Jason Robards
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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Movies (125)
The Voice Still Carries: The Aimee Mann Story
2026 · Earl Partridge (Magnolia archive footage)
Arthur Miller: Escritor
2017 · Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016 · Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
2006 · Joe's Father (video "One")
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006 · Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Going Home
2000 · Charles Barton
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000 · Self (archive footage)
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000 · Self
Magnolia
1999 · Earl Partridge
My Best Fiend
1999 · Self (archive footage)
Enemy of the State
1998 · Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
Beloved
1998 · Mr. Bodwin
The Real Macaw
1998 · Grandpa Girdis
Heartwood
1998 · Logan Reeser
Truman
1997 · Narrator (voice)
A Thousand Acres
1997 · Larry Cook
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
1996 · Narrator
Journey
1995 · Marcus
Crimson Tide
1995 · Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
My Antonia
1995 · Josea Burden
The Great American West
1995 · Narrator (voice)
The Enemy Within
1994 · General R. Pendleton Lloyd
Little Big League
1994 · Thomas Heywood
The Paper
1994 · Graham Keighley
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
1994 · Narrator
La Classe américaine
1993 · The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
Philadelphia
1993 · Charles Wheeler
Roots of Roe
1993 · Anthony Comstock (voice)
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993 · Self
The Trial
1993 · Doctor Huld
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993 · The King
Lincoln
1992 · President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
1992 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Storyville
1992 · Clifford Fowler
When It Was a Game 2
1992 · Passage Narrator (voice)
Deceptions
1992 · Clay (voice)
Mark Twain and Me
1991 · Mark Twain
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1991 · Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
1991 · Narrator (voice)
When It Was a Game
1991 · (voice)
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991 · Dr. Armand Hammer
The Perfect Tribute
1991 · President Abraham Lincoln
Quick Change
1990 · Chief Rotzinger
Night of 100 Stars III
1990 · Self
Black Rainbow
1989 · Walter Travis
Thomas Hart Benton
1989 · Narrator (voice)
Parenthood
1989 · Frank Buckman
Reunion
1989 · Henry Strauss
Dream a Little Dream
1989 · Coleman Ettinger
The Christmas Wife
1988 · John Tanner
The Good Mother
1988 · W. O. Muth
Bright Lights, Big City
1988 · Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
Inherit the Wind
1988 · Harry Drummond
Breaking Home Ties
1987 · Lloyd Wells
Laguna Heat
1987 · Wade Shephard
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987 · Self
Square Dance
1987 · Dillard
Johnny Bull
1986 · Stephan Kovacs
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986 · Self (archive footage)
Empire City
1985 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The World of Tomorrow
1984 · Self / Narrator
You Can't Take it With You
1984 · Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
America and Lewis Hine
1984 · Voice
Sakharov
1984 · Andrei Sakharov
The Day After
1983 · Dr. Russell Oakes
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
1983 · Self - Host
Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983 · Charles Halloway
Max Dugan Returns
1983 · Max Dugan
Burden of Dreams
1982 · Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars
1982 · Self
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1981 · President Ulysses S. Grant
Melvin and Howard
1980 · Howard Hughes
Ghosts of Cape Horn
1980 · Narrator
Raise the Titanic
1980 · Admiral James Sandecker
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980 · President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Haywire
1980 · Leland Hayward
Caboblanco
1980 · Gunther Beckdorff
A Plague on Our Children
1979 · Narrator (voice)
Hurricane
1979 · Capt. Charles Bruckner
A Christmas to Remember
1978 · Daniel Larson
Comes a Horseman
1978 · Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
Julia
1977 · Dashiell Hammett
The Spy Who Never Was
1976 · Inspector Barkan
All the President's Men
1976 · Ben Bradlee
Addie and the King of Hearts
1976 · James "Jamie" Mills
Mr. Sycamore
1975 · John Gwilt
A Moon for the Misbegotten
1975 · James Tyrone Jr.
The Easter Promise
1975 · James "Jamie" Mills
A Boy and His Dog
1975 · Lou Craddock
The Country Girl
1974 · Frank Elgin
The Thanksgiving Treasure
1973 · James "Jamie" Mills
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973 · Governor Wallace
Old Faithful
1973 · Jason Robards
The House Without a Christmas Tree
1972 · James "Jamie" Mills
The War Between Men and Women
1972 · Stephen Kozlenko
Johnny Got His Gun
1971 · Joe's Father
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971 · Cesar Charron
Fools
1970 · Matthew South
Julius Caesar
1970 · Marcus Brutus
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970 · Cable Hogue
Operation Snafu
1970 · Sam Armstrong
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · General Walter C. Short
The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968 · Raymond Paine
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · 'Cheyenne'
Isadora
1968 · Paris Singer
Hour of the Gun
1967 · Doc Holliday
The Belle of 14th Street
1967 · Performer
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967 · Al Capone
Divorce American Style
1967 · Nelson Downes
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1967 · Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Noon Wine
1966 · Royal Earle Thompson
Any Wednesday
1966 · John Cleves
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966 · Henry Drummond
The Face of Genius
1966 · Self - Narrator (voice)
A Thousand Clowns
1965 · Murray
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1964 · Abraham Lincoln
Act One
1963 · George S. Kaufman
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1962 · Jamie Tyrone
Tender Is the Night
1962 · Dick Diver
By Love Possessed
1961 · Julius Penrose
The Bat
1960 · Detective Anderson
A Doll's House
1959 · Dr. Rank
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959 · Robert Jordan
The Journey
1959 · Paul Kedes
TV shows (35)
The West
1996 · Self - Brigham Young
Baseball
1994 · (voice)
Heidi
1993 · Grandfather
An Inconvenient Woman
1991 · Jules Mendelson
The Civil War
1990 · Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
American Experience
1988 · Narrator (voice)
The Last Frontier
1986 · Ed Stenning
The Long Hot Summer
1985 · Will Varner
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985 · Alvin Binder
Screen Two
1985 · Doctor Huld
Reading Rainbow
1983 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Broadway on Showtime
1979 · Erie Smith
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Self
The Magic of David Copperfield
1978
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
1977 · President Richard Monckton
Ghost Story
1972 · Elliot Brent
Film '72
1971 · Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
ABC Stage 67
1966 · Royal Earle Thompson
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Danny Kaye Show
1963 · Self
The Iceman Cometh
1960 · Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960 · Detective Anderson
Play of the Week
1959
Playhouse 90
1956 · Robert Jordan
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Host, Self - Presenter
The Alcoa Hour
1955 · Bert Palmer
The Oscars
1953 · Self
General Electric Theater
1953 · Col. Carter
Omnibus
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Dr. Rank, Marcus, Abe Lincoln, Frank Elgin
What's My Line?
1950 · Self - Mystery Guest
Studio One
1948 · Frank Cameron, Prisoner, Walter Osgood, Leonard O'Brien
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Joe Grant, Mason
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self