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Aliases: Jason Robards Jr. , Джейсон Робардс , Jason Nelson Robards Jr.

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Movie Involvements: 99

TV Involvements: 30


Most Famous Work

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Robards, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

American Experience
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8

American Experience

(1988) Narrator (voice)
Studio One
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4

Studio One

(1948) Walter Osgood
The Philco Television Playhouse
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6
Tony Awards
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5

Tony Awards

(1956) Self - Host
The Kennedy Center Honors
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7
Ghost Story
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7

Ghost Story

(1972) Elliot Brent
Once Upon a Time in the West
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8

Once Upon a Time in the West

(1968) 'Cheyenne'
The Oscars
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7

The Oscars

(1953) Self

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2017 Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
2016 Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
2014 Self (archive footage)
2006 Joe's Father (video "One")
Self
2004 Self (archive footage)
2001 Self (archive footage)
2000 Charles Barton
Self
1999 Earl Partridge
Self (archive footage)
1998 Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
Mr. Bodwin
Grandpa Girdis
Logan Reeser
1997 Narrator (voice)
Larry Cook
1996 Narrator
Self - Brigham Young
1995 Marcus
Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
Josea Burden
Narrator (voice)
1994 Various (voice)
General R. Pendleton Lloyd
Thomas Heywood
Graham Keighley
Narrator
1993 The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
Charles Wheeler
Grandfather
Self
Doctor Huld
The King
1992 President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Narrator
Clifford Fowler
Clay (voice)
1991 Mark Twain
Narrator (voice)
Jules Mendelson
Dr. Armand Hammer
President Abraham Lincoln
1990 Ulysses S. Grant
Chief Rotzinger
Self
1989 Walter Travis
Narrator (voice)
Frank Buckman
Henry Strauss
Coleman Ettinger
1988 John Tanner
W. O. Muth
Narrator (voice)
Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
Harry Drummond
1987 Lloyd Wells
Wade Shephard
Dillard
1986 Ed Stenning
Stephan Kovacs
Self (archive footage)
1985 Will Varner
Self - Narrator (voice)
Alvin Binder
1984 Self / Narrator
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
Voice
Andrei Sakharov
1983 Dr. Russell Oakes
Self - Host
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Charles Halloway
Max Dugan
1982 Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Self
1981 President Ulysses S. Grant
1980 Howard Hughes
Admiral James Sandecker
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Leland Hayward
Gunther Beckdorff
1979 Erie Smith
Capt. Charles Bruckner
1978 Self
Daniel Larson
N/A
Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
1977 Dashiell Hammett
President Richard Monckton
1976 Inspector Barkan
Ben Bradlee
James "Jamie" Mills
1975 John Gwilt
James Tyrone Jr.
James "Jamie" Mills
Lou Craddock
1974 Frank Elgin
1973 James "Jamie" Mills
Governor Wallace
Himself
1972 James "Jamie" Mills
Elliot Brent
Stephen Kozlenko
1971 Joe's Father
Cesar Charron
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
1970 Matthew South
Marcus Brutus
Cable Hogue
Sam Armstrong
Lt. General Walter C. Short
1968 Raymond Paine
'Cheyenne'
Paris Singer
Self - Guest
1967 Doc Holliday
Self
Al Capone
Nelson Downes
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
1966 Royal Earle Thompson
John Cleves
Royal Earle Thompson
Henry Drummond
Narrator (voice)
1965 Murray
1964 Abraham Lincoln
1963 George S. Kaufman
N/A
Self
1962 Jamie Tyrone
Dick Diver
1961 Julius Penrose
1960 Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
Detective Anderson
1959 Dr. Rank
N/A
Robert Jordan
Paul Kedes
1956 Robert Jordan
Self - Presenter
Self - Host
1955 Bert Palmer
1953 Self
Col. Carter
1952 N/A
1951 Dr. Rank
Abe Lincoln
Frank Elgin
Marcus
1950 Self - Mystery Guest
1948 Frank Cameron
Leonard O'Brien
Prisoner
Walter Osgood
Joe Grant
Mason
Self
Year Character Movie/Tv

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