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

2.5

movie

Known For

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)

Crimson Tide

1995

as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

All the President's Men

1976

as Ben Bradlee

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

Magnolia

1999 • as Earl Partridge

★ 7.7

Enemy of the State

1998 • as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

★ 7.1

Crimson Tide

1995 • as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

★ 7.2

All the President's Men

1976 • as Ben Bradlee

★ 7.7

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 Adventures of Huck Finn

1993 • as The King

★ 6.2

The Day After

1983 • as Dr. Russell Oakes

★ 6.8

The Paper

1994 • as Graham Keighley

★ 6.6

Julia

1977 • as Dashiell Hammett

★ 6.5

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1970 • as Cable Hogue

★ 7.0

Bright Lights, Big City

1988 • as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)

★ 5.7

Beloved

1998 • as Mr. Bodwin

★ 5.8

A Boy and His Dog

1975 • as Lou Craddock

★ 6.3

Johnny Got His Gun

1971 • as Joe's Father

★ 7.5

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1983 • as Charles Halloway

★ 6.5

Raise the Titanic

1980 • as Admiral James Sandecker

★ 5.4

Comes a Horseman

1978 • as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

★ 6.1

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1967 • as Al Capone

★ 6.3

A Thousand Acres

1997 • as Larry Cook

★ 5.7

Hour of the Gun

1967 • as Doc Holliday

★ 6.5

My Best Fiend

1999 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 7.3

The Trial

1993 • as Doctor Huld

★ 6.0

Little Big League

1994 • as Thomas Heywood

★ 5.9

Dream a Little Dream

1989 • as Coleman Ettinger

★ 5.8

The Good Mother

1988 • as W. O. Muth

★ 5.7

La Classe américaine

1993 • as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)

★ 7.6

Julius Caesar

1970 • as Marcus Brutus

★ 5.9

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

1966 • as Henry Drummond

★ 7.1

Long Day's Journey Into Night

1962 • as Jamie Tyrone

★ 6.9

Act One

1963 • as George S. Kaufman

★ 6.3

The Journey

1959 • as Paul Kedes

★ 6.3

Night of 100 Stars

1982 • as Self

★ 5.8

The Enemy Within

1994 • as General R. Pendleton Lloyd

★ 5.8

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

1981 • as President Ulysses S. Grant

★ 4.9

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971 • as Cesar Charron

★ 5.1

Melvin and Howard

1980 • as Howard Hughes

★ 6.5

Black Rainbow

1989 • as Walter Travis

★ 5.9

Isadora

1968 • as Paris Singer

★ 6.2

Caboblanco

1980 • as Gunther Beckdorff

★ 5.3

Divorce American Style

1967 • as Nelson Downes

★ 5.9

Reunion

1989 • as Henry Strauss

★ 6.7

By Love Possessed

1961 • as Julius Penrose

★ 5.3

That Moment: Magnolia Diary

2000 • as Self

★ 7.7

Max Dugan Returns

1983 • as Max Dugan

★ 6.6

The Night They Raided Minsky's

1968 • as Raymond Paine

★ 5.5

Square Dance

1987 • as Dillard

★ 4.7

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

1987 • as Self

★ 6.0

A Thousand Clowns

1965 • as Murray

★ 6.9

Storyville

1992 • as Clifford Fowler

★ 5.3

Night of 100 Stars III

1990 • as Self

★ 4.3

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

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

1991 • as Dr. Armand Hammer

★ 5.8

Burden of Dreams

1982 • as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

★ 7.6

Empire City

1985 • as Self - Narrator (voice)

★ 9.0

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

When It Was a Game 2

1992 • as Passage Narrator (voice)

★ 9.0

The Real Macaw

1998 • as Grandpa Girdis

★ 6.0

Inherit the Wind

1988 • as Harry Drummond

★ 7.3

Tender Is the Night

1962 • as Dick Diver

★ 5.7

Journey

1995 • as Marcus

★ 6.2

Arthur Miller: Writer

2017 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 7.1

Heidi

1993 • as Großvater

★ 6.0

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Truman

1997 • as Narrator (voice)

The Christmas Wife

1988 • as John Tanner

★ 5.0

Portrait: Werner Herzog

1986 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 7.1

movie

Lincoln

1992 • as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

★ 7.3

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

2000 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 6.1

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

1991 • as Narrator (voice)

★ 7.6

My Antonia

1995 • as Josea Burden

★ 7.3

Heartwood

1998 • as Logan Reeser

★ 3.8

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006 • as Self

Hurricane

1979 • as Capt. Charles Bruckner

★ 4.7

T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt

1996 • as Narrator

★ 9.0

When It Was a Game

1991 • as (voice)

★ 10.0

Mr. Sycamore

1975 • as John Gwilt

★ 7.3

The War Between Men and Women

1972 • as Stephen Kozlenko

★ 6.4

Any Wednesday

1966 • as John Cleves

★ 6.1

Noon Wine

1966 • as Royal Earle Thompson

★ 7.0

The Perfect Tribute

1991 • as President Abraham Lincoln

★ 6.5

The Country Girl

1974 • as Frank Elgin

★ 10.0

Sakharov

1984 • as Andrei Sakharov

★ 7.5

Operation Snafu

1970 • as Sam Armstrong

★ 6.7

Mark Twain and Me

1991 • as Mark Twain

★ 7.6

Laguna Heat

1987 • as Wade Shephard

★ 4.3

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1959 • as Robert Jordan

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004

2006 • as Joe's Father (video "One")

★ 7.7

movie

America and Lewis Hine

1984 • as Voice

★ 6.2

Haywire

1980 • as Leland Hayward

★ 6.7

Breaking Home Ties

1987 • as Lloyd Wells

★ 7.3

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

1993 • as Self

★ 7.1

A Doll's House

1959 • as Dr. Rank

★ 10.0

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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

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

The House Without a Christmas Tree

1972 • as James "Jamie" Mills

★ 6.7

The Easter Promise

1975 • as James "Jamie" Mills

★ 7.3

The Spy Who Never Was

1976 • as Inspector Barkan

★ 8.0

Johnny Bull

1986 • as Stephan Kovacs

★ 5.5

Old Faithful

1973 • as Jason Robards

You Can't Take it With You

1984 • as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

The Thanksgiving Treasure

1973 • as James "Jamie" Mills

★ 7.8

Going Home

2000 • as Charles Barton

★ 6.5

Addie and the King of Hearts

1976 • as James "Jamie" Mills

★ 7.7

The Face of Genius

1966 • as Self - Narrator (voice)

★ 7.0

Fools

1970 • as Matthew South

★ 3.5

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

1983 • as Self - Host

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The Great American West

1995 • as Narrator (voice)

★ 9.0

The Belle of 14th Street

1967 • as Performer

★ 7.0

Thomas Hart Benton

1989 • as Narrator (voice)

★ 7.8

A Christmas to Remember

1978 • as Daniel Larson

★ 7.5

Deceptions

1992 • as Clay (voice)

★ 9.0

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1964 • as Abraham Lincoln

★ 8.7

The Bat

1960 • as Detective Anderson

★ 5.0

Ghosts of Cape Horn

1980 • as Narrator

The World of Tomorrow

1984 • as Self / Narrator

★ 5.5

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

movie

The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library

1992 • as Self - Narrator (voice)