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Jason Robards

English
Filmography

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

2016
as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004
as Himself (voice)

My Best Fiend

1999
as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

Magnolia

1999
as Earl Partridge

Enemy of the State

1998
as Congressman Phillip Hammersley

Heartwood

1998
as Logan Reeser

The Real Macaw

1998
as Grandpa Girdis

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

The Enemy Within

1994
as General R. Pendleton Lloyd

The Paper

1994
as Graham Keighley

Little Big League

1994
as Thomas Heywood

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

1993
as Himself

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993
as Pap Finn

The Trial

1993
as Dr Huld

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993
as The King

Philadelphia

1993
as Charles Wheeler

Lincoln

1992
as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Storyville

1992
as Clifford Fowler

Mark Twain and Me

1991
as Mark Twain

The Perfect Tribute

1991
as President Abraham Lincoln

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

1991
as Dr. Armand Hammer

Quick Change

1990
as Chief Rotzinger

Reunion

1989
as Hans Strauss(alt)

Dream a Little Dream

1989
as Coleman Ettinger

Parenthood

1989
as Frank Buckman

Thomas Hart Benton

1989
as Narrator (voice)

Black Rainbow

1989
as Walter Travis

The Christmas Wife

1988
as John Tanner

The Good Mother

1988
as Muth

Inherit the Wind

1988
as Harry Drummond

Bright Lights, Big City

1988
as Drunken Writer/Mr. Hardy

Square Dance

1987
as Dillard

Laguna Heat

1987
as Wade Shephard

Breaking Home Ties

1987
as Lloyd

Portrait Werner Herzog

1986
as archive footage

The Long Hot Summer

1985
as Will Varner

The World of Tomorrow

1984
as Self - Narrator

America and Lewis Hine

1984
as (voice)

Hughie

1984
as Erie Smith

Sakharov

1984
as Andrei Sakharov

The Day After

1983
as Dr. Russell Oakes

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1983
as Charles Halloway

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

Haywire

1980
as Leland Hayward

Raise the Titanic

1980
as Admiral James Sandecker

F.D.R.: The Last Year

1980
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Cabo Blanco

1980
as Gunther Beckdorff

Melvin and Howard

1980
as Howard Hughes

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

All the President's Men

1976
as Ben Bradlee

Mr. Sycamore

1975
as John Gwilt

A Boy and His Dog

1975
as Lou Craddock

A Moon for the Misbegotten

1975
as James Tyrone Jr.

Old Faithful

1973
as Jason Robards

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973
as Governor Wallace

The Thanksgiving Treasure

1973
as James Mills

The House Without a Christmas Tree

1972
as Jamie Mills

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

Julius Caesar

1970
as Marcus Brutus

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1970
as Cable Hogue

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970
as Lt. General Walter C. Short

The Night They Raided Minsky's

1968
as Raymond Paine

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968
as Manuel 'Cheyenne' Gutiérrez

Isadora

1968
as Singer

The Belle of 14th Street

1967
as Himself

Divorce American Style

1967
as Nelson Downes

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1967
as Al Capone

Hour of the Gun

1967
as Doc Holliday

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

1966
as Henry Drummond

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

Long Day's Journey Into Night

1962
as Jamie Tyrone

Tender Is the Night

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

By Love Possessed

1961
as Julius Penrose

A Doll's House

1959
as Dr. Rank

The Journey

1959
as Paul Kedes