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Jason Robards
Jason Nelson Robards Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an acclaimed American actor distinguished for his stage and screen performances. He is particularly noted for his interpretation of the works of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Throughout his career, Robards scooped numerous awards, becoming one of the 24 performers to attain the Triple Crown of Acting with wins for two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, and an Emmy Award. His contributions to the arts were further recognized with induction into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979, receiving the National Medal of Arts in 1997, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1999.
Robards commenced his acting voyage in theatre, debuting on Broadway with James Tyrone Jr.'s character in the 1956 revival of the Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey into Night. His performance earned him a Theatre World Award. He made his entrance in feature films with The Journey (1959), and subsequently garnered two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor with his roles in All the President's Men (1976), and Julia (1977). Noteworthy in his other works are his portrayals in Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), A Thousand Clowns (1965), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Parenthood (1989), Philadelphia (1993), Enemy of the State (1998), and Magnolia (1999). He also scored a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie with his role in Inherit the Wind (1988).
Biography, Career & Filmography
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Given Name: Jason Nelson Robards Jr.
Born: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Citizenship: United States
Birthday: July 26, 1922
Occupations: Actor
Years Active: 1947-2000
Children: 6
Spouses: Eleanor Pittman, Rachel Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Lois O'Connor
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Awards and Nominations Received by Jason Robards
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Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or Musical (Supporting Actor)
JuliaBest Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or Musical (Supporting Actor)
All the President's MenMovies Featuring Jason Robards
Comes a Horseman
All the President's Men
Magnolia
The Paper
Johnny Got His Gun
A Boy and His Dog
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Julia
Hour of the Gun
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Little Big League
Dream a Little Dream
The Night They Raided Minsky's
And the Oscar Goes To…
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
Night of 100 Stars III
The Civil War
Sam Peckinpah’s West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Mark Twain and Me
Caboblanco
Melvin and Howard
Night of 100 Stars
Burden of Dreams
Haywire
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
The Day After
Sakharov
America and Lewis Hine
You Can’t Take it With You
Empire City
The Long Hot Summer
An Inconvenient Woman
Raise the Titanic
The Atlanta Child Murders
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Square Dance
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Laguna Heat
Inherit the Wind
The Good Mother
The Christmas Wife
Reunion
Thomas Hart Benton
The Last Frontier
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
When It Was a Game
The World of Tomorrow
Max Dugan Returns
Act One
The Belle of 14th Street
The Bat
Storyville
Noon Wine
A Christmas to Remember
By Love Possessed
Lincoln
Journey
Julius Caesar
The Adventures of Huck Finn
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Tender Is the Night
Heidi
The Trial
The Easter Promise
The Enemy Within
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Operation Snafu
The Journey
The Real Macaw
A Thousand Acres
The House Without a Christmas Tree
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
My Antonia
Fools
Truman
Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Iceman Cometh
A Doll’s House
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Divorce American Style
The West
Isadora
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Any Wednesday
La Classe américaine
The War Between Men and Women
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
Hurricane
The Thanksgiving Treasure
Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet
Black Rainbow
Career Timeline
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1993
The Adventures of Huck Finn
The King
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Self
The Trial
Doctor Huld
La Classe américaine
The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
1991
Mark Twain and Me
Mark Twain
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
Dr. Armand Hammer
When It Was a Game
(voice)
1989
Dream a Little Dream
Reunion
Henry Strauss
Thomas Hart Benton
Narrator (voice)
Black Rainbow
Walter Travis
1984
Sakharov
Andrei Sakharov
America and Lewis Hine
Voice
You Can’t Take it With You
Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
The World of Tomorrow
Self / Narrator
1980
Caboblanco
Gunther Beckdorff
Melvin and Howard
Howard Hughes
Haywire
Leland Hayward
Raise the Titanic
Admiral James Sandecker
1975
A Boy and His Dog
A Moon for the Misbegotten
James Tyrone Jr.
The Easter Promise
James "Jamie" Mills
1972
The House Without a Christmas Tree
James "Jamie" Mills
The War Between Men and Women
Stephen Kozlenko
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Julius Caesar
Marcus Brutus
Operation Snafu
Sam Armstrong
Fools
Matthew South
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Cable Hogue
1967
Hour of the Gun
The Belle of 14th Street
Self
Divorce American Style
Nelson Downes
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Al Capone
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