Jason Robards biography 2022
Jason Robards biography
Jason Robards was born July 26, 1922, and is an American actor; he was 1961-69 and married to Lauren Bacall. After breaking through on Broadway in 1956 in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh and other great theater performances, Jason Robards came to the film.
He has often made a strong mark in portrait roles, e.g., as the editor-in-chief in Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men (1976) and Dashiell Hammett in Julia (1977), both of which earned him an Oscar, as well as the Richard M. Nixon impersonator Richard Munckton in the television series Washington Behind Closed Doors (1977).
Among Jason Robard's other roles can be mentioned the two western films, Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), as well as Melvin & Howard (1980), Philadelphia (1993) and A Thousand Acres (1997). Jason Robards played his last film role in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999).
Died on December 26, 2000
last updated October 2022