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Jason Robards
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Biography
Jason Nelson Robards Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor. Known as an interpreter of the works of playwright Eugene O'Neill, Robards received two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. He is one of 24 performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Magnolia
Appears in a KinoChain journey
A Boy and His Dog
Appears in a KinoChain journey
All the President's Men
As Ben Bradlee
Once Upon a Time in the West
As 'Cheyenne'
Tora! Tora! Tora!
As General Walter C. Short
The Atlanta Child Murders
As Alvin Binder
The Long Hot Summer
As Will Varner
Quick Change
As Chief Rotzinger
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Riding the Circuit
From theme park gunslingers to bounty hunters on Mars, a journey through the sci-fi Western and the cultures that remade it.
8 films
The Perfect Needledrop: Ten Moments That Own the Screen
From sudden silences to euphoric choruses, these are the film moments where a song doesn't just score the scene, it becomes the scene.
10 films
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Acted
Magnolia
1999 · Earl Partridge
The Paper
1994 · Graham Keighley
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993 · The King
Quick Change
1990 · Chief Rotzinger
Black Rainbow
1989 · Walter Travis
Parenthood
1989 · Frank Buckman
The Long Hot Summer
1985 · Will Varner
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985 · Alvin Binder
The World of Tomorrow
1984 · Self / Narrator
Max Dugan Returns
1983 · Max Dugan
Burden of Dreams
1982 · Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Julia
1977 · Dashiell Hammett
All the President's Men
1976 · Ben Bradlee
A Boy and His Dog
1975 · Lou Craddock
Johnny Got His Gun
1971 · Joe's Father
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971 · Cesar Charron
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · General Walter C. Short
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · 'Cheyenne'