6.5Acting
Jason Robards
- Born
- 1922-07-26
- Died
- 2000-12-26
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
160 titles · Newest first · Cast and crew credits
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017 · Movie
Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016 · Movie
Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006 · Movie
Self
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
2006 · Movie
Joe's Father (video "One")
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Movie
Self (archive footage)
Going Home
2000 · Movie
Charles Barton
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000 · Movie
Self (archive footage)
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000 · Movie
Self
Magnolia
1999 · Movie
Earl Partridge
My Best Fiend
1999 · Movie
Self (archive footage)
Beloved
1998 · Movie
Mr. Bodwin
Enemy of the State
1998 · Movie
Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
Heartwood
1998 · Movie
Logan Reeser
The Real Macaw
1998 · Movie
Grandpa Girdis
A Thousand Acres
1997 · Movie
Larry Cook
Truman
1997 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
1996 · Movie
Narrator
The West
1996 · TV Show
Self - Brigham Young
Crimson Tide
1995 · Movie
Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
Journey
1995 · Movie
Marcus
My Antonia
1995 · Movie
Josea Burden
The Great American West
1995 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Baseball
1994 · TV Show
(voice)
Little Big League
1994 · Movie
Thomas Heywood
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
1994 · Movie
Narrator
The Enemy Within
1994 · Movie
General R. Pendleton Lloyd
The Paper
1994 · Movie
Graham Keighley
Heidi
1993 · Movie
Großvater
Heidi
1993 · TV Show
Grandfather
La Classe américaine
1993 · Movie
The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
Philadelphia
1993 · Movie
Charles Wheeler
Roots of Roe
1993 · Movie
Anthony Comstock (voice)
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993 · Movie
Self
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993 · Movie
The King
The Trial
1993 · Movie
Doctor Huld
Deceptions
1992 · Movie
Clay (voice)
Lincoln
1992 · Movie
President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Storyville
1992 · Movie
Clifford Fowler
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
1992 · Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
When It Was a Game 2
1992 · Movie
Passage Narrator (voice)
An Inconvenient Woman
1991 · TV Show
Jules Mendelson
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991 · Movie
Dr. Armand Hammer
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1991 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Mark Twain and Me
1991 · Movie
Mark Twain
Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
1991 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Perfect Tribute
1991 · Movie
President Abraham Lincoln
When It Was a Game
1991 · Movie
(voice)
Night of 100 Stars III
1990 · Movie
Self
Quick Change
1990 · Movie
Chief Rotzinger
The Civil War
1990 · TV Show
Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
Black Rainbow
1989 · Movie
Walter Travis
Dream a Little Dream
1989 · Movie
Coleman Ettinger
Parenthood
1989 · Movie
Frank Buckman
Reunion
1989 · Movie
Henry Strauss
Thomas Hart Benton
1989 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
American Experience
1988 · TV Show
Narrator (voice)
Bright Lights, Big City
1988 · Movie
Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
Inherit the Wind
1988 · Movie
Harry Drummond
The Christmas Wife
1988 · Movie
John Tanner
The Good Mother
1988 · Movie
W. O. Muth
Breaking Home Ties
1987 · Movie
Lloyd Wells
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987 · Movie
Self
Laguna Heat
1987 · Movie
Wade Shephard
Square Dance
1987 · Movie
Dillard
Johnny Bull
1986 · Movie
Stephan Kovacs
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986 · Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Last Frontier
1986 · TV Show
Ed Stenning
Empire City
1985 · Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Screen Two
1985 · TV Show
Doctor Huld
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985 · TV Show
Alvin Binder
The Long Hot Summer
1985 · TV Show
Will Varner
America and Lewis Hine
1984 · Movie
Voice
Sakharov
1984 · Movie
Andrei Sakharov
The World of Tomorrow
1984 · Movie
Self / Narrator
You Can't Take it With You
1984 · Movie
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
Max Dugan Returns
1983 · Movie
Max Dugan
Reading Rainbow
1983 · TV Show
Self - Narrator (voice)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983 · Movie
Charles Halloway
The Day After
1983 · Movie
Dr. Russell Oakes
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
1983 · Movie
Self - Host
Burden of Dreams
1982 · Movie
Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars
1982 · Movie
Self
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1981 · Movie
President Ulysses S. Grant
Caboblanco
1980 · Movie
Gunther Beckdorff
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980 · Movie
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ghosts of Cape Horn
1980 · Movie
Narrator
Haywire
1980 · Movie
Leland Hayward
Melvin and Howard
1980 · Movie
Howard Hughes
Raise the Titanic
1980 · Movie
Admiral James Sandecker
A Plague on Our Children
1979 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Broadway on Showtime
1979 · TV Show
Erie Smith
Hurricane
1979 · Movie
Capt. Charles Bruckner
A Christmas to Remember
1978 · Movie
Daniel Larson
Comes a Horseman
1978 · Movie
Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · TV Show
Self
The Magic of David Copperfield
1978 · TV Show
Cast
Julia
1977 · Movie
Dashiell Hammett
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
1977 · TV Show
President Richard Monckton
Addie and the King of Hearts
1976 · Movie
James "Jamie" Mills
All the President's Men
1976 · Movie
Ben Bradlee
The Spy Who Never Was
1976 · Movie
Inspector Barkan
A Boy and His Dog
1975 · Movie
Lou Craddock
A Moon for the Misbegotten
1975 · Movie
James Tyrone Jr.
Mr. Sycamore
1975 · Movie
John Gwilt
The Easter Promise
1975 · Movie
James "Jamie" Mills
The Country Girl
1974 · Movie
Frank Elgin
Old Faithful
1973 · Movie
Jason Robards
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973 · Movie
Governor Wallace
The Thanksgiving Treasure
1973 · Movie
James "Jamie" Mills
Ghost Story
1972 · TV Show
Elliot Brent
The House Without a Christmas Tree
1972 · Movie
James "Jamie" Mills
The War Between Men and Women
1972 · Movie
Stephen Kozlenko
Film '72
1971 · TV Show
Self
Johnny Got His Gun
1971 · Movie
Joe's Father
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971 · Movie
Cesar Charron
Fools
1970 · Movie
Matthew South
Julius Caesar
1970 · Movie
Marcus Brutus
Operation Snafu
1970 · Movie
Sam Armstrong
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970 · Movie
Cable Hogue
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Movie
General Walter C. Short
Isadora
1968 · Movie
Paris Singer
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · Movie
'Cheyenne'
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · TV Show
Self - Guest
The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968 · Movie
Raymond Paine
Divorce American Style
1967 · Movie
Nelson Downes
Hour of the Gun
1967 · Movie
Doc Holliday
The Belle of 14th Street
1967 · Movie
Performer
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967 · Movie
Al Capone
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1967 · Movie
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966 · Movie
Henry Drummond
ABC Stage 67
1966 · TV Show
Royal Earle Thompson
Any Wednesday
1966 · Movie
John Cleves
Noon Wine
1966 · Movie
Royal Earle Thompson
The Face of Genius
1966 · Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
A Thousand Clowns
1965 · Movie
Murray
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1964 · Movie
Abraham Lincoln
Act One
1963 · Movie
George S. Kaufman
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · TV Show
Cast
The Danny Kaye Show
1963 · TV Show
Self
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1962 · Movie
Jamie Tyrone
Tender Is the Night
1962 · Movie
Dick Diver
By Love Possessed
1961 · Movie
Julius Penrose
The Bat
1960 · Movie
Detective Anderson
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960 · TV Show
Detective Anderson
The Iceman Cometh
1960 · TV Show
Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
A Doll's House
1959 · Movie
Dr. Rank
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959 · Movie
Robert Jordan
Play of the Week
1959 · TV Show
Cast
The Journey
1959 · Movie
Paul Kedes
Playhouse 90
1956 · TV Show
Robert Jordan
Tony Awards
1956 · TV Show
Self - Host · Self - Presenter
The Alcoa Hour
1955 · TV Show
Bert Palmer
General Electric Theater
1953 · TV Show
Col. Carter
The Oscars
1953 · TV Show
Self
Omnibus
1952 · TV Show
Cast
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · TV Show
Dr. Rank · Marcus · Abe Lincoln · Frank Elgin
What's My Line?
1950 · TV Show
Self - Mystery Guest
Studio One
1948 · TV Show
Frank Cameron · Prisoner · Walter Osgood · Leonard O'Brien
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · TV Show
Self
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · TV Show
Joe Grant · Mason