paine
My Antonia
1995
as Josea Burden
The Thanksgiving Treasure
1973
as James "Jamie" Mills
Lincoln
1992
as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Sakharov
1984
as Andrei Sakharov
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1964
as Abraham Lincoln
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
2006
as Joe's Father (video "One")
Mr. Sycamore
1975
as John Gwilt
Caboblanco
1980
as Gunther Beckdorff
The House Without a Christmas Tree
1972
as James "Jamie" Mills
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
as Self
Laguna Heat
1987
as Wade Shephard
The Great American West
1995
as Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
1991
as Narrator (voice)
The Easter Promise
1975
as James "Jamie" Mills
A Christmas to Remember
1978
as Daniel Larson
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
as Robert Jordan
Any Wednesday
1966
as John Cleves
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
1983
as Self - Host
You Can't Take it With You
1984
as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
The Belle of 14th Street
1967
as Performer
Ghosts of Cape Horn
1980
as Narrator
Johnny Bull
1986
as Stephan Kovacs
Heartwood
1998
as Logan Reeser
Noon Wine
1966
as Royal Earle Thompson
About Jason Robards
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. With 159 credits spanning from 1948 to 2017, Jason Robards has appeared in 124 films and 35 TV shows.
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Most Popular Jason Robards Movies
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) — as 'Cheyenne'
- All the President's Men (1976) — as Ben Bradlee
- Enemy of the State (1998) — as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
- Magnolia (1999) — as Earl Partridge
- Philadelphia (1993) — as Charles Wheeler
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