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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.
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 1922.
Only referred to as Jason Robards Sr. in retrospect. 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.
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...
Dec 27, 2000 · Jason Nelson Robards Jr. was born in Chicago on July 26, 1922, and reared in Hollywood by his father, Jason Robards Sr., an actor best known for his work in movies, and his stepmother....
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.
