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