Jason Robards
Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor on stage and in film and television and a winner of the Tony Award (theatre), two Academy Awards (film) and the Emmy Award (television). He was also a United States Navy combat veteran of World War II. He became famous playing works of Eugene O'Neill, an American playwright, and regularly performed in O'Neill's works throughout his career. Robards was cast in both common-man roles and as well-known historical figures. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Robards, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Jul 26, 1922 In Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 133
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Gilded Lily 1921-03-27
- Latest Project:
- Movie Arthur Miller: Writer 2017-12-08
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Arthur Miller: Writer | Self (archive footage) | 2017-12-08 |
| Movie | The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee | Self (archive footage) | 2017-12-04 |
| Movie | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone | Ben Bradlee (archive footage) | 2016-11-04 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self | 2006-03-27 |
| Movie | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004-07-25 |
| Movie | The Wages of Sin | Cheyenne | 2003-11-18 |
| Movie | That Moment: Magnolia Diary | Self | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Going Home | Charles Barton | 2000-03-12 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone | Self (archive footage) | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | My Best Fiend | Self (archive footage) | 1999-05-17 |
| Movie | Magnolia | Earl Partridge | 1999-12-17 |
| Movie | Heartwood | Logan Reeser | 1998-04-19 |
| Movie | The Real Macaw | Grandpa Girdis | 1998-09-24 |
| Movie | Enemy of the State | Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited) | 1998-11-20 |
| Movie | Beloved | Mr. Bodwin | 1998-10-16 |
| Movie | A Thousand Acres | Larry Cook | 1997-09-19 |
| Series | The West | Self - Brigham Young | 1996-09-15 |
| Movie | The Great American West | Narrator (voice) | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | My Antonia | Josea Burden | 1995-03-29 |
| Movie | Crimson Tide | Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited) | 1995-05-12 |
| Movie | Journey | Marcus | 1995-12-10 |
| Movie | The Paper | Graham Keighley | 1994-03-18 |
| Movie | Little Big League | Thomas Heywood | 1994-06-29 |
| Movie | The Enemy Within | General R. Pendleton Lloyd | 1994-08-24 |
| Series | Baseball | Various (voice) | 1994-09-18 |
| Movie | The Trial | Doctor Huld | 1993-06-18 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Huck Finn | The King | 1993-04-02 |
| Movie | Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron | Self | 1993-06-29 |
| Series | Heidi | Grandfather | 1993-07-18 |
| Movie | Philadelphia | Charles Wheeler | 1993-12-22 |
| Movie | La Classe américaine | The Newspaper Director (archive footage) | 1993-12-31 |
| Movie | Storyville | Clifford Fowler | 1992-08-26 |
| Movie | Lincoln | President Abraham Lincoln (voice) | 1992-12-26 |
| Movie | The Perfect Tribute | President Abraham Lincoln | 1991-04-21 |
| Movie | Mark Twain and Me | Mark Twain | 1991-11-22 |
| Movie | Chernobyl: The Final Warning | Dr. Armand Hammer | 1991-04-22 |
| Series | An Inconvenient Woman | Jules Mendelson | 1991-05-12 |
| Movie | Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio | Narrator (voice) | 1991-10-01 |
| Movie | Quick Change | Chief Rotzinger | 1990-07-13 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 |
| Series | The Civil War | Ulysses S. Grant | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | Reunion | Henry Strauss | 1989-05-17 |
| Movie | Dream a Little Dream | Coleman Ettinger | 1989-03-03 |
| Movie | Parenthood | Frank Buckman | 1989-07-31 |
| Movie | Thomas Hart Benton | Narrator (voice) | 1989-10-31 |
| Movie | Black Rainbow | Walter Travis | 1989-12-05 |
| Movie | Bright Lights, Big City | Mr. Hardy (uncredited) | 1988-04-01 |
| Movie | Inherit the Wind | Harry Drummond | 1988-03-20 |
| Series | American Experience | Narrator (voice) | 1988-10-04 |
| Movie | The Good Mother | W. O. Muth | 1988-11-04 |
| Movie | The Christmas Wife | John Tanner | 1988-12-12 |
| Movie | Square Dance | Dillard | 1987-03-01 |
| Movie | Laguna Heat | Wade Shephard | 1987-11-15 |
| Movie | Breaking Home Ties | Lloyd Wells | 1987-11-26 |
| Movie | Portrait: Werner Herzog | Self (archive footage) | 1986-03-27 |
| Series | The Last Frontier | Ed Stenning | 1986-10-05 |
| Series | The Atlanta Child Murders | Alvin Binder | 1985-02-10 |
| Series | The Long Hot Summer | Will Varner | 1985-10-06 |
| Movie | Empire City | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1985-07-01 |
| Movie | Sakharov | Andrei Sakharov | 1984-06-20 |
| Movie | America and Lewis Hine | Voice | 1984-09-29 |
| Movie | Max Dugan Returns | Max Dugan | 1983-03-25 |
| Movie | The Day After | Dr. Russell Oakes | 1983-11-20 |
| Movie | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Charles Halloway | 1983-04-29 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
| Movie | Burden of Dreams | Fitzcarraldo (archive footage) | 1982-10-01 |
| Movie | The Legend of the Lone Ranger | President Ulysses S. Grant | 1981-08-06 |
| Movie | Cabo Blanco | Gunther Beckdorff | 1980-03-13 |
| Movie | Haywire | Leland Hayward | 1980-05-14 |
| Movie | F.D.R.: The Last Year | President Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1980-05-15 |
| Movie | Melvin and Howard | Howard Hughes | 1980-09-19 |
| Movie | Raise the Titanic | Admiral James Sandecker | 1980-08-01 |
| Movie | Hurricane | Capt. Charles Bruckner | 1979-04-12 |
| Movie | Comes a Horseman | Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing | 1978-10-25 |
| Series | The Kennedy Center Honors | Unknown | 1978-12-28 |
| Movie | A Christmas to Remember | Daniel Larson | 1978-12-22 |
| Series | Washington: Behind Closed Doors | President Richard Monckton | 1977-09-06 |
| Movie | Julia | Dashiell Hammett | 1977-10-01 |
| Movie | Addie and the King of Hearts | James "Jamie" Mills | 1976-02-25 |
| Movie | The Spy Who Never Was | Inspector Barkan | 1976-06-01 |
| Movie | All the President's Men | Ben Bradlee | 1976-04-09 |
| Movie | A Boy and His Dog | Lou Craddock | 1975-03-23 |
| Movie | The Easter Promise | James "Jamie" Mills | 1975-03-26 |
| Movie | Mr. Sycamore | John Gwilt | 1975-12-12 |
| Movie | A Moon for the Misbegotten | James Tyrone Jr. | 1975-05-27 |
| Movie | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Governor Wallace | 1973-05-23 |
| Movie | Old Faithful | Himself | 1973-01-01 |
| Movie | The Thanksgiving Treasure | James "Jamie" Mills | 1973-11-18 |
| Movie | The War Between Men and Women | Stephen Kozlenko | 1972-06-01 |
| Series | Ghost Story | Unknown | 1972-09-15 |
| Movie | The House Without a Christmas Tree | James "Jamie" Mills | 1972-12-03 |
| Movie | Murders in the Rue Morgue | Cesar Charron | 1971-07-21 |
| Movie | Johnny Got His Gun | Joe's Father | 1971-08-04 |
| Movie | Tora! Tora! Tora! | General Walter C. Short | 1970-01-26 |
| Movie | Operation Snafu | Sam Armstrong | 1970-03-03 |
| Movie | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Cable Hogue | 1970-03-18 |
| Movie | Fools | Matthew South | 1970-12-23 |
| Movie | Julius Caesar | Marcus Brutus | 1970-06-04 |
| Movie | Isadora | Paris Singer | 1968-09-14 |
| Movie | The Night They Raided Minsky's | Raymond Paine | 1968-12-22 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time in the West | 'Cheyenne' | 1968-12-21 |
| Movie | Divorce American Style | Nelson Downes | 1967-06-21 |
| Movie | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Al Capone | 1967-06-30 |
| Movie | Hour of the Gun | Doc Holliday | 1967-11-01 |
| Movie | The Belle of 14th Street | Self | 1967-10-11 |
| Movie | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Henry Drummond | 1966-06-08 |
| Movie | The Face of Genius | Narrator (voice) | 1966-03-21 |
| Movie | Any Wednesday | John Cleves | 1966-10-13 |
| Movie | Noon Wine | Royal Earle Thompson | 1966-11-23 |
| Series | ABC Stage 67 | Unknown | 1966-09-14 |
| Movie | A Thousand Clowns | Murray | 1965-12-13 |
| Movie | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Abraham Lincoln | 1964-02-02 |
| Series | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-04 |
| Movie | Act One | George S. Kaufman | 1963-12-26 |
| Movie | Tender Is the Night | Dick Diver | 1962-01-19 |
| Movie | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Jamie Tyrone | 1962-10-09 |
| Movie | By Love Possessed | Julius Penrose | 1961-07-19 |
| Movie | The Bat | Detective Anderson | 1960-03-29 |
| Movie | The Iceman Cometh | Theodore "Hickey" Hickman | 1960-11-14 |
| Movie | The Journey | Paul Kedes | 1959-02-11 |
| Movie | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Robert Jordan | 1959-03-12 |
| Series | Play of the Week | Unknown | 1959-10-12 |
| Movie | A Doll's House | Dr. Rank | 1959-11-15 |
| Series | Tony Awards | Unknown | 1956-04-01 |
| Series | The Alcoa Hour | Unknown | 1955-10-16 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
| Series | Omnibus | Unknown | 1952-11-09 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
| Series | The Philco Television Playhouse | Unknown | 1948-10-03 |
| Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
| Movie | The Gilded Lily | Frank Thompson | 1921-03-27 |