
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

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Self - Presenter

American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Joe Grant / Mason

What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963

Studio One
1948
as Frank Cameron / Prisoner / Walter Osgood / Leonard O'Brien
TV Shows (33)

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Self - Presenter

American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Joe Grant / Mason

What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963

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

Reading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Playhouse 90
1956
as Robert Jordan

Ghost Story
1972
as Elliot Brent

The Danny Kaye Show
1963
as Self

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 Alcoa Hour
1955
as Bert Palmer

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Dr. Rank / Marcus / Abe Lincoln / Frank Elgin

Play of the Week
1959

The West
1996
as Self - Brigham Young

Washington: Behind Closed Doors
1977
as President Richard Monckton

The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
as Alvin Binder

General Electric Theater
1953
as Col. Carter

The Magic of David Copperfield
1978

Heidi
1993
as Grandfather

An Inconvenient Woman
1991
as Jules Mendelson

The Long Hot Summer
1985
as Will Varner

The Last Frontier
1986
as Ed Stenning

Broadway on Showtime
1979
as Erie Smith

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

Crimson Tide
1995
as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

Enemy of the State
1998
as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

Philadelphia
1993
as Charles Wheeler

All the President's Men
1976
as Ben Bradlee

Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
as General Walter C. Short

Parenthood
1989
as Frank Buckman

Johnny Got His Gun
1971
as Joe's Father

Beloved
1998
as Mr. Bodwin

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
as Governor Wallace

The Paper
1994
as Graham Keighley

The Day After
1983
as Dr. Russell Oakes

Julius Caesar
1970
as Marcus Brutus

The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970
as Cable Hogue

Quick Change
1990
as Chief Rotzinger

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)

Max Dugan Returns
1983
as Max Dugan

Hour of the Gun
1967
as Doc Holliday

Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983
as Charles Halloway

A Boy and His Dog
1975
as Lou Craddock

Reunion
1989
as Henry Strauss

Inherit the Wind
1988
as Harry Drummond

Julia
1977
as Dashiell Hammett

Little Big League
1994
as Thomas Heywood

That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000
as Self

Dream a Little Dream
1989
as Coleman Ettinger

Raise the Titanic
1980
as Admiral James Sandecker

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967
as Al Capone

Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self

My Best Fiend
1999
as Self (archive footage)

A Thousand Acres
1997
as Larry Cook

The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993
as The King

The Journey
1959
as Paul Kedes

Heartwood
1998
as Logan Reeser

The Trial
1993
as Doctor Huld

Melvin and Howard
1980
as Howard Hughes

Comes a Horseman
1978
as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

Caboblanco
1980
as Gunther Beckdorff

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self

Bright Lights, Big City
1988
as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)

Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self

The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1981
as President Ulysses S. Grant

A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966
as Henry Drummond

The Enemy Within
1994
as General R. Pendleton Lloyd

Hurricane
1979
as Capt. Charles Bruckner

La Classe américaine
1993
as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)

Tender Is the Night
1962
as Dick Diver

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)

Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971
as Cesar Charron

Any Wednesday
1966
as John Cleves

Laguna Heat
1987
as Wade Shephard

Long Day's Journey Into Night
1962
as Jamie Tyrone

Burden of Dreams
1982
as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

The Good Mother
1988
as W. O. Muth

Isadora
1968
as Paris Singer

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
as Self

Square Dance
1987
as Dillard

Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
as Self (archive footage)

The War Between Men and Women
1972
as Stephen Kozlenko
Lincoln
1992
as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Divorce American Style
1967
as Nelson Downes

Black Rainbow
1989
as Walter Travis

Haywire
1980
as Leland Hayward

By Love Possessed
1961
as Julius Penrose

The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968
as Raymond Paine

When It Was a Game 2
1992
as Passage Narrator (voice)

F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Bat
1960
as Detective Anderson

The Perfect Tribute
1991
as President Abraham Lincoln

Journey
1995
as Marcus

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993
as Self

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
as Self (archive footage)

A Thousand Clowns
1965
as Murray

Storyville
1992
as Clifford Fowler

Fools
1970
as Matthew South

The Real Macaw
1998
as Grandpa Girdis

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1991
as Narrator (voice)

Act One
1963
as George S. Kaufman

Sakharov
1984
as Andrei Sakharov

Heidi
1993
as Großvater

Old Faithful
1973
as Jason Robards

The Country Girl
1974
as Frank Elgin

The Iceman Cometh
1960
as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman

A Doll's House
1959
as Dr. Rank

Breaking Home Ties
1987
as Lloyd Wells

Johnny Bull
1986
as Stephan Kovacs

Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991
as Dr. Armand Hammer

Operation Snafu
1970
as Sam Armstrong

When It Was a Game
1991
as (voice)

For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
as Robert Jordan
Truman
1997
as Narrator (voice)

Going Home
2000
as Charles Barton

My Antonia
1995
as Josea Burden

The Belle of 14th Street
1967
as Performer

The Easter Promise
1975
as James "Jamie" Mills

Empire City
1985
as Self - Narrator (voice)
America and Lewis Hine
1984
as Voice

Mark Twain and Me
1991
as Mark Twain

The World of Tomorrow
1984
as Self / Narrator

A Moon for the Misbegotten
1975
as James Tyrone Jr.

Thomas Hart Benton
1989
as Narrator (voice)

Deceptions
1992
as Clay (voice)

Addie and the King of Hearts
1976
as James "Jamie" Mills

Noon Wine
1966
as Royal Earle Thompson

The Spy Who Never Was
1976
as Inspector Barkan

The Christmas Wife
1988
as John Tanner

A Christmas to Remember
1978
as Daniel Larson

Mr. Sycamore
1975
as John Gwilt

The Thanksgiving Treasure
1973
as James "Jamie" Mills

You Can't Take it With You
1984
as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1964
as Abraham Lincoln

The Last Frontier
1986
as Ed Stenning
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
1992
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
1983
as Self - Host

T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
1996
as Narrator

Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
as Self (archive footage)

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
2006
as Joe's Father (video "One")

Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
1991
as Narrator (voice)

The House Without a Christmas Tree
1972
as James "Jamie" Mills
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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- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) — as 'Cheyenne'
- Magnolia (1999) — as Earl Partridge
- Crimson Tide (1995) — as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
- Enemy of the State (1998) — as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
- Philadelphia (1993) — as Charles Wheeler
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