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