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Overview. Born. December 31, 1892 · Hillsdale, Michigan, USA. Died. April 4, 1963 · Sherman Oaks, California, USA (heart attack) Birth name. Jason Nelson Robards. Nickname. Jason Robards. Height. 5′ 9¾″ (1.77 m) Mini Bio. Famed American stage actor. Trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Art.
5′ 9″ (1.75 m) Mini Bio. Powerful and highly respected American actor Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Hope Maxine (Glanville) and stage and film star Jason Robards Sr. He had Swedish, English, Welsh, German, and Irish ancestry. Robards was raised mostly in Los Angeles.
Died in 1963, having lived to see his namesake son and grandson (Jason Robards III) carry on the family acting tradition. Famed American stage actor. Trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. Appeared in many films, initially as a leading man, then in character roles and occasional bits.
Dec 5, 1999 · His father, Jason Robards Sr., had been a star of the early 20th-century theater and was playing Chicago in his greatest success, "Lightnin'," when young Jason was born there in the summer of...
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif., April 5--Jason Robards Sr., who returned to acting in 1957 after eight years of blindness and later appeared on Broadway with his son, Jason Robards Jr., died late...
Born in 1922, in Chicago, Robards was the son of a well-known actor of the 1920s and early '30s, Jason Robards, Sr. After graduating from Hollywood High School, he enlisted in the Navy at the age of 17 and became a radioman stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He saw seven years of service.
The foremost male interpreter of the works of playwright Eugene O'Neill since the mid-1950s, Jason Robards owes his career to the celebrated 1956 Circle in the Square revival of the playwright's "The Iceman Cometh," directed by Jose Quintero, which thrust the versatile actor from obscurity into the limelight.
