Jason Robards
Birthday: July 26, 1922
Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Height: 5' 1"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Jason Robards. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

Biography

Movie Credits

Going Home	(2000)
[ David Carradine ][ Charles Martin Smith ][ Christopher Rich ][ Clint Black ]
Magnolia	(1999)
[ Tom Cruise ][ Philip Seymour Hoffman ][ Thomas Jane ][ William H Macy ][ William H. Macy ]
Enemy of the State	(1998)
[ Will Smith ][ Jack Black ][ Jason Lee ][ Seth Green ][ Gene Hackman ]
Beloved	(1998)
[ Danny Glover ][ Wes Bentley ][ Jonathan Demme ][ Hill Harper ][ Harold Gould ]
The Real Macaw	(1998)
[ John Goodman ]
Heartwood	(1998)
[ Matt Frewer ][ Randall Batinkoff ][ John Terry ]
A Thousand Acres	(1997)
[ Colin Firth ][ Keith Carradine ][ Bob Gunton ][ Pat Hingle ][ Kevin Anderson ]
Journey	(1995)
[ Jason Dohring ]
Crimson Tide	(1995)
[ Viggo Mortensen ][ Denzel Washington ][ Ryan Phillippe ][ Gene Hackman ][ Steve Zahn ]
My Antonia	(1995)
[ Neil Patrick Harris ]
Little Big League	(1994)
[ Dennis Farina ][ Vincent Kartheiser ][ Scott Patterson ][ Jonathan Silverman ][ Luke Edwards ]
The Paper	(1994)
[ Robert Duvall ][ Michael Keaton ][ Randy Quaid ][ Jason Alexander ][ Gary Dourdan ]
The Enemy Within	(1994)
[ Forest Whitaker ][ Sam Waterston ][ George Dzundza ]
The Trial	(1993)
[ Anthony Hopkins ][ Alfred Molina ][ David Thewlis ][ Kyle MacLachlan ]
The Adventures of Huck Finn	(1993)
[ Elijah Wood ][ Ron Perlman ][ Robbie Coltrane ][ Curtis Armstrong ][ Courtney B. Vance ]
Philadelphia	(1993)
[ Tom Hanks ][ Denzel Washington ][ Antonio Banderas ][ Bradley Whitford ][ Jonathan Demme ]
Heidi	(1993)
Storyville	(1992)
[ James Spader ]
Deceptions	(1992)
[ Brian Cox ][ Fred Williamson ]
Rabbit Ears: Jonah and the Whale	(1992)
[ Dennis Hopper ]
Mark Twain and Me	(1991)
An Inconvenient Woman	(1991)
[ Peter Gallagher ][ Roddy McDowall ][ Chad Lowe ][ Alex Rocco ][ Joseph Bologna ]
Chernobyl: The Final Warning	(1991)
[ Jon Voight ][ Ian McDiarmid ][ Alex Norton ]
The Perfect Tribute	(1991)
[ Lukas Haas ][ Campbell Scott ][ Bruce McGill ][ Daniel Davis ]
Quick Change	(1990)
[ Bill Murray ][ Randy Quaid ][ Tony Shalhoub ][ Phil Hartman ][ Stanley Tucci ]
Black Rainbow	(1989)
[ Tom Hulce ]
Parenthood	(1989)
[ Keanu Reeves ][ Joaquin Phoenix ][ Steve Martin ][ Rick Moranis ][ Tom Hulce ]
Reunion	(1989)
[ Samuel West ][ Christien Anholt ]
Dream a Little Dream	(1989)
[ Corey Feldman ][ Frank Sinatra ][ Corey Haim ][ Harry Dean Stanton ][ William McNamara ]
Bright Lights, Big City	(1988)
[ Kiefer Sutherland ][ Michael J. Fox ][ David Hyde Pierce ][ Sydney Pollack ][ Prince ]
Inherit the Wind	(1988)
[ Kirk Douglas ][ Darren McGavin ]
Thomas Hart Benton	(1988)
The Christmas Wife	(1988)
The Good Mother	(1988)
[ Matt Damon ][ Liam Neeson ][ Joe Morton ][ Ralph Bellamy ]
Breaking Home Ties	(1987)
[ Doug McKeon ]
Laguna Heat	(1987)
[ Rip Torn ][ Harry Hamlin ][ James Gammon ]
Square Dance	(1987)
[ Rob Lowe ][ Michael Nesmith ]
The Last Frontier	(1986)
[ Peter Billingsley ]
Johnny Bull	(1986)
[ Peter MacNicol ][ Bill Cobbs ]
The Long Hot Summer	(1985)
[ Don Johnson ][ William Russ ][ James Gammon ][ Wings Hauser ][ Stephen Davies ]
Sakharov	(1984)
[ Tom Wilkinson ][ Jim Norton ]
Hughie	(1984)
You Can't Take It with You	(1984)
The Day After	(1983)
[ Cary Elwes ][ Steve Guttenberg ][ John Lithgow ][ Arliss Howard ][ Jeff East ]
Something Wicked This Way Comes	(1983)
[ Jonathan Pryce ]
Max Dugan Returns	(1983)
[ Kiefer Sutherland ][ Matthew Broderick ][ Donald Sutherland ][ David Morse ][ John Corvello ]
The Legend of the Lone Ranger	(1981)
[ Christopher Lloyd ][ Richard Farnsworth ][ John Bennett Perry ]
Melvin and Howard	(1980)
[ Jonathan Demme ][ John Glover ][ Dabney Coleman ][ Michael J. Pollard ]
Raise the Titanic	(1980)
[ Alec Guinness ][ M. Emmet Walsh ][ Richard Jordan ]
Haywire	(1980)
[ Christopher Guest ]
F.D.R.: The Last Year	(1980)
[ Terry O'Quinn ]
Caboblanco	(1980)
[ Charles Bronson ][ Irving Berlin ]
Hurricane	(1979)
[ Max von Sydow ][ Timothy Bottoms ]
A Christmas to Remember	(1978)
Comes a Horseman	(1978)
[ James Caan ][ Mark Harmon ][ Richard Farnsworth ]
Julia	(1977)
[ John Glover ][ Maximilian Schell ][ Hal Holbrook ][ Mark Metcalf ]
All the President's Men	(1976)
[ Dustin Hoffman ][ Robert Redford ][ F. Murray Abraham ][ Ned Beatty ][ Jack Warden ]
Addie and the King of Hearts	(1976)
[ Richard Hatch ]
Mr. Sycamore	(1975)
[ Darby Hinton ]
A Boy and His Dog	(1975)
[ Don Johnson ]
A Moon for the Misbegotten	(1975)
The Easter Promise	(1975)
The Country Girl	(1974)
[ John Lithgow ]
The Thanksgiving Treasure	(1973)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid	(1973)
[ Kris Kristofferson ][ Harry Dean Stanton ][ Slim Pickens ][ Charles Martin Smith ][ Jack Elam ]
Tod eines Fremden	(1973)
The House Without a Christmas Tree	(1972)
The War Between Men and Women	(1972)
[ Jack Lemmon ][ Herb Edelman ]
Murders in the Rue Morgue	(1971)
[ Herbert Lom ]
Jud	(1971)
[ Bob Dylan ]
Johnny Got His Gun	(1971)
[ Donald Sutherland ][ David Soul ][ Timothy Bottoms ][ Robert Urich ]
Tora! Tora! Tora!	(1970)
[ Joseph Cotten ][ Martin Balsam ][ James Whitmore ][ Jamie Farr ][ Keith Andes ]
Julius Caesar	(1970)
[ Christopher Lee ][ Charlton Heston ][ Robert Vaughn ][ Richard Chamberlain ][ Michael Gough ]
The Ballad of Cable Hogue	(1970)
[ David Warner ][ Slim Pickens ][ Strother Martin ]
Rosolino Paternò: Soldato...	(1970)
[ Martin Landau ][ Slim Pickens ]
Fools	(1970)
[ Mako ]
Isadora	(1968)
[ James Fox ]
The Night They Raided Minsky's	(1968)
[ Elliott Gould ][ William Friedkin ][ Denholm Elliott ]
C'era una volta il West	(1968)
[ Charles Bronson ][ Henry Fonda ][ Dario Argento ][ Jack Elam ][ Keenan Wynn ]
Hour of the Gun	(1967)
[ Jon Voight ][ James Garner ][ Ben Johnson ][ Robert Ryan ]
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre	(1967)
[ Jack Nicholson ][ John Cho ][ Bruce Dern ][ George Segal ][ Alex Rocco ]
Divorce American Style	(1967)
[ Dick Van Dyke ][ Tim Matheson ][ Van Johnson ][ Tom Bosley ]
Noon Wine	(1966)
[ Sam Peckinpah ]
Any Wednesday	(1966)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady	(1966)
[ Henry Fonda ][ Burgess Meredith ]
A Thousand Clowns	(1965)
[ William Daniels ][ Martin Balsam ]
The Presidency: A Splendid Misery	(1964)
[ Dana Andrews ][ Robert Ryan ][ Dan O'Herlihy ]
Abe Lincoln in Illinois	(1964)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	(1963)
Act One	(1963)
[ Eli Wallach ][ George Hamilton ][ George Segal ][ Jack Klugman ]
Long Day's Journey Into Night	(1962)
[ Katharine Hepburn ][ Dean Stockwell ][ Sidney Lumet ]
Tender Is the Night	(1962)
By Love Possessed	(1961)
[ George Hamilton ][ Carroll O'Connor ][ Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ]
The Iceman Cometh	(1960)
[ Robert Redford ][ Sidney Lumet ]
The Iceman Cometh: Part 1	(1960)
[ Robert Redford ]
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1	(1959)
[ Eli Wallach ]
The Journey	(1959)
[ Ron Howard ][ Yul Brynner ]
A Doll's House	(1959)
[ Christopher Plummer ][ Hume Cronyn ]
The Big Build-Up	(1957)
Even the Weariest River	(1956)
Proud Passage	(1956)
The Incredible World of Horace Ford	(1955)
A Picture in the Paper	(1955)
Flame and Ice	(1955)
Decision by Panic	(1955)
Destination Freedom	(1955)
The Death of Billy the Kid	(1955)
Follow That Music	(1946)

Trivia

• Recipient of 22nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime contribution to arts and culture, presented by President Bill Clinton in Wash DC, Dec. 5, 1999.
• Father of actor Jason Robards III.
• Father, with actress Lauren Bacall, of actor Sam Robards.
• Survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor.
• He has 3 children with Eleanor Pitman. He has 2 children with Lois O'Connor. He won an Emmy in 1988 for Inherit the Wind (1988) (TV).
• Is a Civil War buff in real life. Ironically he played President U.S. Grant in The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981), and was the voice of General Grant in the PBS mini-series "The Civil War" (1990) (mini).
• Preferred working in the theater, and said once that he performed in Hollywood films so that he could "grab the money and go back to Broadway as fast as I can."
• In 1972, he was in a horrifying accident on a winding California road. He drove his car into the side of a mountain and nearly died. His acute drinking problem contributed to the accident. He slowly recovered after extensive surgery and facial reconstruction.
• On April 22, 2002, the first Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre was awarded to Christopher Plummer by the Roundabout Theatre.
• Jennifer Jason Leigh added the "Jason" to her stage name in tribute to Robards, a family friend. She said, "I like the way it sounds between Jennifer and Leigh."
• In one of his last roles, in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999), he portrayed a man dying from lung cancer to excellent effect. Two years later he himself died from the same disease.
• Attended Hollywood High School in Beverly Hills and played on the football, baseball, basketball and track teams, once entertaining the idea of becoming a professional athlete.
• Avoided films until age 37 because he felt his acting father, Jason Robards Sr., had sold out and tarnished his own reputation by "going Hollywood".
• First lead role was in the 1953 off-Broadway production of "American Gothic" directed by José Quintero.
• Two daughters and four sons: Sarah Louise, Shannon Robards, Jason Robards III, Sam Robards, David and Jake Robards.
• Received all of his Oscar nominations for playing real-life people: Benjamin C. Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Dashiell Hammett in Julia (1977) and Howard Hughes in Melvin and Howard (1980).
• In 1988 he became the 11th performer to win the Triple Crown of acting. Oscars: Best Supporting Actor, All the President's Men (1976) and Best Supporting Actor, Julia (1977); Tony: Best Actor-Play, 'The Disenchanted' (1959); Emmy: Best Actor - Miniseries/Special, Inherit the Wind (1988) (TV).
• Nominated eight times for a Tony Award, for "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (1957), "The Disenchanted" (1959), "Toys in the Attic" (1960), "After The Fall" (1964), "Hughie" (1965), "The Country Girl" (1972), "A Moon for the Misbegotten" (1974), and "A Touch of the Poet" (1978). "The Disenchanted" in 1959 was his sole win.
• Won Broadway's 1959 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for "The Disenchanted." He has been nominated seven other times: as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) in 1957 for "Long Day's Journey into Night;" as Best Actor (Dramatic) in 1960 for "Toys in the Attic," in 1964 for "After The Fall," in 1965 for "Hughie," in 1972 for "The Country Girl" and in 1974 for "A Moon for the Misbegotten;" and as Best Actor (Play) in 1978 for "A Touch of the Poet." With eight nominations, he holds the record for being the actor nominated the most times for a Tony Award, although he only won once.
• Was the first winner of a Best Actor Obie Award, which recognize achievement in the Off-Broadway theater, for playing Hickey in the revival of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" during the 1955-56 season. He tied for the Best Actor award with George Voskovec, who was cited for "Uncle Vanya."
• He and Leonardo DiCaprio both received Oscar-nominations for portraying Howard Hughes. Robards was nominated for Melvin and Howard (1980) and DiCaprio for The Aviator (2004)
• As of 2005, he's the only actor to win consecutive "Best Supporting Actor" Oscars.
• Played Hickey in three different productions of Eugene O' Neill's play "The Iceman Cometh" - off-Broadway in 1955, on television in 1960, and on Broadway in 1955.
• He is more closely associated with the works of Eugene O'Neill than any other actor.
• He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1997 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.

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