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Playing Ben Bradlee in the 1976 movie "All the President's Men," Jason Robards Jr. (who died Tuesday at the age of 78) was a poster boy for Journalism as the Good Life. Everyone remembers his swagger through the newsroom when The Post scored a point against the Nixon White House: The scene made some of his obituaries. There was a gleam in his eye that said, "Got the bastards!"
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Christened Jason Nelson Robards Jr. in Chicago , his father Jason Robards, Sr. was among the better-known actors of the first half of the twentieth century , starring regularly on the stage and in such early films as The Gamblers (1929). The family moved to New York City when young Jason was still a toddler, and then moved for good to Los Angeles when he was six years old.
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Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst star in this made-for-TV adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's final play, featuring the cast and director of the award-winning 1974 Broadway production. James Tyrone Jr. (Robards) is a washed-up former actor whose dreams of stardom on Broadway were washed away by alcoholism and emotional irresponsibility. James makes a meager living renting property; Phil Hogan (Ed Flanders) is an Irish immigrant, who, along side his outwardly gruff daughter, Josie (Dewhurst), works a small farm he's renting from James. James wants to sell the farm and is interested in making a deal with his well-to-do neighbors. Phil hatches a scheme by which Josie will talk James into selling the land to them instead, for a lower price. As James and Josie's conversation veers away from business, they begin to open up to one another about their dreams, their fears, and their many disappointments, and the two begin to realize just how much they have in common -- as well as how wide a gulf separates them.
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Jason Robards Jr. superbly re-creates his Broadway role in this 1965 film version of Herb Gardner's play. Robards plays Murray Burns, head writer of TV's popular Chuckles the Chipmunk show. Fed up with the rat race, Murray quits his job and retreats to his cluttered Manhattan apartment, where he carries on a nonconformist, laissez-faire existence with his 12-year-old nephew Nick (Barry Gordon). Though they're as close as father and son, Robards has never gotten around to legally adopting Nick, which brings him to the attention of social workers Sandra (Barbara Harris) and Albert (William Daniels). While Albert is disgusted by Murray's irreverence, Sandra falls in love with the free-spirited writer. Teaming up with Nick, Sandra tries to convince Murray to get another job.
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Synopsis: Max Dugan (Jason Robards Jr.) is an elderly ne'er-do-well whose tenuous mob connections have made him persona non grata with his daughter Marsha Mason. Struggling to raise her restless son Matthew Broderick on her own, Mason is none too pleased when Max returns to the family fold with yet anotherRead More
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Because of the bitterness and disillusionment expressed by his father, onetime stage and film leading man Jason Robards, Sr. (1892–1963), the younger Robards avoided acting in his youth. He served in the Naval Reserve as a radioman during the years 1940–46; he was present at the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and he later received the Navy Cross. Upon his discharge, he enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he studied with Uta Hagen. Billed as Jason Robards, Jr., he made his first professional New York stage appearance in 1947, in a children's theatre production of Jack and the Beanstalk. Supplementing his acting income by working as a cab driver and a schoolteacher, he spent several years playing small roles onstage and in radio and television before he won a lead role in the 1953 Broadway production American Gothic.
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