Jason Robards

Known for: Acting
Born: July 26, 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: December 26, 2000
Movies: 125

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.

Best-Known Movies

8.3

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968

7.7

Philadelphia

1993

7.1

Enemy of the State

1998

7.7

Magnolia

1999

7.7

All the President's Men

1976

7.2

Crimson Tide

1995

6.7

Parenthood

1989

7.2

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970

7.2

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973

6.8

The Day After

1983

Filmography

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

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