Jason Robards
26 titles
Filmography
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
(1967)Schlockmeister Roger Corman produced this graphically violent chronicle of the Chicago gangster wars of the 1920s and the events that lead to the bloody title showdown between rival mobsters Al Capone (Jason Robards) and Bugs Moran (Ralph Meeker) that marked a brutal end to a terrifying era.

The Ballad of Cable Hogue
(1970)Love, comedy and drama are combined in this tale of desert survival in the Old West from legendary director Sam Peckinpah.

Dream a Little Dream
(1989)An aging man desperately searching for a way to prolong his and his wife's lives, switches brains with a teenager.
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
(1996)This film explores the influences of Theodore Roosevelt’s childhood, charts his meteoric rise to the presidency and explores the turbulent years after he left office. The result is an engaging portrait of a skillful politician, rugged outdoorsman, caring father, and fascinating individual.

Raise the Titanic
(1980)To acquire a rare mineral that could end the Cold War, special agent Dirk Pitt must raise the sunken Titanic before the Soviets do.

Murders in the Rue Morgue
(1971)As a theater troupe prepares for a gruesome production in Paris, a madman with an ax to grind arrives and begins spilling blood backstage.
Max Dugan Returns
(1983)A widow's wayward father suddenly shows up and buys expensive gifts for her and her teenage son.

Hour of the Gun
(1967)When Marshal Wyatt Earp kills outlaw gangsters in a brawl, their leader aims to kill his brother in revenge. Doc Holliday lends the lawman a hand.

Julius Caesar
(1970)When Julius Caesar's growing ambition begins to worry his friend Brutus, Brutus is easily persuaded to participate in a plot to assassinate Caesar.

Black Rainbow
(1989)Mike Hodges ('Flash Gordon', 'Get Carter') wrote and directed this supernatural chiller as a meditation on the human race's ability to destroy the world, a gothic tale of suspense and the occult, guaranteed to send shivers down your spine. Martha Travis (Rosanna Arquette, 'Pulp Fiction', 'Crash') is a travelling clairvoyant on the road with her sceptic father (Jason Robards, 'Once Upon a Time in the West', 'Magnolia'). During a séance Martha communicates a message from a dead man to his wife in the audience. Shocked the wife insists her husband is still alive. Later that evening the husband is killed by a ruthless assassin. As Martha foresees more and more tragic events journalist Gary Wallace (Tom Hulce, 'Amadeus', 'Animal House') follows the pair in pursuit of a hot story... with catastrophically eerie results. Sent direct-to-video by its struggling distributor on initial release, 'Black Rainbow' unfairly never got the exposure it deserved, newly restored from the original negative audiences can now discover the darkness at the end of the rainbow, as never before.

Caboblanco
(1980)In 1948, an assortment of shady characters are searching for Nazi loot, sunken off the coast of Peru.

Once Upon a Time in the West
(1968)A railway magnate hires a ruthless killer to murder a family whose farm is on the rail route, but reckons without the subsequent arrival of the farmer's young widow and a mysterious stranger intent on tracking down the killer.

Philadelphia
(1993)Fired from his job for having AIDS and out of legal options, Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) seeks the help of homophobic lawyer Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) in a courtroom battle for his rights and human dignity.

Tora! Tora! Tora!
(1970)TORA! TORA! TORA! realistically chronicles the events leading up to the incredible attack on Pearl Harbor; the bad decisions and the bravery are chronicled from both American and Japanese points of view. In 1941, the Japanese and the United States are in conflict and unable to resolve their differences through diplomatic challenges. The Japanese military instigates covert plans for a surprise Sunday morning attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet, based at Pearl Harbor. Codebreakers in the U.S. Intelligence are able to decipher some of the Japanese messages but are unable to convince the top brass that the attack could and will happen.

Julia
(1977)Julia is the cinematic adaptation of author Lillian Hellman’s autobiographical story "Pentimento."

Comes a Horseman
(1978)A female rancher reluctantly joins forces with an ex-soldier to resist the ruthless cattle baron acquiring all the land bordering his property.

The Good Mother
(1988)A divorcée, single parent falls in love with an Irish sculptor.

Storyville
(1992)A young candidate for the senate is filmed with a hooker as blackmail. As he investigates, he discovers some family secrets involving his father and their political careers...

Long Day's Journey Into Night
(1962)Based on the famed O'Neill play about a dysfunctional family with tense bonds brought on by alcoholism, drug addiction, and a cheapskate of a father.

Parenthood
(1989)HD. The Buckman family wrestles with their comedic and complex relationships with their parents and children in this Ron Howard comedy.