
Jason Robards
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 26, 1922
- Died
- December 26, 2000 (aged 78)
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
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Filmography
The Voice Still Carries: The Aimee Mann Story
Movie · as Earl Partridge (Magnolia archive footage)

Arthur Miller: Writer
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

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

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

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Movie · as Self

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

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

Going Home
Movie · as Charles Barton

That Moment: Magnolia Diary
Movie · as Self

Magnolia
Movie · as Earl Partridge

My Best Fiend
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

The Real Macaw
Movie · as Grandpa Girdis

Heartwood
Movie · as Logan Reeser

Beloved
Movie · as Mr. Bodwin

Enemy of the State
Movie · as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

A Thousand Acres
Movie · as Larry Cook
Truman
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
Movie · as Narrator

The West
TV · as Self - Brigham Young · 9 eps
The Great American West
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

My Antonia
Movie · as Josea Burden

Journey
Movie · as Marcus

Crimson Tide
Movie · as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

The Paper
Movie · as Graham Keighley

The Enemy Within
Movie · as General R. Pendleton Lloyd

Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
Movie · as Narrator

Little Big League
Movie · as Thomas Heywood

Baseball
TV · as (voice) · 5 eps

The Adventures of Huck Finn
Movie · as The King

The Trial
Movie · as Doctor Huld

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Movie · as Self

Philadelphia
Movie · as Charles Wheeler

La Classe américaine
Movie · as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
Roots of Roe
Movie · as Anthony Comstock (voice)

Heidi
TV · as Grandfather · 2 eps

Storyville
Movie · as Clifford Fowler

Deceptions
Movie · as Clay (voice)
Lincoln
Movie · as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

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

Mark Twain and Me
Movie · as Mark Twain

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

The Perfect Tribute
Movie · as President Abraham Lincoln

Chernobyl: The Final Warning
Movie · as Dr. Armand Hammer

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

When It Was a Game
Movie · as (voice)

An Inconvenient Woman
TV · as Jules Mendelson · 2 eps

Quick Change
Movie · as Chief Rotzinger

Night of 100 Stars III
Movie · as Self

The Civil War
TV · as Ulysses S. Grant (voice) · 9 eps

Parenthood
Movie · as Frank Buckman

Dream a Little Dream
Movie · as Coleman Ettinger

Black Rainbow
Movie · as Walter Travis

Reunion
Movie · as Henry Strauss

Thomas Hart Benton
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

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

The Good Mother
Movie · as W. O. Muth

The Christmas Wife
Movie · as John Tanner

Inherit the Wind
Movie · as Harry Drummond

American Experience
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 7 eps

Square Dance
Movie · as Dillard

Laguna Heat
Movie · as Wade Shephard

Breaking Home Ties
Movie · as Lloyd Wells

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Movie · as Self

Portrait: Werner Herzog
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Johnny Bull
Movie · as Stephan Kovacs

The Last Frontier
TV · as Ed Stenning · 2 eps

Empire City
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Long Hot Summer
TV · as Will Varner · 2 eps

The Atlanta Child Murders
TV · as Alvin Binder · 2 eps

Screen Two
TV · as Doctor Huld · 1 ep

You Can't Take it With You
Movie · as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
America and Lewis Hine
Movie · as Voice

Sakharov
Movie · as Andrei Sakharov

The World of Tomorrow
Movie · as Self / Narrator

Max Dugan Returns
Movie · as Max Dugan

The Day After
Movie · as Dr. Russell Oakes

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Movie · as Charles Halloway
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
Movie · as Self - Host

Reading Rainbow
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 ep

Burden of Dreams
Movie · as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

Night of 100 Stars
Movie · as Self

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

Caboblanco
Movie · as Gunther Beckdorff

Raise the Titanic
Movie · as Admiral James Sandecker

Melvin and Howard
Movie · as Howard Hughes

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

Haywire
Movie · as Leland Hayward

Ghosts of Cape Horn
Movie · as Narrator

Hurricane
Movie · as Capt. Charles Bruckner
A Plague on Our Children
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Broadway on Showtime
TV · as Erie Smith · 1 ep

Comes a Horseman
Movie · as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

A Christmas to Remember
Movie · as Daniel Larson

The Kennedy Center Honors
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Magic of David Copperfield
TV · 1 ep

Julia
Movie · as Dashiell Hammett

Washington: Behind Closed Doors
TV · as President Richard Monckton · 6 eps

All the President's Men
Movie · as Ben Bradlee

Addie and the King of Hearts
Movie · as James "Jamie" Mills

The Spy Who Never Was
Movie · as Inspector Barkan

A Boy and His Dog
Movie · as Lou Craddock

A Moon for the Misbegotten
Movie · as James Tyrone Jr.

Mr. Sycamore
Movie · as John Gwilt

The Easter Promise
Movie · as James "Jamie" Mills

The Country Girl
Movie · as Frank Elgin

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Movie · as Governor Wallace

The Thanksgiving Treasure
Movie · as James "Jamie" Mills

Old Faithful
Movie · as Jason Robards

The House Without a Christmas Tree
Movie · as James "Jamie" Mills

The War Between Men and Women
Movie · as Stephen Kozlenko

Ghost Story
TV · as Elliot Brent · 1 ep

Murders in the Rue Morgue
Movie · as Cesar Charron

Johnny Got His Gun
Movie · as Joe's Father
Film '72
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie · as General Walter C. Short

The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Movie · as Cable Hogue

Julius Caesar
Movie · as Marcus Brutus

Fools
Movie · as Matthew South

Operation Snafu
Movie · as Sam Armstrong

Isadora
Movie · as Paris Singer

The Night They Raided Minsky's
Movie · as Raymond Paine

Once Upon a Time in the West
Movie · as 'Cheyenne'

The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

Hour of the Gun
Movie · as Doc Holliday

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Movie · as Al Capone

Divorce American Style
Movie · as Nelson Downes

The Belle of 14th Street
Movie · as Performer
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie · as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

Any Wednesday
Movie · as John Cleves

A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Movie · as Henry Drummond

Noon Wine
Movie · as Royal Earle Thompson

The Face of Genius
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

ABC Stage 67
TV · as Royal Earle Thompson · 1 ep

A Thousand Clowns
Movie · as Murray

Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Movie · as Abraham Lincoln

Act One
Movie · as George S. Kaufman
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · 1 ep

The Danny Kaye Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Long Day's Journey Into Night
Movie · as Jamie Tyrone

Tender Is the Night
Movie · as Dick Diver

By Love Possessed
Movie · as Julius Penrose

The Bat
Movie · as Detective Anderson

The Iceman Cometh
TV · as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman · 2 eps
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
TV · as Detective Anderson · 1 ep

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie · as Robert Jordan

The Journey
Movie · as Paul Kedes

A Doll's House
Movie · as Dr. Rank

Play of the Week
TV · 1 ep

Playhouse 90
TV · as Robert Jordan · 2 eps

Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Host, Self - Presenter · 1 ep

The Alcoa Hour
TV · as Bert Palmer · 1 ep

General Electric Theater
TV · as Col. Carter · 1 ep

The Oscars
TV · as Self · 2 eps

Omnibus
TV · 1 ep

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Dr. Rank, Marcus, Abe Lincoln, Frank Elgin · 1 ep

What's My Line?
TV · as Self - Mystery Guest · 1 ep

Studio One
TV · as Frank Cameron, Prisoner, Walter Osgood, Leonard O'Brien · 1 ep

The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · as Joe Grant, Mason · 1 ep

The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep




