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:
- 126
- First Appeared:
- In the series The Philco Television Playhouse 1948-10-03
- 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 |
| Movie | The Christmas Wife | John Tanner | 1988-12-12 |
| Series | American Experience | Narrator (voice) | 1988-10-04 |
| Movie | Square Dance | Dillard | 1987-03-01 |
| 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 | America and Lewis Hine | Voice | 1984-09-29 |
| Movie | Sakharov | Andrei Sakharov | 1984-06-20 |
| Movie | Max Dugan Returns | Max Dugan | 1983-03-25 |
| Movie | The Day After | Dr. Russell Oakes | 1983-11-20 |
| Movie | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Charles Halloway | 1983-04-29 |
| 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 | 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 | Melvin and Howard | Howard Hughes | 1980-09-19 |
| Movie | F.D.R.: The Last Year | President Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1980-05-15 |
| Movie | Hurricane | Capt. Charles Bruckner | 1979-04-12 |
| Series | The Kennedy Center Honors | Unknown | 1978-12-28 |
| Movie | Comes a Horseman | Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing | 1978-10-25 |
| 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 | All the President's Men | Ben Bradlee | 1976-04-09 |
| 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 | 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 | 1970-03-18 |
| 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 |
| 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 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Al Capone | 1967-06-30 |
| Movie | Divorce American Style | Nelson Downes | 1967-06-21 |
| 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 | 1966-06-08 |
| Movie | The Face of Genius | Narrator (voice) | 1966-03-21 |
| Series | ABC Stage 67 | Unknown | 1966-09-14 |
| Movie | Noon Wine | Royal Earle Thompson | 1966-11-23 |
| Movie | Any Wednesday | John Cleves | 1966-10-13 |
| Movie | A Thousand Clowns | Murray | 1965-12-13 |
| Movie | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Abraham Lincoln | 1964-02-02 |
| Series | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-04 |
| Movie | Act One | George S. Kaufman | 1963-12-26 |
| Movie | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Jamie Tyrone | 1962-10-09 |
| Movie | Tender Is the Night | Dick Diver | 1962-01-19 |
| Movie | By Love Possessed | Julius Penrose | 1961-07-19 |
| Movie | The Bat | Detective Anderson | 1960-03-29 |
| Movie | The Iceman Cometh | Theodore "Hickey" Hickman | 1960-11-14 |
| Movie | The Journey | Paul Kedes | 1959-02-11 |
| Series | Play of the Week | Unknown | 1959-10-12 |
| Series | Tony Awards | Unknown | 1956-04-01 |
| Series | The Alcoa Hour | Unknown | 1955-10-16 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
| Series | Omnibus | Unknown | 1952-11-09 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
| Series | The Philco Television Playhouse | Unknown | 1948-10-03 |
| Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |