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