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My Best Fiend

1999
as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

Magnolia

1999
as Earl Partridge

Enemy of the State

1998
as Congressman Phillip Hammersley

The Real Macaw

1998
as Grandpa Girdis

Heartwood

1998
as Logan Reeser

Beloved

1998
as Mr. Bodwin

A Thousand Acres

1997
as Larry Cook

Journey

1995
as Marcus

My Antonia

1995
as Josea Burden

Crimson Tide

1995
as Rear Admiral Anderson

Voci notturne

1995
as Mario Fedrigo

Little Big League

1994
as Thomas Heywood

The Paper

1994
as Graham Keighley

The Enemy Within

1994
as General R. Pendleton Lloyd

Heidi (1993)

1993
as Grandfather

The Trial

1993
as Dr Huld

Philadelphia

1993
as Charles Wheeler

Empire of the Air

1992
as Narrator

Storyville

1992
as Clifford Fowler

Lincoln

1992
as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

1991
as Dr. Armand Hammer

Mark Twain and Me

1991
as Mark Twain

The Perfect Tribute

1991
as President Abraham Lincoln

Quick Change

1990
as Chief Rotzinger

The Civil War

1990
as Ulysses S. Grant

Reunion

1989
as Hans Strauss(alt)

Thomas Hart Benton

1989
as Narrator (voice)

Dream a Little Dream

1989
as Coleman Ettinger

Black Rainbow

1989
as Walter Travis

Parenthood

1989
as Frank Buckman

Inherit the Wind

1988
as Harry Drummond

Bright Lights, Big City

1988
as Drunken Writer/Mr. Hardy

The Christmas Wife

1988
as John Tanner

Laguna Heat

1987
as Wade Shephard

Square Dance

1987
as Dillard

Portrait Werner Herzog

1986
as archive footage

The Long Hot Summer

1985
as Will Varner

The Long Hot Summer

1985
as Will Varner

Hughie

1984
as Erie Smith

The World of Tomorrow

1984
as Self - Narrator

Sakharov

1984
as Andrei Sakharov

The Day After

1983
as Dr. Russell Oakes

Max Dugan Returns

1983
as Max Dugan

Burden of Dreams

1982
as Fitzcarraldo

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

1981
as President Ulysses S. Grant

Melvin and Howard

1980
as Howard Hughes

Haywire

1980
as Leland Hayward

F.D.R.: The Last Year

1980
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Raise the Titanic

1980
as Admiral James Sandecker

Cabo Blanco

1980
as Gunther Beckdorff

Hurricane

1979
as Capt. Bruckner

A Christmas to Remember

1978
as Daniel Larson

Comes a Horseman

1978
as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

Julia

1977
as Dashiell Hammett

Washington: Behind Closed Doors

1977
as President Richard Monkton

All the President's Men

1976
as Ben Bradlee

Mr. Sycamore

1975
as John Gwilt

A Moon for the Misbegotten

1975
as James Tyrone Jr.

A Boy and His Dog

1975
as Lou Craddock

Old Faithful

1973
as Jason Robards

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973
as Governor Wallace

The War Between Men and Women

1972
as Stephen Kozlenko

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971
as Cesar Charron

Johnny Got His Gun

1971
as Joe's Father

Operation Snafu

1970
as Sam Armstrong

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970
as Lt. General Walter C. Short

Julius Caesar

1970
as Marcus Brutus

Isadora

1968
as Singer

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968
as Manuel 'Cheyenne' Gutiérrez

Divorce American Style

1967
as Nelson Downes

Hour of the Gun

1967
as Doc Holliday

Any Wednesday

1966
as John Cleves

The Face of a Genius

1966
as Self - Narrator

Noon Wine

1966
as Royal Earle Thompson

A Thousand Clowns

1965
as Murray N. Burns

Act One

1963
as George S. Kaufman

Tender Is the Night

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

By Love Possessed

1961
as Julius Penrose

The Journey

1959
as Paul Kedes

A Doll's House

1959
as Dr. Rank

Guest Star

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