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Jason Robards. Actor: All the President's Men. 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. A star athlete at Hollywood High School, he served in the U.S. Navy in World ...
- Actor, Soundtrack
- December 26, 2000
- July 26, 1922
Apr 26, 2024 · Emmy Award (1988): Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special. Tony Award (1959): Best Actor in a Play. (Show more) Notable Family Members: spouse Lauren Bacall. Jason Robards (born July 26, 1922, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died December 26, 2000, Bridgeport, Connecticut) was an American stage and film actor who was known for his ...
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Jason Robards (1922-2000) Jason Robards. 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.
- Actor, Soundtrack
- July 26, 1922
- 3 min
- December 26, 2000
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(As Jason Robards, Jr.) George S. Kaufman, Act One, Warner Bros.,1964; Murray Burns, A Thousand Clowns, United Artists, 1965; John Cleves, Any Wednesday(also known as Bachelor Girl Apartment), Warner Bros., 1966 (As Jason Robards, Jr.) Henry Drummond, A Big Hand for the Little Lady(also known as Big Deal at Dodge City), Warner Bros., 1966
- Bitten by The Acting Bug
- Won Best Actor Award
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After his discharge from the Navy in 1946, Robards returned home and confided to his father his growing interest in acting. The senior Robards urged his son to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) in New York, which he himself had attended and now recommended to his son as an excellent place to learn the actor's craft. Although Robar...
Thus began for Robards and Quintero a successful partnership in the interpretation of O'Neill's work. Playwright O'Neill, who had died in November 1953, had requested that one of his plays—A Long Day's Journey into Night—not be produced until 25 years after his death. So impressed with Robards' interpretation of Hickey was O'Neill's widow that she ...
In 1959 Robards returned briefly to Shakespeare, playing the title role in a production of Macbeth at the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. More importantly, 1959 saw the actor's film debut in The Journey, released by MGM. Then it was back to Broadway where he won critical praise for his roles as Julian Berniers in Toys i...
Robards remained active in the theater for most of his life, but the late 1960s brought a sharp increase in his work in film. In 1966 he appeared in Any Wednesday and A Big Hand for the Little Lady. The following year he played Al Capone in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Doc Holliday in Hour of the Gun, and Nelson Downes in Divorce American Styl...
Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television,Gale Group, 2000. International Dictionary of Theatre, Volume 3: Actors, Directors, and Designers,St. James Press, 1996. Newsmakers,Gale Group, 2001.
"Biographies: Jason Robards," Videoflicks.com, http://www.videoflicks.com/biographies/A101/1013198.htm (January 21, 2002). "Jason Robards Jr.," Jason Robards, JAT Entertainment Group, http://www.jatentertainment.com/robards/index.htm(January 21, 2002). □
Dec 27, 2000 · We remember actor JASON ROBARDS. He died yesterday at the age of 78, after a long battle with cancer. He was an actor for over 50 years. He won Oscars for his performances as Ben Bradlee in "All ...
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. After the war, on his father's advice he ...
