Jason Robards
Known for Acting · 158 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
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Joe Grant / Mason
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Self - Presenter
Studio One
1948
as Frank Cameron / Prisoner / Walter Osgood / Leonard O'Brien
TV Shows (33)
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Joe Grant / Mason
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Self - Presenter
Studio One
1948
as Frank Cameron / Prisoner / Walter Osgood / Leonard O'Brien
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
Omnibus
1952
Screen Two
1985
as Doctor Huld
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Reading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Playhouse 90
1956
as Robert Jordan
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
as Self
Ghost Story
1972
as Elliot Brent
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
Baseball
1994
as (voice)
ABC Stage 67
1966
as Royal Earle Thompson
The Civil War
1990
as Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
The West
1996
as Self - Brigham Young
The Alcoa Hour
1955
as Bert Palmer
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Dr. Rank / Marcus / Abe Lincoln / Frank Elgin
Play of the Week
1959
General Electric Theater
1953
as Col. Carter
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
as Alvin Binder
The Magic of David Copperfield
1978
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
1977
as President Richard Monckton
The Long Hot Summer
1985
as Will Varner
An Inconvenient Woman
1991
as Jules Mendelson
Heidi
1993
as Grandfather
Broadway on Showtime
1979
as Erie Smith
The Last Frontier
1986
as Ed Stenning
The Iceman Cometh
1960
as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
Movies (125)
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
as 'Cheyenne'
Magnolia
1999
as Earl Partridge
Enemy of the State
1998
as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
Crimson Tide
1995
as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
Philadelphia
1993
as Charles Wheeler
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
as General Walter C. Short
All the President's Men
1976
as Ben Bradlee
Parenthood
1989
as Frank Buckman
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
as Governor Wallace
The Day After
1983
as Dr. Russell Oakes
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The Paper
1994
as Graham Keighley
Quick Change
1990
as Chief Rotzinger
Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983
as Charles Halloway
Beloved
1998
as Mr. Bodwin
A Boy and His Dog
1975
as Lou Craddock
Julius Caesar
1970
as Marcus Brutus
Johnny Got His Gun
1971
as Joe's Father
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
Raise the Titanic
1980
as Admiral James Sandecker
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970
as Cable Hogue
Hour of the Gun
1967
as Doc Holliday
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967
as Al Capone
Julia
1977
as Dashiell Hammett
Square Dance
1987
as Dillard
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
Max Dugan Returns
1983
as Max Dugan
Little Big League
1994
as Thomas Heywood
The Trial
1993
as Doctor Huld
A Thousand Acres
1997
as Larry Cook
The Journey
1959
as Paul Kedes
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993
as The King
Dream a Little Dream
1989
as Coleman Ettinger
Bright Lights, Big City
1988
as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966
as Henry Drummond
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1981
as President Ulysses S. Grant
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
La Classe américaine
1993
as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
Comes a Horseman
1978
as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
The Enemy Within
1994
as General R. Pendleton Lloyd
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971
as Cesar Charron
Caboblanco
1980
as Gunther Beckdorff
The Good Mother
1988
as W. O. Muth
My Best Fiend
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Burden of Dreams
1982
as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1962
as Jamie Tyrone
Melvin and Howard
1980
as Howard Hughes
Divorce American Style
1967
as Nelson Downes
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
as Self
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991
as Dr. Armand Hammer
Hurricane
1979
as Capt. Charles Bruckner
Reunion
1989
as Henry Strauss
Inherit the Wind
1988
as Harry Drummond
Laguna Heat
1987
as Wade Shephard
Isadora
1968
as Paris Singer
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Tender Is the Night
1962
as Dick Diver
The War Between Men and Women
1972
as Stephen Kozlenko
Heartwood
1998
as Logan Reeser
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Storyville
1992
as Clifford Fowler
The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968
as Raymond Paine
Black Rainbow
1989
as Walter Travis
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Journey
1995
as Marcus
Any Wednesday
1966
as John Cleves
Lincoln
1992
as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Act One
1963
as George S. Kaufman
Haywire
1980
as Leland Hayward
By Love Possessed
1961
as Julius Penrose
The Belle of 14th Street
1967
as Performer
Sakharov
1984
as Andrei Sakharov
The Real Macaw
1998
as Grandpa Girdis
Operation Snafu
1970
as Sam Armstrong
When It Was a Game 2
1992
as Passage Narrator (voice)
Fools
1970
as Matthew South
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000
as Self
A Doll's House
1959
as Dr. Rank
The Perfect Tribute
1991
as President Abraham Lincoln
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
as Robert Jordan
Mark Twain and Me
1991
as Mark Twain
The Easter Promise
1975
as James "Jamie" Mills
Noon Wine
1966
as Royal Earle Thompson
A Thousand Clowns
1965
as Murray
The World of Tomorrow
1984
as Self / Narrator
My Antonia
1995
as Josea Burden
Breaking Home Ties
1987
as Lloyd Wells
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993
as Self
The Iceman Cometh
1960
as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
You Can't Take it With You
1984
as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
Going Home
2000
as Charles Barton
Johnny Bull
1986
as Stephan Kovacs
Mr. Sycamore
1975
as John Gwilt
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1991
as Narrator (voice)
The Bat
1960
as Detective Anderson
The Spy Who Never Was
1976
as Inspector Barkan
Old Faithful
1973
as Jason Robards
The Thanksgiving Treasure
1973
as James "Jamie" Mills
When It Was a Game
1991
as (voice)
A Christmas to Remember
1978
as Daniel Larson
Heidi
1993
as Großvater
A Moon for the Misbegotten
1975
as James Tyrone Jr.
Empire City
1985
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Country Girl
1974
as Frank Elgin
The Christmas Wife
1988
as John Tanner
Truman
1997
as Narrator (voice)
The Great American West
1995
as Narrator (voice)
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
2006
as Joe's Father (video "One")
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
as Self (archive footage)
The House Without a Christmas Tree
1972
as James "Jamie" Mills
Deceptions
1992
as Clay (voice)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1964
as Abraham Lincoln
America and Lewis Hine
1984
as Voice
Addie and the King of Hearts
1976
as James "Jamie" Mills
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
1983
as Self - Host
Thomas Hart Benton
1989
as Narrator (voice)
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
1992
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1967
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
The Face of Genius
1966
as Narrator (voice)
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 158 credits spanning from 1948 to 2017, Jason Robards has appeared in 125 films and 33 TV shows.
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Most Popular Jason Robards Movies
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) — as 'Cheyenne'
- Magnolia (1999) — as Earl Partridge
- Enemy of the State (1998) — as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
- Crimson Tide (1995) — as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
- Philadelphia (1993) — as Charles Wheeler
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