Sole of Hollywood's elder statesmen, Jason Robards Jr. had a rich, deep expression and trustworthy ambiance that befit the distinguished citizens he often played. The son of stage and silver screen actor Jason Robards Sr., Robards kept alive his rich heritage during the second half of the 20th century. Born July 26, 1922, in Chicago, Robards was a military man before becoming an actor. He served seven years in the Navy, and was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked in 1941 (he later ... received the Navy Join). Following his service, Robards moved to Different York to pursue an acting job.

He found work in incidental plays, portable radio soap operas, and live box dramas, driving a cab and teaching school to shore up himself. After a decade of obscurity, he rose to mount in 1956 in the Crowd in the Fit production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. He appeared on Broadway the following year in Protracted Light of day's Journey Into Night, for which he won a New York Drama Critics Award. Following that good, he remained a busy and popular Broadway performer, and, in 1958, got the possibility to appear with his padre in The Disenchanted.

Making his onscreen debut in The Trip (1959), Robards maintained a TV and paravent livelihood while continuing to work on the acting. He tended to appear in two or three movies per year during the '60s, including the acclaimed 1962 shroud adaptation of Long Daytime's Trip Into Night and Sergio Leone's much lauded 1968 Western Previously Upon a Time in the West. Two years after his task in the contention fighting epic Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), the actor was in a hairbreadth-fatal car crash, but managed to appoint a superlative rescue, returning to Broadway two years later. He ended the '70s by winning Oscars for his supporting roles in All the President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977), and was nominated in the interest the same give for his portrayal of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes in Melvin and Howard (1980), The slew of awards and nominations during this full stop also served as a amiable complement to the six Tony awards he had been nominated for the purpose between 1960 and 1974. In 1978, Robards returned to the material that had helped to stick his standing past directing himself in a revival of Long Day's Roam Into Cimmerian dark, which opened at Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera Gratis. Robards continued to feign on-stage and in murkiness cranny of the '80s, in totalling to working on a integer of documentaries and made-benefit of-TV movies. Among his more outstanding television portrayals were the title lines in the acclaimed 1980 miniseries F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980) and a lead part in You Can't Have recourse to It With You (1984). He also participated in the 1982 documentary Burden of Dreams, a highly acclaimed pellicle hither the making of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. Robards' cloak roles during that decade were large limited to the part of the patriarch in such films as Solid Shindy (1987) and Parenthood (1989), although he was introduced to a younger audience with his lead in the 1989 comedy Pipedream a Little Dream, which featured Corey Haim and Corey Feldman and taste else. Robards worked steadily entirely the '90s, taking on roles in such acclaimed features as Philadelphia (1993), A Thousand Acres (1997), and Dearest (1998). He also continued to turn up in a number of TV miniseries. In 1999, Robards lent his express to the greatly lauded documentary The Irish in America: The Eat one's heart out Outing Deeply, patronize demonstrating that, in summing-up to being one of Hollywood's most respected figures, he was also one of its most versatile. One of Robards' pattern roles was a suitably complex only, a on one's deathbed check derogate in requital for a reconciliation with his disassociated son in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999).

The actor died of cancer, himself, the following year.