Jason Robards
Actor

Jason Robards Net Worth

Jason Robards was an American actor of Swedish, English, Welsh, German, and Irish descent. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Los Angeles. After serving in the U.S. Navy in World War II, he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and began his career as a small-part actor in local New York theatre, TV and radio. He rose to fame on the New York stage in Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night". He entered feature films in The Journey (1959) and won consecutive Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for All the President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977). He continued to work on the stage, winning acclaim in such O'Neill works as "Moon For the Misbegotten" and "Hughie". Robards died of lung cancer in 2000.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor, Soundtrack
Birth Day July 26, 1922
Birth Place  Chicago, Illinois, United States
Age 98 YEARS OLD
Died On December 26, 2000(2000-12-26) (aged 78)\nBridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
Birth Sign Leo
Cause of death Lung cancer
Occupation Actor
Years active 1947–2000
Known for Playing historical figures, Eugene O'Neill
Spouse(s) Eleanor Pittman (m. 1948; div. 1958) Rachel Taylor (m. 1959; div. 1961) Lauren Bacall (m. 1961; div. 1969) Lois O'Connor (m. 1970)
Children 6, including Sam Robards
Parent(s) Jason Robards, Sr., Hope Maxine (née Glanville)
Awards Navy Good Conduct Medal American Defense Service Medal American Campaign Medal Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal
Allegiance United States of America
Service/branch United States Navy
Years of service 1940–46
Rank Petty officer first class
Battles/wars World War II

💰 Net worth: $2 Million (2024)

Jason Robards, a well-known actor and soundtrack artist in the United States, is estimated to have a net worth of $2 million by 2024. Robards, who gained fame for his incredible performances in both film and theater, has carved a prominent place for himself in the entertainment industry. Throughout his career, he has been recognized for his exceptional talent and has won numerous awards, including two Academy Awards. With a remarkable body of work spanning several decades, Robards' net worth is a testament to his enduring success and illustrious career in the world of acting and soundtracks.

Biography/Timeline

1922

Robards was born July 26, 1922, in Chicago, the son of Hope Maxine (née Glanville) Robards and Jason Robards, Sr., an actor who regularly appeared on the stage and in such early films as The Gamblers (1929). Robards was of German, English, Welsh, Irish, and Swedish descent.

1940

The teenage Robards excelled in athletics, running a 4:18-mile during his junior year 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.

1941

Robards played three different U.S. Presidents in film. He played the role of Abraham Lincoln in the TV movie The Perfect Tribute (1991) and supplied the voice for two television documentaries, first for "The Presidency: A Splendid Misery" in 1964, and then again in the title role of the 1992 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 FDR: The Final Years (1980). Robards also played 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.

1942

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 her Service in the war, Northampton was awarded six battle stars.

1944

Two years later, in November 1944, Robards was radioman aboard the light cruiser USS Nashville, 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.

1947

He made his film debut in the two-reel comedy Follow That Music (1947), but after his Broadway success, he was invited to make his feature debut in The Journey (1959). He became a familiar face to movie audiences throughout the 1960s, notably for his performances in A Thousand Clowns (1965) repeating his stage performance, Hour of the Gun as Doc Holliday (1967), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).

1950

He appeared on television anthology series, including two segments in the mid-1950s of CBS's Appointment with Adventure.

1961

Robards had six children from his four marriages, including actor Jason Robards III and two others with his first wife, Eleanor Pittman; actor Sam Robards with his third wife, Actress Lauren Bacall, to whom he was married in 1961. They divorced in 1969, in part because of his alcoholism. Robards had two more children with his fourth wife (widow), Lois O'Connor.

1972

In 1972, he was seriously injured in an automobile accident when he drove his car into the side of a mountain on a winding California road, requiring extensive surgery and facial reconstruction. The accident may have been related to his longtime struggle with alcoholism. Robards overcame his addiction and went on to publicly campaign for alcoholism awareness.

1976

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 (1977). He was also nominated for another Academy Award for his role as Howard Hughes in Melvin and Howard (1980).

1979

Jason Robards is in the American Theater Hall of Fame; he was inducted in 1979.

1988

Robards also appeared onstage in a revival of O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! (1988) directed by Arvin Brown, as well as Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic (1960), Arthur Miller's After the Fall (1964), Clifford Odets's The Country Girl (1972), and Harold Pinter's No Man's Land (1994).

1991

Robards voiced a number of documentaries, including Ken Burns' Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991).

1994

Jason 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.

1997

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.

1999

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.

2000

Robards was a resident of the Southport section of Fairfield, Connecticut. He died of lung cancer in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on December 26, 2000, at the age of 78. He was cremated.

2013

Source: "Jason Robards". IMDb. Retrieved October 22, 2013. 

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