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Jason Robards
Born · July 26, 1922
Died · December 26, 2000 (78 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Bio
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Robards, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Arthur Miller: Writer
Self (archive footage)
7.1
2017
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
Self (archive footage)
7.9
2017
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
7.7
2016
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
7.0
2014
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
Joe's Father (video "One")
7.6
2006
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Self
0.0
2006
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
7.3
2004
Going Home
Charles Barton
5.3
2000
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Self (archive footage)
5.9
2000
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
Self
7.6
2000
Magnolia
Earl Partridge
7.7
1999
My Best Fiend
Self (archive footage)
7.3
1999
Enemy of the State
Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
7.0
1998
Beloved
Mr. Bodwin
5.7
1998
The Real Macaw
Grandpa Girdis
6.4
1998
Heartwood
Logan Reeser
3.0
1998
Truman
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1997
A Thousand Acres
Larry Cook
5.8
1997
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
Narrator
0.0
1996
The West
Self - Brigham Young · (9 episodes)
8.4
1996
Journey
Marcus
6.2
1995
Crimson Tide
Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
7.2
1995
My Antonia
Josea Burden
7.3
1995
The Great American West
Narrator (voice)
8.5
1995
Baseball
Various (voice) · (9 episodes)
7.3
1994
The Enemy Within
General R. Pendleton Lloyd
5.7
1994
Little Big League
Thomas Heywood
5.8
1994
The Paper
Graham Keighley
6.6
1994
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
Narrator
0.0
1994
La Classe américaine
The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
7.7
1993
Philadelphia
Charles Wheeler
7.7
1993
Heidi
Grandfather · (2 episodes)
7.1
1993
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Self
6.8
1993
The Trial
Doctor Huld
5.8
1993
The Adventures of Huck Finn
The King
6.2
1993
Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
7.2
1992
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
Narrator
0.0
1992
Storyville
Clifford Fowler
5.3
1992
Deceptions
Clay (voice)
0.0
1992
Mark Twain and Me
Mark Twain
7.4
1991
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Narrator (voice)
7.4
1991
Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1991
An Inconvenient Woman
Jules Mendelson · (2 episodes)
5.0
1991
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
Dr. Armand Hammer
5.2
1991
The Perfect Tribute
President Abraham Lincoln
7.2
1991
The Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant · (9 episodes)
8.1
1990
Quick Change
Chief Rotzinger
6.7
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
4.0
1990
Black Rainbow
Walter Travis
5.9
1989
Thomas Hart Benton
Narrator (voice)
8.3
1989
Parenthood
Frank Buckman
6.7
1989
Reunion
Henry Strauss
6.3
1989
Dream a Little Dream
Coleman Ettinger
5.8
1989
The Christmas Wife
John Tanner
5.3
1988
The Good Mother
W. O. Muth
5.8
1988
American Experience
Narrator (voice) · (7 episodes)
7.5
1988
Bright Lights, Big City
Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
5.7
1988
Inherit the Wind
Harry Drummond
8.0
1988
Breaking Home Ties
Lloyd Wells
6.5
1987
Laguna Heat
Wade Shephard
4.5
1987
Square Dance
Dillard
4.7
1987
The Last Frontier
Ed Stenning · (2 episodes)
7.0
1986
Johnny Bull
Stephan Kovacs
0.0
1986
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Self (archive footage)
7.2
1986
The Long Hot Summer
Will Varner · (2 episodes)
5.4
1985
Empire City
Self - Narrator (voice)
9.0
1985
The Atlanta Child Murders
Alvin Binder · (2 episodes)
5.9
1985
The World of Tomorrow
Self / Narrator
1.0
1984
You Can't Take it With You
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
0.0
1984
America and Lewis Hine
Voice
6.0
1984
Sakharov
Andrei Sakharov
7.0
1984
The Day After
Dr. Russell Oakes
6.7
1983
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
Self - Host
0.0
1983
Reading Rainbow
Himself - Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
8.4
1983
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Charles Halloway
6.4
1983
Max Dugan Returns
Max Dugan
6.5
1983
Burden of Dreams
Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
7.6
1982
Night of 100 Stars
Self
6.5
1982
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
President Ulysses S. Grant
5.0
1981
Melvin and Howard
Howard Hughes
6.4
1980
Raise the Titanic
Admiral James Sandecker
5.3
1980
F.D.R.: The Last Year
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
7.5
1980
Haywire
Leland Hayward
5.0
1980
Cabo Blanco
Gunther Beckdorff
5.3
1980
Broadway on Showtime
Erie Smith · (1 episode)
0.0
1979
Hurricane
Capt. Charles Bruckner
4.7
1979
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self · (1 episode)
7.3
1978
A Christmas to Remember
Daniel Larson
0.0
1978
The Magic of David Copperfield
(1 episode)
6.7
1978
Comes a Horseman
Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
6.0
1978
Julia
Dashiell Hammett
6.5
1977
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
President Richard Monckton · (6 episodes)
7.3
1977
The Spy Who Never Was
Inspector Barkan
6.0
1976
All the President's Men
Ben Bradlee
7.7
1976
Addie and the King of Hearts
James "Jamie" Mills
6.5
1976
Mr. Sycamore
John Gwilt
6.0
1975
A Moon for the Misbegotten
James Tyrone Jr.
0.0
1975
The Easter Promise
James "Jamie" Mills
6.0
1975
A Boy and His Dog
Lou Craddock
6.3
1975
The Country Girl
Frank Elgin
0.0
1974
The Thanksgiving Treasure
James "Jamie" Mills
8.0
1973
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Governor Wallace
7.2
1973
Old Faithful
Himself
0.0
1973
The House Without a Christmas Tree
James "Jamie" Mills
6.4
1972
Ghost Story
Elliot Brent · (1 episode)
7.1
1972
The War Between Men and Women
Stephen Kozlenko
6.3
1972
Johnny Got His Gun
Joe's Father
7.5
1971
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Cesar Charron
5.2
1971
Fools
Matthew South
1.0
1970
Julius Caesar
Marcus Brutus
5.7
1970
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Cable Hogue
7.0
1970
Operation Snafu
Sam Armstrong
5.5
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
General Walter C. Short
7.2
1970
The Night They Raided Minsky's
Raymond Paine
5.6
1968
Once Upon a Time in the West
'Cheyenne'
8.3
1968
Isadora
Paris Singer
6.1
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
6.7
1968
Hour of the Gun
Doc Holliday
6.4
1967
The Belle of 14th Street
Self
6.8
1967
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Al Capone
6.3
1967
Divorce American Style
Nelson Downes
5.8
1967
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
0.0
1967
Noon Wine
Royal Earle Thompson
6.8
1966
Any Wednesday
John Cleves
5.7
1966
ABC Stage 67
Royal Earle Thompson · (1 episode)
6.0
1966
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Henry Drummond
7.1
1966
The Face of Genius
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1966
A Thousand Clowns
Murray
7.0
1965
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
8.0
1964
Act One
George S. Kaufman
5.9
1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
(1 episode)
5.5
1963
The Danny Kaye Show
Self · (1 episode)
6.3
1963
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Jamie Tyrone
7.0
1962
Tender Is the Night
Dick Diver
5.2
1962
By Love Possessed
Julius Penrose
4.9
1961
The Iceman Cometh
Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
7.1
1960
The Bat
Detective Anderson
5.0
1960
A Doll's House
Dr. Rank
10.0
1959
Play of the Week
(1 episode)
0.0
1959
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Robert Jordan
0.0
1959
The Journey
Paul Kedes
6.4
1959
Playhouse 90
Robert Jordan · (2 episodes)
7.5
1956
Tony Awards
Self - Host · (1 episode)
5.0
1956
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
5.0
1956
The Alcoa Hour
Bert Palmer · (1 episode)
4.0
1955
The Oscars
Self · (2 episodes)
7.0
1953
General Electric Theater
Col. Carter · (1 episode)
6.0
1953
Omnibus
(1 episode)
6.0
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dr. Rank · (1 episode)
8.7
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Marcus · (1 episode)
8.7
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Abe Lincoln · (1 episode)
8.7
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Frank Elgin · (1 episode)
8.7
1951
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest · (1 episode)
6.7
1950
Studio One
Frank Cameron · (1 episode)
4.7
1948
Studio One
Prisoner · (1 episode)
4.7
1948
Studio One
Walter Osgood · (1 episode)
4.7
1948
Studio One
Leonard O'Brien · (1 episode)
4.7
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
Joe Grant · (1 episode)
6.0
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
Mason · (1 episode)
6.0
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · (1 episode)
6.6
1948