Jason Robards

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Robards was born July 26, 1922, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of actor Jason Robards Sr. and Hope Maxine Robards (née Glanville).{{Cite web|url=http://dgmweb.net/FGS/R/RobardsJasonNelson-HopeMaxineGlanville-AgnesE_.html|title=Jason Nelson ROBARDS Sr. & Hope Maxine GLANVILLE & Agnes E. __?__|website=dgmweb.net}} He was of German, English, Welsh, Irish, and Swedish descent.{{cite web |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70717F8385F107A93C2AB178AD85F408785F9 |title=Jason Jamie Robards Tyrone - Playing O'Neil, in life and on stage - Article |website=New York Times |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106224849/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70717F8385F107A93C2AB178AD85F408785F9 |archive-date=2012-11-06}}{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB0F3EB12656F62&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D|title=NewsLibrary Search Results|work=newsbank.com}} The family moved to New York City when Jason Jr. was still a toddler, and then moved to Los Angeles when he was six years old. Later interviews with Robards suggested that the trauma of his parents' divorce, which occurred during his grade-school years, greatly affected his personality and world view. From his parents' first marriage together, he had a younger brother named Glenn. He had little or no contact with his mother after the divorce. She later married a second time to Arthur Milburn, making him his stepfather, although he may or may not have known about it at the time. His father married a second time to Agnes Lynch. He was probably closer to his stepmother than his biological one. From his father's second marriage, he had a half-sister named Laurel.

As a youth, Robards also experienced the decline of his father's acting career. The elder Robards had enjoyed considerable success during the era of silent films, but he fell out of favor after the advent of sound film, leaving the younger Robards soured on the Hollywood film industry. The teenage Robards excelled in athletics at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles. Although his prowess in sports attracted interest from several universities, Robards decided to enlist in the United States Navy upon his graduation in 1940.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}

Following the completion of recruit training and radio school, Robards was assigned to the heavy cruiser {{USS|Northampton|CA-26|6}} in 1941 as a radioman 3rd class.{{cite web|url=https://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApps?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=6306|title=Robards, Jason Nelson, Jr., RM1c|publisher=Together We Served|access-date=March 18, 2018}} On December 7, 1941, Northampton was at sea in the Pacific Ocean about {{convert|100|mi|km}} off Hawaii. Contrary to some stories, he did not see the devastation of the Japanese attack on Hawaii until Northampton returned to Pearl Harbor two days later.Bloomfield, Gary L.; Shain, Stacie L., with Davidson, Arlen C., (2004). Duty, Honor, Applause – America's Entertainers in World War II. p. 264. Lyon's Press, Guilford, Connecticut. {{ISBN|1-59228-550-3}} Northampton was later directed into the Guadalcanal campaign in World War II's Pacific theater, where she participated in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.

During the Battle of Tassafaronga in the waters north of Guadalcanal on the night of November 30, 1942, Northampton was sunk by hits from two Japanese torpedoes. Robards found himself treading water until near daybreak, when he was rescued by an American destroyer. For its service in the war, Northampton was awarded six battle stars.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}} Two years later, in November 1944, Robards was radioman aboard the light cruiser {{USS|Nashville|CL-43|6}}, the flagship for the invasion of Mindoro in the northern Philippines. On December 13, she was struck by a kamikaze aircraft off Negros Island in the Philippines. The aircraft hit one of the port five-inch gun mounts, while the plane's two bombs set the midsection of the ship ablaze. With this damage and 223 casualties, Nashville was forced to return to Pearl Harbor and then to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, for repairs.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}

Robards served honorably during the war, but was not a recipient of the U.S. Navy Cross,{{cite web |url=https://valor.defense.gov/Portals/24/Navy%20-%20Navy%20Cross%20List%20-%202021%2002%2002.pdf?ver=d2g_29o48C-uP_kGnci3kg%3d%3d |title=(U.S. Navy) Navy Cross Recipients, World War II, 1941-1945 |date=2021-02-02 |publisher=U.S. Department of Defense |access-date=2022-06-30}}Sterner, C. Douglas. Index: Recipients of the Navy Cross, All Wars/All Periods, All Branches of Service. Pueblo CO, 2006 contrary to what has been reported in numerous sources. The inaccurate story derives from a 1979 column by Hy Gardner.Gardner, Hy. Panorama magazine, Vol. II, No. 1, Sunday Daily Herald, January 7, 1979, p. 2 Aboard Nashville, Robards first found a copy of Eugene O'Neill's play Strange Interlude in the ship's library.The New York Times Magazine, January 20, 1974Black, Steven A., et al. (editors) (2002). Jason Robards Remembered – Essays and Recollections. McFarland & Co., Jefferson, North Carolina. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-1356-0}}. Also while in the Navy, he first started thinking seriously about becoming an actor. He had emceed for a Navy band in Pearl Harbor, got a few laughs, and decided he liked it. His father suggested he enroll in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) in New York City, from which he graduated in 1948.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aada.edu/notable-alumni#decade:1930_1950/orderby:all/display:panel|title=Notable Alumni |website=The American Academy of Dramatic Arts}} Robards left the Navy in 1946 as a Petty officer first class. He was awarded the Good Conduct Medal of the Navy, the American Defense Service Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

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Robards moved to New York City and began working on radio and stage. His first role was the 1947 short film Follow That Music. He made his Broadway debut in the popular hit Stalag 17, joining the cast during its run; Robards also worked as an assistant stage manager. In 1953 he appeared in American Gothic directed by Jose Quintero. Robards also began getting roles in some television dramas, such as episodes of The Magnavox Theatre, Mama, The Man Behind the Badge, The Big Story, Philco Television Playhouse (including Gore Vidal's "The Death of Billy the Kid"), Armstrong Circle Theatre, Appointment with Adventure, Justice, Star Tonight and Goodyear Playhouse.

Robards' big break was landing the starring role in José Quintero's 1956 off Broadway theatre revival production - and the later 1960 television film - of O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, portraying the philosophical salesman Hickey; he won an Obie Award for his stage performance. He later portrayed Hickey again in another 1985 Broadway revival also staged by Quintero.

Robards originated the role of Jamie Tyrone Jr. in the original Broadway production of O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Long Day's Journey into Night (1956), which was also directed by Quintero and ran for 390 performances. Robards appeared alongside Fredric March, Florence Eldridge and Bradfor Dillman. Robards earned the Theatre World Award for his performance and was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.{{cite web|url= https://www.playbill.com/production/long-days-journey-into-night-helen-hayes-theatre-vault-0000004510|title= Long Day's Journey into Night (Broadway, 1956)|website= Playbill|access-date= March 17, 2024}}

Robards continued to be busy on television, guest starring in The Alcoa Hour, Seven Lively Arts, Studio One and Omnibus.

After his Broadway success, Robards was invited to make his feature film debut in the Anatole Litvak directed drama The Journey (1959) starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr.

He returned to Broadway acting in Budd Schulberg's play The Disenchanted, winning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title=The Disenchanted|page=72|date=5 November 1958|url=https://archive.org/details/variety212-1958-11/page/n73/mode/2up?}} It only had a short run but the Lillian Hellman play Toys in the Attic (1960), where Robards acted opposite Maureen Stapleton and Irene Worth, ran 456 performances. For the role he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.{{cite web|url= https://www.playbill.com/production/toys-in-the-attic-hudson-theatre-vault-0000005847|title= Toys in the Attic (Broadway, 1960)|website= Playbill|access-date= March 17, 2024}}

Robards starred in the TV version of For Whom the Bell Tolls for Playhouse 90, Billy Budd for The Dupont Show of the Month, A Doll's House, and The Iceman Cometh.{{cite news|title=Great Hemingway Role Falls To Robards|newspaper=The Hartford Courant|date=March 8, 1959|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60619068/great-hemingway-role-falls-to-robards/|via=Newspapers.com}}

In 1961 Robards starred in Big Fish, Little Fish by Hugh Wheeler directed by John Gielgud.Hampton, Wilborn. [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/28/obituaries/hugh-wheeler-award-winning-playwright.html Obituary: "Hugh Wheeler, Award Winning Playwright"], The New York Times, July 28, 1987, retrieved March 14, 2014 This was followed by the enormously popular Broadway hit A Thousand Clowns (1962–63) by Herb Gardner. In Hollywood Robarts appeared in two flop films, By Love Possessed (1961) and Tender is the Night (1962).{{cite book|page=65|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodhaunted0000unse_r7i7/page/65/mode/1up?q=%22by+love+possessed%22|title= hollywood the haunted house|year=1967|first=Paul|last=Mayersberg}}{{cite book|first=Henry|last=King|title=Henry King, director : from silents to ʼscope|year=1995|publisher= Directors Guild of America|url=https://archive.org/details/henrykingdirecto00king/page/186/mode/1up?|page=186|isbn=978-1-882766-03-1 }}

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He became a familiar face to movie audiences throughout the 1960s. He repeated his role in Long Day's Journey into Night in the 1962 film and played playwright George S. Kaufman in the film Act One (1963) based on the Moss Hart play of the same name. In the latter Robards acted alongside George Hamilton, George Segal, Jack Klugman and Eli Wallach.{{cite web|url= https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/66776/act-one#overview|title= Act One (1963)|website= Turner Classic Movies|access-date= March 17, 2024}}

Robards returned to Broadway to appear in two plays directed by Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller's After the Fall (1964) and S.N. Behrman's But For Whom Charlie (1964). Roberts was also in Eugene O'Neil's Hughie (1964) directed by Quintero

In films, Robards played Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1964) for television and Murray Burns in the comedy-drama A Thousand Clowns (1965) repeating his stage performance, for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He was in two episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre including an adaptation of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

His films included Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966), a comedy Western, and Any Wednesday (1966), an adaptation of a popular Broadway hit. Robards did Noon Wine (1966) for Sam Peckinpah on television, the film that revived Peckinpah's career.{{cite book |first=Garner |last=Simmons| title=Peckinpah, A Portrait in Montage| publisher=University of Texas Press |year = 1982|pages=76–79 | isbn= 0-292-76493-6}} On Broadway he was in The Devils (1966), which only had a short run.

In 1967 Robards portrayed Doc Holliday in the western film Hour of the Gun and played Al Capone in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. That same year he acted in Divorce American Style acting alongside Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Van Johnson, and Jean Simmons.{{cite web|url= https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/23748/divorce-american-style#overview|title= Divorce American Style (1967)|website= TCM|access-date= March 17, 2024}}

The following year he played Manuel "Cheyenne" Gutiérrez in the Sergio Leone western film Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). He acted opposite Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, and Claudia Cardinale.{{cite web|url= https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4751/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west#overview|title= Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)|website= TCM|access-date= March 17, 2023}} That year he also acted in the William Friedkin directed musical comedy The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) and the biographical drama Isadora.

Robards did The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for television and on Broadway Robards was in We Bombed in New Haven (1968) a play by Joseph Heller.

Robards acted in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, a depiction of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that led the United States into World War II.{{cite web|url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tora_tora_tora|title= Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)|website= Rotten Tomatoes|access-date= February 10, 2024}} Robards played Brutus in Julius Caesar (1970) opposite Charlton Heston, did Rosolino Paternò, soldato... (1970) in Italy and played the lead in The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) for Peckinpah. Robards starred in Fools (1970),{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fools-1971|title=Reviews : Fools|author=Roger Ebert|website=RogerEbert.com|publisher=Chicago Sun-Times|date=February 15, 1971}} Johnny Got His Gun (1971), Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) for AIP, and The War Between Men and Women (1972). On television he did The House Without a Christmas Tree (1972), The Thanksgiving Treasure and Old Faithful (1973).

Robards continued to appear on Broadway in revivals such as The Country Girl (1972) and A Moon for the Misbegotten (1973). He repeated his performance in Moon for television in 1975.{{Cite book |last=Voglino |first=Barbara |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NDS1Ttk6ddIC&dq=%22Jason+Robards%22+%22A+Moon+for+the+Misbegotten%22&pg=PA112 |title=Perverse Mind: Eugene O'Neill's Struggle with Closure |date=1999 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |isbn=978-0-8386-3833-0 |pages=112 |language=en}}

Robards had a small role in Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973). He was also in A Boy and His Dog (1975), The Easter Promise (1975), Mr. Sycamore (1975), and Addie and the King of Hearts (1976).

Robards appeared in two dramatizations based on the Watergate scandal; in 1976, he portrayed Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee in the film All the President's Men, based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, denying Network a chance to sweep all four acting categories (something only Humphrey Bogart had done previously). The next year, he played fictional president Richard Monckton (based on Richard Nixon) in the 1977 television miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors, based on John Ehrlichman's roman à clef The Company.

Robards was reunited with O'Neill and Quintero for A Touch of the Poet on stage in 1977. He was alson in The Spy Who Never Was (1977), Julia (1977), Comes a Horseman (1978), A Christmas to Remember (1978), Hurricane (1979), Cabo Blanco (1980), Haywire (1980) (as Leland Hayward, F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980), Raise the Titanic (1980), Melvin and Howard (1980) (as Howard Hughes), and The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981).At the Movies: The Man Who Made 'Klute' Directs Jane Fonda as a Rancher

Flatley, Guy. New York Times 3 June 1977: 26.Movies: Bronson: After 62 films, still the reliable pro Siskel, Gene. Chicago Tribune 7 Sep 1980: d3. On stage, Robards was in Hughie (1981). Robard's performance in Melvin and Howard earned him another Oscar nomination.{{Cite book |last=Society |first=Eugene O'Neill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sNAZ2KjFf64C&q=%20%22Hughie%22 |title=Jason Robards Remembered: Essays and Recollections |date=2002-04-03 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-1356-0 |pages=202 |language=en}}

Robards had lead roles in Max Dugan Returns (1983) by Neil Simon and Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) from the novel by Ray Bradbury. He played Dr. Russell Oakes in the 1983 television film The Day After.{{Cite book |last=Lipschutz |first=Ronnie D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iy_i0-PZX3IC&dq=%22Jason+Robards%22+%22the+day+after%22&pg=PA95 |title=Cold War Fantasies: Film, Fiction, and Foreign Policy |date=2001 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-7425-1052-4 |pages=95 |language=en}}

In 1983 Robards appeared in a popular Broadway revival of You Can't Take It With You, a 1985 revival of The Iceman Cometh with Quintero and A Month of Sundays (1987) directed by Gene Saks. Robards appeared in the lead role of James Tyrone Sr., in a 1988 production of Long Day's Journey into Night directed by Quintero.

For television Robards did Sakharov (1984), The Atlanta Child Murders (1984), The Long Hot Summer (1985), Johnny Bull (1986), The Last Frontier (1986), Laguna Heat (1987), Breaking Home Ties (1987), Inherit the Wind (1988) and The Christmas Wife (1988). For films he made Square Dance (1987), Bright Lights, Big City (1988), and The Good Mother (1988). Robards also appeared onstage in a revival of O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! (1988) directed by Arvin Brown, Love Letters (1990) with Colleen Dewhurst, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard (1991) by Israel Horovitz, as well as Harold Pinter's No Man's Land (1994).{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}

In 1989 he acted in the Ron Howard directed comedy-drama Parenthood starring Steve Martin and Dianne Wiest and the British drama Reunion with a screenplay by Harold Pinter.{{cite web|url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/parenthood|title= Parenthood|website= Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate= March 17, 2024}}{{cite web|url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1031829-reunion|title= Reunion|website= Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate= March 17, 2024}} That year he also acted in the comedy Dream a Little Dream and the psychological thriller Black Rainbow.

The following year he acted in the crime comedy Quick Change starring Bill Murray, Geena Davis, and Randy Quaid.{{cite web|url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/quick_change|title= Quick Change|website= Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate= March 17, 2024}} On TV he did The Perfect Tribute (1991), Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991), An Inconvenient Woman (1991), Mark Twain and Me (1991), and Heidi (1993). For films Robards was in Storyville (1992), The Adventures of Huck Finn (1992) and in 1993 he acted in Harold Pinter's British legal film The Trial opposite Kyle MacLachlan and Anthony Hopkins and the AIDS legal drama Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.{{cite web|url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1047936-trial|title= The Trial|website= Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate= March 17, 2024}}{{cite web|url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/philadelphia|title= Philadelphia|website= Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate= March 17, 2024}}

Robards portrayed three presidents in films. He played Abraham Lincoln in the television films Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1964) and The Perfect Tribute (1991), and supplied the voice for the 1992 television documentary miniseries Lincoln. He also played the role of Ulysses S. Grant in The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) and supplied the Union General's voice in the PBS miniseries The Civil War (1990). He also played Franklin D. Roosevelt in F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980). Robards appeared in the documentary Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1992).

Robards appeared in The Roots of Roe (1993), The Paper (1994), Little Big League (1994), The Enemy Within (1994), My Antonia (1995), Crimson Tide (1995), Journey (1995), A Thousand Acres (1997), Heartwood (1998), The Real Macaw (1998), and Beloved (1998) In 1995 Robards appeared on stage in Molly Sweeney. He played a congressman in Tony Scott's political thriller Enemy of the State starring Will Smith (1998).{{cite web|url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/enemy_of_the_state|title= Enemy of the State (1998)|website= Rotten Tomatoes|access-date= March 26, 2024}} In his final film role, he played a cancer patient in the Paul Thomas Anderson directed drama Magnolia (1999).{{cite web|url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/magnolia|title= Magnolia (1999)|website= Rotten Tomatoes|access-date= March 17, 2023}} His last TV appearance was in Going Home (2000).

Robards was married 4 times and had 6 children. With his first wife, Eleanor Pittman, Robards had three children, including Jason III. His second marriage to actress Rachel Taylor lasted from April 1959-May 1961. He and actress Lauren Bacall, his third wife, to whom he was married from 1961 to 1969, had a son, actor Sam Robards. Robards and Bacall divorced in part due to his alcoholism.Bacall, Lauren. (2006). By Myself and Then Some. p. 377. HarperCollins, New York City. {{ISBN|978-0-06-112791-5}}. Robards had two more children with his fourth wife, Lois O'Connor, and they remained married until his death.

In 1972, Robards was seriously injured in an automobile crash when he drove his car into the side of a mountain on a winding California road, requiring extensive surgery and facial reconstruction. The crash may have been related to his longtime struggle with alcoholism. Robards overcame his addiction and went on to publicly campaign for alcoholism awareness.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19821015&id=2BgiAAAAIBAJ&pg=5306,8166819|title=Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Google News Archive Search|work=google.com}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.adcouncil.org/content/download/1297/11435/version/1/file/matters_of_choice.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=January 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025607/http://www.adcouncil.org/content/download/1297/11435/version/1/file/matters_of_choice.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }} Robards was an American Civil War buff and scholar, an interest which informed his portrayal of the voice of Ulysses S. Grant in The Civil War series by filmmaker Ken Burns.

Robards was a resident of the Southport section of Fairfield, Connecticut."From the Archives" feature ("The Week of July 8") of The Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), July 9, 2007, page A7, Stamford edition. He died of lung cancer in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on December 26, 2000.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/27/theater/jason-robards-78-pre-eminent-o-neill-actor-dies.html|title=Jason Robards, 78, Pre-eminent O'Neill Actor, Dies|first= Mel|last=Gussow|website=The New York Times|date=December 27, 2000|accessdate=January 10, 2023}} His remains were buried at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Fairfield.{{Cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-mary-tyler-moore-funeral-20170130-story.html |title=Mary Tyler Moore laid to rest in Connecticut |date=2017-01-30 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=2022-11-11}}

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Robards received eight Tony Award nominations, more than any other male actor {{as of|2020|lc=on|url = http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/history/facts/}}.[http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/archive/dyk/ "American Theatre Wing"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050219135335/http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/archive/dyk/ |date=February 19, 2005 }}. He won the Tony for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his work in The Disenchanted (1959); this was also his only stage appearance with his father. He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in consecutive years: for All the President's Men (1976), portraying Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, and for Julia (1977), portraying writer Dashiell Hammett.[http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp "Oscars database of nominees and winners"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208011732/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp |date=February 8, 2009 }}. He was also nominated for another Academy Award for his role as Howard Hughes in Melvin and Howard (1980).

Robards received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his role in the television film Inherit the Wind (1988).[http://emmys.com/awards/awardsearch.php "Emmy Awards Database of nominees and winners"]. In 1997, Robards received the U.S. National Medal of Arts, the highest honor conferred to an individual artist on behalf of the people. Recipients are selected by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts and the medal is awarded by the President of the United States.

In 1999, he was among the recipients at the Kennedy Center Honors, an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.[http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/history/home.html "Kennedy Center list of Honorees"]. In 2000, Robards received the first Monte Cristo Award, presented by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and named after O'Neill's home. Subsequent recipients have included Edward Albee, Kevin Spacey, Wendy Wasserstein, and Christopher Plummer.

Robards narrated the public radio documentary, Schizophrenia: Voices of an Illness, produced by Lichtenstein Creative Media, which was awarded a 1994 George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting. According to Time, Robards offered to narrate the schizophrenia program, saying that his first wife had been institutionalized for that illness.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121105133854/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981590-1,00.html#ixzz0qe05Y4EC The Souls that Drugs Saved] Time Magazine. October 10, 1994. Robards is in the American Theater Hall of Fame, inducted in 1979.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theaterhalloffame.org/members.html#QR|title=Members |website=Theater Hall of Fame}}{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1979/11/19/113925202.pdf|title=Theater Hall of Fame Enshrines 51 Artists|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=March 13, 2014}} The Jason Robards Award was created by the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City in his honor and his relationship with the theater.{{Citation needed |date=March 2023}}

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