Birthday
1922/07/26
Day of death
2000/12/26 (78 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also know as
Jason Robards Jr., Джейсон Робардс, Jason Nelson Robards Jr.
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.
(1999) Magnolia
as Earl Partridge
(1976) All the President's Men
as Ben Bradlee
(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) Cabo Blanco
as Gunther Beckdorff
(1970) The Ballad of Cable Hogue
as Cable Hogue
(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) Something Wicked This Way Comes
as Charles Halloway
(1999) My Best Fiend
as Self (archive footage)
(1980) Raise the Titanic
as Admiral James Sandecker
(1994) The Paper
as Graham Keighley
(1993) The Adventures of Huck Finn
as The King
(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) The Night They Raided Minsky's
as Raymond Paine
(1967) The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Al Capone
(1966) Any Wednesday
as John Cleves
(1965) A Thousand Clowns
as Murray
(1962) Long Day's Journey Into Night
as Jamie Tyrone
(1966) A Big Hand for the Little Lady
as Henry Drummond
(1989) Dream a Little Dream
as Coleman Ettinger
(1971) Murders in the Rue Morgue
as Cesar Charron
(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) The House Without a Christmas Tree
as James "Jamie" Mills
(2006) Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as Self
(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
(1993) Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
as Self
(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
(1991) Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
as Narrator (voice)
(1972) The War Between Men and Women
as Stephen Kozlenko
(1984) America and Lewis Hine
as Voice
(1963) Act One
as George S. Kaufman
(1967) The Belle of 14th Street
as Self
(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
(2017) The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
as Self (archive footage)
(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
(1990) Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
(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
(1994) Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
as Narrator
(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
(1983) The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
as Self - Host
(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
(2016) All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
(1960) The Bat
as Detective Anderson
(1991) Chernobyl: The Final Warning
as Dr. Armand Hammer
(2000) That Moment: Magnolia Diary
as Self
(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) Old Faithful
as Himself
(1993) La Classe américaine
as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
(1996) T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
as Narrator
(1962) Tender Is the Night
as Dick Diver
(1968) Once Upon a Time in the West
as 'Cheyenne'
(1998) Enemy of the State
as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
(1995) Crimson Tide
as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
(2004) Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
(1974) The Country Girl
as Frank Elgin
(1964) Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Abraham Lincoln
(1986) Johnny Bull
as Stephan Kovacs
(1984) The World of Tomorrow
as Self / Narrator
(1966) The Face of Genius
as Narrator (voice)
(1992) The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
as Narrator
(1982) Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1991) Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
as Narrator (voice)
(1952) Omnibus
as ---
(1948) Studio One
as Frank Cameron
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Col. Carter
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Dr. Rank
(1959) Play of the Week
as ---
(1990) The Civil War
as Ulysses S. Grant
(1955) The Alcoa Hour
as Bert Palmer
(1963) Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as ---
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as Joe Grant
(1966) ABC Stage 67
as Royal Earle Thompson
(1953) The Oscars
as Self
(1977) Washington: Behind Closed Doors
as President Richard Monckton
(1978) The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
(1972) Ghost Story
as Elliot Brent
(1996) The West
as Self - Brigham Young
(1991) An Inconvenient Woman
as Jules Mendelson
(1985) The Long Hot Summer
as Will Varner
(1978) The Magic of David Copperfield
as ---
(1979) Broadway on Showtime
as Erie Smith
(1983) Reading Rainbow
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1988) American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
(1993) Heidi
as Grandfather
(1986) The Last Frontier
as Ed Stenning
(1985) The Atlanta Child Murders
as Alvin Binder
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
(1994) Baseball
as Various (voice)
(1948) Studio One
as Prisoner
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Marcus
(1948) Studio One
as Walter Osgood
(1948) Studio One
as Leonard O'Brien
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Abe Lincoln
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Frank Elgin
(1956) Playhouse 90
as Robert Jordan
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Host
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as Mason
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(1963) The Danny Kaye Show
as Self