Actor
Jason Robards
Known for Acting
Born 1922-07-26 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died 2000-12-26
Mostly Documentary, Music
1Films in catalog
125Credits
1959 to 2026Years active
56Trailers on Reactr
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.
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The Voice Still Carries: The Aimee Mann Story
2026 · Trailer
as Earl Partridge (Magnolia archive footage)
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017 · Trailer
as Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016 · Trailer
as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
2006
as Joe's Father (video "One")
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
as Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Going Home
2000
as Charles Barton
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
2000
as Self
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Magnolia
1999 · Trailer
as Earl Partridge
My Best Fiend
1999 · Trailer
as Self (archive footage)
Enemy of the State
1998 · Trailer
as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
Beloved
1998 · Trailer
as Mr. Bodwin
The Real Macaw
1998
as Grandpa Girdis
Heartwood
1998 · Trailer
as Logan Reeser
Truman
1997
as Narrator (voice)
A Thousand Acres
1997 · Trailer
as Larry Cook
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
1996
as Narrator
Journey
1995
as Marcus
Crimson Tide
1995 · Trailer
as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
My Antonia
1995
as Josea Burden
The Great American West
1995
as Narrator (voice)
The Enemy Within
1994
as General R. Pendleton Lloyd
Little Big League
1994 · Trailer
as Thomas Heywood
The Paper
1994 · Trailer
as Graham Keighley
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
1994
as Narrator
La Classe américaine
1993
as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
Philadelphia
1993 · Trailer
as Charles Wheeler
Roots of Roe
1993
as Anthony Comstock (voice)
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993
as Self
The Trial
1993
as Doctor Huld
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993 · Trailer
as The King
Lincoln
1992
as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
1992
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Storyville
1992
as Clifford Fowler
When It Was a Game 2
1992
as Passage Narrator (voice)
Deceptions
1992
as Clay (voice)
Mark Twain and Me
1991
as Mark Twain
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1991
as Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
1991
as Narrator (voice)
When It Was a Game
1991
as (voice)
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991
as Dr. Armand Hammer
The Perfect Tribute
1991
as President Abraham Lincoln
Quick Change
1990 · Trailer
as Chief Rotzinger
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
Black Rainbow
1989 · Trailer
as Walter Travis
Thomas Hart Benton
1989
as Narrator (voice)
Parenthood
1989 · Trailer
as Frank Buckman
Reunion
1989 · Trailer
as Henry Strauss
Dream a Little Dream
1989 · Trailer
as Coleman Ettinger
The Christmas Wife
1988
as John Tanner
The Good Mother
1988 · Trailer
as W. O. Muth
Bright Lights, Big City
1988 · Trailer
as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
Inherit the Wind
1988 · Trailer
as Harry Drummond
Breaking Home Ties
1987
as Lloyd Wells
Laguna Heat
1987 · Trailer
as Wade Shephard
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
Square Dance
1987 · Trailer
as Dillard
Johnny Bull
1986
as Stephan Kovacs
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
as Self (archive footage)
Empire City
1985
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The World of Tomorrow
1984
as Self / Narrator
You Can't Take it With You
1984
as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
America and Lewis Hine
1984
as Voice
Sakharov
1984
as Andrei Sakharov
The Day After
1983 · Trailer
as Dr. Russell Oakes
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
1983
as Self - Host
Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983 · Trailer
as Charles Halloway
Max Dugan Returns
1983 · Teaser
as Max Dugan
Burden of Dreams
1982 · Trailer
as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1981 · Trailer
as President Ulysses S. Grant
Melvin and Howard
1980 · Trailer
as Howard Hughes
Ghosts of Cape Horn
1980
as Narrator
Raise the Titanic
1980 · Trailer
as Admiral James Sandecker
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Haywire
1980
as Leland Hayward
Caboblanco
1980 · Trailer
as Gunther Beckdorff
A Plague on Our Children
1979
as Narrator (voice)
Hurricane
1979 · Trailer
as Capt. Charles Bruckner
A Christmas to Remember
1978
as Daniel Larson
Comes a Horseman
1978 · Trailer
as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
Julia
1977 · Trailer
as Dashiell Hammett
The Spy Who Never Was
1976
as Inspector Barkan
All the President's Men
1976 · Trailer
as Ben Bradlee
Addie and the King of Hearts
1976
as James "Jamie" Mills
Mr. Sycamore
1975
as John Gwilt
A Moon for the Misbegotten
1975
as James Tyrone Jr.
The Easter Promise
1975
as James "Jamie" Mills
A Boy and His Dog
1975 · Trailer
as Lou Craddock
The Country Girl
1974
as Frank Elgin
The Thanksgiving Treasure
1973
as James "Jamie" Mills
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973 · Trailer
as Governor Wallace
Old Faithful
1973
as Jason Robards
The House Without a Christmas Tree
1972
as James "Jamie" Mills
The War Between Men and Women
1972
as Stephen Kozlenko
Johnny Got His Gun
1971 · Trailer
as Joe's Father
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971 · Trailer
as Cesar Charron
Fools
1970
as Matthew South
Julius Caesar
1970 · Trailer
as Marcus Brutus
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970 · Trailer
as Cable Hogue
Operation Snafu
1970
as Sam Armstrong
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Trailer
as General Walter C. Short
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · Trailer
as 'Cheyenne'
The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968 · Trailer
as Raymond Paine
Isadora
1968 · Trailer
as Paris Singer
Hour of the Gun
1967 · Trailer
as Doc Holliday
The Belle of 14th Street
1967
as Performer
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967 · Trailer
as Al Capone
Divorce American Style
1967 · Trailer
as Nelson Downes
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1967
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Noon Wine
1966
as Royal Earle Thompson
Any Wednesday
1966
as John Cleves
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966 · Trailer
as Henry Drummond
The Face of Genius
1966
as Self - Narrator (voice)
A Thousand Clowns
1965 · Trailer
as Murray
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1964
as Abraham Lincoln
Act One
1963 · Trailer
as George S. Kaufman
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1962 · Trailer
as Jamie Tyrone
Tender Is the Night
1962 · Trailer
as Dick Diver
By Love Possessed
1961 · Trailer
as Julius Penrose
The Bat
1960
as Detective Anderson
A Doll's House
1959
as Dr. Rank
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
as Robert Jordan
The Journey
1959 · Trailer
as Paul Kedes
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