Jason Robards
1922–2000 · American actor
Jason Nelson Robards Jr. was an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he gained a reputation as an interpreter of the works of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Robards received numerous accolades and is one of 24 performers to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting having earned competitive wins for two Academy Awards, a Tony Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. In addition to these plaudits, Robards was nominated for five Golden Globes, two BAFTAs, an Actor Award, a Laurel Award and a Grammy Award. He was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979, earned the National Medal of Arts in 1997, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1999.
Jason Robards, in order
- 1931 Caught Plastered: acted · directed by William A. Seiter
- 1959 The Journey: acted · directed by Anatole Litvak · audiences 76%
- 1960 The Iceman Cometh (TV movie): acted · directed by Sidney Lumet · streaming on Plex
- 1961 By Love Possessed: acted · directed by John Sturges
- 1962 Long Day's Journey into Night: acted · directed by Sidney Lumet · critics 94%, audiences 85% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
- 1962 Tender Is the Night: acted · directed by Henry King
- 1963 Act One: acted · directed by Dore Schary
- 1965 A Thousand Clowns: acted · directed by Fred Coe
- 1966 A Big Hand for the Little Lady: acted · directed by Fielder Cook · audiences 85% · streaming on HBO Max
- 1966 Any Wednesday: acted · directed by Robert Ellis Miller
- 1966 Noon Wine (TV movie): acted · directed by Sam Peckinpah
- 1967 Divorce American Style: acted · directed by Bud Yorkin
- 1967 Hour of the Gun: acted · directed by John Sturges
- 1967 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: acted · directed by Roger Corman
- 1968 Isadora: acted · directed by Karel Reisz
- 1968 Once Upon a Time in the West: acted · directed by Sergio Leone · critics 96%, audiences 94% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
- 1968 The Night They Raided Minsky's: acted · directed by William Friedkin
- 1970 Fools: acted · directed by Tom Gries
- 1970 Julius Caesar: acted · directed by Stuart Burge
- 1970 Rosolino Paternò, soldato...: acted · directed by Nanni Loy
- 1970 The Ballad of Cable Hogue: acted · directed by Sam Peckinpah
- 1970 Tora! Tora! Tora!: acted · directed by Kinji Fukasaku and Richard Fleischer · critics 59%, audiences 81% · streaming on Prime Video
- 1971 Johnny Got His Gun: acted · directed by Dalton Trumbo
- 1971 Murders in the Rue Morgue: acted · directed by Gordon Hessler
- 1972 Arruza: acted · directed by Budd Boetticher
- 1972 The House Without a Christmas Tree (TV movie): acted · directed by Paul Bogart
- 1972 The War Between Men and Women: acted · directed by Melville Shavelson
- 1973 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: acted · directed by Sam Peckinpah
- 1975 A Boy and His Dog: acted · directed by L. Q. Jones · critics 79%, audiences 63% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Roku Channel
- 1975 A Moon for the Misbegotten (TV movie): acted
- 1975 Mr. Sycamore: acted · directed by Pancho Kohner
- 1976 All the President's Men: acted · directed by Alan J. Pakula
- 1976 The Death Merchants: acted · directed by Reza Badiyi and Uri Massad
- 1977 Julia: acted · directed by Fred Zinnemann · critics 75%, audiences 70% · streaming on Hoopla
- 1977 Washington: Behind Closed Doors (TV series): acted · directed by Gary Nelson
- 1978 A Christmas to Remember (TV movie): acted · directed by George Englund
- 1978 Comes a Horseman: acted · directed by Alan J. Pakula and Paul Helmick
- 1979 Hurricane: acted · directed by Jan Troell
- 1980 Caboblanco: acted · directed by J. Lee Thompson
- 1980 Haywire: acted · directed by Michael Tuchner
- 1980 Melvin and Howard: acted · directed by Jonathan Demme · critics 91%, audiences 60%
- 1980 Raise the Titanic: acted · directed by Jerry Jameson
- 1981 The Legend of the Lone Ranger: acted · directed by William A. Fraker
- 1982 Burden of Dreams: acted · directed by Les Blank
- 1983 Max Dugan Returns: acted · directed by Herbert Ross
- 1983 Something Wicked This Way Comes: acted · directed by Jack Clayton
- 1983 The Day After: acted · directed by Nicholas Meyer
- 1984 Sakharov (TV movie): acted · directed by Jack Gold
- 1985 The Atlanta Child Murders: acted · directed by John Erman
- 1987 Laguna Heat (TV movie): acted · directed by Simon Langton
- 1987 Square Dance: acted · directed by Daniel Petrie
- 1988 Bright Lights, Big City: acted · directed by James Bridges
- 1988 Inherit the Wind: acted · directed by David Greene
- 1988 The Good Mother: acted · directed by Leonard Nimoy · critics 64%, audiences 28% · streaming on Hoopla
- 1989 Black Rainbow: acted · directed by Mike Hodges
- 1989 Dream a Little Dream: acted · directed by Marc Rocco
- 1989 Parenthood: acted · directed by Ron Howard · critics 91%, audiences 76%
- 1989 Reunion: acted · directed by Jerry Schatzberg
- 1990 Quick Change: acted · directed by Bill Murray and Howard Franklin · critics 89%, audiences 71%
- 1990 The Civil War (TV series): acted · directed by Ken Burns
- 1991 An Inconvenient Woman (TV series): acted · directed by Larry Elikann
- 1991 Chernobyl: The Final Warning (TV movie): acted · directed by Anthony Page
- 1991 Mark Twain and Me (TV movie): acted · directed by Daniel Petrie
- 1992 Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio: acted · directed by Ken Burns
- 1992 Storyville: acted · directed by Mark Frost
- 1993 Heidi (TV movie): acted · directed by Michael Ray Rhodes
- 1993 Philadelphia: acted · directed by Jonathan Demme · critics 81%, audiences 89%
- 1993 The Adventures of Huck Finn: acted · directed by Stephen Sommers
- 1993 The Trial: acted · directed by David Hugh Jones
- 1994 Little Big League: acted · directed by Andrew Scheinman · critics 35%, audiences 54%
- 1994 The Enemy Within (TV movie): acted · directed by Jonathan Darby
- 1994 The Paper: acted · directed by Ron Howard · critics 86%, audiences 67%
- 1995 Crimson Tide: acted · directed by Tony Scott · critics 89%, audiences 84% · streaming on MGM+
- 1995 Journey (TV movie): acted · directed by Tom McLoughlin
- 1997 A Thousand Acres: acted · directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse
- 1998 Beloved: acted · directed by Jonathan Demme
- 1998 Enemy of the State: acted · directed by Tony Scott · critics 71%, audiences 78%
- 1998 Heartwood: acted · directed by Lanny Cotler
- 1998 The Real Macaw: acted · directed by Mario Andreacchio
- 1999 Magnolia: acted · directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · critics 82%, audiences 89% · streaming on Fawesome
- 1999 My Best Fiend: acted · directed by Werner Herzog
- 2016 For the Love of Spock: acted · directed by Adam Nimoy · critics 100%, audiences 83% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Hoopla