Jason Robards

Known for: Acting

Born: 1922-07-26 – 2000-12-26 (aged 78)

From: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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.

Filmography (160)

MOVIE★ 7.1
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 7.4
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 7.7
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
2006
as Joe's Father (video "One")
MOVIE
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
as Self
MOVIE★ 8.0
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.5
Going Home
2000
as Charles Barton
MOVIE★ 6.1
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 7.7
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.7
Magnolia
1999
as Earl Partridge
MOVIE★ 7.3
My Best Fiend
1999
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 7.1
Enemy of the State
1998
as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.8
Beloved
1998
as Mr. Bodwin
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Real Macaw
1998
as Grandpa Girdis
MOVIE★ 3.8
Heartwood
1998
as Logan Reeser
MOVIE
Truman
1997
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.7
A Thousand Acres
1997
as Larry Cook
MOVIE★ 9.0
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
1996
as Narrator
TV★ 8.4
The West
1996
as Self - Brigham Young
MOVIE★ 6.2
Journey
1995
as Marcus
MOVIE★ 7.2
Crimson Tide
1995
as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 7.3
My Antonia
1995
as Josea Burden
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Great American West
1995
as Narrator (voice)
TV★ 7.5
Baseball
1994
as (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Enemy Within
1994
as General R. Pendleton Lloyd
MOVIE★ 5.9
Little Big League
1994
as Thomas Heywood
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Paper
1994
as Graham Keighley
MOVIE
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
1994
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 7.6
La Classe américaine
1993
as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 7.7
Philadelphia
1993
as Charles Wheeler
MOVIE★ 6.0
Heidi
1993
as Großvater
TV★ 7.1
Heidi
1993
as Grandfather
MOVIE★ 7.1
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Trial
1993
as Doctor Huld
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993
as The King
MOVIE★ 7.3
Lincoln
1992
as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
MOVIE
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
1992
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.3
Storyville
1992
as Clifford Fowler
MOVIE★ 9.0
When It Was a Game 2
1992
as Passage Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 9.0
Deceptions
1992
as Clay (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.6
Mark Twain and Me
1991
as Mark Twain
MOVIE★ 7.6
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1991
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 10.0
Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
1991
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 10.0
When It Was a Game
1991
as (voice)
TV★ 5.8
An Inconvenient Woman
1991
as Jules Mendelson
MOVIE★ 5.8
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991
as Dr. Armand Hammer
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Perfect Tribute
1991
as President Abraham Lincoln
TV★ 7.9
The Civil War
1990
as Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.7
Quick Change
1990
as Chief Rotzinger
MOVIE★ 4.0
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.9
Black Rainbow
1989
as Walter Travis
MOVIE★ 7.8
Thomas Hart Benton
1989
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.7
Parenthood
1989
as Frank Buckman
MOVIE★ 6.7
Reunion
1989
as Henry Strauss
MOVIE★ 5.8
Dream a Little Dream
1989
as Coleman Ettinger
MOVIE★ 5.0
The Christmas Wife
1988
as John Tanner
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Good Mother
1988
as W. O. Muth
TV★ 6.5
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.7
Bright Lights, Big City
1988
as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 7.3
Inherit the Wind
1988
as Harry Drummond
MOVIE★ 7.3
Breaking Home Ties
1987
as Lloyd Wells
MOVIE★ 4.3
Laguna Heat
1987
as Wade Shephard
MOVIE★ 6.0
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.7
Square Dance
1987
as Dillard
TV★ 7.0
The Last Frontier
1986
as Ed Stenning
MOVIE
The Last Frontier
1986
as Ed Stenning
MOVIE★ 5.5
Johnny Bull
1986
as Stephan Kovacs
MOVIE★ 7.1
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
as Self (archive footage)
TV★ 5.5
The Long Hot Summer
1985
as Will Varner
MOVIE★ 9.0
Empire City
1985
as Self - Narrator (voice)
TV★ 5.8
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
as Alvin Binder
TV★ 7.1
Screen Two
1985
as Doctor Huld
MOVIE★ 5.5
The World of Tomorrow
1984
as Self / Narrator
MOVIE
You Can't Take it With You
1984
as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
MOVIE★ 6.2
America and Lewis Hine
1984
as Voice
MOVIE★ 7.5
Sakharov
1984
as Andrei Sakharov
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Day After
1983
as Dr. Russell Oakes
MOVIE
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
1983
as Self - Host
TV★ 8.3
Reading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.5
Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983
as Charles Halloway
MOVIE★ 6.6
Max Dugan Returns
1983
as Max Dugan
MOVIE★ 7.6
Burden of Dreams
1982
as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 5.8
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.9
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1981
as President Ulysses S. Grant
MOVIE★ 6.5
Melvin and Howard
1980
as Howard Hughes
MOVIE
Ghosts of Cape Horn
1980
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 5.4
Raise the Titanic
1980
as Admiral James Sandecker
MOVIE★ 6.9
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
MOVIE★ 6.7
Haywire
1980
as Leland Hayward
MOVIE★ 5.3
Caboblanco
1980
as Gunther Beckdorff
TV
Broadway on Showtime
1979
as Erie Smith
MOVIE★ 4.8
Hurricane
1979
as Capt. Charles Bruckner
TV★ 7.4
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.5
A Christmas to Remember
1978
as Daniel Larson
TV★ 7.0
The Magic of David Copperfield
1978
MOVIE★ 6.1
Comes a Horseman
1978
as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
MOVIE★ 6.5
Julia
1977
as Dashiell Hammett
TV★ 7.8
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
1977
as President Richard Monckton
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Spy Who Never Was
1976
as Inspector Barkan
MOVIE★ 7.7
All the President's Men
1976
as Ben Bradlee
MOVIE★ 7.7
Addie and the King of Hearts
1976
as James "Jamie" Mills
MOVIE★ 7.3
Mr. Sycamore
1975
as John Gwilt
MOVIE★ 6.5
A Moon for the Misbegotten
1975
as James Tyrone Jr.
MOVIE★ 7.3
The Easter Promise
1975
as James "Jamie" Mills
MOVIE★ 6.3
A Boy and His Dog
1975
as Lou Craddock
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Country Girl
1974
as Frank Elgin
MOVIE★ 7.8
The Thanksgiving Treasure
1973
as James "Jamie" Mills
MOVIE★ 7.2
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
as Governor Wallace
MOVIE
Old Faithful
1973
as Jason Robards
MOVIE★ 6.7
The House Without a Christmas Tree
1972
as James "Jamie" Mills
TV★ 7.4
Ghost Story
1972
as Elliot Brent
MOVIE★ 6.4
The War Between Men and Women
1972
as Stephen Kozlenko
TV★ 4.7
Film '72
1971
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.5
Johnny Got His Gun
1971
as Joe's Father
MOVIE★ 5.1
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971
as Cesar Charron
MOVIE★ 3.3
Fools
1970
as Matthew South
MOVIE★ 5.9
Julius Caesar
1970
as Marcus Brutus
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970
as Cable Hogue
MOVIE★ 6.7
Operation Snafu
1970
as Sam Armstrong
MOVIE★ 7.2
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
as General Walter C. Short
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968
as Raymond Paine
MOVIE★ 8.3
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
as 'Cheyenne'
MOVIE★ 6.2
Isadora
1968
as Paris Singer
TV★ 6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
MOVIE★ 6.5
Hour of the Gun
1967
as Doc Holliday
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Belle of 14th Street
1967
as Performer
MOVIE★ 6.3
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967
as Al Capone
MOVIE★ 5.9
Divorce American Style
1967
as Nelson Downes
MOVIE
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1967
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
MOVIE★ 7.0
Noon Wine
1966
as Royal Earle Thompson
MOVIE★ 6.1
Any Wednesday
1966
as John Cleves
TV★ 6.8
ABC Stage 67
1966
as Royal Earle Thompson
MOVIE★ 7.1
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966
as Henry Drummond
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Face of Genius
1966
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.9
A Thousand Clowns
1965
as Murray
MOVIE★ 8.7
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1964
as Abraham Lincoln
MOVIE★ 6.3
Act One
1963
as George S. Kaufman
TV★ 5.9
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
TV★ 7.0
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.0
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1962
as Jamie Tyrone
MOVIE★ 5.7
Tender Is the Night
1962
as Dick Diver
MOVIE★ 5.3
By Love Possessed
1961
as Julius Penrose
MOVIE★ 7.4
The Iceman Cometh
1960
as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
TV
The Iceman Cometh
1960
as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
TV★ 8.0
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960
as Detective Anderson
MOVIE★ 5.0
The Bat
1960
as Detective Anderson
MOVIE★ 10.0
A Doll's House
1959
as Dr. Rank
TV★ 8.0
Play of the Week
1959
MOVIE
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
as Robert Jordan
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Journey
1959
as Paul Kedes
TV★ 7.6
Playhouse 90
1956
as Robert Jordan
TV
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host
TV★ 7.0
The Alcoa Hour
1955
as Bert Palmer
TV★ 7.0
The Oscars
1953
as Self
TV★ 6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
as Col. Carter
TV★ 6.3
Omnibus
1952
TV★ 8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Dr. Rank
TV★ 7.0
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
TV★ 5.4
Studio One
1948
as Frank Cameron
TV★ 6.6
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Joe Grant
TV★ 6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self