Jason Robards

Jason Robards

  • Birthday: 1922-07-26
  • Deathday: 2000-12-26
  • Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Also know as: Jason Robards Jr.

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Robards, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Magnolia

1999

As Earl Partridge

All the President's Men

1976

As Ben Bradlee

Parenthood

1989

As Frank Buckman

Max Dugan Returns

1983

As Max Dugan

Quick Change

1990

As Chief Rotzinger

A Boy and His Dog

1975

As Lou Craddock

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970

As Lt. General Walter C. Short

The Great American West

1995

As Narrator (voice)

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973

As Governor Wallace

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1970

As Cable Hogue

The Day After

1983

As Dr. Russell Oakes

Cabo Blanco

1980

As Gunther Beckdorff

Hour of the Gun

1967

As Doc Holliday

Raise the Titanic

1980

As Admiral James Sandecker

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1983

As Charles Halloway

My Best Fiend

1999

As Self (archive footage)

The Paper

1994

As Graham Keighley

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993

As The King

Burden of Dreams

1982

As Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

Julia

1977

As Dashiell Hammett

Comes a Horseman

1978

As Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

Julius Caesar

1970

As Marcus Brutus

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1967

As Al Capone

The Night They Raided Minsky's

1968

As Raymond Paine

Isadora

1968

As Paris Singer

A Thousand Clowns

1965

As Murray

Any Wednesday

1966

As John Cleves

Long Day's Journey Into Night

1962

As Jamie Tyrone

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

1966

As Henry Drummond

Dream a Little Dream

1989

As Coleman Ettinger

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971

As Cesar Charron

Johnny Got His Gun

1971

As Joe's Father

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

1981

As President Ulysses S. Grant

Melvin and Howard

1980

As Howard Hughes

Bright Lights, Big City

1988

As Mr. Hardy (uncredited)

A Thousand Acres

1997

As Larry Cook

The Trial

1993

As Doctor Huld

The House Without a Christmas Tree

1972

As James "Jamie" Mills

Black Rainbow

1989

As Walter Travis

The Real Macaw

1998

As Grandpa Girdis

The Journey

1959

As Paul Kedes

The Enemy Within

1994

As General R. Pendleton Lloyd

Square Dance

1987

As Dillard

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

1993

As Self

Divorce American Style

1967

As Nelson Downes

Mark Twain and Me

1991

As Mark Twain

The Good Mother

1988

As W. O. Muth

The Christmas Wife

1988

As John Tanner

A Moon for the Misbegotten

1975

As James Tyrone Jr.

By Love Possessed

1961

As Julius Penrose

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

1991

As Narrator (voice)

America and Lewis Hine

1984

As Voice

Storyville

1992

As Clifford Fowler

The War Between Men and Women

1972

As Stephen Kozlenko

Act One

1963

As George S. Kaufman

Inherit the Wind

1988

As Harry Drummond

Fools

1970

As Matthew South

My Antonia

1995

As Josea Burden

F.D.R.: The Last Year

1980

As President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Haywire

1980

As Leland Hayward

Philadelphia

1993

As Charles Wheeler

Thomas Hart Benton

1989

As Narrator (voice)

Operation Snafu

1970

As Sam Armstrong

Sakharov

1984

As Andrei Sakharov

Heartwood

1998

As Logan Reeser

Journey

1995

As Marcus

Mr. Sycamore

1975

As John Gwilt

The Easter Promise

1975

As James "Jamie" Mills

Lincoln

1992

As President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Noon Wine

1966

As Royal Earle Thompson

A Christmas to Remember

1978

As Daniel Larson

Addie and the King of Hearts

1976

As James "Jamie" Mills

The Iceman Cometh

1960

As Theodore "Hickey" Hickman

Hurricane

1979

As Capt. Charles Bruckner

The Spy Who Never Was

1976

As Inspector Barkan

Little Big League

1994

As Thomas Heywood

The Thanksgiving Treasure

1973

As James "Jamie" Mills

Reunion

1989

As Henry Strauss

Going Home

2000

As Charles Barton

Portrait: Werner Herzog

1986

As Self (archive footage)

The Perfect Tribute

1991

As President Abraham Lincoln

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

2016

As Ben Bradlee (archive footage)

The Bat

1960

As Detective Anderson

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

1991

As Dr. Armand Hammer

Laguna Heat

1987

As Wade Shephard

That Moment: Magnolia Diary

2000

As Self

A Doll's House

1959

As Dr. Rank

Breaking Home Ties

1987

As Lloyd Wells

Beloved

1998

As Mr. Bodwin

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

As Self (archive footage)

Old Faithful

1973

As Himself

La Classe américaine

1993

As The Newspaper Director (archive footage)

Tender Is the Night

1962

As Dick Diver

T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt

1996

As Narrator

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968

As 'Cheyenne'

Enemy of the State

1998

As Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

Crimson Tide

1995

As Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004

As Self (archive footage)

The Country Girl

1974

As Frank Elgin

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1964

As Abraham Lincoln

Johnny Bull

1986

As Stephan Kovacs

The World of Tomorrow

1984

As Self / Narrator

The Face of Genius

1966

As Narrator (voice)

The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library

1992

As Narrator

Night of 100 Stars

1982

As Self

Arthur Miller: Writer

2017

As Self (archive footage)

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006

As Self

You Can't Take it With You

1984

As Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

The Belle of 14th Street

1967

As Self

The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee

2017

As Self (archive footage)

Deceptions

1992

As Clay (voice)

Night of 100 Stars III

1990

As Self

Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital

1994

As Narrator

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1959

As Robert Jordan

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

2001

As Self (archive footage)

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004

2006

As Joe's Father (video "One")

Truman

1997

As Narrator (voice)

Empire City

1985

As Self - Narrator (voice)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1967

As Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

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