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