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 Sakharov
- Latest Project:
- Movie Arthur Miller: Writer 2017-12-08
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Sakharov | Andrei Sakharov | 2025 |
| Movie | The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee | Self (archive footage) | 2017-12-04 |
| Movie | Arthur Miller: Writer | Self (archive footage) | 2017-12-08 |
| 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 | Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone | Self (archive footage) | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Going Home | Charles Barton | 2000-03-12 |
| Movie | Magnolia | Earl Partridge | 1999-12-17 |
| Movie | My Best Fiend | Self (archive footage) | 1999-05-17 |
| Movie | Heartwood | Logan Reeser | 1998-04-19 |
| Movie | Beloved | Mr. Bodwin | 1998-10-16 |
| Movie | Enemy of the State | Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited) | 1998-11-20 |
| Movie | The Real Macaw | Grandpa Girdis | 1998-09-24 |
| Movie | A Thousand Acres | Larry Cook | 1997-09-19 |
| Series | The West | Self - Brigham Young | 1996-09-15 |
| Movie | Journey | Marcus | 1995-12-10 |
| 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 | Little Big League | Thomas Heywood | 1994-06-29 |
| Movie | The Paper | Graham Keighley | 1994-03-18 |
| 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 |
| Series | Heidi | Grandfather | 1993-07-18 |
| Movie | La Classe américaine | The Newspaper Director (archive footage) | 1993-12-31 |
| Movie | Philadelphia | Charles Wheeler | 1993-12-22 |
| Movie | Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron | Self | 1993-06-29 |
| 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 | 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 | Mark Twain and Me | Mark Twain | 1991-11-22 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 |
| Movie | Quick Change | Chief Rotzinger | 1990-07-13 |
| 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 | Inherit the Wind | Harry Drummond | 1988-03-20 |
| Movie | Bright Lights, Big City | Mr. Hardy (uncredited) | 1988-04-01 |
| 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 | Breaking Home Ties | Lloyd Wells | 1987-11-26 |
| Movie | Laguna Heat | Wade Shephard | 1987-11-15 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Empire City | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1985-07-01 |
| Series | The Long Hot Summer | Will Varner | 1985-10-06 |
| Movie | America and Lewis Hine | Voice | 1984-09-29 |
| Movie | Max Dugan Returns | Max Dugan | 1983-03-25 |
| Movie | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Charles Halloway | 1983-04-29 |
| Movie | The Day After | Dr. Russell Oakes | 1983-11-20 |
| Movie | Burden of Dreams | Fitzcarraldo (archive footage) | 1982-10-01 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
| Movie | The Legend of the Lone Ranger | President Ulysses S. Grant | 1981-08-06 |
| Movie | Melvin and Howard | Howard Hughes | 1980-09-19 |
| Movie | Cabo Blanco | Gunther Beckdorff | 1980-03-13 |
| Movie | Haywire | Leland Hayward | 1980-05-14 |
| Movie | Raise the Titanic | Admiral James Sandecker | 1980-08-01 |
| Movie | F.D.R.: The Last Year | President Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1980-05-15 |
| 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 | A Moon for the Misbegotten | James Tyrone Jr. | 1975-05-27 |
| Movie | Mr. Sycamore | John Gwilt | 1975-12-12 |
| Movie | Old Faithful | Himself | 1973-01-01 |
| Movie | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Governor Wallace | 1973-05-23 |
| 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 | Johnny Got His Gun | Joe's Father | 1971-08-04 |
| Movie | Murders in the Rue Morgue | Cesar Charron | 1971-07-21 |
| 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 | Julius Caesar | Marcus Brutus | 1970-06-04 |
| Movie | Fools | Matthew South | 1970-12-23 |
| 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 | The Belle of 14th Street | Self | 1967-10-11 |
| Movie | Hour of the Gun | Doc Holliday | 1967-11-01 |
| Movie | The Face of Genius | Narrator (voice) | 1966-03-21 |
| Movie | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Henry Drummond | 1966-06-08 |
| Movie | Noon Wine | Royal Earle Thompson | 1966-11-23 |
| Movie | Any Wednesday | John Cleves | 1966-10-13 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Act One | George S. Kaufman | 1963-12-26 |
| Series | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-04 |
| 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 Iceman Cometh | Theodore "Hickey" Hickman | 1960-11-14 |
| Movie | The Bat | Detective Anderson | 1960-03-29 |
| 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 | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| Series | Omnibus | Unknown | 1952-11-09 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
| Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
| Series | The Philco Television Playhouse | Unknown | 1948-10-03 |
| Movie | The Gilded Lily | Frank Thompson | 1921-03-27 |