Jason Robards

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-07-26 (78 years old)

Deathday

2000-12-26

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Jason Robards

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.

Acting

1999

Magnolia

as Earl Partridge

1976

1959

For Whom the Bell Tolls

as Robert Jordan

1989

Parenthood

as Frank Buckman

1983

Max Dugan Returns

as Max Dugan

2017

Arthur Miller: Writer

as Self (archive footage)

1990

Quick Change

as Chief Rotzinger

1975

A Boy and His Dog

as Lou Craddock

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as General Walter C. Short

1995

The Great American West

as Narrator (voice)

1973

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

as Governor Wallace

1980

Caboblanco

as Gunther Beckdorff

1970

2000

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

as Self (archive footage)

1983

The Day After

as Dr. Russell Oakes

1967

Hour of the Gun

as Doc Holliday

1983

1999

My Best Fiend

as Self (archive footage)

1980

Raise the Titanic

as Admiral James Sandecker

1994

The Paper

as Graham Keighley

1982

Burden of Dreams

as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

1978

Comes a Horseman

as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

1977

Julia

as Dashiell Hammett

2006

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004

as Joe's Father (video "One")

1970

Julius Caesar

as Marcus Brutus

1968

Isadora

as Paris Singer

1968

1965

1966

Any Wednesday

as John Cleves

1966

1989

Dream a Little Dream

as Coleman Ettinger

1971

1971

Johnny Got His Gun

as Joe's Father

1981

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

as President Ulysses S. Grant

1980

Melvin and Howard

as Howard Hughes

1988

Bright Lights, Big City

as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)

1997

A Thousand Acres

as Larry Cook

1993

The Trial

as Doctor Huld

1989

Black Rainbow

as Walter Travis

1972

1998

The Real Macaw

as Grandpa Girdis

1989

Reunion

as Henry Strauss

1959

The Journey

as Paul Kedes

1994

The Enemy Within

as General R. Pendleton Lloyd

1987

Square Dance

as Dillard

1967

Divorce American Style

as Nelson Downes

1984

You Can't Take it With You

as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

1991

Mark Twain and Me

as Mark Twain

1988

The Good Mother

as W. O. Muth

1988

The Christmas Wife

as John Tanner

1997

Truman

as Narrator (voice)

1975

A Moon for the Misbegotten

as James Tyrone Jr.

1961

By Love Possessed

as Julius Penrose

1985

Empire City

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1992

Storyville

as Clifford Fowler

1972

1963

Act One

as George S. Kaufman

1988

Inherit the Wind

as Harry Drummond

1970

Fools

as Matthew South

1995

My Antonia

as Josea Burden

1980

F.D.R.: The Last Year

as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1980

Haywire

as Leland Hayward

1989

Thomas Hart Benton

as Narrator (voice)

1993

Philadelphia

as Charles Wheeler

1992

Deceptions

as Clay (voice)

1970

Operation Snafu

as Sam Armstrong

1984

Sakharov

as Andrei Sakharov

1998

Heartwood

as Logan Reeser

1995

Journey

as Marcus

1975

Mr. Sycamore

as John Gwilt

1975

The Easter Promise

as James "Jamie" Mills

1992

Lincoln

as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

1966

Noon Wine

as Royal Earle Thompson

1978

A Christmas to Remember

as Daniel Larson

1976

Addie and the King of Hearts

as James "Jamie" Mills

1967

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

1960

The Iceman Cometh

as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman

1979

Hurricane

as Capt. Charles Bruckner

1976

The Spy Who Never Was

as Inspector Barkan

1994

Little Big League

as Thomas Heywood

1973

The Thanksgiving Treasure

as James "Jamie" Mills

2000

Going Home

as Charles Barton

1986

Portrait: Werner Herzog

as Self (archive footage)

1991

The Perfect Tribute

as President Abraham Lincoln

1960

The Bat

as Detective Anderson

1991

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

as Dr. Armand Hammer

1987

Laguna Heat

as Wade Shephard

1959

A Doll's House

as Dr. Rank

1987

Breaking Home Ties

as Lloyd Wells

1998

Beloved

as Mr. Bodwin

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

1973

1993

La Classe américaine

as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)

1962

Tender Is the Night

as Dick Diver

1995

Crimson Tide

as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

1998

Enemy of the State

as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

1986

Johnny Bull

as Stephan Kovacs

1964

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

as Abraham Lincoln

1974

The Country Girl

as Frank Elgin

1984

The World of Tomorrow

as Self / Narrator

1966

The Face of Genius

as Narrator (voice)

1991

1991

1993

Heidi

as Großvater

1992

When It Was a Game 2

as Passage Narrator (voice)

1980

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