Jason Robards
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
What's My Line?
1950
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
0Tony Awards
1956
0Tony Awards
1956
American Experience
1988
Studio One
1948
Studio One
1948
Studio One
1948
Studio One
1948
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Screen Two
1985
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Filmography
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest · 1950
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest · 1968
Tony Awards
as Self - Host · 1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter · 1956
American Experience
as Narrator (voice) · 1988
Studio One
as Frank Cameron · 1948
Studio One
as Prisoner · 1948
Studio One
as Walter Osgood · 1948
Studio One
as Leonard O'Brien · 1948
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
· 1963
Screen Two
as Doctor Huld · 1985
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Joe Grant · 1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Mason · 1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self · 1948
Film '72
as Self · 1971
Omnibus
· 1952
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1983
The Oscars
as Self · 1953
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self · 1963
Playhouse 90
as Robert Jordan · 1956
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self · 1978
Once Upon a Time in the West
as 'Cheyenne' · 1968
Ghost Story
as Elliot Brent · 1972
Crimson Tide
as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited) · 1995
Enemy of the State
as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited) · 1998
Baseball
as (voice) · 1994
ABC Stage 67
as Royal Earle Thompson · 1966
The Civil War
as Ulysses S. Grant (voice) · 1990
Magnolia
as Earl Partridge · 1999
Play of the Week
· 1959
All the President's Men
as Ben Bradlee · 1976
Philadelphia
as Charles Wheeler · 1993
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as General Walter C. Short · 1970
The Alcoa Hour
as Bert Palmer · 1955
The Magic of David Copperfield
· 1978
Quick Change
as Chief Rotzinger · 1990
The West
as Self - Brigham Young · 1996
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Dr. Rank · 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Marcus · 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Abe Lincoln · 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Frank Elgin · 1951
The Day After
as Dr. Russell Oakes · 1983
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Governor Wallace · 1973
Parenthood
as Frank Buckman · 1989
The Paper
as Graham Keighley · 1994
The Long Hot Summer
as Will Varner · 1985
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
as Detective Anderson · 1960
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
as President Richard Monckton · 1977
General Electric Theater
as Col. Carter · 1953
The Atlanta Child Murders
as Alvin Binder · 1985
A Boy and His Dog
as Lou Craddock · 1975
Something Wicked This Way Comes
as Charles Halloway · 1983
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
as Cable Hogue · 1970
Raise the Titanic
as Admiral James Sandecker · 1980
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
as Henry Drummond · 1966
Johnny Got His Gun
as Joe's Father · 1971
The Adventures of Huck Finn
as The King · 1993
Heidi
as Grandfather · 1993
Black Rainbow
as Walter Travis · 1989
A Thousand Acres
as Larry Cook · 1997
Julia
as Dashiell Hammett · 1977
An Inconvenient Woman
as Jules Mendelson · 1991
Bright Lights, Big City
as Mr. Hardy (uncredited) · 1988
Hour of the Gun
as Doc Holliday · 1967
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Al Capone · 1967
Beloved
as Mr. Bodwin · 1998
My Best Fiend
as Self (archive footage) · 1999
Dream a Little Dream
as Coleman Ettinger · 1989
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
as President Ulysses S. Grant · 1981
Comes a Horseman
as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing · 1978
The Enemy Within
as General R. Pendleton Lloyd · 1994
The Iceman Cometh
as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman · 1960
Broadway on Showtime
as Erie Smith · 1979
The Good Mother
as W. O. Muth · 1988
The Last Frontier
as Ed Stenning · 1986
Little Big League
as Thomas Heywood · 1994
Night of 100 Stars
as Self · 1982
Murders in the Rue Morgue
as Cesar Charron · 1971
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self · 1990
The Journey
as Paul Kedes · 1959
The Night They Raided Minsky's
as Raymond Paine · 1968
Max Dugan Returns
as Max Dugan · 1983
By Love Possessed
as Julius Penrose · 1961
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage) · 2004
Long Day's Journey Into Night
as Jamie Tyrone · 1962
A Thousand Clowns
as Murray · 1965
La Classe américaine
as The Newspaper Director (archive footage) · 1993
The Trial
as Doctor Huld · 1993
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Ben Bradlee (archive footage) · 2016
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
as Dr. Armand Hammer · 1991
The War Between Men and Women
as Stephen Kozlenko · 1972
Melvin and Howard
as Howard Hughes · 1980
Mark Twain and Me
as Mark Twain · 1991
Square Dance
as Dillard · 1987
Act One
as George S. Kaufman · 1963
Tender Is the Night
as Dick Diver · 1962
Julius Caesar
as Marcus Brutus · 1970
Divorce American Style
as Nelson Downes · 1967
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self · 1987
F.D.R.: The Last Year
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1980
Caboblanco
as Gunther Beckdorff · 1980
Burden of Dreams
as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage) · 1982
Storyville
as Clifford Fowler · 1992
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
as Self · 2000
When It Was a Game
as (voice) · 1991
You Can't Take it With You
as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof · 1984
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as Self · 2006
When It Was a Game 2
as Passage Narrator (voice) · 1992
Breaking Home Ties
as Lloyd Wells · 1987
A Christmas to Remember
as Daniel Larson · 1978
The Real Macaw
as Grandpa Girdis · 1998
Inherit the Wind
as Harry Drummond · 1988
Isadora
as Paris Singer · 1968
Heidi
as Großvater · 1993
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
as Self · 1993
Hurricane
as Capt. Charles Bruckner · 1979
America and Lewis Hine
as Voice · 1984
Empire City
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1985
The House Without a Christmas Tree
as James "Jamie" Mills · 1972
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Robert Jordan · 1959
Any Wednesday
as John Cleves · 1966
A Doll's House
as Dr. Rank · 1959
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
as Self (archive footage) · 2000
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
as Narrator · 1996
A Moon for the Misbegotten
as James Tyrone Jr. · 1975
Heartwood
as Logan Reeser · 1998
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
as Narrator (voice) · 1991
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
as Joe's Father (video "One") · 2006
Arthur Miller: Writer
as Self (archive footage) · 2017
Reunion
as Henry Strauss · 1989
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Abraham Lincoln · 1964
The Face of Genius
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1966
Roots of Roe
as Anthony Comstock (voice) · 1993
Portrait: Werner Herzog
as Self (archive footage) · 1986
The Belle of 14th Street
as Performer · 1967
Lincoln
as President Abraham Lincoln (voice) · 1992
The World of Tomorrow
as Self / Narrator · 1984
Addie and the King of Hearts
as James "Jamie" Mills · 1976
Journey
as Marcus · 1995
The Spy Who Never Was
as Inspector Barkan · 1976
Truman
as Narrator (voice) · 1997
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde · 1967
Sakharov
as Andrei Sakharov · 1984
The Perfect Tribute
as President Abraham Lincoln · 1991
The Country Girl
as Frank Elgin · 1974
My Antonia
as Josea Burden · 1995
The Great American West
as Narrator (voice) · 1995
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1992
The Christmas Wife
as John Tanner · 1988
Laguna Heat
as Wade Shephard · 1987
Thomas Hart Benton
as Narrator (voice) · 1989
Haywire
as Leland Hayward · 1980
Ghosts of Cape Horn
as Narrator · 1980
Mr. Sycamore
as John Gwilt · 1975
Operation Snafu
as Sam Armstrong · 1970
Johnny Bull
as Stephan Kovacs · 1986
The Bat
as Detective Anderson · 1960
Noon Wine
as Royal Earle Thompson · 1966
Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
as Narrator (voice) · 1991
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
as Self - Host · 1983
Old Faithful
as Jason Robards · 1973
The Thanksgiving Treasure
as James "Jamie" Mills · 1973
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
as Narrator · 1994
Going Home
as Charles Barton · 2000
Fools
as Matthew South · 1970
Deceptions
as Clay (voice) · 1992
The Easter Promise
as James "Jamie" Mills · 1975
A Plague on Our Children
as Narrator (voice) · 1979