Jason Robards
Acting
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.
Filmography 160
Movies (125)
Arthur Miller: Writer2017Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone2016Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
Metallica: The Videos 1989-20042006Joe's Father (video "One")
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film2006Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade2004Self (archive footage)
Going Home2000Charles Barton
That Moment: Magnolia Diary2000Self
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone2000Self (archive footage)
Magnolia1999Earl Partridge
My Best Fiend1999Self (archive footage)
Enemy of the State1998Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
Beloved1998Mr. Bodwin
The Real Macaw1998Grandpa Girdis
Heartwood1998Logan Reeser- Truman1997Narrator (voice)
A Thousand Acres1997Larry Cook
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt1996Narrator
Journey1995Marcus
Crimson Tide1995Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
My Antonia1995Josea Burden- The Great American West1995Narrator (voice)
The Enemy Within1994General R. Pendleton Lloyd
Little Big League1994Thomas Heywood
The Paper1994Graham Keighley
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital1994Narrator
La Classe américaine1993The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
Philadelphia1993Charles Wheeler
Heidi1993Großvater
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron1993Self
The Trial1993Doctor Huld
Shows (35)
The West1996Self - Brigham Young
Baseball1994(voice)
Heidi1993Grandfather
An Inconvenient Woman1991Jules Mendelson
The Civil War1990Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
American Experience1988Narrator (voice)
The Last Frontier1986Ed Stenning
The Long Hot Summer1985Will Varner
The Atlanta Child Murders1985Alvin Binder
Screen Two1985Doctor Huld
Reading Rainbow1983Self - Narrator (voice)
Broadway on Showtime1979Erie Smith
The Kennedy Center Honors1978Self
The Magic of David Copperfield1978
Washington: Behind Closed Doors1977President Richard Monckton
Ghost Story1972Elliot Brent- Film '721971Self
The Dick Cavett Show1968Self - Guest
ABC Stage 671966Royal Earle Thompson- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1963
The Danny Kaye Show1963Self
The Iceman Cometh1960Theodore "Hickey" Hickman- The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries1960Detective Anderson
Play of the Week1959
Playhouse 901956Robert Jordan
Tony Awards1956Self - Host
The Alcoa Hour1955Bert Palmer
The Oscars1953Self
General Electric Theater1953Col. Carter
Omnibus1952