Awards
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
(1984) -
Sakharov
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
(1980) -
Melvin and Howard
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Best Supporting Actor
(1980) -
Melvin and Howard
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
(1977) -
Julia
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Best Supporting Actor
(1977) -
Julia
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One of Hollywood's elder statesmen, Jason Robards Jr. had a rich, deep voice and authoritative aura that befit the distinguished citizens he often played. The son of stage and screen actor Jason Robards Sr., Robards kept alive his rich heritage throughout the second half of the 20th century.
Born July 26, 1922, in Chicago, Robards was a military man before becoming an actor. He served seven years in the Navy, and was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked in 1941 (he later received the Navy Cross). Following his service, Robards moved to New York to pursue an acting career. He found work in incidental plays, radio soap operas, and live television dramas, driving a cab and teaching school to support himself. After a decade of obscurity, he rose to prominence in 1956 in the Circle in the Square production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. He appeared on Broadway the following year in Long Day's Journey Into Night, for which he won a New York Drama Critics Award. Following that success, he remained a busy and popular Broadway performer, and, in 1958, got the opportunity to appear with his father in The Disenchanted.
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