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