Jason Robards
Robards moved to New York City and began working on radio and stage. His first role was the 1947 short film Follow That Music. His big break was landing the starring role in José Quintero's 1956 off Broadway theatre revival production and the later 1960 television film of O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, portraying the philosophical salesman Hickey; he won an Obie Award for his stage performance. He later portrayed Hickey again in another 1985 Broadway revival also staged by Quintero. Robards created the role of Jamie Tyrone in the original Broadway production of O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Long Day's Journey into Night, which was also directed by Quintero; Robards appeared in the lead role of James Tyrone Sr., in a 1988 production of the same play. Other O'Neill plays directed by Quintero and featuring Robards included Hughie (1964), A Touch of the Poet (1977), and A Moon for the Misbegotten (1973). He repeated his role in Long Day's Journey into Night in the 1962 film and televised his performances in A Moon for the Misbegotten (1975) and Hughie (1984). From Wikipedia
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- Born:
- Jul 26, 1922 In Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 141
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Gilded Lily 1921-03-27
- Latest Project:
- Movie Arthur Miller: Writer 2017-12-08
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee | Self (archive footage) | 2017-12-04 |
| Movie | Arthur Miller: Writer | Self (archive footage) | 2017-12-08 |
| Movie | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone | Ben Bradlee (archive footage) | 2016-11-04 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self | 2006-03-27 |
| Movie | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004-07-25 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time in the West: The Wages of Sin | Cheyenne | 2003-11-19 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone | Self (archive footage) | 2001-01-08 |
| Movie | Going Home | Charles Barton | 2000-03-12 |
| Movie | That Moment: Magnolia Diary | Self | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Magnolia | Earl Partridge | 1999-12-10 |
| Movie | My Best Fiend | Self (archive footage) | 1999-05-17 |
| Movie | The Real Macaw | Grandpa Girdis | 1998-09-24 |
| Movie | Heartwood | Logan Reeser | 1998-04-19 |
| Movie | Enemy of the State | Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited) | 1998-11-20 |
| Movie | Beloved | Mr. Bodwin | 1998-10-16 |
| Movie | A Thousand Acres | Larry Cook | 1997-09-19 |
| Movie | American Experience: T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt | Narrator | 1996-10-06 |
| Movie | T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt | Narrator | 1996-10-06 |
| Series | The West | Self - Brigham Young | 1996-09-15 |
| Movie | Journey | Marcus | 1995-12-10 |
| Movie | Crimson Tide | Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited) | 1995-05-12 |
| Movie | My Antonia | Josea Burden | 1995-03-29 |
| Movie | The Great American West | Narrator (voice) | 1995-01-01 |
| Series | Baseball | Various (voice) | 1994-09-18 |
| Movie | The Enemy Within | General R. Pendleton Lloyd | 1994-08-24 |
| Movie | Little Big League | Thomas Heywood | 1994-06-29 |
| Movie | The Paper | Graham Keighley | 1994-03-18 |
| Movie | The Trial | Doctor Huld | 1993-06-18 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Huck Finn | The King | 1993-04-02 |
| Movie | Heidi | Großvater | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron | Self | 1993-06-29 |
| Movie | Philadelphia | Charles Wheeler | 1993-12-22 |
| Movie | La Classe américaine | The Newspaper Director (archive footage) | 1993-12-31 |
| Series | Heidi | Grandfather | 1993-07-18 |
| Movie | Lincoln | President Abraham Lincoln (voice) | 1992-12-26 |
| Movie | Storyville | Clifford Fowler | 1992-08-26 |
| Movie | Chernobyl: The Final Warning | Dr. Armand Hammer | 1991-04-22 |
| Movie | The Perfect Tribute | President Abraham Lincoln | 1991-04-21 |
| Series | An Inconvenient Woman | Jules Mendelson | 1991-05-12 |
| Movie | Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio | Narrator (voice) | 1991-10-01 |
| Movie | Mark Twain and Me | Mark Twain | 1991-11-22 |
| Series | The Civil War | Ulysses S. Grant | 1990-09-23 |
| Movie | Quick Change | Chief Rotzinger | 1990-07-13 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 |
| Movie | Black Rainbow | Walter Travis | 1989-12-05 |
| Movie | Thomas Hart Benton | Narrator (voice) | 1989-10-31 |
| Movie | Parenthood | Frank Buckman | 1989-07-31 |
| Movie | Reunion | Henry Strauss | 1989-05-17 |
| Movie | Dream a Little Dream | Coleman Ettinger | 1989-03-03 |
| Movie | Bright Lights, Big City | Mr. Hardy (uncredited) | 1988-04-01 |
| Movie | Inherit the Wind | Harry Drummond | 1988-03-20 |
| Movie | The Christmas Wife | John Tanner | 1988-12-12 |
| Series | American Experience | Narrator (voice) | 1988-10-04 |
| Movie | The Good Mother | W. O. Muth | 1988-11-04 |
| Movie | Breaking Home Ties | Lloyd Wells | 1987-11-26 |
| Movie | Laguna Heat | Wade Shephard | 1987-11-15 |
| Movie | Square Dance | Dillard | 1987-03-01 |
| Series | The Last Frontier | Ed Stenning | 1986-10-05 |
| Movie | Portrait: Werner Herzog | Self (archive footage) | 1986-03-27 |
| Series | The Long Hot Summer | Will Varner | 1985-10-06 |
| Movie | Empire City | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1985-07-01 |
| Series | The Atlanta Child Murders | Alvin Binder | 1985-02-10 |
| Movie | You Can't Take It with You | Grandpa Martin Vanderhof | 1984-11-21 |
| Movie | You Can't Take it With You | Grandpa Martin Vanderhof | 1984-11-21 |
| Movie | America and Lewis Hine | Voice | 1984-09-29 |
| Movie | Sakharov | Andrei Sakharov | 1984-06-20 |
| Movie | Hughie | Erie Smith | 1984-01-02 |
| Movie | Hola Mr. Dugan | Max Dugan | 1983-03-25 |
| Movie | Max Dugan Returns | Max Dugan | 1983-03-25 |
| Movie | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Charles Halloway | 1983-04-29 |
| Movie | The Day After | Dr. Russell Oakes | 1983-11-20 |
| Movie | Burden of Dreams | Fitzcarraldo (archive footage) | 1982-10-01 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
| Movie | The Legend of the Lone Ranger | President Ulysses S. Grant | 1981-08-20 |
| Movie | Melvin and Howard | Howard Hughes | 1980-09-19 |
| Movie | Raise the Titanic | Admiral James Sandecker | 1980-08-01 |
| Movie | F.D.R.: The Last Year | President Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1980-05-15 |
| Movie | Cabo Blanco | Gunther Beckdorff | 1980-03-13 |
| Movie | Haywire | Leland Hayward | 1980-05-14 |
| Movie | Hurricane | Capt. Charles Bruckner | 1979-04-12 |
| Series | The Kennedy Center Honors | Unknown | 1978-12-28 |
| Movie | A Christmas to Remember | Daniel Larson | 1978-12-22 |
| Movie | Comes a Horseman | Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing | 1978-10-25 |
| Movie | Julia | Dashiell Hammett | 1977-10-01 |
| Series | Washington: Behind Closed Doors | President Richard Monckton | 1977-09-06 |
| Movie | Addie and the King of Hearts | James "Jamie" Mills | 1976-02-25 |
| Movie | Death of a Stranger | Inspector Barkan | 1976-06-01 |
| Movie | All the President's Men | Ben Bradlee | 1976-04-09 |
| Movie | The Spy Who Never Was | Inspector Barkan | 1976-06-01 |
| Movie | Mr. Sycamore | John Gwilt | 1975-12-12 |
| Movie | A Moon for the Misbegotten | James Tyrone Jr. | 1975-05-27 |
| Movie | The Easter Promise | James "Jamie" Mills | 1975-03-26 |
| Movie | A Boy and His Dog | Lou Craddock | 1975-03-23 |
| Movie | The Thanksgiving Treasure | James "Jamie" Mills | 1973-11-18 |
| Movie | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Governor Wallace | 1973-05-23 |
| Movie | Old Faithful | Himself | 1973-01-01 |
| Movie | The House Without a Christmas Tree | James "Jamie" Mills | 1972-12-03 |
| Series | Ghost Story | Unknown | 1972-09-15 |
| Movie | The War Between Men and Women | Stephen Kozlenko | 1972-06-01 |
| Movie | Johnny Got His Gun | Joe's Father | 1971-08-04 |
| Movie | Murders in the Rue Morgue | Cesar Charron | 1971-07-21 |
| Movie | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Lt. General Walter C. Short | 1970-01-26 |
| Movie | Operation Snafu | Sam Armstrong | 1970-03-03 |
| Movie | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Cable Hogue | 1970-03-18 |
| Movie | Julius Caesar | Marcus Brutus | 1970-06-04 |
| Movie | Fools | Matthew South | 1970-12-23 |
| Movie | The Night They Raided Minsky's | Raymond Paine | 1968-12-22 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time in the West | 'Cheyenne' | 1968-12-21 |
| Movie | Isadora | Paris Singer | 1968-09-14 |
| Series | The Dick Cavett Show | Himself - Guest | 1968-06-06 |
| Movie | Divorce American Style | Nelson Downes | 1967-06-21 |
| Movie | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Al Capone | 1967-06-30 |
| Movie | The Belle of 14th Street | Self | 1967-10-11 |
| Movie | Hour of the Gun | Doc Holliday | 1967-11-01 |
| Movie | Noon Wine | Royal Earle Thompson | 1966-11-23 |
| Movie | Any Wednesday | John Cleves | 1966-10-13 |
| Series | ABC Stage 67 | Unknown | 1966-09-14 |
| Movie | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Henry Drummond | 1966-06-08 |
| Movie | The Face of Genius | Narrator (voice) | 1966-03-21 |
| Movie | A Thousand Clowns | Murray | 1965-12-13 |
| Movie | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Abraham Lincoln | 1964-02-02 |
| Movie | Act One | George S. Kaufman | 1963-12-26 |
| Series | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-04 |
| Movie | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Jamie Tyrone | 1962-10-09 |
| Movie | Tender Is the Night | Dick Diver | 1962-01-19 |
| Movie | By Love Possessed | Julius Penrose | 1961-07-19 |
| Movie | The Iceman Cometh | Theodore "Hickey" Hickman | 1960-11-14 |
| Movie | The Bat | Detective Anderson | 1960-03-29 |
| Movie | A Doll's House | Dr. Rank | 1959-11-15 |
| Series | Play of the Week | Unknown | 1959-10-12 |
| Movie | The Journey | Paul Kedes | 1959-02-11 |
| Series | Tony Awards | Presenter | 1956-04-01 |
| Series | The Alcoa Hour | Unknown | 1955-10-16 |
| Series | The Academy Awards | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| Series | Omnibus | Unknown | 1952-11-09 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
| Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
| Series | The Philco Television Playhouse | Unknown | 1948-10-03 |
| Movie | The Gilded Lily | Frank Thompson | 1921-03-27 |