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In interviews, Robards often refers to his role as the loner symbol of America's pioneer and entrepreneurial spirit in Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue as one of his favorites. The highly anticipated film, following on the heels of Peckinpah's groundbreaking The Wild Bunch, was not a commercial success, largely due to Robards's gruff and grating interpretation of the character, who keeps losing our sympathy when he is most trying to gain it. The actor gave a much more human, and sympathetic, performance for Peckinpah as the doomed protagonist of the writer-director's Noon Wine, a television adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's haunting short story.
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Synopsis: Jason Robards plays an older Jewish man who returns to Stuttgart, Germany which he left in 1933 during the onslaught of the Third Reich. He reunites with a German man who, as a boy, was his childhood friend. ~ All Movie GuideRead More
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Jennifer Jason Leigh chose her middle name in honor of Robards. Robards was a major US Civil War buff and scholar. He ultimately did the voice of Ulysses S. Grant for Ken Burns' miniseries The Civil War.
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Robards said that he had had bouts of depression during his life and was once a heavy drinker. He said he gave up alcohol in 1974. After a bad car accident in 1972, Robard's face had to be surgically reconstructed.
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One reason Robards could portray people like Jamie with such authenticity was his own experiences of hard living and heavy drinking. As an actor, he was expert at removing the varnish and exposing the despair of emotionally bankrupt characters.
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