Birthday: 1922-07-26
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Robards, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Magnolia
Earl Partridge
7.732
All the President's Men
Ben Bradlee
7.7
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Robert Jordan
0
Parenthood
Frank Buckman
6.69
Max Dugan Returns
Max Dugan
6.536
Arthur Miller: Writer
Self (archive footage)
7.1
Quick Change
Chief Rotzinger
6.691
A Boy and His Dog
Lou Craddock
6.292
Tora! Tora! Tora!
General Walter C. Short
7.152
The Great American West
Character: Narrator (voice)
8.5
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Governor Wallace
7.2
Caboblanco
Gunther Beckdorff
5.3
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Cable Hogue
7
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Self (archive footage)
5.9
The Day After
Dr. Russell Oakes
6.738
Hour of the Gun
Doc Holliday
6.4
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Charles Halloway
6.449
My Best Fiend
Self (archive footage)
7.308
Raise the Titanic
Admiral James Sandecker
5.3
The Paper
Graham Keighley
6.6
The Adventures of Huck Finn
The King
6.2
Burden of Dreams
Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
7.6
Comes a Horseman
Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
6.037
Julia
Dashiell Hammett
6.5
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
Joe's Father (video "One")
7.6
Julius Caesar
Marcus Brutus
5.7
Isadora
Paris Singer
6.1
The Night They Raided Minsky's
Raymond Paine
5.69
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Al Capone
6.29
Any Wednesday
John Cleves
5.967
A Thousand Clowns
Murray
7.1
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Jamie Tyrone
6.982
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Henry Drummond
7.11
Dream a Little Dream
Coleman Ettinger
5.8
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Cesar Charron
5.133
Johnny Got His Gun
Joe's Father
7.504
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
President Ulysses S. Grant
4.841
Melvin and Howard
Howard Hughes
6.4
Bright Lights, Big City
Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
5.7
A Thousand Acres
Larry Cook
5.8
The Trial
Doctor Huld
5.8
Black Rainbow
Walter Travis
5.8
The House Without a Christmas Tree
James "Jamie" Mills
6.25
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Self
0
The Real Macaw
Grandpa Girdis
5.9
Reunion
Henry Strauss
6.5
The Journey
Paul Kedes
6.4
The Enemy Within
General R. Pendleton Lloyd
5.713
Square Dance
Dillard
4.5
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Self
6.857
Divorce American Style
Nelson Downes
5.848
You Can't Take it With You
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
0
Mark Twain and Me
Mark Twain
7.2
The Good Mother
W. O. Muth
5.8
The Christmas Wife
John Tanner
4.714
Truman
Character: Narrator (voice)
0
A Moon for the Misbegotten
James Tyrone Jr.
0
By Love Possessed
Julius Penrose
4.9
Empire City
Self - Narrator (voice)
9
Storyville
Clifford Fowler
5
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Narrator (voice)
7.5
The War Between Men and Women
Stephen Kozlenko
6.32
America and Lewis Hine
Character: Voice
6
Act One
George S. Kaufman
5.9
The Belle of 14th Street
Self
6.8
Inherit the Wind
Harry Drummond
7.8
Fools
Matthew South
1
My Antonia
Josea Burden
7.3
F.D.R.: The Last Year
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
5.833
Haywire
Leland Hayward
5
Thomas Hart Benton
Narrator (voice)
7.5
Philadelphia
Charles Wheeler
7.716
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
Self (archive footage)
7.7
Deceptions
Clay (voice)
0
Operation Snafu
Sam Armstrong
5.5
Sakharov
Andrei Sakharov
7
Heartwood
Logan Reeser
3.5
Journey
Marcus
6.2
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
4
Mr. Sycamore
John Gwilt
6
The Easter Promise
James "Jamie" Mills
6
Lincoln
Character: President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
6.8
Noon Wine
Royal Earle Thompson
7
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
Narrator
0
A Christmas to Remember
Daniel Larson
6
Addie and the King of Hearts
James "Jamie" Mills
6.5
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character: Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
0
The Iceman Cometh
Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
7.1
Hurricane
Capt. Charles Bruckner
4.7
The Spy Who Never Was
Inspector Barkan
6
Little Big League
Thomas Heywood
5.763
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
Character: Self - Host
0
The Thanksgiving Treasure
James "Jamie" Mills
7.8
Going Home
Charles Barton
5.3
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Self (archive footage)
7.1
The Perfect Tribute
President Abraham Lincoln
6
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
7.7
The Bat
Detective Anderson
5
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
Dr. Armand Hammer
5.5
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
Self
7.6
Laguna Heat
Wade Shephard
4.4
A Doll's House
Dr. Rank
10
Breaking Home Ties
Lloyd Wells
6.5
Beloved
Mr. Bodwin
5.793
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
6.991
Old Faithful
Self
0
La Classe américaine
The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
7.605
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
Narrator
0
Tender Is the Night
Dick Diver
5.4
Once Upon a Time in the West
'Cheyenne'
8.283
Enemy of the State
Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
7.052
Crimson Tide
Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
7.181
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
7.75
The Country Girl
Frank Elgin
0
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
8
Johnny Bull
Stephan Kovacs
1
The World of Tomorrow
Self / Narrator
1
The Face of Genius
Narrator (voice)
0
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
0
Night of 100 Stars
Self
6.667
Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
Character: Narrator (voice)
0
When It Was a Game
(voice)
0
Heidi
Großvater
0
When It Was a Game 2
Passage Narrator (voice)
9
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
5.667
Ghosts of Cape Horn
Narrator
0