Jason Robards

male

Born on July 26, 1922 (103 years old)

Passed Away on December 26, 2000

From Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known for Acting

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.

Cast Credits

2017
- Arthur Miller: Writer
  as
  Self (archive footage)
  2017
2016
- All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
  as
  Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
  2016
2006
- Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
  as
  Joe's Father (video "One")
  2006
- Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
  as
  Self
  2006
2004
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
  as
  Self (archive footage)
  2004
2000
- Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
  as
  Self (archive footage)
  2000
- Going Home
  as
  Charles Barton
  2000
- That Moment: Magnolia Diary
  as
  Self
  2000
1999
- Magnolia
  as
  Earl Partridge
  1999
- My Best Fiend
  as
  Self (archive footage)
  1999
1998
- The Real Macaw
  as
  Grandpa Girdis
  1998
- Heartwood
  as
  Logan Reeser
  1998
- Beloved
  as
  Mr. Bodwin
  1998
- Enemy of the State
  as
  Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
  1998
1997
- A Thousand Acres
  as
  Larry Cook
  1997
- no image
  Truman
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1997
1996
- T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
  as
  Narrator
  1996
- The West
  as
  Self - Brigham Young
  1996
1995
- no image
  The Great American West
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1995
- My Antonia
  as
  Josea Burden
  1995
- Journey
  as
  Marcus
  1995
- Crimson Tide
  as
  Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
  1995
1994
- The Paper
  as
  Graham Keighley
  1994
- The Enemy Within
  as
  General R. Pendleton Lloyd
  1994
- Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
  as
  Narrator
  1994
- Little Big League
  as
  Thomas Heywood
  1994
- Baseball
  as
  (voice)
  1994
1993
- The Adventures of Huck Finn
  as
  The King
  1993
- The Trial
  as
  Doctor Huld
  1993
- Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
  as
  Self
  1993
- Philadelphia
  as
  Charles Wheeler
  1993
- La Classe américaine
  as
  The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
  1993
- Heidi
  as
  Großvater
  1993
- Heidi
  as
  Grandfather
  1993
1992
- Storyville
  as
  Clifford Fowler
  1992
- Deceptions
  as
  Clay (voice)
  1992
- no image
  Lincoln
  as
  President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
  1992
- no image
  The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  1992
- When It Was a Game 2
  as
  Passage Narrator (voice)
  1992
1991
- Mark Twain and Me
  as
  Mark Twain
  1991
- Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1991
- The Perfect Tribute
  as
  President Abraham Lincoln
  1991
- Chernobyl: The Final Warning
  as
  Dr. Armand Hammer
  1991
- no image
  Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1991
- When It Was a Game
  as
  (voice)
  1991
- An Inconvenient Woman
  as
  Jules Mendelson
  1991
1990
- Quick Change
  as
  Chief Rotzinger
  1990
- Night of 100 Stars III
  as
  Self
  1990
- The Civil War
  as
  Ulysses S. Grant
  1990
1989
- Parenthood
  as
  Frank Buckman
  1989
- Dream a Little Dream
  as
  Coleman Ettinger
  1989
- Black Rainbow
  as
  Walter Travis
  1989
- Reunion
  as
  Henry Strauss
  1989
- Thomas Hart Benton
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1989
1988
- Bright Lights, Big City
  as
  Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
  1988
- The Good Mother
  as
  W. O. Muth
  1988
- The Christmas Wife
  as
  John Tanner
  1988
- Inherit the Wind
  as
  Harry Drummond
  1988
- American Experience
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1988
1987
- Square Dance
  as
  Dillard
  1987
- Laguna Heat
  as
  Wade Shephard
  1987
- Breaking Home Ties
  as
  Lloyd Wells
  1987
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
  as
  Self
  1987
1986
- Portrait: Werner Herzog
  as
  Self (archive footage)
  1986
- Johnny Bull
  as
  Stephan Kovacs
  1986
- The Last Frontier
  as
  Ed Stenning
  1986
1985
- Empire City
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  1985
- The Long Hot Summer
  as
  Will Varner
  1985
- The Atlanta Child Murders
  as
  Alvin Binder
  1985
- Screen Two
  as
  Doctor Huld
  1985
1984
- You Can't Take it With You
  as
  Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
  1984
- no image
  America and Lewis Hine
  as
  Voice
  1984
- Sakharov
  as
  Andrei Sakharov
  1984
- The World of Tomorrow
  as
  Self / Narrator
  1984
1983
- Max Dugan Returns
  as
  Max Dugan
  1983
- The Day After
  as
  Dr. Russell Oakes
  1983
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
  as
  Charles Halloway
  1983
- no image
  The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
  as
  Self - Host
  1983
- Reading Rainbow
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  1983
1982
- Burden of Dreams
  as
  Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
  1982
- Night of 100 Stars
  as
  Self
  1982
1981
- The Legend of the Lone Ranger
  as
  President Ulysses S. Grant
  1981
1980
- Caboblanco
  as
  Gunther Beckdorff
  1980
- Raise the Titanic
  as
  Admiral James Sandecker
  1980
- Melvin and Howard
  as
  Howard Hughes
  1980
- F.D.R.: The Last Year
  as
  President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  1980
- Haywire
  as
  Leland Hayward
  1980
- Ghosts of Cape Horn
  as
  Narrator
  1980
1979
- Hurricane
  as
  Capt. Charles Bruckner
  1979
- Broadway on Showtime
  as
  Erie Smith
  1979
1978
- Comes a Horseman
  as
  Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
  1978
- A Christmas to Remember
  as
  Daniel Larson
  1978
- The Kennedy Center Honors
  as
  Self
  1978
- The Magic of David Copperfield
  1978
1977
- Julia
  as
  Dashiell Hammett
  1977
- Washington: Behind Closed Doors
  as
  President Richard Monckton
  1977
1976
- All the President's Men
  as
  Ben Bradlee
  1976
- Addie and the King of Hearts
  as
  James "Jamie" Mills
  1976
- The Spy Who Never Was
  as
  Inspector Barkan
  1976
1975
- A Boy and His Dog
  as
  Lou Craddock
  1975
- A Moon for the Misbegotten
  as
  James Tyrone Jr.
  1975
- Mr. Sycamore
  as
  John Gwilt
  1975
- The Easter Promise
  as
  James "Jamie" Mills
  1975
1974
- The Country Girl
  as
  Frank Elgin
  1974
1973
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
  as
  Governor Wallace
  1973
- The Thanksgiving Treasure
  as
  James "Jamie" Mills
  1973
- Old Faithful
  as
  Jason Robards
  1973
1972
- The House Without a Christmas Tree
  as
  James "Jamie" Mills
  1972
- The War Between Men and Women
  as
  Stephen Kozlenko
  1972
- Ghost Story
  as
  Elliot Brent
  1972
1971
- Murders in the Rue Morgue
  as
  Cesar Charron
  1971
- Johnny Got His Gun
  as
  Joe's Father
  1971
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora!
  as
  General Walter C. Short
  1970
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue
  as
  Cable Hogue
  1970
- Julius Caesar
  as
  Marcus Brutus
  1970
- Fools
  as
  Matthew South
  1970
- Operation Snafu
  as
  Sam Armstrong
  1970
1968
- Isadora
  as
  Paris Singer
  1968
- The Night They Raided Minsky's
  as
  Raymond Paine
  1968
- Once Upon a Time in the West
  as
  'Cheyenne'
  1968
- The Dick Cavett Show
  as
  Self - Guest
  1968
1967
- Hour of the Gun
  as
  Doc Holliday
  1967
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
  as
  Al Capone
  1967
- Divorce American Style
  as
  Nelson Downes
  1967
- The Belle of 14th Street
  as
  Performer
  1967
- no image
  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  as
  Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
  1967
1966
- Any Wednesday
  as
  John Cleves
  1966
- A Big Hand for the Little Lady
  as
  Henry Drummond
  1966
- Noon Wine
  as
  Royal Earle Thompson
  1966
- The Face of Genius
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1966
- ABC Stage 67
  as
  Royal Earle Thompson
  1966
1965
- A Thousand Clowns
  as
  Murray
  1965
1964
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois
  as
  Abraham Lincoln
  1964
1963
- Act One
  as
  George S. Kaufman
  1963
- no image
  Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
  1963
- The Danny Kaye Show
  as
  Self
  1963
1962
- Long Day's Journey Into Night
  as
  Jamie Tyrone
  1962
- Tender Is the Night
  as
  Dick Diver
  1962
1961
- By Love Possessed
  as
  Julius Penrose
  1961
1960
- The Iceman Cometh
  as
  Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
  1960
- The Bat
  as
  Detective Anderson
  1960
1959
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
  as
  Robert Jordan
  1959
- The Journey
  as
  Paul Kedes
  1959
- A Doll's House
  as
  Dr. Rank
  1959
- Play of the Week
  1959
1956
- Playhouse 90
  as
  Robert Jordan
  1956
- Tony Awards
  as
  Self - Host
  1956
- Tony Awards
  as
  Self - Presenter
  1956
1955
- The Alcoa Hour
  as
  Bert Palmer
  1955
1953
- General Electric Theater
  as
  Col. Carter
  1953
- The Oscars
  as
  Self
  1953
1952
- Omnibus
  1952
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
  as
  Dr. Rank
  1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
  as
  Marcus
  1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
  as
  Abe Lincoln
  1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
  as
  Frank Elgin
  1951
1950
- What's My Line?
  as
  Self - Mystery Guest
  1950
1948
- Studio One
  as
  Frank Cameron
  1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse
  as
  Joe Grant
  1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show
  as
  Self
  1948
- Studio One
  as
  Prisoner
  1948
- Studio One
  as
  Walter Osgood
  1948
- Studio One
  as
  Leonard O'Brien
  1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse
  as
  Mason
  1948

Jason Robards

Biography

Cast Credits

Arthur Miller: Writer

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

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

Going Home

That Moment: Magnolia Diary

Magnolia

My Best Fiend

The Real Macaw

Heartwood

Beloved

Enemy of the State

A Thousand Acres

Truman

T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt

The West

The Great American West

My Antonia

Journey

Crimson Tide

The Paper

The Enemy Within

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

Little Big League

Baseball

The Adventures of Huck Finn

The Trial

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

Philadelphia

La Classe américaine

Heidi

Heidi

Storyville

Deceptions

Lincoln

The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library

When It Was a Game 2

Mark Twain and Me

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

The Perfect Tribute

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale

When It Was a Game

An Inconvenient Woman

Quick Change

Night of 100 Stars III

The Civil War

Parenthood

Dream a Little Dream

Black Rainbow

Reunion

Thomas Hart Benton

Bright Lights, Big City

The Good Mother

The Christmas Wife

Inherit the Wind

American Experience

Square Dance

Laguna Heat

Breaking Home Ties

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Portrait: Werner Herzog

Johnny Bull

The Last Frontier

Empire City

The Long Hot Summer

The Atlanta Child Murders

Screen Two

You Can't Take it With You

America and Lewis Hine

Sakharov

The World of Tomorrow

Max Dugan Returns

The Day After

Something Wicked This Way Comes