Jason Nelson Robards Jr. (26 Juli 1922 – 26 Desember 2000) adalah seorang aktor Amerika. Dikenal karena perannya di panggung dan layar, ia memperoleh reputasi sebagai penafsir karya-karya penulis naskah Eugene O'Neill. Robards menerima banyak penghargaan dan merupakan salah satu dari 24 pemain yang mencapai Triple Crown of Acting telah memperoleh kemenangan kompetitif selama dua Academy Awards, Tony Award, dan Emmy Award. Dia dilantik menjadi anggota American Theatre Hall of Fame pada tahun 1979, memperoleh penghargaan National Medal of Arts pada tahun 1997, dan Kennedy Center Honors pada tahun 1999.
Robards memulai kariernya di teater, membuat debut Broadway-nya dengan memerankan James Tyrone Jr. dalam kebangkitan kembali drama Eugene O'Neill tahun 1956 Long Day's Journey into Night mendapatkan Theatre World Award. Ia memperoleh Penghargaan Tony untuk Aktor Terbaik dalam Drama untuk perannya dalam drama Budd Schulberg The Disenchanted (1959). Peran lain yang dinominasikan Tony adalah di Long Day's Journey into Night (1956). Toys in the Attic (1960), After the Fall (1964), Hughie (1965), The Country Girl (1972), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1973), dan A Touch of the Poet (1978).
Ia membuat debut film fiturnya di The Journey (1959). Ia kemudian memenangkan dua penghargaan berturut-turut Academy Awards untuk Aktor Pendukung Terbaik karena memerankan Ben Bradlee dalam All the President's Men (1976), dan Dashiell Hammett dalam Julia (1977). Dia dinominasikan Oscar untuk perannya sebagai Howard Hughes di Melvin and Howard (1980). Film-film terkenal lainnya termasuk Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), A Thousand Clowns (1965), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Parenthood (1989), Philadelphia (1993), Enemy of the State (1998), dan Magnolia (1999).
Di televisi, Robards memenangkan Primetime Emmy Award untuk Aktor Utama Luar Biasa dalam Serial Terbatas atau Film atas penampilannya sebagai Henry Drummond dalam adaptasi televisi NBC Inherit the Wind (1988). Peran lain yang dinominasikan Emmy adalah Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1964), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1975), Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977), dan F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980).
Karya
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sunting- Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956)
- The Disenchanted (1958)
- Toys in the Attic (1960)
- Big Fish, Little Fish (1961)
- A Thousand Clowns (1962)
- Hughie (1964)
- But For Whom Charlie (1964)
- After The Fall (1964)
- The Devils (1965)
- A Thousand Clowns (1965)
- We Bombed in New Haven (1968)
- The Country Girl (1972)
- A Moon for the Misbegotten (1973)
- A Touch of the Poet (1977)
- You Can't Take It With You (1984)
- The Iceman Cometh (1985)
- A Month of Sundays (1987)
- Ah, Wilderness! (1988)
- Long Day's Journey Into Night (1988)
- Love Letters (1989)
- Park Your Car in Harvard Yard (1991)
- No Man's Land (1994)
Film
sunting- The Journey (1959)
- By Love Possessed (1961)
- Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
- Tender Is the Night (1962)
- Act One (1963) (sebagai George S. Kaufman)
- A Thousand Clowns (1965)
- Any Wednesday (1966)
- A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
- Hour of the Gun (1967) (as Doc Holliday)
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) (sebagai Al Capone)
- Divorce American Style (1967)
- Isadora (1968)
- The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- Fools (1970)
- Julius Caesar (1970) (sebagai Brutus)
- Rosolino Paternò: Soldato..., aka Operation Snafu (1970)
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) (sebagai Gen. Walter Short)
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
- Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
- Jud (1971)
- Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
- The War Between Men and Women (1972)
- The Death Merchants aka Tod eines Fremden, aka The Execution (1973)
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) (sebagai Lew Wallace)
- Mr. Sycamore (1975)
- A Boy and His Dog (1975)
- All the President's Men (1976) (sebagai Ben Bradlee) Academy Award, Best Supporting Actor
- Julia (1977) (as Dashiell Hammett) Academy Award, Best Supporting Actor
- Comes a Horseman (1978)
- Hurricane (1979)
- Melvin and Howard (1980) (as Howard Hughes) Academy Award nomination, Best Supporting Actor
- Raise the Titanic! (1980)
- Caboblanco (1980)
- The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) (as President Ulysses S. Grant)
- Something Wicked this Way Comes (1983)
- Max Dugan Returns (1983)
- The World of Tomorrow (1984)
- America and Lewis Hine (1984)
- Square Dance (1987)
- The Good Mother (1988)
- Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
- Black Rainbow (1989)
- Parenthood (1989)
- Reunion (1989)
- Dream a Little Dream (1989)
- Quick Change (1990)
- Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
- Storyville (1992)
- Philadelphia (1993)
- The Trial (1993 film) (1993)
- The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
- Little Big League (1994)
- The Paper (1994)
- Crimson Tide (1995)
- A Thousand Acres (1997)
- The Great American West (1997)
- Heartwood (1998)
- Enemy of the State (1998)
- Beloved (1998)
- The Real Macaw (1998)
- Magnolia (1999)
- They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II (2000)
Television
sunting- A Doll's House (1959)
- The Iceman Cometh (1960)
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1964) (sebagai Abraham Lincoln) Emmy Award nomination, Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Noon Wine (1966)
- The House Without a Christmas Tree (1972)
- The Country Girl (1973)
- The Holiday Treasure (1973)
- A Moon for the Misbegotten (1975) Emmy Award nomination, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama or Comedy Special
- The Easter Promise (1975)
- Addie and the King of Hearts (1976)
- Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977) Emmy Award nomination, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series
- A Christmas to Remember (1978)
- Haywire (1980) (sebagai Leland Hayward)
- F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980) (sebagai Franklin D. Roosevelt) Emmy Award nomination, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Special
- The Day After (1983)
- You Can't Take It with You (1984)
- Sakharov (1984) (as Andrei Sakharov)
- Hughie (1984)
- The Long Hot Summer (1985)
- The Atlanta Child Murders (1985)
- Johnny Bull (1986)
- The Last Frontier (1986)
- Breaking Home Ties (1987)
- Laguna Heat (1987)
- Thomas Hart Benton (1988)
- The Christmas Wife (1988)
- Inherit the Wind (1988) Emmy Award, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special
- The Civil War (1990) (suara, sebagai Gen. Ulysses S. Grant)
- Mark Twain and Me (1991) (sebagai Mark Twain)
- An Inconvenient Woman (1991)
- Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991) (sebagai Dr. Armand Hammer)
- American Masters: Helen Hayes – First Lady of the American Theatre (1991) (voice narration)
- When It Was a Game (1991) (suara)
- The Perfect Tribute (1991) (sebagai Abraham Lincoln)
- Rabbit Ears: Jonah and the Whale (1992)
- Lincoln (1992) (suara, sebagai Abraham Lincoln)
- When It Was a Game 2 (1992) (suara)
- Heidi (1993)
- The Enemy Within (TOS episode) (1994)
- Baseball (1994) (suara)
- Journey (1995)
- My Antonia (1995)
- TR (1996)
- The West (1996) (suara)
- Truman (1996)
- The Irish in America: Long Journey Home (1998) (suara)
- Going Home
Penghargaan
sunting| Didahului oleh: George Burns untuk film The Sunshine Boys |
Aktor Pendukung Terbaik (Oscar) 1977 untuk film Julia |
Diteruskan oleh: Christopher Walken untuk film The Deer Hunter |
Pranala luar
sunting- Jason Robards di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
- (Inggris) American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards Website Diarsipkan 2005-02-19 di Wayback Machine.
