Jason Robards
Biography
Movies 125
Once Upon a Time in the West
as 'Cheyenne'
1968
Magnolia
as Earl Partridge
1999
Enemy of the State
as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)
1998
All the President's Men
as Ben Bradlee
1976
Philadelphia
as Charles Wheeler
1993
Crimson Tide
as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)
1995
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as General Walter C. Short
1970
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Governor Wallace
1973
Parenthood
as Frank Buckman
1989
A Boy and His Dog
as Lou Craddock
1975
The Day After
as Dr. Russell Oakes
1983
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
as Cable Hogue
1970
Quick Change
as Chief Rotzinger
1990
Something Wicked This Way Comes
as Charles Halloway
1983
Hour of the Gun
as Doc Holliday
1967
Julia
as Dashiell Hammett
1977
Johnny Got His Gun
as Joe's Father
1971
The Adventures of Huck Finn
as The King
1993
The Paper
as Graham Keighley
1994
Bright Lights, Big City
as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
1988
Raise the Titanic
as Admiral James Sandecker
1980
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
as Henry Drummond
1966
Beloved
as Mr. Bodwin
1998
Dream a Little Dream
as Coleman Ettinger
1989
Tender Is the Night
as Dick Diver
1962
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Al Capone
1967
My Best Fiend
as Self (archive footage)
1999
The Journey
as Paul Kedes
1959
Long Day's Journey Into Night
as Jamie Tyrone
1962
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
as President Ulysses S. Grant
1981
The Good Mother
as W. O. Muth
1988
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
1990
The Enemy Within
as General R. Pendleton Lloyd
1994
Burden of Dreams
as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
1982
La Classe américaine
as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)
1993
The Night They Raided Minsky's
as Raymond Paine
1968
Julius Caesar
as Marcus Brutus
1970
Murders in the Rue Morgue
as Cesar Charron
1971
Comes a Horseman
as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing
1978
The War Between Men and Women
as Stephen Kozlenko
1972
A Thousand Acres
as Larry Cook
1997
Melvin and Howard
as Howard Hughes
1980
Little Big League
as Thomas Heywood
1994
A Christmas to Remember
as Daniel Larson
1978
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
1987
That Moment: Magnolia Diary
as Self
2000
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
as Dr. Armand Hammer
1991
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
as Narrator (voice)
1991
The Trial
as Doctor Huld
1993
Caboblanco
as Gunther Beckdorff
1980
Divorce American Style
as Nelson Downes
1967
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Mark Twain and Me
as Mark Twain
1991
The Voice Still Carries: The Aimee Mann Story
as Earl Partridge (Magnolia archive footage)
2026
Reunion
as Henry Strauss
1989
A Thousand Clowns
as Murray
1965
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
2016
F.D.R.: The Last Year
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
1980
Black Rainbow
as Walter Travis
1989
Max Dugan Returns
as Max Dugan
1983
Isadora
as Paris Singer
1968
By Love Possessed
as Julius Penrose
1961
When It Was a Game
as (voice)
1991
When It Was a Game 2
as Passage Narrator (voice)
1992
Act One
as George S. Kaufman
1963
Inherit the Wind
as Harry Drummond
1988
Sakharov
as Andrei Sakharov
1984
Hurricane
as Capt. Charles Bruckner
1979
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
as Self
1993
Arthur Miller: Writer
as Self (archive footage)
2017
The Belle of 14th Street
as Performer
1967
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Abraham Lincoln
1964
America and Lewis Hine
as Voice
1984
Heartwood
as Logan Reeser
1998
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
as Narrator
1996
The Thanksgiving Treasure
as James "Jamie" Mills
1973
Storyville
as Clifford Fowler
1992
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as Self
2006
Mr. Sycamore
as John Gwilt
1975
Any Wednesday
as John Cleves
1966
Going Home
as Charles Barton
2000
The World of Tomorrow
as Self / Narrator
1984
A Moon for the Misbegotten
as James Tyrone Jr.
1975
The Real Macaw
as Grandpa Girdis
1998
Square Dance
as Dillard
1987
You Can't Take it With You
as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
1984
Noon Wine
as Royal Earle Thompson
1966
The House Without a Christmas Tree
as James "Jamie" Mills
1972
Journey
as Marcus
1995
My Antonia
as Josea Burden
1995
Breaking Home Ties
as Lloyd Wells
1987
Laguna Heat
as Wade Shephard
1987
Haywire
as Leland Hayward
1980
The Perfect Tribute
as President Abraham Lincoln
1991
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Robert Jordan
1959
Lincoln
as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
1992
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
as Joe's Father (video "One")
2006
Fools
as Matthew South
1970
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
1967
Operation Snafu
as Sam Armstrong
1970
Truman
as Narrator (voice)
1997
Portrait: Werner Herzog
as Self (archive footage)
1986
The Easter Promise
as James "Jamie" Mills
1975
Addie and the King of Hearts
as James "Jamie" Mills
1976
The Face of Genius
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1966
The Christmas Wife
as John Tanner
1988
The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History
as Self - Host
1983
Thomas Hart Benton
as Narrator (voice)
1989
The Spy Who Never Was
as Inspector Barkan
1976
The Country Girl
as Frank Elgin
1974
The Bat
as Detective Anderson
1960
A Plague on Our Children
as Narrator (voice)
1979
Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale
as Narrator (voice)
1991
Johnny Bull
as Stephan Kovacs
1986
A Doll's House
as Dr. Rank
1959
The Great American West
as Narrator (voice)
1995
Old Faithful
as Jason Robards
1973
Ghosts of Cape Horn
as Narrator
1980
The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1992
Empire City
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1985
Roots of Roe
as Anthony Comstock (voice)
1993
Deceptions
as Clay (voice)
1992
Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital
as Narrator
1994TV Shows 43
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
Tony Awards
as Self - Host
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
Film '72
as Self
1971
Studio One
as Frank Cameron
1948
Studio One
as Prisoner
1948
Studio One
as Walter Osgood
1948
Studio One
as Leonard O'Brien
1948
Screen Two
as Doctor Huld
1985
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Joe Grant
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Mason
1948
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
Omnibus
1952
The Oscars
as Self
1953
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
Playhouse 90
as Robert Jordan
1956
The Civil War
as Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
1990
Play of the Week
1959
Ghost Story
as Elliot Brent
1972
ABC Stage 67
as Royal Earle Thompson
1966
Baseball
as (voice)
1994
General Electric Theater
as Col. Carter
1953
The Alcoa Hour
as Bert Palmer
1955
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Dr. Rank
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Marcus
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Abe Lincoln
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Frank Elgin
1951
The Magic of David Copperfield
1978
The West
as Self - Brigham Young
1996
The Atlanta Child Murders
as Alvin Binder
1985
The Long Hot Summer
as Will Varner
1985
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
as President Richard Monckton
1977
Heidi
as Grandfather
1993
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
as Detective Anderson
1960
The Last Frontier
as Ed Stenning
1986
An Inconvenient Woman
as Jules Mendelson
1991
Broadway on Showtime
as Erie Smith
1979
The Iceman Cometh
as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
1960