Jason Robards

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.

Born

Jul 26, 1922

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died

Dec 26, 2000

Known For

Acting

Movies

123 acting

0 crew

Popularity

2.4

movie

Known For

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968

as 'Cheyenne'

Enemy of the State

1998

as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

Magnolia

1999

as Earl Partridge

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

Parenthood

1989

as Frank Buckman

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968 • as 'Cheyenne'

★ 8.3

Enemy of the State

1998 • as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

★ 7.1

Magnolia

1999 • as Earl Partridge

★ 7.7

All the President's Men

1976 • as Ben Bradlee

★ 7.7

Crimson Tide

1995 • as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

★ 7.2

Philadelphia

1993 • as Charles Wheeler

★ 7.7

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970 • as General Walter C. Short

★ 7.2

Quick Change

1990 • as Chief Rotzinger

★ 6.7

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973 • as Governor Wallace

★ 7.2

Parenthood

1989 • as Frank Buckman

★ 6.7

The Day After

1983 • as Dr. Russell Oakes

★ 6.8

The Paper

1994 • as Graham Keighley

★ 6.6

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993 • as The King

★ 6.2

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1970 • as Cable Hogue

★ 7.0

Bright Lights, Big City

1988 • as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)

★ 5.7

Johnny Got His Gun

1971 • as Joe's Father

★ 7.5

A Boy and His Dog

1975 • as Lou Craddock

★ 6.3

Raise the Titanic

1980 • as Admiral James Sandecker

★ 5.4

Dream a Little Dream

1989 • as Coleman Ettinger

★ 5.8

Beloved

1998 • as Mr. Bodwin

★ 5.8

The Trial

1993 • as Doctor Huld

★ 6.0

Comes a Horseman

1978 • as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

★ 6.1

Julia

1977 • as Dashiell Hammett

★ 6.5

Hour of the Gun

1967 • as Doc Holliday

★ 6.5

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1983 • as Charles Halloway

★ 6.5

La Classe américaine

1993 • as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)

★ 7.6

A Thousand Acres

1997 • as Larry Cook

★ 5.7

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1967 • as Al Capone

★ 6.3

The Enemy Within

1994 • as General R. Pendleton Lloyd

★ 5.8

My Best Fiend

1999 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 7.3

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

1981 • as President Ulysses S. Grant

★ 4.9

Little Big League

1994 • as Thomas Heywood

★ 5.9

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

1966 • as Henry Drummond

★ 7.1

The Journey

1959 • as Paul Kedes

★ 6.3

Act One

1963 • as George S. Kaufman

★ 6.3

Isadora

1968 • as Paris Singer

★ 6.2

Julius Caesar

1970 • as Marcus Brutus

★ 5.9

The Night They Raided Minsky's

1968 • as Raymond Paine

★ 5.5

Night of 100 Stars

1982 • as Self

★ 5.8

Black Rainbow

1989 • as Walter Travis

★ 5.9

The Good Mother

1988 • as W. O. Muth

★ 5.7

By Love Possessed

1961 • as Julius Penrose

★ 5.3

Melvin and Howard

1980 • as Howard Hughes

★ 6.5

Divorce American Style

1967 • as Nelson Downes

★ 5.9

Night of 100 Stars III

1990 • as Self

★ 4.3

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

1987 • as Self

★ 6.0

Caboblanco

1980 • as Gunther Beckdorff

★ 5.3

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

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

2016 • as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)

★ 7.4

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971 • as Cesar Charron

★ 5.1

Tender Is the Night

1962 • as Dick Diver

★ 5.7

Long Day's Journey Into Night

1962 • as Jamie Tyrone

★ 6.9

Empire City

1985 • as Self - Narrator (voice)

★ 9.0

Square Dance

1987 • as Dillard

★ 4.7

A Thousand Clowns

1965 • as Murray

★ 6.9

That Moment: Magnolia Diary

2000 • as Self

★ 7.7

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

1991 • as Narrator (voice)

★ 7.6

Heidi

1993 • as Großvater

★ 6.0

Burden of Dreams

1982 • as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

★ 7.6

Mark Twain and Me

1991 • as Mark Twain

★ 7.6

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Truman

1997 • as Narrator (voice)

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Lincoln

1992 • as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

★ 7.3

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 8.0

The Real Macaw

1998 • as Grandpa Girdis

★ 6.0

Journey

1995 • as Marcus

★ 6.2

Reunion

1989 • as Henry Strauss

★ 6.7

Inherit the Wind

1988 • as Harry Drummond

★ 7.3

When It Was a Game 2

1992 • as Passage Narrator (voice)

★ 9.0

Max Dugan Returns

1983 • as Max Dugan

★ 6.6

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

1991 • as Dr. Armand Hammer

★ 5.8

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

2000 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 6.1

The Christmas Wife

1988 • as John Tanner

★ 5.0

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America and Lewis Hine

1984 • as Voice

★ 6.2

Arthur Miller: Writer

2017 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 7.1

Portrait: Werner Herzog

1986 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 7.1

T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt

1996 • as Narrator

★ 9.0

The Perfect Tribute

1991 • as President Abraham Lincoln

★ 6.5

Sakharov

1984 • as Andrei Sakharov

★ 7.5

Any Wednesday

1966 • as John Cleves

★ 6.1

Laguna Heat

1987 • as Wade Shephard

★ 4.3

The War Between Men and Women

1972 • as Stephen Kozlenko

★ 6.4

Breaking Home Ties

1987 • as Lloyd Wells

★ 7.3

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1967 • as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

Heartwood

1998 • as Logan Reeser

★ 3.8

Haywire

1980 • as Leland Hayward

★ 6.7

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006 • as Self

Hurricane

1979 • as Capt. Charles Bruckner

★ 4.7

My Antonia

1995 • as Josea Burden

★ 7.3

The House Without a Christmas Tree

1972 • as James "Jamie" Mills

★ 6.7

Storyville

1992 • as Clifford Fowler

★ 5.3

The Country Girl

1974 • as Frank Elgin

★ 10.0

Mr. Sycamore

1975 • as John Gwilt

★ 7.3

When It Was a Game

1991 • as (voice)

★ 10.0

Operation Snafu

1970 • as Sam Armstrong

★ 6.7

A Moon for the Misbegotten

1975 • as James Tyrone Jr.

★ 6.5

F.D.R.: The Last Year

1980 • as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

★ 6.9

Johnny Bull

1986 • as Stephan Kovacs

★ 5.5

You Can't Take it With You

1984 • as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

Noon Wine

1966 • as Royal Earle Thompson

★ 7.0

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004

2006 • as Joe's Father (video "One")

★ 7.7

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1959 • as Robert Jordan

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The Great American West

1995 • as Narrator (voice)

★ 9.0

Going Home

2000 • as Charles Barton

★ 6.5

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1964 • as Abraham Lincoln

★ 8.7

Fools

1970 • as Matthew South

★ 3.5

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

1993 • as Self

★ 7.1

The Easter Promise

1975 • as James "Jamie" Mills

★ 7.3

A Doll's House

1959 • as Dr. Rank

★ 10.0

The Face of Genius

1966 • as Self - Narrator (voice)

★ 7.0

The Thanksgiving Treasure

1973 • as James "Jamie" Mills

★ 7.8

The Belle of 14th Street

1967 • as Performer

★ 7.0

Old Faithful

1973 • as Jason Robards

Addie and the King of Hearts

1976 • as James "Jamie" Mills

★ 7.7

The World of Tomorrow

1984 • as Self / Narrator

★ 5.5

A Christmas to Remember

1978 • as Daniel Larson

★ 7.5

The Spy Who Never Was

1976 • as Inspector Barkan

★ 8.0

Thomas Hart Benton

1989 • as Narrator (voice)

★ 7.8

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The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library

1992 • as Self - Narrator (voice)

Deceptions

1992 • as Clay (voice)

★ 9.0

Ghosts of Cape Horn

1980 • as Narrator

The Bat

1960 • as Detective Anderson

★ 5.0

Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale

1991 • as Narrator (voice)

★ 10.0

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

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

1994 • as Narrator

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

1983 • as Self - Host