LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Jason Robards: Broadway Baltimore
built 646 days ago
Making his onscreen debut in The Journey (1959), Robards maintained a TV and screen career while continuing to work on the stage. He tended to appear in two or three movies per year during the '60s, including the acclaimed 1962 screen adaptation of Long Day's Journey Into Night and Sergio Leone's much lauded 1968 Western Once Upon a Time in the West. Two years after his role in the war epic Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), the actor was in a near-fatal car crash, but managed to make a complete recovery, returning to Broadway two years later.
Source:
Robards, Sr. had a film career which lasted from 1921 through 1961, where he was billed as Jason Robards, Sr. after his son became famous. His Broadway credits include the musical Turn To The Right (1917). After 1951, Robards' career consisted entirely of television performances, but prior to that, the Internet Movie Database lists appearances in 208 movies over a 30-year span before he spent another decade acting in various television shows and series.
Source:
Robards indulged his paradoxes. The artist sometimes became the slob. Elia Kazan, who directed him in Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," considered him out-and-out lazy. Certainly, three of the four times I saw him onstage -- a New York revival of "Long Day's Journey Into Night," rotating in repertory with "Ah, Wilderness!," and a pre-Broadway Baltimore production of the slight "Park the Car in Harvard Yard," all in the '80s -- he defined that old cliche "phoning in his performance."
Source:
Audiences may have been sad to lose Jason Robards, who died on Dec. 26 at age 78 after a long battle with cancer. But on Broadway yesterday afternoon at a memorial service at the Broadhurst Theater to honor Mr. Robards, the stage and film star, it was actors who seemed to feel most profoundly the loss of one of the greats, one of their own.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Broadway Baltimore