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Jason Robards

Jason Robards

Birthday: 1922-07-26 | Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2000
1999
Magnolia

as    Earl Partridge

1999
My Best Fiend

as    Self (archive footage)

1998
The Real Macaw

as    Grandpa Girdis

1997
A Thousand Acres

as    Larry Cook

1995
Journey

as    Marcus

1995
The Great American West

as    Narrator (voice)

1994
The Enemy Within

as    General R. Pendleton Lloyd

1994
The Paper

as    Graham Keighley

1994
Little Big League

as    Thomas Heywood

1993
Philadelphia

as    Charles Wheeler

1993
The Trial

as    Doctor Huld

1993
Heidi

as    Grandfather

1993
The Adventures of Huck Finn

as    The King

1992
Lincoln

as    President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

1991
An Inconvenient Woman

as    Jules Mendelson

1991
An Inconvenient Woman

as    Jules Mendelson

1991
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

as    Narrator (voice)

1990
Quick Change

as    Chief Rotzinger

1990
The Civil War

as    Ulysses S. Grant

1989
Dream a Little Dream

as    Coleman Ettinger

1989
Parenthood

as    Frank Buckman

1989
Thomas Hart Benton

as    Narrator (voice)

1989
Black Rainbow

as    Walter Travis

1988
Inherit the Wind

as    Harry Drummond

1988
The Christmas Wife

as    John Tanner

1988
The Good Mother

as    W. O. Muth

1987
Square Dance

as    Dillard

1985
The Atlanta Child Murders

as    Alvin Binder