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Jason Robards
Actor· Chicago, Illinois, USA
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
The roles that explain the career.
Filmography
74 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 | Joe's Father (video "One") | Film |
| 2006 | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self | Film |
| 2000 | That Moment: Magnolia Diary | Self | Film |
| 1999 | My Best Fiend | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 1999 | Magnolia | Earl Partridge | Film |
| 1998 | The Real Macaw | Grandpa Girdis | Film |
| 1997 | A Thousand Acres | Larry Cook | Film |
| 1995 | The Great American West | Narrator (voice) | Film |
| 1994 | The Enemy Within | General R. Pendleton Lloyd | Film |
| 1994 | The Paper | Graham Keighley | Film |
| 1994 | Little Big League | Thomas Heywood | Film |
| 1993 | The Trial | Doctor Huld | Film |
| 1993 | The Adventures of Huck Finn | The King | Film |
| 1993 | Philadelphia | Charles Wheeler | Film |
| 1993 | Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron | Self | Film |
| 1992 | Storyville | Clifford Fowler | Film |
| 1992 | When It Was a Game 2 | Passage Narrator (voice) | Film |
| 1991 | Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio | Narrator (voice) | Film |
| 1991 | Chernobyl: The Final Warning | Dr. Armand Hammer | Film |
| 1991 | Mark Twain and Me | Mark Twain | Film |
| 1991 | When It Was a Game | (voice) | Film |
| 1990 | The Civil War | Ulysses S. Grant (voice) | TV |
| 1990 | Quick Change | Chief Rotzinger | Film |
| 1989 | Reunion | Henry Strauss | Film |
| 1989 | Black Rainbow | Walter Travis | Film |
| 1989 | Dream a Little Dream | Coleman Ettinger | Film |
| 1989 | Parenthood | Frank Buckman | Film |
| 1988 | The Good Mother | W. O. Muth | Film |
| 1988 | The Christmas Wife | John Tanner | Film |
| 1987 | Square Dance | Dillard | Film |
| 1987 | Laguna Heat | Wade Shephard | Film |
| 1986 | Portrait: Werner Herzog | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 1985 | The Long Hot Summer | Will Varner | TV |
| 1984 | The World of Tomorrow | Self / Narrator | Film |
| 1984 | America and Lewis Hine | Voice | Film |
| 1983 | Max Dugan Returns | Max Dugan | Film |
| 1983 | The Day After | Dr. Russell Oakes | Film |
| 1983 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Charles Halloway | Film |
| 1982 | Burden of Dreams | Fitzcarraldo (archive footage) | Film |
| 1981 | The Legend of the Lone Ranger | President Ulysses S. Grant | Film |
| 1980 | Raise the Titanic | Admiral James Sandecker | Film |
| 1980 | Caboblanco | Gunther Beckdorff | Film |
| 1980 | Haywire | Leland Hayward | Film |
| 1980 | Melvin and Howard | Howard Hughes | Film |
| 1979 | Hurricane | Capt. Charles Bruckner | Film |
| 1978 | Comes a Horseman | Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing | Film |
| 1977 | Julia | Dashiell Hammett | Film |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Ben Bradlee | Film |
| 1975 | A Moon for the Misbegotten | James Tyrone Jr. | Film |
| 1975 | A Boy and His Dog | Lou Craddock | Film |
| 1973 | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Governor Wallace | Film |
| 1972 | The House Without a Christmas Tree | James "Jamie" Mills | Film |
| 1972 | The War Between Men and Women | Stephen Kozlenko | Film |
| 1971 | Johnny Got His Gun | Joe's Father | Film |
| 1971 | Murders in the Rue Morgue | Cesar Charron | Film |
| 1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | General Walter C. Short | Film |
| 1970 | Julius Caesar | Marcus Brutus | Film |
| 1970 | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Cable Hogue | Film |
| 1970 | Fools | Matthew South | Film |
| 1968 | Isadora | Paris Singer | Film |
| 1968 | The Night They Raided Minsky's | Raymond Paine | Film |
| 1968 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 'Cheyenne' | Film |
| 1967 | Divorce American Style | Nelson Downes | Film |
| 1967 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Al Capone | Film |
| 1967 | Hour of the Gun | Doc Holliday | Film |
| 1966 | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Henry Drummond | Film |
| 1966 | Any Wednesday | John Cleves | Film |
| 1966 | The Face of Genius | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film |
| 1965 | A Thousand Clowns | Murray | Film |
| 1963 | Act One | George S. Kaufman | Film |
| 1962 | Tender Is the Night | Dick Diver | Film |
| 1962 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Jamie Tyrone | Film |
| 1961 | By Love Possessed | Julius Penrose | Film |
| 1959 | The Journey | Paul Kedes | Film |
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