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Jason Robards
Overview
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.
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Known for
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| 2017 | Arthur Miller: Writer | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2017 | The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2016 | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone | Actor | Ben Bradlee (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 | Actor | Joe's Father (video "One") | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Going Home | Actor | Charles Barton | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2000 | That Moment: Magnolia Diary | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Magnolia | Actor | Earl Partridge | 74 Good |
| 1999 | My Best Fiend | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 62 Fair |
| 1998 | Enemy of the State | Actor | Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited) | 68 Fair |
| 1998 | Beloved | Actor | Mr. Bodwin | 58 Average |
| 1998 | The Real Macaw | Actor | Grandpa Girdis | 59 Average |
| 1998 | Heartwood | Actor | Logan Reeser | 58 Average |
| 1997 | Truman | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1997 | A Thousand Acres | Actor | Larry Cook | 58 Average |
| 1996 | T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 1996 | The West | Actor | Self - Brigham Young | 72 Good |
| 1995 | Journey | Actor | Marcus | 58 Average |
| 1995 | Crimson Tide | Actor | Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited) | 68 Fair |
| 1995 | My Antonia | Actor | Josea Burden | 59 Average |
| 1995 | The Great American West | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1994 | Baseball | Actor | Various (voice) | 70 Good |
| 1994 | The Enemy Within | Actor | General R. Pendleton Lloyd | 58 Average |
| 1994 | Little Big League | Actor | Thomas Heywood | 58 Average |
| 1994 | The Paper | Actor | Graham Keighley | 60 Fair |
| 1994 | Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | Actor | The Newspaper Director (archive footage) | 64 Fair |
| 1993 | Philadelphia | Actor | Charles Wheeler | 75 Good |
| 1993 | Heidi | Actor | Grandfather | 70 Good |
| 1993 | Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1993 | The Trial | Actor | Doctor Huld | 58 Average |
| 1993 | The Adventures of Huck Finn | Actor | The King | 59 Average |
| 1992 | Lincoln | Actor | President Abraham Lincoln (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1992 | The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 1992 | Storyville | Actor | Clifford Fowler | 58 Average |
| 1992 | Deceptions | Actor | Clay (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1991 | Mark Twain and Me | Actor | Mark Twain | 59 Average |
| 1991 | Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1991 | Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1991 | An Inconvenient Woman | Actor | Jules Mendelson | 68 Fair |
| 1991 | Chernobyl: The Final Warning | Actor | Dr. Armand Hammer | 58 Average |
| 1991 | The Perfect Tribute | Actor | President Abraham Lincoln | 59 Average |
| 1990 | The Civil War | Actor | Ulysses S. Grant | 76 Good |
| 1990 | Quick Change | Actor | Chief Rotzinger | 62 Fair |
| 1990 | Night of 100 Stars III | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Black Rainbow | Actor | Walter Travis | 58 Average |
| 1989 | Thomas Hart Benton | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Parenthood | Actor | Frank Buckman | 63 Fair |
| 1989 | Reunion | Actor | Henry Strauss | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Dream a Little Dream | Actor | Coleman Ettinger | 58 Average |
| 1988 | The Christmas Wife | Actor | John Tanner | 58 Average |
| 1988 | The Good Mother | Actor | W. O. Muth | 58 Average |
| 1988 | Bright Lights, Big City | Actor | Mr. Hardy (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1988 | Inherit the Wind | Actor | Harry Drummond | 59 Average |
| 1987 | Breaking Home Ties | Actor | Lloyd Wells | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Laguna Heat | Actor | Wade Shephard | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Square Dance | Actor | Dillard | 58 Average |
| 1986 | The Last Frontier | Actor | Ed Stenning | 69 Fair |
| 1986 | Johnny Bull | Actor | Stephan Kovacs | N/A N/A |
| 1986 | Portrait: Werner Herzog | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 1985 | The Long Hot Summer | Actor | Will Varner | 67 Fair |
| 1985 | Empire City | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1985 | The Atlanta Child Murders | Actor | Alvin Binder | 68 Fair |
| 1984 | The World of Tomorrow | Actor | Self / Narrator | 59 Average |
| 1984 | You Can't Take it With You | Actor | Grandpa Martin Vanderhof | N/A N/A |
| 1984 | America and Lewis Hine | Actor | Voice | 59 Average |
| 1984 | Sakharov | Actor | Andrei Sakharov | 59 Average |
| 1984 | Hughie | Actor | Erie Smith | N/A N/A |
| 1983 | The Day After | Actor | Dr. Russell Oakes | 62 Fair |
| 1983 | The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History | Actor | Self - Host | N/A N/A |
| 1983 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Actor | Charles Halloway | 60 Fair |
| 1983 | Max Dugan Returns | Actor | Max Dugan | 59 Average |
| 1982 | Burden of Dreams | Actor | Fitzcarraldo (archive footage) | 62 Fair |
| 1982 | Night of 100 Stars | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1981 | The Legend of the Lone Ranger | Actor | President Ulysses S. Grant | 58 Average |
| 1980 | Melvin and Howard | Actor | Howard Hughes | 59 Average |
| 1980 | Raise the Titanic | Actor | Admiral James Sandecker | 57 Average |
| 1980 | F.D.R.: The Last Year | Actor | President Franklin D. Roosevelt | 59 Average |
| 1980 | Haywire | Actor | Leland Hayward | 59 Average |
| 1980 | Cabo Blanco | Actor | Gunther Beckdorff | 58 Average |
| 1979 | Hurricane | Actor | Capt. Charles Bruckner | 58 Average |
| 1978 | A Christmas to Remember | Actor | Daniel Larson | N/A N/A |
| 1978 | Comes a Horseman | Actor | Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing | 59 Average |
| 1977 | Julia | Actor | Dashiell Hammett | 60 Fair |
| 1977 | Washington: Behind Closed Doors | Actor | President Richard Monckton | 69 Fair |
| 1976 | The Spy Who Never Was | Actor | Inspector Barkan | 59 Average |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Actor | Ben Bradlee | 72 Good |
| 1976 | Addie and the King of Hearts | Actor | James "Jamie" Mills | 59 Average |
| 1975 | Mr. Sycamore | Actor | John Gwilt | 59 Average |
| 1975 | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Actor | James Tyrone Jr. | 58 Average |
| 1975 | The Easter Promise | Actor | James "Jamie" Mills | 59 Average |
| 1975 | A Boy and His Dog | Actor | Lou Craddock | 60 Fair |
| 1974 | The Country Girl | Actor | Frank Elgin | N/A N/A |
| 1973 | The Thanksgiving Treasure | Actor | James "Jamie" Mills | 59 Average |
| 1973 | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Actor | Governor Wallace | 64 Fair |
| 1973 | Old Faithful | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
| 1972 | The House Without a Christmas Tree | Actor | James "Jamie" Mills | 59 Average |
| 1972 | The War Between Men and Women | Actor | Stephen Kozlenko | 59 Average |
| 1971 | Johnny Got His Gun | Actor | Joe's Father | 65 Fair |
| 1971 | Murders in the Rue Morgue | Actor | Cesar Charron | 58 Average |
| 1970 | Fools | Actor | Matthew South | 58 Average |
| 1970 | Julius Caesar | Actor | Marcus Brutus | 58 Average |
| 1970 | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Actor | Cable Hogue | 62 Fair |
| 1970 | Operation Snafu | Actor | Sam Armstrong | 59 Average |
| 1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Actor | General Walter C. Short | 65 Fair |
| 1968 | The Night They Raided Minsky's | Actor | Raymond Paine | 58 Average |
| 1968 | Once Upon a Time in the West | Actor | 'Cheyenne' | 80 Very good |
| 1968 | Isadora | Actor | Paris Singer | 59 Average |
| 1967 | Hour of the Gun | Actor | Doc Holliday | 59 Average |
| 1967 | The Belle of 14th Street | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1967 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Actor | Al Capone | 59 Average |
| 1967 | Divorce American Style | Actor | Nelson Downes | 59 Average |
| 1967 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Actor | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde | N/A N/A |
| 1966 | Noon Wine | Actor | Royal Earle Thompson | 59 Average |
| 1966 | Any Wednesday | Actor | John Cleves | 59 Average |
| 1966 | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Actor | Henry Drummond | 60 Fair |
| 1966 | The Face of Genius | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1965 | A Thousand Clowns | Actor | Murray | 59 Average |
| 1964 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Actor | Abraham Lincoln | N/A N/A |
| 1963 | Act One | Actor | George S. Kaufman | 59 Average |
| 1962 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Actor | Jamie Tyrone | 60 Fair |
| 1962 | Tender Is the Night | Actor | Dick Diver | 58 Average |
| 1961 | By Love Possessed | Actor | Julius Penrose | 58 Average |
| 1960 | The Iceman Cometh | Actor | Theodore "Hickey" Hickman | 59 Average |
| 1960 | The Bat | Actor | Detective Anderson | 58 Average |
| 1959 | A Doll's House | Actor | Dr. Rank | 59 Average |
| 1959 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Actor | Robert Jordan | N/A N/A |
| 1959 | The Journey | Actor | Paul Kedes | 59 Average |