Acting

Jason Robards

Born 1922-07-26 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died 2000-12-26

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.

Credits

Newest first

Arthur Miller: Writer
as Self (archive footage)
2017
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
2016
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
as Joe's Father (video "One")
2006
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as Self
2006
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Going Home
as Charles Barton
2000
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
as Self (archive footage)
2000
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
as Self
2000
Magnolia
as Earl Partridge
1999
My Best Fiend
as Self (archive footage)
1999
Enemy of the State
as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
1998
Beloved
as Mr. Bodwin
1998
The Real Macaw
as Grandpa Girdis
1998
Heartwood
as Logan Reeser
1998
Truman
as Narrator (voice)
1997
A Thousand Acres
as Larry Cook
1997
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
as Narrator
1996
The West
as Self - Brigham Young
1996
Journey
as Marcus
1995
Crimson Tide
as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
1995
My Antonia
as Josea Burden
1995
The Great American West
as Narrator (voice)
1995
Baseball
as (voice)
1994
The Enemy Within
as General R. Pendleton Lloyd
1994
Little Big League
as Thomas Heywood
1994
The Paper
as Graham Keighley
1994
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
as Narrator
1994
La Classe américaine
as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
1993
Philadelphia
as Charles Wheeler
1993
Roots of Roe
as Anthony Comstock (voice)
1993
Heidi
as Großvater
1993
Heidi
as Grandfather
1993
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
as Self
1993
The Trial
as Doctor Huld
1993
The Adventures of Huck Finn
as The King
1993
Lincoln
as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
1992
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1992
Storyville
as Clifford Fowler
1992
When It Was a Game 2
as Passage Narrator (voice)
1992
Deceptions
as Clay (voice)
1992
Mark Twain and Me
as Mark Twain
1991
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
as Narrator (voice)
1991
Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
as Narrator (voice)
1991
When It Was a Game
as (voice)
1991
An Inconvenient Woman
as Jules Mendelson
1991
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
as Dr. Armand Hammer
1991
The Perfect Tribute
as President Abraham Lincoln
1991
The Civil War
as Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
1990
Quick Change
as Chief Rotzinger
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
1990
Black Rainbow
as Walter Travis
1989
Thomas Hart Benton
as Narrator (voice)
1989
Parenthood
as Frank Buckman
1989
Reunion
as Henry Strauss
1989
Dream a Little Dream
as Coleman Ettinger
1989
The Christmas Wife
as John Tanner
1988
The Good Mother
as W. O. Muth
1988
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
Bright Lights, Big City
as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
1988
Inherit the Wind
as Harry Drummond
1988
Breaking Home Ties
as Lloyd Wells
1987
Laguna Heat
as Wade Shephard
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
1987
Square Dance
as Dillard
1987
The Last Frontier
as Ed Stenning
1986
Johnny Bull
as Stephan Kovacs
1986
Portrait: Werner Herzog
as Self (archive footage)
1986
The Long Hot Summer
as Will Varner
1985
Empire City
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1985
The Atlanta Child Murders
as Alvin Binder
1985
Screen Two
as Doctor Huld
1985
The World of Tomorrow
as Self / Narrator
1984
You Can't Take it With You
as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
1984
America and Lewis Hine
as Voice
1984
Sakharov
as Andrei Sakharov
1984
The Day After
as Dr. Russell Oakes
1983
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
as Self - Host
1983
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
Something Wicked This Way Comes
as Charles Halloway
1983
Max Dugan Returns
as Max Dugan
1983