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Jason Robards

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Filmography

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

1966
as Henry Drummond

A Boy and His Dog

1975
as Lou Craddock

A Christmas to Remember

1978
as Daniel Larson

A Doll's House

1959
as Dr. Rank

A Moon for the Misbegotten

1975
as James Tyrone Jr.

A Thousand Acres

1997
as Larry Cook

A Thousand Clowns

1965
as Murray N. Burns

Act One

1963
as George S. Kaufman

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

2016
as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)

All the President's Men

1976
as Ben Bradlee

America and Lewis Hine

1984
as (voice)

Any Wednesday

1966
as John Cleves

Beloved

1998
as Mr. Bodwin

Black Rainbow

1989
as Walter Travis

Breaking Home Ties

1987
as Lloyd

Bright Lights, Big City

1988
as Drunken Writer/Mr. Hardy

Burden of Dreams

1982
as Fitzcarraldo

By Love Possessed

1961
as Julius Penrose

Cabo Blanco

1980
as Gunther Beckdorff

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

1991
as Dr. Armand Hammer

Comes a Horseman

1978
as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

Crimson Tide

1995
as Rear Admiral Anderson

Divorce American Style

1967
as Nelson Downes

Dream a Little Dream

1989
as Coleman Ettinger

El largo y cálido verano

1985
as Will Varner

Empire of the Air

1992
as Narrator

Enemy of the State

1998
as Congressman Phillip Hammersley

F.D.R.: The Last Year

1980
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Haywire

1980
as Leland Hayward

Heartwood

1998
as Logan Reeser

Heidi (1993)

1993
as Grandfather

Hour of the Gun

1967
as Doc Holliday

Hughie

1984
as Erie Smith

Hurricane

1979
as Capt. Bruckner

Inherit the Wind

1988
as Harry Drummond

Isadora

1968
as Singer

Johnny Got His Gun

1971
as Joe's Father

Journey

1995
as Marcus

Julia

1977
as Dashiell Hammett

Julius Caesar

1970
as Marcus Brutus

Laguna Heat

1987
as Wade Shephard

Lincoln

1992
as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Little Big League

1994
as Thomas Heywood

Long Day's Journey Into Night

1962
as Jamie Tyrone

Magnolia

1999
as Earl Partridge

Mark Twain and Me

1991
as Mark Twain

Max Dugan Returns

1983
as Max Dugan

Melvin and Howard

1980
as Howard Hughes

Mr. Sycamore

1975
as John Gwilt

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971
as Cesar Charron

My Antonia

1995
as Josea Burden

My Best Fiend

1999
as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

Noon Wine

1966
as Royal Earle Thompson

Old Faithful

1973
as Jason Robards

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968
as Manuel 'Cheyenne' Gutiérrez

Operation Snafu

1970
as Sam Armstrong

Parenthood

1989
as Frank Buckman

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973
as Governor Wallace

Philadelphia

1993
as Charles Wheeler

Portrait Werner Herzog

1986
as archive footage

Quick Change

1990
as Chief Rotzinger

Raise the Titanic

1980
as Admiral James Sandecker

Reunion

1989
as Hans Strauss(alt)

Sakharov

1984
as Andrei Sakharov

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004
as Himself (voice)

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

1993
as Himself

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1983
as Charles Halloway

Square Dance

1987
as Dillard

Storyville

1992
as Clifford Fowler

Tender Is the Night

1962
as Dr. Richard 'Dick' Diver (as Jason Robards Jr.)

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993
as The King

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993
as Pap Finn

The Atlanta Child Murders

1985
as Alvin Binder

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1970
as Cable Hogue

The Belle of 14th Street

1967
as Himself

The Christmas Wife

1988
as John Tanner

The Civil War

1990
as Ulysses S. Grant

The Day After

1983
as Dr. Russell Oakes

The Enemy Within

1994
as General R. Pendleton Lloyd

The Face of a Genius

1966
as Self - Narrator

The Good Mother

1988
as Muth

The House Without a Christmas Tree

1972
as Jamie Mills

The Journey

1959
as Paul Kedes

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

1981
as President Ulysses S. Grant

The Long Hot Summer

1985
as Will Varner

The Long Hot Summer

1985
as Will Varner

The Night They Raided Minsky's

1968
as Raymond Paine

The Paper

1994
as Graham Keighley

The Perfect Tribute

1991
as President Abraham Lincoln

The Real Macaw

1998
as Grandpa Girdis

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1967
as Al Capone

The Thanksgiving Treasure

1973
as James Mills

The Trial

1993
as Dr Huld

The War Between Men and Women

1972
as Stephen Kozlenko

The World of Tomorrow

1984
as Self - Narrator

Thomas Hart Benton

1989
as Narrator (voice)

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970
as Lt. General Walter C. Short

Voci notturne

1995
as Mario Fedrigo

Washington: Behind Closed Doors

1977
as President Richard Monkton

Guest Star

Episode American Experience
After the Crash 		1991
Episode Ken Burns Films
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio 		1992
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Jason Robards 		1992
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Jason Robards 		1977
Episode What's My Line?
Jason Robards Jr. 		1965
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Jason Robards, David Susskind, Viva, Modern Jazz Quartet, Sidney Sheldon 		1970
Episode American Experience
Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance 		1991
Episode American Experience
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (1): The Long Campaign 		1996
Episode American Experience
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (2): The Bully Pulpit 		1996
Episode American Experience
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (3): The Good Fight 		1996
Episode American Experience
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (4): Black Care 		1996
Episode Tony Awards
The 34th Annual Tony Awards 		1980
Episode American Experience
The Busing Battleground 		2023
Episode Ghost Story
The Dead We Leave Behind 		1972
Episode American Experience
Truman (1) 		1997
Episode American Experience
Truman (2) 		1997