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