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4 unusual facts about Jason Robards


Breaking Home Ties

The painting was the inspiration for a 1987 TV movie of the same name, featuring Jason Robards and Doug McKeon respectively as the father and son.

Lisa Lucas

The film stars Jason Robards (1922–2000) as a melancholy widowed father James Mills, and Mildred Natwick (1905–1994) as the grandmother.

Lon Clark

Clark returned to the stage in his later years, replacing Jason Robards in the 1956 Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night.

Paul Mann

After The Fall / Original, Play, Drama / Quentin's Father; Jason Robards portrayed Quentin / Jan 23, 1964 - May 29, 1965


A Thousand Clowns

Unemployed television writer Murray Burns (Jason Robards) lives in a cluttered New York City studio apartment with his 12-year-old nephew, Nick (Barry Gordon).

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

The program included such events as an adaptation of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, starring Jason Robards (from the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn); The Seven Little Foys, starring Mickey Rooney, Eddie Foy Jr. and the Osmond Brothers; Think Pretty, a musical starring Fred Astaire and Barrie Chase and Groucho Marx in "Time for Elizabeth", a televised adaptation of a play that Marx and Norman Krasna wrote in 1948.

Ellis Rabb

His later directing work included a 1973 production of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Rosemary Harris (to whom he was married from 1959–1967), James Farentino, and Patricia Conolly; a memorable production of The Royal Family in 1975 for which he won both a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award, and a 1983 revival of You Can't Take It With You with Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst.

Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site

The house was saved from demolition in the early 1970s by the Eugene O’Neill Foundation through several fundraising efforts, including benefit performances of Eugene O’Neill’s play Hughie featuring Jason Robards.

Herb Gardner

Both the 1962 play and the movie starred Jason Robards, Jr. as Murray Burns, a charming, unemployed children's show writer with Peter Pan Syndrome, who is forced to choose between social conformity and the probable loss of custody of his 11-year-old nephew to the Child Welfare Bureau.

L. Q. Jones

He directed, was the executive producer, and adapted the screenplay for A Boy and His Dog (1975), with Don Johnson and Jason Robards.

Muriel Resnik

It had such a success that took Resnik by surprise, and in 1966 an homonymous film was led to the big screen, with Jane Fonda and Jason Robards as the main characters.

Peter Douglas

He was the executive producer of the HBO Drama thriller The Enemy Within (1994), starring Forrest Whitaker and Jason Robards, and was also executive producer of the 2009 motion picture Whip It starring Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page.

Robert Macklin

Awarded a Commonwealth Writer's Fellowship, he returned to Australia in 1975 and wrote The Paper Castle (1978) and Juryman (1980), adapted by MGM to the film Storyville (1994) starring James Spader and Jason Robards.

Tony Montanaro

Born in Paulsboro, New Jersey on September 10, 1927, Montanaro earned a theater degree from Columbia University and began performing stock theater with actors such as Jason Robards and Jackie Cooper.


see also

Robards

Sam Robards (born 1961), American actor; son of Jason Robards and Lauren Bacall