Jason Robards
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 26, 1922
- Died
- Dec 26, 2000 (aged 78)
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Credits
- 160
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.
Known for
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968Movie
'Cheyenne'
Philadelphia
1993Movie
Charles Wheeler
Enemy of the State
1998Movie
Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
Magnolia
1999Movie
Earl Partridge
All the President's Men
1976Movie
Ben Bradlee
Crimson Tide
1995Movie
Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
Filmography
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017Movie
Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016Movie
Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
2006Movie
Joe's Father (video "One")
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006Movie
Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004Movie
Self (archive footage)
Going Home
2000Movie
Charles Barton
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000Movie
Self (archive footage)
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000Movie
Self
Magnolia
1999Movie
Earl Partridge
My Best Fiend
1999Movie
Self (archive footage)
Enemy of the State
1998Movie
Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
Beloved
1998Movie
Mr. Bodwin
The Real Macaw
1998Movie
Grandpa Girdis
Heartwood
1998Movie
Logan Reeser
Truman
1997Movie
Narrator (voice)
A Thousand Acres
1997Movie
Larry Cook
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
1996Movie
Narrator
The West
1996TV
Self - Brigham Young
Journey
1995Movie
Marcus
Crimson Tide
1995Movie
Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
My Antonia
1995Movie
Josea Burden
The Great American West
1995Movie
Narrator (voice)
Baseball
1994TV
(voice)
The Enemy Within
1994Movie
General R. Pendleton Lloyd
Little Big League
1994Movie
Thomas Heywood
The Paper
1994Movie
Graham Keighley
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
1994Movie
Narrator
La Classe américaine
1993Movie
The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
Philadelphia
1993Movie
Charles Wheeler
Roots of Roe
1993Movie
Anthony Comstock (voice)
Heidi
1993Movie
Großvater
Heidi
1993TV
Grandfather
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993Movie
Self
The Trial
1993Movie
Doctor Huld
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993Movie
The King
Lincoln
1992Movie
President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
1992Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Storyville
1992Movie
Clifford Fowler
When It Was a Game 2
1992Movie
Passage Narrator (voice)
Deceptions
1992Movie
Clay (voice)
Mark Twain and Me
1991Movie
Mark Twain
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1991Movie
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
1991Movie
Narrator (voice)
When It Was a Game
1991Movie
(voice)
An Inconvenient Woman
1991TV
Jules Mendelson
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991Movie
Dr. Armand Hammer
The Perfect Tribute
1991Movie
President Abraham Lincoln
The Civil War
1990TV
Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
Quick Change
1990Movie
Chief Rotzinger
Night of 100 Stars III
1990Movie
Self
Black Rainbow
1989Movie
Walter Travis
Thomas Hart Benton
1989Movie
Narrator (voice)
Parenthood
1989Movie
Frank Buckman
Reunion
1989Movie
Henry Strauss
Dream a Little Dream
1989Movie
Coleman Ettinger
The Christmas Wife
1988Movie
John Tanner
The Good Mother
1988Movie
W. O. Muth
American Experience
1988TV
Narrator (voice)
Bright Lights, Big City
1988Movie
Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
Inherit the Wind
1988Movie
Harry Drummond
Breaking Home Ties
1987Movie
Lloyd Wells
Laguna Heat
1987Movie
Wade Shephard
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987Movie
Self
Square Dance
1987Movie
Dillard
The Last Frontier
1986TV
Ed Stenning
Johnny Bull
1986Movie
Stephan Kovacs
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Long Hot Summer
1985TV
Will Varner
Empire City
1985Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985TV
Alvin Binder
Screen Two
1985TV
Doctor Huld
The World of Tomorrow
1984Movie
Self / Narrator
You Can't Take it With You
1984Movie
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
America and Lewis Hine
1984Movie
Voice
Sakharov
1984Movie
Andrei Sakharov
The Day After
1983Movie
Dr. Russell Oakes
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
1983Movie
Self - Host
Reading Rainbow
1983TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983Movie
Charles Halloway
Max Dugan Returns
1983Movie
Max Dugan
Burden of Dreams
1982Movie
Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars
1982Movie
Self
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1981Movie
President Ulysses S. Grant
Melvin and Howard
1980Movie
Howard Hughes
Ghosts of Cape Horn
1980Movie
Narrator
Raise the Titanic
1980Movie
Admiral James Sandecker
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980Movie
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Haywire
1980Movie
Leland Hayward
Caboblanco
1980Movie
Gunther Beckdorff
A Plague on Our Children
1979Movie
Narrator (voice)
Broadway on Showtime
1979TV
Erie Smith
Hurricane
1979Movie
Capt. Charles Bruckner
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978TV
Self
A Christmas to Remember
1978Movie
Daniel Larson
The Magic of David Copperfield
1978TV
Comes a Horseman
1978Movie
Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
Julia
1977Movie
Dashiell Hammett
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
1977TV
President Richard Monckton
The Spy Who Never Was
1976Movie
Inspector Barkan
All the President's Men
1976Movie
Ben Bradlee
Addie and the King of Hearts
1976Movie
James "Jamie" Mills
Mr. Sycamore
1975Movie
John Gwilt
A Moon for the Misbegotten
1975Movie
James Tyrone Jr.
The Easter Promise
1975Movie
James "Jamie" Mills
A Boy and His Dog
1975Movie
Lou Craddock
The Country Girl
1974Movie
Frank Elgin
The Thanksgiving Treasure
1973Movie
James "Jamie" Mills
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973Movie
Governor Wallace
Old Faithful
1973Movie
Jason Robards
The House Without a Christmas Tree
1972Movie
James "Jamie" Mills
Ghost Story
1972TV
Elliot Brent
The War Between Men and Women
1972Movie
Stephen Kozlenko
Film '72
1971TV
Self
Johnny Got His Gun
1971Movie
Joe's Father
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971Movie
Cesar Charron
Fools
1970Movie
Matthew South
Julius Caesar
1970Movie
Marcus Brutus
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970Movie
Cable Hogue
Operation Snafu
1970Movie
Sam Armstrong
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970Movie
General Walter C. Short
The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968Movie
Raymond Paine
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968Movie
'Cheyenne'
Isadora
1968Movie
Paris Singer
The Dick Cavett Show
1968TV
Self - Guest
Hour of the Gun
1967Movie
Doc Holliday
The Belle of 14th Street
1967Movie
Performer
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967Movie
Al Capone
Divorce American Style
1967Movie
Nelson Downes
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1967Movie
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Noon Wine
1966Movie
Royal Earle Thompson
Any Wednesday
1966Movie
John Cleves
ABC Stage 67
1966TV
Royal Earle Thompson
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966Movie
Henry Drummond
The Face of Genius
1966Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
A Thousand Clowns
1965Movie
Murray
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1964Movie
Abraham Lincoln
Act One
1963Movie
George S. Kaufman
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963TV
The Danny Kaye Show
1963TV
Self
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1962Movie
Jamie Tyrone
Tender Is the Night
1962Movie
Dick Diver
By Love Possessed
1961Movie
Julius Penrose
The Iceman Cometh
1960TV
Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960TV
Detective Anderson
The Bat
1960Movie
Detective Anderson
A Doll's House
1959Movie
Dr. Rank
Play of the Week
1959TV
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959Movie
Robert Jordan
The Journey
1959Movie
Paul Kedes
Playhouse 90
1956TV
Robert Jordan
Tony Awards
1956TV
Self - Host, Self - Presenter
The Alcoa Hour
1955TV
Bert Palmer
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
General Electric Theater
1953TV
Col. Carter
Omnibus
1952TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Dr. Rank, Marcus, Abe Lincoln, Frank Elgin
What's My Line?
1950TV
Self - Mystery Guest
Studio One
1948TV
Frank Cameron, Prisoner, Walter Osgood, Leonard O'Brien
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948TV
Joe Grant, Mason
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948TV
Self