Jason Robards
Born: 1922-07-26 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 2000-12-26
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2017
- Arthur Miller: Writer as Self (archive footage)
2016
- All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
2006
- Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film as Self
- Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 as Joe's Father (video "One")
2004
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
2000
- Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone as Self (archive footage)
- That Moment: Magnolia Diary as Self
- Going Home as Charles Barton
1999
- Magnolia as Earl Partridge
- My Best Fiend as Self (archive footage)
1998
- Enemy of the State as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
- Beloved as Mr. Bodwin
- The Real Macaw as Grandpa Girdis
- Heartwood as Logan Reeser
1997
- A Thousand Acres as Larry Cook
- Truman as Narrator (voice)
1996
- The West as Self - Brigham Young
- T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt as Narrator
1995
- Crimson Tide as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
- Journey as Marcus
- My Antonia as Josea Burden
- The Great American West as Narrator (voice)
1994
- Baseball as (voice)
- The Paper as Graham Keighley
- The Enemy Within as General R. Pendleton Lloyd
- Little Big League as Thomas Heywood
- Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital as Narrator
1993
- Philadelphia as Charles Wheeler
- Heidi as Grandfather
- The Adventures of Huck Finn as The King
- La Classe américaine as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
- The Trial as Doctor Huld
- Heidi as Großvater
- Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron as Self
1992
- Lincoln as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
- Storyville as Clifford Fowler
- When It Was a Game 2 as Passage Narrator (voice)
- Deceptions as Clay (voice)
- The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library as Self - Narrator (voice)
1991
- An Inconvenient Woman as Jules Mendelson
- Mark Twain and Me as Mark Twain
- Chernobyl: The Final Warning as Dr. Armand Hammer
- The Perfect Tribute as President Abraham Lincoln
- Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio as Narrator (voice)
- When It Was a Game as (voice)
- Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale as Narrator (voice)
1990
- The Civil War as Ulysses S. Grant
- Quick Change as Chief Rotzinger
- Night of 100 Stars III as Self
1989
- Parenthood as Frank Buckman
- Dream a Little Dream as Coleman Ettinger
- Black Rainbow as Walter Travis
- Reunion as Henry Strauss
- Thomas Hart Benton as Narrator (voice)
1988
- American Experience as Narrator (voice)
- Bright Lights, Big City as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
- The Good Mother as W. O. Muth
- Inherit the Wind as Harry Drummond
- The Christmas Wife as John Tanner
1987
- Square Dance as Dillard
- Laguna Heat as Wade Shephard
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
- Breaking Home Ties as Lloyd Wells
1986
- The Last Frontier as Ed Stenning
- Johnny Bull as Stephan Kovacs
- Portrait: Werner Herzog as Self (archive footage)
- The Last Frontier as Ed Stenning
1985
- Screen Two as Doctor Huld
- The Atlanta Child Murders as Alvin Binder
- The Long Hot Summer as Will Varner
- Empire City as Self - Narrator (voice)
1984
- Sakharov as Andrei Sakharov
- America and Lewis Hine as Voice
- The World of Tomorrow as Self / Narrator
- You Can't Take it With You as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
1983
- Reading Rainbow as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Day After as Dr. Russell Oakes
- Something Wicked This Way Comes as Charles Halloway
- Max Dugan Returns as Max Dugan
- The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History as Self - Host
1982
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
- Burden of Dreams as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
1981
- The Legend of the Lone Ranger as President Ulysses S. Grant
1980
- Raise the Titanic as Admiral James Sandecker
- Caboblanco as Gunther Beckdorff
- Melvin and Howard as Howard Hughes
- F.D.R.: The Last Year as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Haywire as Leland Hayward
- Ghosts of Cape Horn as Narrator
1979
- Broadway on Showtime as Erie Smith
- Hurricane as Capt. Charles Bruckner
1978
- The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
- The Magic of David Copperfield
- Comes a Horseman as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
- A Christmas to Remember as Daniel Larson
1977
- Washington: Behind Closed Doors as President Richard Monckton
- Julia as Dashiell Hammett
1976
- All the President's Men as Ben Bradlee
- The Spy Who Never Was as Inspector Barkan
- Addie and the King of Hearts as James "Jamie" Mills
1975
- A Boy and His Dog as Lou Craddock
- Mr. Sycamore as John Gwilt
- The Easter Promise as James "Jamie" Mills
- A Moon for the Misbegotten as James Tyrone Jr.
1974
- The Country Girl as Frank Elgin
1973
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Governor Wallace
- Old Faithful as Jason Robards
- The Thanksgiving Treasure as James "Jamie" Mills
1972
- Ghost Story as Elliot Brent
- The War Between Men and Women as Stephen Kozlenko
- The House Without a Christmas Tree as James "Jamie" Mills
1971
- Johnny Got His Gun as Joe's Father
- Murders in the Rue Morgue as Cesar Charron
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora! as General Walter C. Short
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue as Cable Hogue
- Julius Caesar as Marcus Brutus
- Operation Snafu as Sam Armstrong
- Fools as Matthew South
1968
- Once Upon a Time in the West as 'Cheyenne'
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Isadora as Paris Singer
- The Night They Raided Minsky's as Raymond Paine
1967
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre as Al Capone
- Hour of the Gun as Doc Holliday
- Divorce American Style as Nelson Downes
- The Belle of 14th Street as Performer
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
1966
- ABC Stage 67 as Royal Earle Thompson
- A Big Hand for the Little Lady as Henry Drummond
- Any Wednesday as John Cleves
- Noon Wine as Royal Earle Thompson
- The Face of Genius as Narrator (voice)
1965
- A Thousand Clowns as Murray
1964
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Abraham Lincoln
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
- The Danny Kaye Show as Self
- Act One as George S. Kaufman
1962
- Long Day's Journey Into Night as Jamie Tyrone
- Tender Is the Night as Dick Diver
1961
- By Love Possessed as Julius Penrose
1960
- The Iceman Cometh as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
- The Iceman Cometh as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
- The Bat as Detective Anderson
1959
- Play of the Week
- The Journey as Paul Kedes
- For Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan
- A Doll's House as Dr. Rank
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Host
- Playhouse 90 as Robert Jordan
1955
- The Alcoa Hour as Bert Palmer
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- General Electric Theater as Col. Carter
1952
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dr. Rank
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse as Joe Grant
- Studio One as Frank Cameron
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self