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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-07-26 (102 years old)

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

2017

Arthur Miller: Writer as Self (archive footage)

2016

2014

And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)

2006

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 as Joe's Father (video "One")

2004

2000

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone as Self (archive footage)
Going Home as Charles Barton

1999

Magnolia as Earl Partridge
My Best Fiend as Self (archive footage)

1998

The Real Macaw as Grandpa Girdis
Heartwood as Logan Reeser
Beloved as Mr. Bodwin
Enemy of the State as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

1997

A Thousand Acres as Larry Cook
Truman as Narrator (voice)

1996

The West as Self - Brigham Young

1995

The Great American West as Narrator (voice)
My Antonia as Josea Burden
Journey as Marcus
Crimson Tide as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

1994

The Paper as Graham Keighley
The Enemy Within as General R. Pendleton Lloyd
Little Big League as Thomas Heywood
Baseball as (voice)

1993

The Trial as Doctor Huld
Philadelphia as Charles Wheeler
La Classe américaine as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
Heidi as Großvater
Heidi as Grandfather

1992

Storyville as Clifford Fowler
Deceptions as Clay (voice)
Lincoln as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
When It Was a Game 2 as Passage Narrator (voice)

1991

Mark Twain and Me as Mark Twain
The Perfect Tribute as President Abraham Lincoln
Chernobyl: The Final Warning as Dr. Armand Hammer
An Inconvenient Woman as Jules Mendelson

1990

Quick Change as Chief Rotzinger
The Civil War as Ulysses S. Grant

1989

Parenthood as Frank Buckman
Dream a Little Dream as Coleman Ettinger
Black Rainbow as Walter Travis
Reunion as Henry Strauss
Thomas Hart Benton as Narrator (voice)

1988

Bright Lights, Big City as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
The Good Mother as W. O. Muth
The Christmas Wife as John Tanner
Inherit the Wind as Harry Drummond
American Experience as Narrator (voice)

1987

Square Dance as Dillard
Laguna Heat as Wade Shephard
Breaking Home Ties as Lloyd Wells

1986

Portrait: Werner Herzog as Self (archive footage)
Johnny Bull as Stephan Kovacs
The Last Frontier as Ed Stenning

1985

Empire City as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Long Hot Summer as Will Varner

1984

You Can't Take it With You as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
Sakharov as Andrei Sakharov
The World of Tomorrow as Self / Narrator

1983

Max Dugan Returns as Max Dugan
The Day After as Dr. Russell Oakes
Reading Rainbow as Himself - Narrator (voice)

1982

Burden of Dreams as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

1981

The Legend of the Lone Ranger as President Ulysses S. Grant

1980

Caboblanco as Gunther Beckdorff
Raise the Titanic as Admiral James Sandecker
Melvin and Howard as Howard Hughes
F.D.R.: The Last Year as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Haywire as Leland Hayward

1979

Hurricane as Capt. Charles Bruckner
Broadway on Showtime as Erie Smith

1978

Comes a Horseman as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
A Christmas to Remember as Daniel Larson

1977

Julia as Dashiell Hammett
Washington: Behind Closed Doors as President Richard Monckton

1976

Addie and the King of Hearts as James "Jamie" Mills
The Spy Who Never Was as Inspector Barkan

1975

A Boy and His Dog as Lou Craddock
A Moon for the Misbegotten as James Tyrone Jr.
Mr. Sycamore as John Gwilt
The Easter Promise as James "Jamie" Mills

1974

The Country Girl as Frank Elgin

1973

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Governor Wallace
The Thanksgiving Treasure as James "Jamie" Mills
Old Faithful as Himself

1972

The House Without a Christmas Tree as James "Jamie" Mills
The War Between Men and Women as Stephen Kozlenko
Ghost Story as Elliot Brent

1971

Murders in the Rue Morgue as Cesar Charron
Johnny Got His Gun as Joe's Father

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora! as General Walter C. Short
Julius Caesar as Marcus Brutus
Fools as Matthew South
Operation Snafu as Sam Armstrong

1968

Isadora as Paris Singer
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1967

Hour of the Gun as Doc Holliday
Divorce American Style as Nelson Downes
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

1966

Any Wednesday as John Cleves
Noon Wine as Royal Earle Thompson
The Face of Genius as Narrator (voice)
ABC Stage 67 as Royal Earle Thompson

1965

1964

Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Abraham Lincoln

1963

Act One as George S. Kaufman

1962

Tender Is the Night as Dick Diver

1961

By Love Possessed as Julius Penrose

1960

The Iceman Cometh as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
The Bat as Detective Anderson

1959

For Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan
The Journey as Paul Kedes
A Doll's House as Dr. Rank

1956

Playhouse 90 as Robert Jordan
Tony Awards as Self - Host
Tony Awards as Self - Presenter

1955

The Alcoa Hour as Bert Palmer

1953

The Oscars as Self

1952

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Abe Lincoln
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Frank Elgin

1950

What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest

1948

Studio One as Frank Cameron
Studio One as Prisoner
Studio One as Walter Osgood
Studio One as Leonard O'Brien