72 Facts About Jason Robards

Jason Robards was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979, earned the National Medal of Arts in 1997, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1999.

Jason Robards started his career in theatre, making his Broadway debut playing James Tyrone Jr.

Jason Robards earned the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role in the Budd Schulberg play The Disenchanted.

Jason Robards made his feature film debut in The Journey.

Jason Robards went on to win two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men, and Dashiell Hammett in Julia.

Jason Robards was Oscar-nominated for playing Howard Hughes in Melvin and Howard.

On television, Jason Robards won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his performance as Henry Drummond in the NBC television adaptation Inherit the Wind.

Jason Robards was of German, English, Welsh, Irish, and Swedish descent.

Later interviews with Jason Robards suggested that the trauma of his parents' divorce, which occurred during his grade-school years, greatly affected his personality and world view.

Jason Robards had little or no contact with his mother after the divorce.

Jason Robards's father married a second time to Agnes Lynch.

Jason Robards was probably closer to his stepmother than his biological one.

The elder Jason Robards had enjoyed considerable success during the era of silent films, but he fell out of favor after the advent of sound film, leaving the younger Jason Robards soured on the Hollywood film industry.

The teenage Jason Robards excelled in athletics, running a 4:18-mile during his junior year at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles.

Jason Robards found himself treading water until near daybreak, when he was rescued by an American destroyer.

Jason Robards served honorably during the war, but was not a recipient of the US Navy Cross, contrary to what has been reported in numerous sources.

Aboard Nashville, Jason Robards first found a copy of Eugene O'Neill's play Strange Interlude in the ship's library.

Jason Robards had emceed for a Navy band in Pearl Harbor, got a few laughs, and decided he liked it.

Jason Robards's father suggested he enroll in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, from which he graduated in 1948.

Jason Robards left the Navy in 1946 as a Petty officer first class.

Jason Robards moved to New York City and began working on radio and stage.

Jason Robards made his Broadway debut in the popular hit Stalag 17, joining the cast during its run; Robards worked as an assistant stage manager.

Jason Robards began getting roles in some television dramas, such as episodes of The Magnavox Theatre, Mama, The Man Behind the Badge, The Big Story, Philco Television Playhouse, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Appointment with Adventure, Justice, Star Tonight and Goodyear Playhouse.

Jason Robards later portrayed Hickey again in another 1985 Broadway revival staged by Quintero.

Jason Robards earned the Theatre World Award for his performance and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

Jason Robards continued to be busy on television, guest starring in The Alcoa Hour, Seven Lively Arts, Studio One and Omnibus.

Jason Robards returned to Broadway acting in Budd Schulberg's play The Disenchanted, winning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.

Jason Robards starred in the TV version of For Whom the Bell Tolls for Playhouse 90, Billy Budd for The Dupont Show of the Month, A Doll's House, and The Iceman Cometh.

In 1961 Jason Robards starred in Big Fish, Little Fish by Hugh Wheeler directed by John Gielgud.

Jason Robards became a familiar face to movie audiences throughout the 1960s.

Jason Robards repeated his role in Long Day's Journey into Night in the 1962 film and played playwright George S Kaufman in the film Act One based on the Moss Hart play of the same name.

Jason Robards was in two episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre including an adaptation of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Jason Robards's films included Big Hand for the Little Lady, a comedy Western, and Any Wednesday, an adaptation of a popular Broadway hit.

Jason Robards did Noon Wine for Sam Peckinpah on television, the film that revived Peckinpah's career.

In 1967 Jason Robards portrayed Doc Holliday in the western film Hour of the Gun and played Al Capone in The St Valentine's Day Massacre.

Jason Robards acted opposite Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, and Claudia Cardinale.

Jason Robards did The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for television and on Broadway Jason Robards was in We Bombed in New Haven a play by Joseph Heller.

Jason Robards played Brutus in Julius Caesar opposite Charlton Heston, did Rosolino Paterno, soldato.

Jason Robards starred in Fools, Johnny Got His Gun, Murders in the Rue Morgue for AIP, and The War Between Men and Women.

Jason Robards has appeared on Broadway in revivals such as The Country Girl and A Moon for the Misbegotten.

Jason Robards repeated his performance in Moon for television in 1975.

Jason Robards was in A Boy and His Dog, The Easter Promise, Mr Sycamore, and Addie and the King of Hearts.

Jason 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.

Jason Robards won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, denying Network a chance to sweep all four acting categories.

Jason Robards was reunited with O'Neill and Quintero for A Touch of the Poet on stage in 1977.

Jason Robards had lead roles in Max Dugan Returns by Neil Simon and Something Wicked This Way Comes from the novel by Ray Bradbury.

Jason Robards played Dr Russell Oakes in the 1983 television film The Day After.

In 1983 Jason Robards appeared in a popular Broadway revival of You Can't Take It With You, a 1985 revival of The Iceman Cometh with Quintero and A Month of Sundays directed by Gene Saks.

Jason Robards appeared in the lead role of James Tyrone Sr.

For television Jason Robards did Sakharov, The Atlanta Child Murders, The Long Hot Summer, Johnny Bull, The Last Frontier, Laguna Heat, Breaking Home Ties, Inherit the Wind and The Christmas Wife.

For films Jason Robards was in Storyville, The Adventures of Huck Finn and in 1993 he acted in Harold Pinter's British legal film The Trial opposite Kyle MacLachlan and Anthony Hopkins and the AIDS legal drama Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.

Jason Robards played Abraham Lincoln in the television films Abe Lincoln in Illinois and The Perfect Tribute, and supplied the voice for the 1992 television documentary miniseries Lincoln.

Jason Robards played the role of Ulysses S Grant in The Legend of the Lone Ranger and supplied the Union General's voice in the PBS miniseries The Civil War.

Jason Robards appeared in the documentary Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio.

Jason Robards appeared in The Roots of Roe, The Paper, Little Big League, The Enemy Within, My Antonia, Crimson Tide, Journey, A Thousand Acres, Heartwood, The Real Macaw, and Beloved In 1995 Jason Robards appeared on stage in Molly Sweeney.

Jason Robards played a congressman in Tony Scott's political thriller Enemy of the State starring Will Smith.

Jason Robards had two more children with his fourth wife, Lois O'Connor, and they remained married until his death.

In 1972, Jason Robards was seriously injured in an automobile crash when he drove his car into the side of a mountain on a winding California road, requiring extensive surgery and facial reconstruction.

Jason Robards overcame his addiction and went on to publicly campaign for alcoholism awareness.

Jason Robards was a resident of the Southport section of Fairfield, Connecticut.

Jason Robards died of lung cancer in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on December 26,2000.

Jason Robards's remains were buried at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Fairfield.

Jason Robards received eight Tony Award nominations, more than any other male actor as of 2020.

Jason Robards won the Tony for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his work in The Disenchanted ; this was his only stage appearance with his father.

Jason Robards received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in consecutive years: for All the President's Men, portraying Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, and for Julia, portraying writer Dashiell Hammett.

Jason Robards was nominated for another Academy Award for his role as Howard Hughes in Melvin and Howard.

Jason Robards received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his role in the television film Inherit the Wind.

In 1997, Jason Robards received the US National Medal of Arts, the highest honor conferred to an individual artist on behalf of the people.

In 2000, Jason Robards received the first Monte Cristo Award, presented by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and named after O'Neill's home.

Jason Robards narrated the public radio documentary, Schizophrenia: Voices of an Illness, produced by Lichtenstein Creative Media, which was awarded a 1994 George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.

Jason Robards is in the American Theater Hall of Fame, inducted in 1979.

The Jason Robards Award was created by the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City in his honor and his relationship with the theater.