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