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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 26, 1922
Died
December 26, 2000
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Jason Robards Jr.
- Джейсон Робардс
- Jason Nelson Robards Jr.
Jason Robards
1.4 Popularity
Biography
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
7.1
Self (archive footage)
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
7.6
Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
7.6
Joe's Father (video "One")
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
2006
0.0
Self
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
7.8
Self (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
5.3
Charles Barton
Going Home
2000
7.6
Self
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000
5.8
Self (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
7.7
Earl Partridge
Magnolia
1999
7.3
Self (archive footage)
My Best Fiend
1999
Credits
Arthur Miller: Writer
as Self (archive footage)
2017
7.1
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
2016
7.6
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
as Joe's Father (video "One")
2006
7.6
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as Self
2006
0.0
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2004
7.8
Going Home
as Charles Barton
2000
5.3
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
as Self
2000
7.6
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
as Self (archive footage)
2000
5.8
Magnolia
as Earl Partridge
1999
7.7
My Best Fiend
as Self (archive footage)
1999
7.3
Enemy of the State
as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
1998
7.1
Beloved
as Mr. Bodwin
1998
5.8
The Real Macaw
as Grandpa Girdis
1998
5.9
Heartwood
as Logan Reeser
1998
3.0
🎬
Truman
as Narrator (voice)
1997
0.0
A Thousand Acres
as Larry Cook
1997
5.7
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
as Narrator
1996
0.0
The West
as Self - Brigham Young
1996
8.4
Journey
as Marcus
1995
6.2
Crimson Tide
as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
1995
7.2
My Antonia
as Josea Burden
1995
7.3
🎬
The Great American West
as Narrator (voice)
1995
8.5
Baseball
as (voice)
1994
7.4
The Enemy Within
as General R. Pendleton Lloyd
1994
5.7
Little Big League
as Thomas Heywood
1994
5.9
The Paper
as Graham Keighley
1994
6.6
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
as Narrator
1994
0.0
La Classe américaine
as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
1993
7.6
Philadelphia
as Charles Wheeler
1993
7.7
Heidi
as Großvater
1993
6.0
Heidi
as Grandfather
1993
7.1
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
as Self
1993
6.9
The Trial
as Doctor Huld
1993
5.9
The Adventures of Huck Finn
as The King
1993
6.2
🎬
Lincoln
as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
1992
6.8
🎬
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1992
0.0
Storyville
as Clifford Fowler
1992
4.8
When It Was a Game 2
as Passage Narrator (voice)
1992
9.0
Deceptions
as Clay (voice)
1992
0.0
Mark Twain and Me
as Mark Twain
1991
7.3
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
as Narrator (voice)
1991
7.5
🎬
Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
as Narrator (voice)
1991
0.0
When It Was a Game
as (voice)
1991
0.0
An Inconvenient Woman
as Jules Mendelson
1991
5.2
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
as Dr. Armand Hammer
1991
5.5
The Perfect Tribute
as President Abraham Lincoln
1991
6.0
The Civil War
as Ulysses S. Grant
1990
7.9
Quick Change
as Chief Rotzinger
1990
6.7
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
1990
4.0
Black Rainbow
as Walter Travis
1989
5.7
Thomas Hart Benton
as Narrator (voice)
1989
7.5
Parenthood
as Frank Buckman
1989
6.7
Reunion
as Henry Strauss
1989
6.5
Dream a Little Dream
as Coleman Ettinger
1989
5.8
The Christmas Wife
as John Tanner
1988
4.7
The Good Mother
as W. O. Muth
1988
5.7
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
6.9
Bright Lights, Big City
as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
1988
5.7
Inherit the Wind
as Harry Drummond
1988
7.8
Breaking Home Ties
as Lloyd Wells
1987
6.5
Laguna Heat
as Wade Shephard
1987
3.8
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
1987
5.7
Square Dance
as Dillard
1987
4.5
The Last Frontier
as Ed Stenning
1986
7.0
Johnny Bull
as Stephan Kovacs
1986
1.0
Portrait: Werner Herzog
as Self (archive footage)
1986
7.1
The Long Hot Summer
as Will Varner
1985
5.2
Empire City
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1985
9.0
The Atlanta Child Murders
as Alvin Binder
1985
5.6
Screen Two
as Doctor Huld
1985
6.8
The World of Tomorrow
as Self / Narrator
1984
1.0
You Can't Take it With You
as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
1984
0.0
🎬
America and Lewis Hine
as Voice
1984
6.0
Sakharov
as Andrei Sakharov
1984
7.0
The Day After
as Dr. Russell Oakes
1983
6.8
🎬
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
as Self - Host
1983
0.0
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
8.3
Something Wicked This Way Comes
as Charles Halloway
1983
6.4
Max Dugan Returns
as Max Dugan
1983
6.5
Burden of Dreams
as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
1982
7.5
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
6.7
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
as President Ulysses S. Grant
1981
4.9
Melvin and Howard
as Howard Hughes
1980
6.4
Ghosts of Cape Horn
as Narrator
1980
0.0
Raise the Titanic
as Admiral James Sandecker
1980
5.3
F.D.R.: The Last Year
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
1980
5.8
Haywire
as Leland Hayward
1980
5.0
Caboblanco
as Gunther Beckdorff
1980
5.3
Broadway on Showtime
as Erie Smith
1979
0.0
Hurricane
as Capt. Charles Bruckner
1979
4.7
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
7.4
A Christmas to Remember
as Daniel Larson
1978
6.0
The Magic of David Copperfield
1978
7.0
Comes a Horseman
as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
1978
6.1
Julia
as Dashiell Hammett
1977
6.4
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
as President Richard Monckton
1977
7.3
The Spy Who Never Was
as Inspector Barkan
1976
6.0
All the President's Men
as Ben Bradlee
1976
7.7
Addie and the King of Hearts
as James "Jamie" Mills
1976
6.5
Mr. Sycamore
as John Gwilt
1975
6.0
A Moon for the Misbegotten
as James Tyrone Jr.
1975
6.0
The Easter Promise
as James "Jamie" Mills
1975
6.0
A Boy and His Dog
as Lou Craddock
1975
6.3
The Country Girl
as Frank Elgin
1974
0.0
The Thanksgiving Treasure
as James "Jamie" Mills
1973
7.8
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Governor Wallace
1973
7.2
Old Faithful
as Jason Robards
1973
0.0
The House Without a Christmas Tree
as James "Jamie" Mills
1972
6.2
Ghost Story
as Elliot Brent
1972
7.1
The War Between Men and Women
as Stephen Kozlenko
1972
6.3
Johnny Got His Gun
as Joe's Father
1971
7.5
Murders in the Rue Morgue
as Cesar Charron
1971
5.1
Fools
as Matthew South
1970
1.0
Julius Caesar
as Marcus Brutus
1970
5.7
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
as Cable Hogue
1970
6.9
Operation Snafu
as Sam Armstrong
1970
5.5
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as General Walter C. Short
1970
7.1
Once Upon a Time in the West
as 'Cheyenne'
1968
8.3
The Night They Raided Minsky's
as Raymond Paine
1968
5.5
Isadora
as Paris Singer
1968
6.1
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Hour of the Gun
as Doc Holliday
1967
6.5
The Belle of 14th Street
as Performer
1967
6.8
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Al Capone
1967
6.3
Divorce American Style
as Nelson Downes
1967
5.6
🎬
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
1967
0.0
Noon Wine
as Royal Earle Thompson
1966
7.0
Any Wednesday
as John Cleves
1966
5.8
ABC Stage 67
as Royal Earle Thompson
1966
6.2
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
as Henry Drummond
1966
7.1
The Face of Genius
as Narrator (voice)
1966
0.0
A Thousand Clowns
as Murray
1965
7.1
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Abraham Lincoln
1964
8.0
Act One
as George S. Kaufman
1963
5.9
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
5.7
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
6.3
Long Day's Journey Into Night
as Jamie Tyrone
1962
7.0
Tender Is the Night
as Dick Diver
1962
5.4
By Love Possessed
as Julius Penrose
1961
4.9
The Iceman Cometh
as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
1960
7.1
The Bat
as Detective Anderson
1960
5.0
A Doll's House
as Dr. Rank
1959
10.0
Play of the Week
1959
0.0
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Robert Jordan
1959
0.0
The Journey
as Paul Kedes
1959
6.2
Playhouse 90
as Robert Jordan
1956
7.6
Tony Awards
as Self - Host
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Host / Presenter
1956
5.9
The Alcoa Hour
as Bert Palmer
1955
4.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
General Electric Theater
as Col. Carter
1953
6.4
Omnibus
1952
6.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Dr. Rank
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Marcus
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Abe Lincoln
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Frank Elgin
1951
8.6
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Studio One
as Frank Cameron
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Prisoner
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Walter Osgood
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Leonard O'Brien
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Joe Grant
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Mason
1948
6.3
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8