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Jason Robards Sr. is a Actor American born on 30 december 1892 at Hillsdale (USA)

Jason Robards Sr.

Jason Robards Sr.
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Birth name Jason Nelson Robards Sr.
Nationality USA
Birth 30 december 1892 at Hillsdale (USA)
Death 4 april 1963 (at 70 years) at Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles (USA)

Jason Nelson Robards, Sr. (December 31, 1892 – April 4, 1963) was an American stage and screen actor, and the father of Oscar-winning actor Jason Robards, Jr. Robards appeared in many films, initially as a leading man, then in character roles and occasional bits.

Biography

Au cinéma, Jason Robards Sr. contribue à deux-cent douze films américains (y compris dans des petits rôles non crédités), dont une quinzaine muets, entre 1921 et 1950, avant deux ultimes sortis en 1958 et 1961.

Ses deux premiers films (1921) sont The Gilded Lily de Robert Z. Leonard (avec Mae Murray) et The Land of Hope d'Edward H. Griffith (avec Alice Brady) ; le dernier est Amour sauvage de Philip Dunne (1961, avec Elvis Presley et Hope Lange).

Dans l'intervalle, il contribue notamment à Abraham Lincoln de D.W. Griffith (1930, avec Walter Huston dans le rôle-titre), La Course de Broadway Bill de Frank Capra (1934, avec Warner Baxter, Walter Connolly et Myrna Loy), ou encore L'Île des morts de Mark Robson (1945, avec Boris Karloff et Ellen Drew).

À la télévision, Jason Robards Sr. apparaît dans quatorze séries (plusieurs, comme au cinéma, dans le domaine du western) entre 1958 et 1963, dont Sugarfoot (deux épisodes, 1958-1960) et La Grande Caravane (un épisode, 1961).

Au théâtre, il joue à Broadway (New York) dans trois pièces, les deux premières au début des années 1920. La dernière est The Disenchanted, représentée de décembre 1958 à mai 1959, aux côtés de son fils et de Rosemary Harris.

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Filmography of Jason Robards Sr. (139 films)

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Actor

Wild in the Country, 1h54
Directed by Jerry Wald, Clifford Odets, Philip Dunne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins, John Ireland, Gary Lockwood
Roles Judge Tom Parker (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.149063.149063.149063.149063.14906
The movie starts off with Glenn Tyler (Elvis Presley) getting into a fight with, and badly injuring, his drunken brother. A court releases him on probation into the care of his uncle in a small town, appointing Irene Sperry (Hope Lange) to give him psychological counselling. Marked as a trouble-maker, he is falsely suspected of various misdemeanors including an affair with Irene. Eventually shown to be innocent, he leaves to go to college and become a writer.
The Notorious Mr. Monks, 1h10
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Vera Ralston, Paul Fix, Leo Gordon, Luana Anders, Tom Brown, Lyle Talbot
Roles Judge (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.0754353.0754353.0754353.0754353.075435
The Second Woman, 1h31
Directed by James V. Kern
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Florence Bates, Henry O'Neill, Morris Carnovsky
Roles Stacy Rogers
Rating62% 3.14263.14263.14263.14263.1426
This psychological thriller tells the story of Jeff Cohalan (Robert Young). He is a successful architect who is tormented because his fiancée was killed in a mysterious car accident on the night before their wedding. Blaming himself for her death, Colahan spends his time alone, lamenting in the state-of-the-art cliff-top home he had designed for his bride-to-be.
Western Pacific Agent, 1h5
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Western
Actors Kent Taylor, Sheila Ryan, Mickey Knox, Morris Carnovsky, Robert Lowery, Sid Melton
Roles Train Passenger (uncredited)
Rating59% 2.953872.953872.953872.953872.95387
The setting is the present-day American West. Detectives for the Western Pacific Railroad investigate several murders, including one of a railroad detective killed during a train robbery.
Impact
Impact (1949)
, 1h51
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, Mae Marsh, Robert Warwick
Roles Judge
Rating69% 3.493893.493893.493893.493893.49389
Millionaire industrialist Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) has a young wife, Irene (Helen Walker), who is trying to kill him with the help of her young lover, Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett). The plan falls apart when Williams survives a hit on the head from the would-be killer. Attempting to flee the scene in Williams' Packard Clipper convertible, Torrance dies in a fiery head-on collision. The body is mistakenly identified as Williams.
Rimfire
Rimfire (1949)
, 1h3
Directed by B. Reeves Eason
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors James Millican, Mary Beth Hughes, Reed Hadley, Henry Hull, Victor Kilian, Fuzzy Knight
Roles Elkins (Banker)
Rating57% 2.8652552.8652552.8652552.8652552.865255
Riders of the Whistling Pines, 1h10
Directed by William Nigh, Jon English, John English
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Musical, Western
Actors Gene Autry, Patricia Barry, Douglass Dumbrille, Morey Amsterdam, Clayton Moore, Harry Cheshire
Roles Charles Carter (uncredited)
Rating57% 2.8572552.8572552.8572552.8572552.857255
In the North Woods, Forester Charles Carter (Jason Robards Sr.) discovers that a Tussock Moth infection is threatening to devastate the great woods. This threatens the plans of Henry Mitchell (Douglass Dumbrille), who holds exclusive logging rights for the forest. Mitchell figures that if the moths infest and kill the trees, he can harvest all the dead trees, unencumbered by logging restrictions. When Carter tries to phone in the infestation threat, Mitchell covertly cuts the line, forcing Carter to ride into town to report the problem. Meanwhile along the trail, Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and Forester Joe Lucas (Jimmy Lloyd), who have been drinking, come across a mountain lion, and Gene fires several shots at the wild animal. Mitchell, who has been following the forester, uses the last shot as cover to shoot Carter in the back, leaving him where Autry will assume Carter was killed by his errant shot.
The Threat
The Threat (1949)
, 1h6
Directed by Felix E. Feist
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Michael O'Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw, Julie Bishop, Frank Conroy, Robert Shayne
Roles Police Fingerprint Technician (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.3407353.3407353.3407353.3407353.340735
Detective Ray Williams (Michael O'Shea) is recuperating from a broken rib as his wife Ann (Julie Bishop) tries to persuade him to get a desk job, especially with the new baby on the way. However, a call from the police inspector (Robert Shayne) informs him that homicidal criminal "Red" Kluger (who Williams apprehended) has busted out of Folsom Prison. As Williams is going to leave in his police car, he is kidnapped by Kluger (Charles McGraw) and his men. District attorney Barker MacDonald (Frank Conroy) is also kidnapped by his men. Lastly, nightclub singer Carol (Virginia Grey), who apparently ratted him out is kidnapped. She however claims it was Tony, one of Kluger's associates, who Red has arranged to come out of Mexico City to Palm Springs to give Red and his associates the $12,000 from a deposit box and give them an escape plane to leave the country out of. Kluger makes no secret of his plans to kill Williams and MacDonald once he's made a getaway. Carol claims to not have ratted him out constantly, but Kluger rejects her claims. Kluger also takes in another hostage, Joe Turner, driver of the truck escorting the gang. The gang is housed up at a shack, awaiting Tony. Joe tries to escape with a gun he had stolen from the truck earlier, but Kluger subdues him, takes the gun and kills him.
Masked Raiders
Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tim Holt, Marjorie Lord, Gary Gray, Frank Wilcox, Charles Arnt, Tom Tyler
Roles Captain of Texas Rangers (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.1421653.1421653.1421653.1421653.142165
Au Texas, dans la région de Wilcox, une bande de hors-la-loi, menée avec un chef surnommé Diablo Kid, effectue des raids meurtriers sur les fermes des environs. Le gouvernement envoie alors deux Texas Rangers, Tim holt et Chito Rafferty, afin d'enquêter sur cette affaire. A leur arrivée, ils se présentent comme des cowboy à la recherche d'un emploi et se rendent dans le ranch de Trewitt où ils font la connaissance de Gale Trewitt, de son jeune frère Artie et de leur oncle Henry. Durant un hold-up par la bande, Tim est blessé alors qu'il était sur le point de capturer un des bandits.
Post Office Investigator, 1h
Directed by George Blair
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Audrey Long, Jeff Donnell, Warren Douglas, Richard Benedict, Jimmie Dodd, Marcel Journet
Roles Henry Hand
Rating56% 2.8388052.8388052.8388052.8388052.838805
A young postman becomes involved in the theft of rare stamps featuring inverted images of the Statue of Liberty. Along the way he encounters attractive criminal Clara Kelso, double-crossing gang members, and Post Office Inspectors, before finally capturing the crooks.
Dynamite
Dynamite (1949)
, 1h8
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors William Gargan, Richard Crane, Irving Bacon, Frank Ferguson, Douglass Dumbrille, Phil Arnold
Roles Hook (Quarry Superintendent) (uncredited)
Rating56% 2.8269152.8269152.8269152.8269152.826915
Return of the Bad Men, 1h30
Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, George "Gabby" Hayes, Anne Jeffreys, Jacqueline White, Steve Brodie
Roles Judge Harper
Rating62% 3.1478653.1478653.1478653.1478653.147865
In 1880s Indian Territory (future Oklahoma), a rancher reluctantly agrees to take up the post of federal marshal and tackle a violent gang of outlaws ravaging the territory.
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, 1h34
Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny, Sharyn Moffett, Ian Wolfe
Roles John Retch
Rating71% 3.5979253.5979253.5979253.5979253.597925
Jim Blandings (Grant), a bright account executive in the advertising business, lives with his wife Muriel (Loy) and two daughters in a cramped New York apartment. Muriel secretly plans to remodel their apartment. After rejecting this idea, Jim Blandings comes across an ad for new homes in Connecticut and they get excited about moving.
Race Street, 1h19
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan, Russell Hicks
Roles Apartment Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.2400653.2400653.2400653.2400653.240065
When his bookie pal Hal is killed, nightclub owner Dan Gannin intends to do something about it. His police pal Lt. Runson warns him not to take the law into his own hands.