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