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Jason Robards
Highest Rated: 100% Divorce American Style (1967)
Lowest Rated: 9% Dream a Little Dream (1989)
Birthday: Jul 26, 1922
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jason Robards built quite a career for himself as an Academy Award-winning actor. In his early acting career, Robards appeared in such films as the Lana Turner dramatic adaptation "By Love Possessed" (1961), the Katharine Hepburn dramatic adaptation "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (1962) and "Tender Is the Night" (1962). He also appeared in "Act One" (1963). Robards was nominated for a Supporting Actor BAFTA Award for "All the President's Men" in 1976 as well as for a Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Golden Globe Award for "All the President's Men" in 1976. Robards won a Best Actor National Board of Review Award for "Long Day's Journey Into Night" in 1962 as well as a Best Actor National Board of Review Award for "Tender Is the Night" in 1962. His film career continued throughout the eighties in productions like "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" (1981) with Klinton Spilsbury, the Werner Herzog documentary "Burden of Dreams" (1983) and "Max Dugan Returns" (1983). He also appeared in "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (1983). Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in the James Spader mystery thriller "Storyville" (1992), the dramatic adventure "The Adventures of Huck Finn" (1993) with Elijah Wood and "The Trial" (1993) with Kyle MacLachlan. He also appeared in "Philadelphia" (1993) with Tom Hanks and the Michael Keaton dramatic comedy "The Paper" (1994). Most recently, Robards appeared on "Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film" (PBS, 2005-06).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Going Home | Charles Barton (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 82% | 89% | Magnolia | Earl Partridge (Character) | $22.5M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II | Unknown (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 94% | The Real Macaw | Grandpa Girdis (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heartwood | Logan Reeser (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 72% | 70% | Beloved | Mr. Bodwin (Character) | $22.8M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Great American West | Narrator | - | 1997 |
| 24% | 42% | A Thousand Acres | Larry Cook (Character) | $7.9M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | My Antonia | Josea Burden (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Journey | Marcus (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 34% | The Enemy Within | General R. Pendleton Lloyd (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 35% | 54% | Little Big League | Thomas Heywood (Character) | $12.1M | 1994 |
| 89% | 66% | The Paper | Graham Keighley (Character) | $36.6M | 1994 |
| 100% | 73% | Heidi | Grandfather (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 81% | 89% | Philadelphia | Charles Wheeler (Character) | $76.0M | 1993 |
| 75% | 50% | The Adventures of Huck Finn | The King (Character) | $23.8M | 1993 |
| 29% | 51% | The Trial | Doctor Huld (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 67% | 22% | Storyville | Clifford Fowler (Character) | $352.5K | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Mark Twain and Me | Mark Twain (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 89% | 49% | Black Rainbow | Walter Travis (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Chernobyl: The Final Warning | Dr. Robert Gale (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | An Inconvenient Woman | Jules Mendelson (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Final Warning | Dr. Armand Hammer (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Perfect Tribute | President Abraham Lincoln (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 84% | 71% | Quick Change | Chief Rotzinger (Character) | $14.0M | 1990 |
| 92% | 76% | Parenthood | Frank Buckman (Character) | $99.6M | 1989 |
| 9% | 67% | Dream a Little Dream | Coleman Ettinger (Character) | $5.0M | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | Reunion | Henry Strauss (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 79% | Inherit the Wind | Henry Drummond (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 60% | 38% | Bright Lights, Big City | Mr. Hardy (Character) | $15.7M | 1988 |
| 54% | 28% | The Good Mother | Muth (Character) | $4.6M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | The Christmas Wife | John Tanner (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Square Dance | Grandpa Dillard (Character) | $13.7K | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laguna Heat | Wade Shephard (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Norman Rockwell's Breaking Home Ties | Lloyd (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Bull | Stephan Kovacs (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Frontier | Ed Stenning (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sakharov | Andrei Sakharov (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 61% | 64% | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Charles Halloway (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 71% | 67% | Max Dugan Returns | Max Dugan (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 86% | 69% | The Day After | Dr. Russell Oakes (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 89% | 91% | Burden of Dreams | Fitzcarraldo (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | The Legend of the Lone Ranger | President Ulysses S. Grant (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 9% | Caboblanco | Gunther Beckdorff (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Haywire | Leland Hayward (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 38% | 28% | Raise the Titanic | Admiral James Sandecker (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 92% | 60% | Melvin and Howard | Howard Hughes (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | F.D.R. -- The Last Year | President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 33% | 44% | Hurricane | Capt. Bruckner (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 67% | 54% | Comes a Horseman | Jacob "J.W." Ewing (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Christmas to Remember | Daniel Larson (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 73% | 70% | Julia | Hammett (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Spy Who Never Was | Inspector Barkan (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 94% | 92% | All the President's Men | Ben Bradlee (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Easter Promise | Jamie (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Mr. Sycamore | John Gwilt (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 78% | 63% | A Boy and His Dog | Lou Craddock (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Unknown (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 56% | 82% | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | Gov. Lew Wallace (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thanksgiving Treasure | James Mills (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | The War Between Men and Women | Stephen Kozlenko (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | The House Without a Christmas Tree | Jamie Mills (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 67% | 86% | Johnny Got His Gun | Joe's Father (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 20% | 22% | Murders in the Rue Morgue | Cesar Charron (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fools | Matthew South (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 94% | 81% | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Cable Hogue (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 40% | 36% | Julius Caesar | Marcus Brutus (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 55% | 81% | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Operation Snafu | Sam Armstrong (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 96% | 94% | Once Upon a Time in the West | Cheyenne (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 67% | 44% | The Night They Raided Minsky's | Raymond Paine (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 80% | 65% | Isadora | Singer (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 100% | 59% | Divorce American Style | Nelson Downes (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 89% | 67% | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Al Capone (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 88% | 51% | Hour of the Gun | Doc Holliday (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Henry Drummond (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Any Wednesday | John Cleves (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Noon Wine | Unknown (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 72% | 88% | A Thousand Clowns | Murray (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Act One | George S. Kaufman (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Tender Is the Night | Dr. Richard "Dick" Diver (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 94% | 85% | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Jamie Tyrone (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 50% | 38% | By Love Possessed | Julius Penrose (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Doll's House | Dr. Rank (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | The Journey | Paul Kedes (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rojo Atardecer | Unknown (Character) | - | 1959 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Civil War | Ulysses S. Grant (Voice) | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Atlanta Child Murders | Alvin Binder (Character) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Washington: Behind Closed Doors | Unknown (Character) | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Danny Kaye Show | Guest | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | Bridger (Character) | 1956-1957 |