Jason Robards

Acting

Born: 1922-07-26 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died: 2000-12-26

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.

Acting

Magnolia

Earl Partridge

All the President's Men

Ben Bradlee

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Robert Jordan

Parenthood

Frank Buckman

Max Dugan Returns

Max Dugan

Arthur Miller: Writer

Self (archive footage)

Quick Change

Chief Rotzinger

A Boy and His Dog

Lou Craddock

Tora! Tora! Tora!

General Walter C. Short

The Great American West

Narrator (voice)

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Governor Wallace

Caboblanco

Gunther Beckdorff

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Cable Hogue

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

Self (archive footage)

The Day After

Dr. Russell Oakes

Hour of the Gun

Doc Holliday

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Charles Halloway

My Best Fiend

Self (archive footage)

Raise the Titanic

Admiral James Sandecker

The Paper

Graham Keighley

The Adventures of Huck Finn

The King

Burden of Dreams

Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

Comes a Horseman

Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

Julia

Dashiell Hammett

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004

Joe's Father (video "One")

Julius Caesar

Marcus Brutus

Isadora

Paris Singer

The Night They Raided Minsky's

Raymond Paine

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Al Capone

Any Wednesday

John Cleves

A Thousand Clowns

Murray

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Jamie Tyrone

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Henry Drummond

Dream a Little Dream

Coleman Ettinger

Murders in the Rue Morgue

Cesar Charron

Johnny Got His Gun

Joe's Father

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

President Ulysses S. Grant

Melvin and Howard

Howard Hughes

Bright Lights, Big City

Mr. Hardy (uncredited)

A Thousand Acres

Larry Cook

The Trial

Doctor Huld

Black Rainbow

Walter Travis

The House Without a Christmas Tree

James "Jamie" Mills

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

Self

The Real Macaw

Grandpa Girdis

Reunion

Henry Strauss

The Journey

Paul Kedes

The Enemy Within

General R. Pendleton Lloyd

Square Dance

Dillard

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

Self

Divorce American Style

Nelson Downes

You Can't Take it With You

Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

Mark Twain and Me

Mark Twain

The Good Mother

W. O. Muth

The Christmas Wife

John Tanner

Truman

Narrator (voice)

A Moon for the Misbegotten

James Tyrone Jr.

By Love Possessed

Julius Penrose

Empire City

Self - Narrator (voice)

Storyville

Clifford Fowler

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

Narrator (voice)

The War Between Men and Women

Stephen Kozlenko

America and Lewis Hine

Voice

Act One

George S. Kaufman

The Belle of 14th Street

Performer

Inherit the Wind

Harry Drummond

Fools

Matthew South

My Antonia

Josea Burden

F.D.R.: The Last Year

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Haywire

Leland Hayward

Thomas Hart Benton

Narrator (voice)

Philadelphia

Charles Wheeler

Deceptions

Clay (voice)

Operation Snafu

Sam Armstrong

Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov

Heartwood

Logan Reeser

Journey

Marcus

Night of 100 Stars III

Self

Mr. Sycamore

John Gwilt

The Easter Promise

James "Jamie" Mills

Lincoln

President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Noon Wine

Royal Earle Thompson

Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital

Narrator

A Christmas to Remember

Daniel Larson

Addie and the King of Hearts

James "Jamie" Mills

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

The Iceman Cometh

Theodore "Hickey" Hickman

Hurricane

Capt. Charles Bruckner

The Spy Who Never Was

Inspector Barkan

Little Big League

Thomas Heywood

The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History

Self - Host

The Thanksgiving Treasure

James "Jamie" Mills

Going Home

Charles Barton

Portrait: Werner Herzog

Self (archive footage)

The Perfect Tribute

President Abraham Lincoln

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Ben Bradlee (archive footage)

The Bat

Detective Anderson

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

Dr. Armand Hammer

That Moment: Magnolia Diary

Self

Laguna Heat

Wade Shephard

A Doll's House

Dr. Rank

Breaking Home Ties

Lloyd Wells

Beloved

Mr. Bodwin

Old Faithful

Jason Robards

La Classe américaine

The Newspaper Director (archive footage)

T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt

Narrator

Tender Is the Night

Dick Diver

Once Upon a Time in the West

'Cheyenne'

Enemy of the State

Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

Crimson Tide

Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Self (archive footage)

The Country Girl

Frank Elgin

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

Johnny Bull

Stephan Kovacs

The World of Tomorrow

Self / Narrator

The Face of Genius

Narrator (voice)

The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library

Self - Narrator (voice)

Night of 100 Stars

Self

Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale

Narrator (voice)

When It Was a Game

(voice)

Heidi

Großvater

When It Was a Game 2

Passage Narrator (voice)

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Self

Ghosts of Cape Horn

Narrator

The Last Frontier

Ed Stenning

Magnolia

Earl Partridge

All the President's Men

Ben Bradlee

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Robert Jordan

Parenthood

Frank Buckman

Max Dugan Returns

Max Dugan

Arthur Miller: Writer

Self (archive footage)

Quick Change

Chief Rotzinger

A Boy and His Dog

Lou Craddock

Tora! Tora! Tora!

General Walter C. Short

The Great American West

Narrator (voice)

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Governor Wallace

Caboblanco

Gunther Beckdorff

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Cable Hogue

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

Self (archive footage)

The Day After

Dr. Russell Oakes

Hour of the Gun

Doc Holliday

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Charles Halloway

My Best Fiend

Self (archive footage)

Raise the Titanic

Admiral James Sandecker

The Paper

Graham Keighley

The Adventures of Huck Finn

The King

Burden of Dreams

Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

Comes a Horseman

Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

Julia

Dashiell Hammett

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004

Joe's Father (video "One")

Julius Caesar

Marcus Brutus

Isadora

Paris Singer

The Night They Raided Minsky's

Raymond Paine

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Al Capone

Any Wednesday

John Cleves

A Thousand Clowns

Murray

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Jamie Tyrone

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Henry Drummond

Dream a Little Dream

Coleman Ettinger

Murders in the Rue Morgue

Cesar Charron

Johnny Got His Gun

Joe's Father

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

President Ulysses S. Grant

Melvin and Howard

Howard Hughes

Bright Lights, Big City

Mr. Hardy (uncredited)

A Thousand Acres

Larry Cook

The Trial

Doctor Huld

Black Rainbow

Walter Travis

The House Without a Christmas Tree

James "Jamie" Mills

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

Self

The Real Macaw

Grandpa Girdis

Reunion

Henry Strauss

The Journey

Paul Kedes

The Enemy Within

General R. Pendleton Lloyd

Square Dance

Dillard

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

Self

Divorce American Style

Nelson Downes

You Can't Take it With You

Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

Mark Twain and Me

Mark Twain

The Good Mother

W. O. Muth

The Christmas Wife

John Tanner

Truman

Narrator (voice)

A Moon for the Misbegotten

James Tyrone Jr.

By Love Possessed

Julius Penrose

Empire City

Self - Narrator (voice)

Storyville

Clifford Fowler

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

Narrator (voice)

The War Between Men and Women

Stephen Kozlenko

America and Lewis Hine

Voice

Act One

George S. Kaufman

The Belle of 14th Street

Performer

Inherit the Wind

Harry Drummond

Fools

Matthew South

My Antonia

Josea Burden

F.D.R.: The Last Year

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Haywire

Leland Hayward

Thomas Hart Benton

Narrator (voice)

Philadelphia

Charles Wheeler

Deceptions

Clay (voice)

Operation Snafu

Sam Armstrong

Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov

Heartwood

Logan Reeser

Journey

Marcus

Night of 100 Stars III

Self

Mr. Sycamore

John Gwilt

The Easter Promise

James "Jamie" Mills

Lincoln

President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Noon Wine

Royal Earle Thompson

Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital

Narrator

A Christmas to Remember

Daniel Larson

Addie and the King of Hearts

James "Jamie" Mills

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

The Iceman Cometh

Theodore "Hickey" Hickman

Hurricane

Capt. Charles Bruckner

The Spy Who Never Was

Inspector Barkan

Little Big League

Thomas Heywood

The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History

Self - Host

The Thanksgiving Treasure

James "Jamie" Mills

Going Home

Charles Barton

Portrait: Werner Herzog

Self (archive footage)

The Perfect Tribute

President Abraham Lincoln

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Ben Bradlee (archive footage)

The Bat

Detective Anderson

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

Dr. Armand Hammer

That Moment: Magnolia Diary

Self

Laguna Heat

Wade Shephard

A Doll's House

Dr. Rank

Breaking Home Ties

Lloyd Wells

Beloved

Mr. Bodwin

Old Faithful

Jason Robards

La Classe américaine

The Newspaper Director (archive footage)

T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt

Narrator

Tender Is the Night

Dick Diver

Once Upon a Time in the West

'Cheyenne'

Enemy of the State

Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

Crimson Tide

Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Self (archive footage)

The Country Girl

Frank Elgin

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

Johnny Bull

Stephan Kovacs

The World of Tomorrow

Self / Narrator

The Face of Genius

Narrator (voice)

The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library

Self - Narrator (voice)

Night of 100 Stars

Self

Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale

Narrator (voice)

When It Was a Game

(voice)

Heidi

Großvater

When It Was a Game 2

Passage Narrator (voice)

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Self

Ghosts of Cape Horn

Narrator

The Last Frontier

Ed Stenning