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
Movies
- Magnolia
1999
- All the President's Men
1976
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
- Parenthood
1989
- Max Dugan Returns
1983
- Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
- Quick Change
1990
- A Boy and His Dog
1975
- Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
- The Great American West
1995
- Pat Garrett & Billy the...
1973
- Caboblanco
1980
- The Ballad of Cable Hog...
1970
- Once Upon a Time: Sergi...
2000
- The Day After
1983
- Hour of the Gun
1967
- Something Wicked This W...
1983
- Mein liebster Feind
1999
- Raise the Titanic
1980
- The Paper
1994
- The Adventures of Huck ...
1993
- Burden of Dreams
1982
- Comes a Horseman
1978
- Julia
1977
- Metallica: The Videos 1...
2006
- Julius Caesar
1970
- Isadora
1968
- The Night They Raided M...
1968
- The St. Valentine's Day...
1967
- Any Wednesday
1966
- A Thousand Clowns
1965
- Long Day's Journey Into...
1962
- A Big Hand for the Litt...
1966
- Dream a Little Dream
1989
- Murders in the Rue Morg...
1971
- Johnny Got His Gun
1971
- The Legend of the Lone ...
1981
- Melvin and Howard
1980
- Bright Lights, Big City
1988
- A Thousand Acres
1997
- The Trial
1993
- Black Rainbow
1989
- The House Without a Chr...
1972
- Eugene O’Neill: A Docum...
2006
- The Real Macaw
1998
- Reunion
1989
- The Journey
1959
- The Enemy Within
1994
- Square Dance
1987
- Sam Peckinpah: Man of I...
1993
- Divorce American Style
1967
- You Can't Take it With ...
1984
- Mark Twain and Me
1991
- The Good Mother
1988
- The Christmas Wife
1988
- Truman
1997
- A Moon for the Misbegot...
1975
- By Love Possessed
1961
- Empire City
1985
- Storyville
1992
- Empire of the Air: The ...
1991
- The War Between Men and...
1972
- America and Lewis Hine
1984
- Act One
1963
- The Belle of 14th Street
1967
- Inherit the Wind
1988
- Fools
1970
- My Antonia
1995
- F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
- Haywire
1980
- Thomas Hart Benton
1989
- Philadelphia
1993
- Deceptions
1992
- Rosolino Paternò, solda...
1970
- Sakharov
1984
- Heartwood
1998
- Journey
1995
- Night of 100 Stars III
1990
- Mr. Sycamore
1975
- The Easter Promise
1975
- Lincoln
1992
- Noon Wine
1966
- Over Washington D.C.: O...
1994
- A Christmas to Remember
1978
- Addie and the King of H...
1976
- The Strange Case of Dr....
1967
- The Iceman Cometh
1960
- Hurricane
1979
- Tod eines Fremden
1976
- Little Big League
1994
- The Time of Our Lives: ...
1983
- The Thanksgiving Treasu...
1973
- Going Home
2000
- Werner Herzog: Filmemac...
1986
- The Perfect Tribute
1991
- All Governments Lie: Tr...
2016
- The Bat
1960
- Chernobyl: The Final Wa...
1991
- That Moment: Magnolia D...
2000
- Laguna Heat
1987
- A Doll's House
1959
- Breaking Home Ties
1987
- Beloved
1998
- Old Faithful
1973
- La Classe américaine
1993
- T.R.: The Story of Theo...
1996
- Tender Is the Night
1962
- C'era una volta il West
1968
- Enemy of the State
1998
- Crimson Tide
1995
- Sam Peckinpah's West: L...
2004
- The Country Girl
1974
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1964
- Johnny Bull
1986
- The World of Tomorrow
1984
- The Face of Genius
1966
- The Peoples Palace: Sec...
1992
- Night of 100 Stars
1982
- Rabbit Ears - Jonah and...
1991
- When It Was a Game
1991
- Heidi
1993
- When It Was a Game 2
1992
- Happy 100th Birthday, H...
1987
- Ghosts of Cape Horn
1980
TV Shows
- Omnibus
1952
- Studio One
1948
- General Electric Theater
1953
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
- Play of the Week
1959
- The Civil War
1990
- The Alcoa Hour
1955
- Bob Hope Presents the C...
1963
- The Philco Television P...
1948
- ABC Stage 67
1966
- The Oscars
1953
- Washington: Behind Clos...
1977
- The Kennedy Center Hono...
1978
- Ghost Story
1972
- The West
1996
- An Inconvenient Woman
1991
- The Long Hot Summer
1985
- The Magic of David Copp...
1978
- Broadway on Showtime
1979
- Reading Rainbow
1983
- The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
- American Experience
1988
- Heidi
1993
- The Last Frontier
1986
- The Atlanta Child Murde...
1985
- What's My Line?
1950
- Studio One
1948
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
- Studio One
1948
- Studio One
1948
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
- Playhouse 90
1956
- Tony Awards
1956
- Tony Awards
1956
- The Philco Television P...
1948
- The Dick Cavett Show
1968
- The Danny Kaye Show
1963
- Baseball
1994
- Screen Two
1985