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