Jason Robards: movies and TV shows
Jason Robards has 167 credits in the archive: 124 films and 43 TV series, from 1948 to 2017. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1948 – 2017 · busiest year: 1948 (7 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Arthur Miller: Writer | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.1 | 94 |
| 2016 | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone | Ben Bradlee (archive footage) | Film | 7.4 | 93 |
| 2006 | Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 | Joe's Father (video "One") | Film | 7.7 | 83 |
| 2006 | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self | Film | — | 83 |
| 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 81 |
| 2000 | That Moment: Magnolia Diary | Self | Film | 7.7 | 77 |
| 2000 | Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.1 | 77 |
| 2000 | Going Home | Charles Barton | Film | 6.5 | 77 |
| 1999 | Magnolia | Earl Partridge | Film | 7.7 | 76 |
| 1999 | My Best Fiend | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 76 |
| 1998 | Enemy of the State | Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited) | Film | 7.1 | 75 |
| 1998 | Beloved | Mr. Bodwin | Film | 5.8 | 75 |
| 1998 | The Real Macaw | Grandpa Girdis | Film | 6.0 | 75 |
| 1998 | Heartwood | Logan Reeser | Film | 3.8 | 75 |
| 1997 | A Thousand Acres | Larry Cook | Film | 5.7 | 74 |
| 1997 | Truman | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 74 |
| 1996 | The West | Self - Brigham Young | TV | 8.4 | 73 |
| 1996 | T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt | Narrator | Film | 9.0 | 73 |
| 1995 | Crimson Tide | Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited) | Film | 7.2 | 72 |
| 1995 | Journey | Marcus | Film | 6.2 | 72 |
| 1995 | My Antonia | Josea Burden | Film | 7.3 | 72 |
| 1995 | The Great American West | Narrator (voice) | Film | 9.0 | 72 |
| 1994 | Baseball | (voice) | TV | 7.5 | 71 |
| 1994 | The Enemy Within | General R. Pendleton Lloyd | Film | 5.8 | 71 |
| 1994 | The Paper | Graham Keighley | Film | 6.6 | 71 |
| 1994 | Little Big League | Thomas Heywood | Film | 5.9 | 71 |
| 1994 | Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital | Narrator | Film | — | 71 |
| 1993 | Philadelphia | Charles Wheeler | Film | 7.7 | 70 |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | The Newspaper Director (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 70 |
| 1993 | The Adventures of Huck Finn | The King | Film | 6.2 | 70 |
| 1993 | The Trial | Doctor Huld | Film | 6.0 | 70 |
| 1993 | Heidi | Großvater | Film | 6.0 | 70 |
| 1993 | Heidi | Grandfather | TV | 7.1 | 70 |
| 1993 | Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron | Self | Film | 7.1 | 70 |
| 1992 | When It Was a Game 2 | Passage Narrator (voice) | Film | 9.0 | 69 |
| 1992 | Storyville | Clifford Fowler | Film | 5.3 | 69 |
| 1992 | Lincoln | President Abraham Lincoln (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 69 |
| 1992 | Deceptions | Clay (voice) | Film | 9.0 | 69 |
| 1992 | The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 69 |
| 1991 | When It Was a Game | (voice) | Film | 10.0 | 68 |
| 1991 | The Perfect Tribute | President Abraham Lincoln | Film | 6.5 | 68 |
| 1991 | Mark Twain and Me | Mark Twain | Film | 7.6 | 68 |
| 1991 | An Inconvenient Woman | Jules Mendelson | TV | 5.8 | 68 |
| 1991 | Chernobyl: The Final Warning | Dr. Armand Hammer | Film | 5.8 | 68 |
| 1991 | Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.6 | 68 |
| 1991 | Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale | Narrator (voice) | Film | 10.0 | 68 |
| 1990 | The Civil War | Ulysses S. Grant (voice) | TV | 7.9 | 67 |
| 1990 | Quick Change | Chief Rotzinger | Film | 6.7 | 67 |
| 1990 | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | Film | 4.0 | 67 |
| 1989 | Parenthood | Frank Buckman | Film | 6.7 | 66 |
| 1989 | Thomas Hart Benton | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.8 | 66 |
| 1989 | Black Rainbow | Walter Travis | Film | 5.9 | 66 |
| 1989 | Dream a Little Dream | Coleman Ettinger | Film | 5.8 | 66 |
| 1989 | Reunion | Henry Strauss | Film | 6.7 | 66 |
| 1988 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) | TV | 6.5 | 65 |
| 1988 | The Good Mother | W. O. Muth | Film | 5.7 | 65 |
| 1988 | Inherit the Wind | Harry Drummond | Film | 7.3 | 65 |
| 1988 | Bright Lights, Big City | Mr. Hardy (uncredited) | Film | 5.7 | 65 |
| 1988 | The Christmas Wife | John Tanner | Film | 5.0 | 65 |
| 1987 | Square Dance | Dillard | Film | 4.7 | 64 |
| 1987 | Breaking Home Ties | Lloyd Wells | Film | 7.3 | 64 |
| 1987 | Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood | Self | Film | 6.0 | 64 |
| 1987 | Laguna Heat | Wade Shephard | Film | 4.3 | 64 |
| 1986 | Portrait: Werner Herzog | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.1 | 63 |
| 1986 | The Last Frontier | Ed Stenning | TV | 7.0 | 63 |
| 1986 | Johnny Bull | Stephan Kovacs | Film | 5.5 | 63 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Doctor Huld | TV | 7.1 | 62 |
| 1985 | Empire City | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | 9.0 | 62 |
| 1985 | The Long Hot Summer | Will Varner | TV | 5.5 | 62 |
| 1985 | The Atlanta Child Murders | Alvin Binder | TV | 5.8 | 62 |
| 1984 | America and Lewis Hine | Voice | Film | 6.2 | 61 |
| 1984 | The World of Tomorrow | Self / Narrator | Film | 5.5 | 61 |
| 1984 | Sakharov | Andrei Sakharov | Film | 7.5 | 61 |
| 1984 | You Can't Take it With You | Grandpa Martin Vanderhof | Film | — | 61 |
| 1983 | Reading Rainbow | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 8.3 | 60 |
| 1983 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Charles Halloway | Film | 6.5 | 60 |
| 1983 | The Day After | Dr. Russell Oakes | Film | 6.8 | 60 |
| 1983 | Max Dugan Returns | Max Dugan | Film | 6.6 | 60 |
| 1983 | The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History | Self - Host | Film | — | 60 |
| 1982 | Night of 100 Stars | Self | Film | 5.8 | 59 |
| 1982 | Burden of Dreams | Fitzcarraldo (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 59 |
| 1981 | The Legend of the Lone Ranger | President Ulysses S. Grant | Film | 4.9 | 58 |
| 1980 | Raise the Titanic | Admiral James Sandecker | Film | 5.4 | 57 |
| 1980 | F.D.R.: The Last Year | President Franklin D. Roosevelt | Film | 6.9 | 57 |
| 1980 | Haywire | Leland Hayward | Film | 6.7 | 57 |
| 1980 | Melvin and Howard | Howard Hughes | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 1980 | Caboblanco | Gunther Beckdorff | Film | 5.3 | 57 |
| 1980 | Ghosts of Cape Horn | Narrator | Film | — | 57 |
| 1979 | Hurricane | Capt. Charles Bruckner | Film | 4.7 | 56 |
| 1979 | Broadway on Showtime | Erie Smith | TV | — | 56 |
| 1978 | The Kennedy Center Honors | Self | TV | 7.4 | 55 |
| 1978 | The Magic of David Copperfield | TV | 7.0 | 55 | |
| 1978 | Comes a Horseman | Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing | Film | 6.1 | 55 |
| 1978 | A Christmas to Remember | Daniel Larson | Film | 7.5 | 55 |
| 1977 | Julia | Dashiell Hammett | Film | 6.5 | 54 |
| 1977 | Washington: Behind Closed Doors | President Richard Monckton | TV | 7.8 | 54 |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Ben Bradlee | Film | 7.7 | 53 |
| 1976 | The Spy Who Never Was | Inspector Barkan | Film | 8.0 | 53 |
| 1976 | Addie and the King of Hearts | James "Jamie" Mills | Film | 7.7 | 53 |
| 1975 | A Boy and His Dog | Lou Craddock | Film | 6.3 | 52 |
| 1975 | A Moon for the Misbegotten | James Tyrone Jr. | Film | 6.5 | 52 |
| 1975 | Mr. Sycamore | John Gwilt | Film | 7.3 | 52 |
| 1975 | The Easter Promise | James "Jamie" Mills | Film | 7.3 | 52 |
| 1974 | The Country Girl | Frank Elgin | Film | 10.0 | 51 |
| 1973 | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Governor Wallace | Film | 7.2 | 50 |
| 1973 | Old Faithful | Jason Robards | Film | — | 50 |
| 1973 | The Thanksgiving Treasure | James "Jamie" Mills | Film | 7.8 | 50 |
| 1972 | Ghost Story | Elliot Brent | TV | 7.4 | 49 |
| 1972 | The War Between Men and Women | Stephen Kozlenko | Film | 6.4 | 49 |
| 1972 | The House Without a Christmas Tree | James "Jamie" Mills | Film | 6.7 | 49 |
| 1971 | Film '72 | Self | TV | 4.7 | 48 |
| 1971 | Johnny Got His Gun | Joe's Father | Film | 7.5 | 48 |
| 1971 | Murders in the Rue Morgue | Cesar Charron | Film | 5.1 | 48 |
| 1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | General Walter C. Short | Film | 7.2 | 47 |
| 1970 | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Cable Hogue | Film | 7.0 | 47 |
| 1970 | Julius Caesar | Marcus Brutus | Film | 5.9 | 47 |
| 1970 | Fools | Matthew South | Film | 3.3 | 47 |
| 1970 | Operation Snafu | Sam Armstrong | Film | 6.7 | 47 |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | TV | 6.8 | 45 |
| 1968 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 'Cheyenne' | Film | 8.3 | 45 |
| 1968 | Isadora | Paris Singer | Film | 6.2 | 45 |
| 1968 | The Night They Raided Minsky's | Raymond Paine | Film | 5.5 | 45 |
| 1967 | Divorce American Style | Nelson Downes | Film | 5.9 | 44 |
| 1967 | Hour of the Gun | Doc Holliday | Film | 6.5 | 44 |
| 1967 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Al Capone | Film | 6.3 | 44 |
| 1967 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde | Film | — | 44 |
| 1967 | The Belle of 14th Street | Performer | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1966 | ABC Stage 67 | Royal Earle Thompson | TV | 6.8 | 43 |
| 1966 | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Henry Drummond | Film | 7.1 | 43 |
| 1966 | The Face of Genius | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1966 | Any Wednesday | John Cleves | Film | 6.1 | 43 |
| 1966 | Noon Wine | Royal Earle Thompson | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1965 | A Thousand Clowns | Murray | Film | 6.9 | 42 |
| 1964 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Abraham Lincoln | Film | 8.7 | 41 |
| 1963 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | TV | 5.9 | 40 | |
| 1963 | The Danny Kaye Show | Self | TV | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1963 | Act One | George S. Kaufman | Film | 6.3 | 40 |
| 1962 | Tender Is the Night | Dick Diver | Film | 5.7 | 39 |
| 1962 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Jamie Tyrone | Film | 6.9 | 39 |
| 1961 | By Love Possessed | Julius Penrose | Film | 5.3 | 38 |
| 1960 | The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries | Detective Anderson | TV | 8.0 | 37 |
| 1960 | The Bat | Detective Anderson | Film | 5.0 | 37 |
| 1960 | The Iceman Cometh | Theodore "Hickey" Hickman | Film | 7.4 | 37 |
| 1960 | The Iceman Cometh | Theodore "Hickey" Hickman | TV | — | 37 |
| 1959 | The Journey | Paul Kedes | Film | 6.3 | 36 |
| 1959 | Play of the Week | TV | 8.0 | 36 | |
| 1959 | A Doll's House | Dr. Rank | Film | 10.0 | 36 |
| 1959 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Robert Jordan | Film | — | 36 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Host | TV | — | 33 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | TV | — | 33 |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 | Robert Jordan | TV | 7.6 | 33 |
| 1955 | The Alcoa Hour | Bert Palmer | TV | 7.0 | 32 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 30 |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Col. Carter | TV | 6.8 | 30 |
| 1952 | Omnibus | TV | 6.3 | 29 | |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Dr. Rank | TV | 8.8 | 28 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Marcus | TV | 8.8 | 28 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Abe Lincoln | TV | 8.8 | 28 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Frank Elgin | TV | 8.8 | 28 |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self - Mystery Guest | TV | 7.0 | 27 |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | Joe Grant | TV | 6.6 | 25 |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | Mason | TV | 6.6 | 25 |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | TV | 6.8 | 25 |
| 1948 | Studio One | Frank Cameron | TV | 5.4 | 25 |
| 1948 | Studio One | Prisoner | TV | 5.4 | 25 |
| 1948 | Studio One | Walter Osgood | TV | 5.4 | 25 |
| 1948 | Studio One | Leonard O'Brien | TV | 5.4 | 25 |