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:
- 130
- 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 | 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 | Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone | Self (archive footage) | 2001-01-08 |
| Movie | That Moment: Magnolia Diary | Self | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Going Home | Charles Barton | 2000-03-12 |
| Movie | Magnolia | Earl Partridge | 1999-12-10 |
| Movie | My Best Fiend | Self (archive footage) | 1999-05-17 |
| 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 | Dream a Little Dream | Coleman Ettinger | 1989-03-03 |
| Movie | Reunion | Henry Strauss | 1989-05-17 |
| Movie | Parenthood | Frank Buckman | 1989-07-31 |
| Movie | Black Rainbow | Walter Travis | 1989-12-05 |
| Movie | Thomas Hart Benton | Narrator (voice) | 1989-10-31 |
| Movie | Bright Lights, Big City | Mr. Hardy (uncredited) | 1988-04-01 |
| Movie | Inherit the Wind | Harry Drummond | 1988-03-20 |
| Movie | The Good Mother | W. O. Muth | 1988-11-04 |
| Series | American Experience | Narrator (voice) | 1988-10-04 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Long Hot Summer | Will Varner | 1985-10-06 |
| 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 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Charles Halloway | 1983-04-29 |
| Movie | The Day After | Dr. Russell Oakes | 1983-11-28 |
| 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 | 1981-08-20 |
| Movie | Haywire | Leland Hayward | 1980-05-14 |
| Movie | F.D.R.: The Last Year | President Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1980-05-15 |
| Movie | Cabo Blanco | Gunther Beckdorff | 1980-03-13 |
| Movie | Raise the Titanic | Admiral James Sandecker | 1980-08-01 |
| Movie | Melvin and Howard | Howard Hughes | 1980-09-19 |
| Movie | Hurricane | Capt. Charles Bruckner | 1979-04-12 |
| Movie | Comes a Horseman | Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing | 1978-10-25 |
| Movie | A Christmas to Remember | Daniel Larson | 1978-12-22 |
| Series | The Kennedy Center Honors | Unknown | 1978-12-28 |
| Series | Washington: Behind Closed Doors | President Richard Monckton | 1977-09-06 |
| Movie | Julia | Dashiell Hammett | 1977-10-01 |
| Movie | All the President's Men | Ben Bradlee | 1976-01-18 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| Series | Ghost Story | Unknown | 1972-09-15 |
| Movie | The War Between Men and Women | Stephen Kozlenko | 1972-06-01 |
| 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 | Operation Snafu | Sam Armstrong | 1970-03-03 |
| Movie | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Cable Hogue | 1970-05-13 |
| Movie | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Lt. General Walter C. Short | 1970-01-26 |
| Movie | Julius Caesar | Marcus Brutus | 1970-06-04 |
| Movie | Fools | Matthew South | 1970-12-23 |
| Series | The Dick Cavett Show | Himself - Guest | 1968-06-06 |
| Movie | Isadora | Paris Singer | 1968-09-14 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time in the West | 'Cheyenne' | 1968-12-21 |
| Movie | The Night They Raided Minsky's | Raymond Paine | 1968-12-22 |
| 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 | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Henry Drummond | 1966-05-31 |
| Movie | The Face of Genius | Narrator (voice) | 1966-03-21 |
| Series | ABC Stage 67 | Unknown | 1966-09-14 |
| Movie | Any Wednesday | John Cleves | 1966-10-13 |
| Movie | Noon Wine | Royal Earle Thompson | 1966-11-23 |
| Movie | A Thousand Clowns | Murray | 1965-12-13 |
| 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 Iceman Cometh | Theodore "Hickey" Hickman | 1960-11-14 |
| Movie | The Bat | Detective Anderson | 1960-03-29 |
| Series | Play of the Week | Unknown | 1959-10-12 |
| Movie | The Journey | Paul Kedes | 1959-02-11 |
| Movie | A Doll's House | Dr. Rank | 1959-11-15 |
| Series | Tony Awards | Presenter | 1956-04-01 |
| Series | The Alcoa Hour | Unknown | 1955-10-16 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |
| 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 |