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Acting

Jason Robards

Career: Active from 1959 to 2000, busiest in 1991 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 89
top three billing

Average score: 63/100

Highest rated: When It Was a Game
92/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 76 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Jason Robards Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.1, average 5.4
Situational Comedy
1.8, average 2.7
Fantasy
0.8, average 1.7
Physical Comedy
1.5, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 10
Social Commentary 9
Character-Driven 9
Nostalgic 8
Character Study 7
Political Intrigue 7
Period Piece 6
Political Thriller 5
Atmospheric 5
Coming-of-Age 4
Melancholy 4
Tragedy 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

133

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title · average score 67

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

67

as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)

2000s

2 titles · average score 80

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004

80

as Joe's Father (video "One")

Going Home

as Charles Barton

1990s

36 titles · average score 66

A Thousand Acres

37

as Larry Cook

Philadelphia

76

as Charles Wheeler

Heidi

71

TV show · as Grandfather

The Trial

43

as Doctor Huld

Storyville

55

as Clifford Fowler

71

as President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

An Inconvenient Woman

63

TV show · as Jules Mendelson

When It Was a Game

92

as (voice)

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

57

as Dr. Armand Hammer

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

77

as Narrator (voice)

The Civil War

85

TV show · as Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

Quick Change

68

as Chief Rotzinger

1980s

32 titles · average score 60

Dream a Little Dream

33

as Coleman Ettinger

Black Rainbow

72

as Walter Travis

Parenthood

79

as Frank Buckman

The Good Mother

57

as W. O. Muth

The Long Hot Summer

63

TV show · as Will Varner

The Atlanta Child Murders

62

TV show · as Alvin Binder

Something Wicked This Way Comes

65

as Charles Halloway

The Day After

77

as Dr. Russell Oakes

Max Dugan Returns

65

as Max Dugan

Raise the Titanic

41

as Admiral James Sandecker

Melvin and Howard

77

as Howard Hughes

Caboblanco

40

as Gunther Beckdorff

1970s

29 titles · average score 63

Comes a Horseman

49

as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

Julia

67

as Dashiell Hammett

Washington: Behind Closed Doors

78

TV show · as President Richard Monckton

All the President's Men

86

as Ben Bradlee

A Boy and His Dog

68

as Lou Craddock

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

67

as Governor Wallace

The War Between Men and Women

55

as Stephen Kozlenko

Murders in the Rue Morgue

30

as Cesar Charron

Johnny Got His Gun

73

as Joe's Father

Tora! Tora! Tora!

64

as General Walter C. Short

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

84

as Cable Hogue

Julius Caesar

46

as Marcus Brutus

1960s

22 titles · average score 67

Once Upon a Time in the West

88

as 'Cheyenne'

The Night They Raided Minsky's

53

as Raymond Paine

Hour of the Gun

63

as Doc Holliday

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

70

as Al Capone

Divorce American Style

79

as Nelson Downes

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

76

as Henry Drummond

Any Wednesday

54

as John Cleves

A Thousand Clowns

73

as Murray

Act One

55

as George S. Kaufman

Tender Is the Night

58

as Dick Diver

By Love Possessed

49

as Julius Penrose

The Iceman Cometh

77

TV show · as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman

1950s

9 titles · average score 75

The Journey

69

as Paul Kedes

For Whom the Bell Tolls

as Robert Jordan

A Doll's House

as Dr. Rank

Play of the Week

TV show

Playhouse 90

79

TV show · as Robert Jordan

The Alcoa Hour

TV show · as Bert Palmer

General Electric Theater

68

TV show · as Col. Carter

Omnibus

75

TV show

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Marcus / Dr. Rank

1940s

2 titles · average score 65

Studio One

65

TV show · as Walter Osgood / Leonard O'Brien

The Philco Television Playhouse

TV show · as Joe Grant / Mason