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.
Magnolia
Earl Partridge
All the President's Men
Ben Bradlee
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Robert Jordan
Parenthood
Frank Buckman
Max Dugan Returns
Max Dugan
Arthur Miller: Writer
Self (archive footage)
Quick Change
Chief Rotzinger
A Boy and His Dog
Lou Craddock
Tora! Tora! Tora!
General Walter C. Short
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Governor Wallace
Caboblanco
Gunther Beckdorff
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Cable Hogue
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Self (archive footage)
The Day After
Dr. Russell Oakes
Hour of the Gun
Doc Holliday
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Charles Halloway
My Best Fiend
Self (archive footage)
Raise the Titanic
Admiral James Sandecker
The Paper
Graham Keighley
The Adventures of Huck Finn
The King
Burden of Dreams
Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Comes a Horseman
Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
Julia
Dashiell Hammett
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
Joe's Father (video "One")
Julius Caesar
Marcus Brutus
Isadora
Paris Singer
The Night They Raided Minsky's
Raymond Paine
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Al Capone
Any Wednesday
John Cleves
A Thousand Clowns
Murray
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Jamie Tyrone
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Henry Drummond
Dream a Little Dream
Coleman Ettinger
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Cesar Charron
Johnny Got His Gun
Joe's Father
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
President Ulysses S. Grant
Melvin and Howard
Howard Hughes
Bright Lights, Big City
Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
A Thousand Acres
Larry Cook
The Trial
Doctor Huld
Black Rainbow
Walter Travis
The House Without a Christmas Tree
James "Jamie" Mills
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Self
The Real Macaw
Grandpa Girdis
Reunion
Henry Strauss
The Journey
Paul Kedes
The Enemy Within
General R. Pendleton Lloyd
Square Dance
Dillard
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Self
Divorce American Style
Nelson Downes
You Can't Take it With You
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
Mark Twain and Me
Mark Twain
The Good Mother
W. O. Muth
The Christmas Wife
John Tanner
A Moon for the Misbegotten
James Tyrone Jr.
By Love Possessed
Julius Penrose
Empire City
Self - Narrator (voice)
Storyville
Clifford Fowler
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Narrator (voice)
The War Between Men and Women
Stephen Kozlenko
Act One
George S. Kaufman
The Belle of 14th Street
Performer
Inherit the Wind
Harry Drummond
Fools
Matthew South
My Antonia
Josea Burden
F.D.R.: The Last Year
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Haywire
Leland Hayward
Thomas Hart Benton
Narrator (voice)
Philadelphia
Charles Wheeler
Deceptions
Clay (voice)
Operation Snafu
Sam Armstrong
Sakharov
Andrei Sakharov
Heartwood
Logan Reeser
Journey
Marcus
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
Mr. Sycamore
John Gwilt
The Easter Promise
James "Jamie" Mills
Noon Wine
Royal Earle Thompson
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
Narrator
A Christmas to Remember
Daniel Larson
Addie and the King of Hearts
James "Jamie" Mills
The Iceman Cometh
Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
Hurricane
Capt. Charles Bruckner
The Spy Who Never Was
Inspector Barkan
Little Big League
Thomas Heywood
The Thanksgiving Treasure
James "Jamie" Mills
Going Home
Charles Barton
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Self (archive footage)
The Perfect Tribute
President Abraham Lincoln
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
The Bat
Detective Anderson
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
Dr. Armand Hammer
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
Self
Laguna Heat
Wade Shephard
A Doll's House
Dr. Rank
Breaking Home Ties
Lloyd Wells
Beloved
Mr. Bodwin
Old Faithful
Jason Robards
La Classe américaine
The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
Narrator
Tender Is the Night
Dick Diver
Once Upon a Time in the West
'Cheyenne'
Enemy of the State
Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
Crimson Tide
Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Bull
Stephan Kovacs
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
The Country Girl
Frank Elgin
The World of Tomorrow
Self / Narrator
The Face of Genius
Narrator (voice)
Night of 100 Stars
Self
When It Was a Game
(voice)
Heidi
Großvater
When It Was a Game 2
Passage Narrator (voice)
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
Ghosts of Cape Horn
Narrator