Jason Robards

Jason Robards

July 26, 1922 · 104 years old

Jason Nelson Robards Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor. Known as an interpreter of the works of playwright Eugene O'Neill, Robards received two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. He is one of 24 perform…

Known For

38 titles
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Once Upon a Time in the West

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968 · 2h 25m · Movie

A mysterious stranger with a harmonica teams up with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow and her land from a ruthless assassin in the employ of a railroad tycoon.

8.5
2
Magnolia

Magnolia

1999 · 3h 8m · Movie

An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

8.0
3
Philadelphia

Philadelphia

1993 · 2h 5m · Movie

When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small-time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

7.7
4
All the President's Men

All the President's Men

1976 · 2h 18m · Movie

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

7.9
5
Parenthood

Parenthood

1989 · 2h 4m · Movie

Four Buckman siblings attempt to raise their children - each in their own different style - and deal with the joys and sorrows that the process brings.

7.1
6
Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970 · 2h 24m · Movie

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

7.5
7
Quick Change

Quick Change

1990 · 1h 29m · Movie

Three thieves successfully rob a New York City bank, but making the escape from the city proves to be almost impossible.

6.8
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973 · 2h 2m · Movie

Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

7.2
9
The Civil War

The Civil War

1990 · 11h 20m · TV Show

A comprehensive survey of the American Civil War.

9.0
10
A Boy and His Dog

A Boy and His Dog

1975 · 1h 31m · Movie

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a boy who can communicate with his dog telepathically is targeted by a mysterious committee.

6.4
11
Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun

1971 · 1h 51m · Movie

During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.

7.8
12
The Day After

The Day After

1983 · 2h 7m · Movie

The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.

7.0
13
The Paper

The Paper

1994 · 1h 52m · Movie

New York City tabloid editor Henry's faced with tough decisions while he faces several serious life challenges, and a tempting job offer.

6.7
14
Something Wicked This Way Comes

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1983 · 1h 35m · Movie

In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.

6.7
15
The Ballad of Cable Hogue

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1970 · 2h 1m · Movie

A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.

7.2
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Julia

Julia

1977 · 1h 57m · Movie

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

7.1
17
The Adventures of Huck Finn

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993 · 1h 48m · Movie

In Missouri, during the 1840s, young Huck Finn fearful of his drunkard father and yearning for adventure, leaves his foster family and joins with runaway slave Jim in a voyage down the Mississippi River toward slavery free states.

6.2
18
Dream a Little Dream

Dream a Little Dream

1989 · 1h 54m · Movie

An accident puts the consciousness of an elderly dream researcher into the body of a bratty teenager. The problem? The kid prefers dreamworld limbo to real life.

5.7
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Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night

1962 · 2h 54m · Movie

At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.

7.5
20
A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres

1997 · 1h 45m · Movie

A family is torn apart after a father gives his valuable farm land to his daughters.

6.1
21
Raise the Titanic

Raise the Titanic

1980 · 1h 55m · Movie

Once they said God himself couldn't sink her. Then they said no man on Earth could reach her. But an underwater research agency, headed by Admiral James Sandecker, is assigned the job of finding the doomed ship in her North Atlant...

5.2
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Hour of the Gun

Hour of the Gun

1967 · 1h 40m · Movie

Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton gang in a fight. In revenge, Clanton's thugs kill the Marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.

6.6
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1967 · 1h 40m · Movie

Al Capone's Valentine's Day surprise for the rival Bugs Moran gang in 1929 Chicago.

6.6
24
A Big Hand for the Little Lady

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

1966 · 1h 35m · Movie

Comedy western in which a traveler bets more money than he can afford in a poker game, and unusual events follow.

7.3
25
Max Dugan Returns

Max Dugan Returns

1983 · 1h 38m · Movie

Struggling single mother Nora McPhee's life is disrupted when her long-lost father Max Dugan returns in hopes of spending some time with her and her son Michael to make up for lost time because Max is dying.

6.7
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Isadora

Isadora

1968 · 2h 11m · Movie

A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

6.8
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The Legend of the Lone Ranger

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

1981 · 1h 38m · Movie

The sole surviving Texas Ranger (Klinton Spilsbury) of an ambush arranged by outlaw leader Major Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd) returns to fight back as a great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger.

4.9
28
Black Rainbow

Black Rainbow

1989 · 1h 43m · Movie

A medium has a vision of a hit-man killing his target. The vision comes true, and the same hit-man is assigned to kill her. Her drunk father/manager doesn't believe she has the gift, and a curious journalist tries to protect her.

6.0
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Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

1970 · 1h 57m · Movie

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar, but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

6.1
30
The Night They Raided Minsky's

The Night They Raided Minsky's

1968 · 1h 39m · Movie

A naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.

6.0
31
The Good Mother

The Good Mother

1988 · 1h 43m · Movie

A divorced mother may lose custody of her young daughter to her ex-husband after he learns that the little girl crawled into bed with the mother and her boyfriend.

5.7
32
The Enemy Within

The Enemy Within

1994 · 1h 26m · Movie

A Colonel working at the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a plot by his superior to use military force to remove the elected President, who always opposed Pentagon budget increases, and to replace him with a much tamer Vice-President.

5.7
33
Cabo Blanco

Cabo Blanco

1980 · 1h 27m · Movie

In 1948, an assortment of shady characters are searching for Nazi loot, sunken off the coast of Peru.

5.3
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Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night

1962 · 2h 22m · Movie

A Psychiatrist and his life with a patient he helped to recover.

6.0
35
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

1991 · 1h 53m · Movie

For 50 years, radio dominated the airwaves as the first mass medium. Ken Burns examines the lives of three men who shared the responsibility for its invention and early success.

7.5
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Reunion

Reunion

1989 · 1h 50m · Movie

Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German...

6.9