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Jason Robards

Jason Robards

ActingJuly 26, 1922(died age 78)Chicago, Illinois, USA

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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.

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Filmography (158)

Arthur Miller: Writer

2017·Self (archive footage)

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

2016·Ben Bradlee (archive footage)

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004

2006·Joe's Father (video "One")

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004·Self (archive footage)

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

2000·Self (archive footage)

2000·Charles Barton

That Moment: Magnolia Diary

1999·Earl Partridge

1999·Self (archive footage)

1998·Grandpa Girdis

1998·Logan Reeser

1998·Mr. Bodwin

Enemy of the State

1998·Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

A Thousand Acres

1997·Larry Cook

1997·Narrator (voice)

T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt

1996·Self - Brigham Young

The Great American West

1995·Narrator (voice)

1995·Josea Burden

1995·Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

1994·Graham Keighley

The Enemy Within

1994·General R. Pendleton Lloyd

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

Little Big League

1994·Thomas Heywood

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993·Doctor Huld

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

1993·Charles Wheeler

La Classe américaine

1993·The Newspaper Director (archive footage)

1993·Großvater

1993·Grandfather

1992·Clifford Fowler

1992·Clay (voice)

1992·President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library

1992·Self - Narrator (voice)

When It Was a Game 2

1992·Passage Narrator (voice)

Mark Twain and Me

1991·Mark Twain

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

1991·Narrator (voice)

The Perfect Tribute

1991·President Abraham Lincoln

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

1991·Dr. Armand Hammer

Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale

1991·Narrator (voice)

When It Was a Game

An Inconvenient Woman

1991·Jules Mendelson

1990·Chief Rotzinger

Night of 100 Stars III

1990·Ulysses S. Grant

1989·Frank Buckman

Dream a Little Dream

1989·Coleman Ettinger

1989·Walter Travis

1989·Henry Strauss

Thomas Hart Benton

1989·Narrator (voice)

Bright Lights, Big City

1988·Mr. Hardy (uncredited)

The Good Mother

1988·W. O. Muth

The Christmas Wife

1988·John Tanner

Inherit the Wind

1988·Harry Drummond

American Experience

1988·Narrator (voice)

1987·Wade Shephard

Breaking Home Ties

1987·Lloyd Wells

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Portrait: Werner Herzog

1986·Self (archive footage)

1986·Stephan Kovacs

The Last Frontier

1986·Ed Stenning

The Last Frontier

1986·Ed Stenning

1985·Self - Narrator (voice)

The Long Hot Summer

1985·Will Varner

The Atlanta Child Murders

1985·Alvin Binder

1985·Doctor Huld

You Can't Take it With You

1984·Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

America and Lewis Hine

1984·Andrei Sakharov

The World of Tomorrow

1984·Self / Narrator

Max Dugan Returns

1983·Max Dugan

1983·Dr. Russell Oakes

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1983·Charles Halloway

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

1983·Self - Host

Reading Rainbow

1983·Self - Narrator (voice)

Burden of Dreams

1982·Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

Night of 100 Stars

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

1981·President Ulysses S. Grant

1980·Gunther Beckdorff

Raise the Titanic

1980·Admiral James Sandecker

Melvin and Howard

1980·Howard Hughes

F.D.R.: The Last Year

1980·President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1980·Leland Hayward

Ghosts of Cape Horn

1979·Capt. Charles Bruckner

Broadway on Showtime

1979·Erie Smith

Comes a Horseman

1978·Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

A Christmas to Remember

1978·Daniel Larson

The Kennedy Center Honors

The Magic of David Copperfield

1977·Dashiell Hammett

Washington: Behind Closed Doors

1977·President Richard Monckton

All the President's Men

1976·Ben Bradlee

Addie and the King of Hearts

1976·James "Jamie" Mills

The Spy Who Never Was

1976·Inspector Barkan

A Boy and His Dog

1975·Lou Craddock

A Moon for the Misbegotten

1975·James Tyrone Jr.

1975·John Gwilt

The Easter Promise

1975·James "Jamie" Mills

The Country Girl

1974·Frank Elgin

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973·Governor Wallace

The Thanksgiving Treasure

1973·James "Jamie" Mills

1973·Jason Robards

The House Without a Christmas Tree

1972·James "Jamie" Mills

The War Between Men and Women

1972·Stephen Kozlenko

1972·Elliot Brent

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971·Cesar Charron

Johnny Got His Gun

1971·Joe's Father

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970·General Walter C. Short

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1970·Cable Hogue

1970·Marcus Brutus

1970·Matthew South

Operation Snafu

1970·Sam Armstrong

1968·Paris Singer

The Night They Raided Minsky's

1968·Raymond Paine

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968·'Cheyenne'

The Dick Cavett Show

1968·Self - Guest

Hour of the Gun

1967·Doc Holliday

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1967·Al Capone

Divorce American Style

1967·Nelson Downes

The Belle of 14th Street

1967·Performer

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1967·Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

1966·John Cleves

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

1966·Henry Drummond

1966·Royal Earle Thompson

The Face of Genius

1966·Narrator (voice)

1966·Royal Earle Thompson

A Thousand Clowns

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1964·Abraham Lincoln

1963·George S. Kaufman

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

The Danny Kaye Show

Long Day's Journey Into Night

1962·Jamie Tyrone

Tender Is the Night

1962·Dick Diver

By Love Possessed

1961·Julius Penrose

The Iceman Cometh

1960·Theodore "Hickey" Hickman

1960·Detective Anderson

The Iceman Cometh

1960·Theodore "Hickey" Hickman

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1959·Robert Jordan

1959·Paul Kedes

Play of the Week

1956·Robert Jordan

1956·Self - Host

1955·Bert Palmer

General Electric Theater

1953·Col. Carter

Hallmark Hall of Fame

What's My Line?

1950·Self - Mystery Guest

1948·Frank Cameron

The Philco Television Playhouse

1948·Joe Grant

The Ed Sullivan Show