Birthday:
Jul 26, 1922
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jason Robards
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
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Magnolia | Earl Partridge | 1999 |
| All the President's Men | Ben Bradlee | 1976 |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Robert Jordan | 1959 |
| Parenthood | Frank Buckman | 1989 |
| Max Dugan Returns | Max Dugan | 1983 |
| Arthur Miller: Writer | Self (archive footage) | 2017 |
| Quick Change | Chief Rotzinger | 1990 |
| A Boy and His Dog | Lou Craddock | 1975 |
| Tora! Tora! Tora! | General Walter C. Short | 1970 |
| The Great American West | Narrator (voice) | 1995 |
| Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Governor Wallace | 1973 |
| Cabo Blanco | Gunther Beckdorff | 1980 |
| The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Cable Hogue | 1970 |
| Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone | Self (archive footage) | 2000 |
| The Day After | Dr. Russell Oakes | 1983 |
| Hour of the Gun | Doc Holliday | 1967 |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Charles Halloway | 1983 |
| My Best Fiend | Self (archive footage) | 1999 |
| Raise the Titanic | Admiral James Sandecker | 1980 |
| The Paper | Graham Keighley | 1994 |
| The Adventures of Huck Finn | The King | 1993 |
| Burden of Dreams | Fitzcarraldo (archive footage) | 1982 |
| Comes a Horseman | Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing | 1978 |
| Julia | Dashiell Hammett | 1977 |
| Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 | Joe's Father (video "One") | 2006 |
| Julius Caesar | Marcus Brutus | 1970 |
| Isadora | Paris Singer | 1968 |
| The Night They Raided Minsky's | Raymond Paine | 1968 |
| The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Al Capone | 1967 |
| A Thousand Clowns | Murray | 1965 |
| Any Wednesday | John Cleves | 1966 |
| Long Day's Journey Into Night | Jamie Tyrone | 1962 |
| A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Henry Drummond | 1966 |
| Dream a Little Dream | Coleman Ettinger | 1989 |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue | Cesar Charron | 1971 |
| Johnny Got His Gun | Joe's Father | 1971 |
| The Legend of the Lone Ranger | President Ulysses S. Grant | 1981 |
| Melvin and Howard | Howard Hughes | 1980 |
| Bright Lights, Big City | Mr. Hardy (uncredited) | 1988 |
| A Thousand Acres | Larry Cook | 1997 |
| The Trial | Doctor Huld | 1993 |
| Black Rainbow | Walter Travis | 1989 |
| The House Without a Christmas Tree | James "Jamie" Mills | 1972 |
| Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self | 2006 |
| The Real Macaw | Grandpa Girdis | 1998 |
| Reunion | Henry Strauss | 1989 |
| The Journey | Paul Kedes | 1959 |
| The Enemy Within | General R. Pendleton Lloyd | 1994 |
| Square Dance | Dillard | 1987 |
| Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron | Self | 1993 |
| Divorce American Style | Nelson Downes | 1967 |
| You Can't Take it With You | Grandpa Martin Vanderhof | 1984 |
| Mark Twain and Me | Mark Twain | 1991 |
| The Good Mother | W. O. Muth | 1988 |
| The Christmas Wife | John Tanner | 1988 |
| Truman | Narrator (voice) | 1997 |
| A Moon for the Misbegotten | James Tyrone Jr. | 1975 |
| By Love Possessed | Julius Penrose | 1961 |
| Empire City | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1985 |
| Storyville | Clifford Fowler | 1992 |
| Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio | Narrator (voice) | 1991 |
| The War Between Men and Women | Stephen Kozlenko | 1972 |
| America and Lewis Hine | Voice | 1984 |
| Act One | George S. Kaufman | 1963 |
| The Belle of 14th Street | Self | 1967 |
| Inherit the Wind | Harry Drummond | 1988 |
| Fools | Matthew South | 1970 |
| My Antonia | Josea Burden | 1995 |
| F.D.R.: The Last Year | President Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1980 |
| Haywire | Leland Hayward | 1980 |
| Thomas Hart Benton | Narrator (voice) | 1989 |
| Philadelphia | Charles Wheeler | 1993 |
| The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee | Self (archive footage) | 2017 |
| Deceptions | Clay (voice) | 1992 |
| Operation Snafu | Sam Armstrong | 1970 |
| Sakharov | Andrei Sakharov | 1984 |
| Heartwood | Logan Reeser | 1998 |
| Journey | Marcus | 1995 |
| Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990 |
| Mr. Sycamore | John Gwilt | 1975 |
| The Easter Promise | James "Jamie" Mills | 1975 |
| Lincoln | President Abraham Lincoln (voice) | 1992 |
| Noon Wine | Royal Earle Thompson | 1966 |
| Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital | Narrator | 1994 |
| A Christmas to Remember | Daniel Larson | 1978 |
| Addie and the King of Hearts | James "Jamie" Mills | 1976 |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde | 1967 |
| The Iceman Cometh | Theodore "Hickey" Hickman | 1960 |
| Hurricane | Capt. Charles Bruckner | 1979 |
| The Spy Who Never Was | Inspector Barkan | 1976 |
| Little Big League | Thomas Heywood | 1994 |
| The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History | Self - Host | 1983 |
| The Thanksgiving Treasure | James "Jamie" Mills | 1973 |
| Going Home | Charles Barton | 2000 |
| Portrait: Werner Herzog | Self (archive footage) | 1986 |
| The Perfect Tribute | President Abraham Lincoln | 1991 |
| All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone | Ben Bradlee (archive footage) | 2016 |
| The Bat | Detective Anderson | 1960 |
| Chernobyl: The Final Warning | Dr. Armand Hammer | 1991 |
| That Moment: Magnolia Diary | Self | 2000 |
| Laguna Heat | Wade Shephard | 1987 |
| A Doll's House | Dr. Rank | 1959 |
| Breaking Home Ties | Lloyd Wells | 1987 |
| Beloved | Mr. Bodwin | 1998 |
| And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014 |
| Old Faithful | Himself | 1973 |
| La Classe américaine | The Newspaper Director (archive footage) | 1993 |
| T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt | Narrator | 1996 |
| Tender Is the Night | Dick Diver | 1962 |
| Once Upon a Time in the West | 'Cheyenne' | 1968 |
| Crimson Tide | Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited) | 1995 |
| Enemy of the State | Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited) | 1998 |
| Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Johnny Bull | Stephan Kovacs | 1986 |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Abraham Lincoln | 1964 |
| The Country Girl | Frank Elgin | 1974 |
| The World of Tomorrow | Self / Narrator | 1984 |
| The Face of Genius | Narrator (voice) | 1966 |
| The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library | Narrator | 1992 |
| Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982 |
| Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale | Narrator (voice) | 1991 | Series | Cast | Year |
| Omnibus | 1952 | |
| Studio One | Frank Cameron | 1948 |
| General Electric Theater | Col. Carter | 1953 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Dr. Rank | 1951 |
| Play of the Week | 1959 | |
| The Civil War | Ulysses S. Grant | 1990 |
| The Alcoa Hour | Bert Palmer | 1955 |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1963 | |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | Joe Grant | 1948 |
| ABC Stage 67 | Royal Earle Thompson | 1966 |
| The Oscars | Self | 1953 |
| Washington: Behind Closed Doors | President Richard Monckton | 1977 |
| The Kennedy Center Honors | Self | 1978 |
| Ghost Story | Elliot Brent | 1972 |
| The West | Self - Brigham Young | 1996 |
| An Inconvenient Woman | Jules Mendelson | 1991 |
| The Long Hot Summer | Will Varner | 1985 |
| The Magic of David Copperfield | 1978 | |
| Broadway on Showtime | Erie Smith | 1979 |
| Reading Rainbow | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 1983 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | 1948 |
| American Experience | Narrator (voice) | 1988 |
| Heidi | Grandfather | 1993 |
| The Last Frontier | Ed Stenning | 1986 |
| The Atlanta Child Murders | Alvin Binder | 1985 |
| What's My Line? | Self - Mystery Guest | 1950 |
| Baseball | Various (voice) | 1994 |
| Studio One | Prisoner | 1948 |
| Studio One | Walter Osgood | 1948 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Marcus | 1951 |
| Studio One | Leonard O'Brien | 1948 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Abe Lincoln | 1951 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Frank Elgin | 1951 |
| Playhouse 90 | Robert Jordan | 1956 |
| Tony Awards | Self - Host | 1956 |
| Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | 1956 |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | Mason | 1948 |
| The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | 1968 |
| The Danny Kaye Show | Self | 1963 |
