Jason Robards

Actor

Male

Born Jul 26, 1922

Hometown Chicago

Died Dec 26, 2000

Death Place Bridgeport, Conne...

Nationality United States

Other Names Jason Nelson Roba...

Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was an American actor on stage, and in film and television. He is a winner of the Tony Award, two Academy Awards and the Emmy Award. He was also a United States Navy combat veteran of World War II. He became famous playing works… Read More

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SNAP! ARTIST RECREATES FAMOUS MOVIE SCENES IN 'THEN AND NOW' PHOTOS Jane Fonda and Jason Robards ...

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Sep 24, 2012

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Jason Robards and Norman Wisdom in 'The Night They Raided Minsky's' (1968) Directed by William Fr...

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Aug 12, 2007

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Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst Photo: Adam Scull/Globe Photos Inc

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Jun 17, 2003

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LAUREN BACALL & JASON ROBARDS SON SAM MARRIES DANISH MODEL SISSEL JENSEN.AT SAINT JOHANNES CHURCH...

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Nov 8, 1997

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Romance

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Lois O'Connor

Married 1969 - 2000
Lauren Bacall
Married 1961 - 1969
Eleanor Pittman

Married 1947 - 1958

Family

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Jason Robards

d.2000

parents

Jason Robards, Sr.
Father, d.1963

children

Sam Robards
Son, Age 51

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Anne Margaret Daniel: F. Scott Fitzgerald And Hollywood: Writing For The Movies, 1937 1940
Huffington Post - May 04, 2013

Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) and Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) have lunch. (Courtesy Warner Brothers) With the new movie version of The Great Gatsby getting more attention by the moment, and since I positively reveled in its New York premiere last week, I've been thinking about F. Scott Fitzgerald's own career as a writer -- of novels, certainly, but also of screenplays. In 1937, Fitzgerald went to work in Hollywood. He had never, despite the flop of his play The Vegetable i...
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Liz Smith: The Great Holland Taylor As The Great Ann Richards. She Is Broadway's Next Big Thing Again
Huffington Post - Jan 16, 2013

"EATING!! What a concept!!" said the actress Holland Taylor to me way back when I first met her when we were both young. Since then, the art of eating, dining, food, health and restaurants has become such big business that there are ongoing financial tomes about same, whole sections in newspapers, magazines and on the Internet. The "new theater" is said to be "eating out in restaurants." Or, better, becoming a TV chef. I thought Holland's quote was so good I opened up my bo...
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Actress Deborah Raffin Dies At Age 59
Huffington Post - Nov 23, 2012

LOS ANGELES — Deborah Raffin, an actress who ran a successful audiobook company with the help of her celebrity friends, has died. She was 59. Raffin died Wednesday of leukemia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, her brother, William, told the Los Angeles Times ( ). She was diagnosed with the blood cancer about a year ago. http://lat.ms/R0q9NM Raffin, the daughter of 20th Century Fox contract player Trudy Marshall, had roles in movies such as "Forty Carats" and "On...
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Critic's Pick: 'Spaghetti Westerns Unchained'
LATimes - Aug 02, 2012

American Cinematheque's tribute to spaghetti westerns takes over both the Egyptian and Aero theaters. This wonderfully titled American Cinematheque tribute to the Italian westerns that made Clint Eastwood a major star and director Sergio Leone and composer Ennio Morricone international celebrities is so big that it's taking over both the Hollywood and Santa Monica branches of the Cinematheque. At 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Egyptian Theatre, see the two films that started the trend: 1964's "A F...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1922 Birth Born on July 26, 1922.

TEENAGE

1940 17 Years Old Although his prowess in sports attracted interest from several universities, upon his graduation in 1940, Robards decided to join the Navy.

1941 18 Years Old 1 More Event

As a radioman 3rd class in the Navy, Robards served aboard a heavy cruiser, the USS Northampton (CA-26) in 1941.

TWENTIES

1944 21 Years Old Two years later, in November 1944, Robards was radioman on the USS Nashville (CL-43), the flagship for the invasion of Mindoro in the northern Philippines. … Read More

THIRTIES

1956 33 Years Old … His big break was landing the starring role in José Quintero's 1956 off-Broadway-theatre production and the later 1960 television film of O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, portraying the philosophical salesman Hickey; he won an Obie Award for his stage performance. … Read More

1961 38 Years Old Robards had six children from his four marriages, including actor Jason Robards III (born 1949) by his first wife, Eleanor Pittman; and actor Sam Robards by his third wife, actress Lauren Bacall, to whom he was married in 1961: they divorced in 1969, in significant part because of his alcoholism. … Read More

Long Day's Journey into Night (1962 film)

1962 39 Years Old He repeated his role in Long Day's Journey Into Night in the 1962 film and televised his performances in A Moon for the Misbegotten (1975) and Hughie (1984). … Read More

FORTIES

1964 41 Years Old Robards played three different U.S. presidents in film. He played the role of Abraham Lincoln in the TV movie The Perfect Tribute (1991) and supplied the voice for two television documentaries, first for "The Presidency: A Splendid Misery" in 1964, and then again in the title role of the 1992 documentary miniseries Lincoln. … Read More

FIFTIES

1976 53 Years Old Robards appeared in two dramatizations based on the Watergate scandal. In 1976 he portrayed Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee in the film All the President's Men, based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward.

1977 54 Years Old The next year, he played fictional president Richard Monckton (based on Richard Nixon) in the 1977 television miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors based on John Ehrlichman's roman à clef The Company. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1997 74 Years Old In 1997, Robards received the U.S. National Medal of Arts, the highest honor conferred to an individual artist on behalf of the people. … Read More

1999 76 Years Old In 1999, he was among the recipients at the Kennedy Center Honors, an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture. … Read More

2000 78 Years Old A resident of the Southport section of Fairfield, Connecticut, Robards died of lung cancer in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on December 26, 2000 at the age of 78. … Read More

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