Jason Robards
Acting
Born: 1922-07-26 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Known For
Once Upon a Time in the West
'Cheyenne'
Philadelphia
Charles Wheeler
Enemy of the State
Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
Magnolia
Earl Partridge
All the President's Men
Ben Bradlee
Crimson Tide
Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
Parenthood
Frank Buckman
Tora! Tora! Tora!
General Walter C. Short
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Governor Wallace
The Day After
Dr. Russell Oakes
Quick Change
Chief Rotzinger
Johnny Got His Gun
Joe's Father
A Boy and His Dog
Lou Craddock
La Classe américaine
The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
The Paper
Graham Keighley
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Cable Hogue
My Best Fiend
Self (archive footage)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Charles Halloway
The Adventures of Huck Finn
The King
Julia
Dashiell Hammett
Burden of Dreams
Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Dream a Little Dream
Coleman Ettinger
Bright Lights, Big City
Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
The Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
Little Big League
Thomas Heywood
Raise the Titanic
Admiral James Sandecker
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Al Capone
Beloved
Mr. Bodwin
Hour of the Gun
Doc Holliday
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Henry Drummond
The Oscars
Self
A Thousand Acres
Larry Cook
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Jamie Tyrone
Comes a Horseman
Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
Melvin and Howard
Howard Hughes
Max Dugan Returns
Max Dugan
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Cesar Charron
Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)
Black Rainbow
Walter Travis
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
President Ulysses S. Grant