Date of birth: 1892-12-30
Place of birth: Hillsdale, Michigan, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Jason Nelson Robards, Jason Robards

Famed American stage actor. Trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. Appeared in many films, initially as a leading man, then in character roles and occasional bits. Consistently billed as Jason Robards, as his more famous son, Jason Robards, did not come into fame until the end of the elder Robards' career. Only referred to as Jason Robards Sr. in retrospect. Died in 1963, having lived to see his namesake son and grandson (Jason Robards III) carry on the family acting tradition.

1945-09-01
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If t

1946-05-10
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy w

1949-01-18
Two members of a dynamite crew--a rugged veteran and a young college drop-out--finds themselves at o

1945-05-31
In this western, a young cowboy rides out to avenge his father's killer. Eventually, he finds the sc

1946-11-22
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.

1948-03-25
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the countr

1947-06-28
A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while

1949-03-20
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime

1931-05-01
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a

1947-06-20
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

1934-02-09
Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might

1945-04-24
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.

1950-07-07
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coa

1938-06-09
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try

1946-04-12
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.

1946-12-13
A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.

1948-06-09
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance pol

1935-11-22
Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for th

1940-09-19
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries d

1931-08-21
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming

1944-07-28
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with

1934-11-30
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daugh

1940-01-15
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspe

1935-10-18
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, thou

1933-09-15
An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.

1937-11-05
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her

1941-06-20
San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The M

1947-06-01
Marvin Hayden returns to find his ranch is about to be sold at auction and the Hayden Jorth feud sti

1945-11-23
A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the ma

1949-09-01
A mailman leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief and her gang.

1932-01-03
In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting t

1932-08-29
Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient

1947-11-13
Dave and Chito are working for Melburn who is looking for wild horses. Olmstead has his men looking

1932-11-20
A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded kill

1948-07-17
US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws.

1935-06-21
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.

1935-04-11
In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his

1934-04-03
When a radio star is found murdered in her home, everyone assumes that the mysterious young woman di

1926-06-19
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Sm

1932-10-17
After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a

1934-01-09
A stenographer who works at a large hotel finds herself caught in the middle of a major swindle.

1931-10-28
The Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from Det

1921-07-01
On her journey to the United States, Marya Nisko falls in love with another immigrant, Sascha Rabino

1927-05-21
Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America,

1933-11-11
When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Dep

1945-11-16
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.

1932-06-08
An adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been

1932-02-01
Barbary Coast, San Francisco. The gangster moll Belle gets deeply entangled with gangsters led by he

1937-06-08
Singer Joan Whitney, called the "Sweetheart of the Navy" by sailors, is struggling to re-open the Sn

1937-12-02
Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Cana

1934-10-12
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria

1932-11-18
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.

1946-07-15
A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her

1932-01-14
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr

1930-01-04
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him b

1932-10-15
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for pros

1940-05-18
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along th

1948-05-12
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.

1946-04-15
Ding Dong Williams, a clarinet player who can neither read nor write music is employed at a motion p

1930-11-08
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining cha

1934-06-15
Marjorie Temple, owner of a bus line and an apparently worthless plot of land, is set upon by rich o

1940-08-09
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and love

1931-07-15
A man gets in trouble with his girlfriend when a beautiful movie star and her fiance come to his sma

1934-03-27
A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mo

1927-02-26
Adapted from Dorothy Yost's story, "The Untamed Heart"

1927-09-10
Our doggy hero is abandoned in the desert while in pup-hood. Upon reaching maturity, Tin Tin has und

1946-08-31
This "Theater of Life" series short looks at traffic problems in Los Angeles, California, as describ

1939-11-01
Crooks plot to steal a payroll being shipped by air.
1947-01-31
Two reel comedy starring Gene Krupa as an Orchestra leader trying to make it in New York.

1937-08-18
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reis

1934-11-17
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American pol

1938-04-29
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is

1948-02-07
A forger has made a copy of a Spanish land grant and Arnold is after it. Arnold and his men attack,

1936-03-17
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for th

1933-02-11
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thin

1939-12-16
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the go

1939-01-06
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thorough

1939-03-08
An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.

1939-06-10
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment f

1939-06-30
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Unive

1934-08-07
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets

1939-09-11
"Tailspin Tommy" Tompkins and "Skeeter" Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-

1931-04-11
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings in

1946-03-18
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of m

1949-08-08
When Steve Downey arrives to reopen his brother-in-law's gold mine, he finds a war between the ranch

1949-03-25
An undercover Army captain links missing gold and murder to a gambler's ghost.

1949-03-16
While trailing Forest Ranger Charles Carter, who is suspected of permitting lumber man Henry Mitchel

1949-03-10
Spotted after he microfilms secret U.S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick is killed when he trie

1948-09-11
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.

1947-12-15
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.

1947-05-20
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and severa

1947-04-30
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getti

1947-04-18
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself t

1947-02-20
Knowing the railroad is coming, Carter is after the rancher's land. Bob and Chito return just in tim

1938-06-24
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence

1944-05-01
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.

1940-12-24
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.

1931-12-15
A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese

1938-10-25
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gan

1947-08-01
A stagecoach owner goes to jail to catch a holdup gang.

1933-09-08
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws

1931-07-01
Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries

1930-11-28
Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing w

1939-09-08
Buck Colins heads a group of local ranchers who are trying to prevent the railroad from completing i

1939-05-19
A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows airc

1949-06-26
Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.

1934-06-29
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.

1948-02-07
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, e

1940-04-05
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to

1927-05-07
The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or sto

1947-03-26
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unex

1946-11-15
A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nig

1948-12-16
Country-western favorite Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys star in the Columbia musical western

1935-10-04
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

1933-06-18
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for

1929-06-29
A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doe

1934-02-01
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend does

1949-11-22
When Robin Grant inherits a valuable range, certain evil interests try their best to kill off Robin

1948-06-18
Ben Jason has found a lost gold mine. When Morgan learns this, he and his henchman chase down Jason

1947-06-05
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for

1928-06-01
On a stormy night at sea, a Captain and the First Mate talk about the girl that they are both in lov

1930-01-30
The Sheriff and County Prosecutor come to an isolated country farm where a woman killed her husband,

1939-01-17
Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's

1948-09-15
Bill Sanger has his men out raiding and killing to obtain the ranches along the route that he knows

1942-11-14
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and h

1943-09-10
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital

1936-06-26
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days befo

1945-05-01
Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss

1928-12-01
A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful

1946-05-10
Leon Errol's wife blames him for his twin brother's mishaps.

1946-12-10
A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce

1930-09-01
Intending that her son, Herbert, marry debutante Mildred Vane, Mrs. Consuelo Carter is most dismayed

1939-08-01
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

1932-10-07
Gregory is a phony government agent issuing worthless checks. To keep from being exposed he has his

1935-05-31
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music t

1929-03-10
Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds happiness

1925-12-13
Based on a novel by William J. Locke, Stella Maris is a remake of the 1918 Mary Pickford vehicle of

1947-05-15
Family drama about a young farm girl, suddenly orphaned, who must give up her beloved dog when she's

1929-11-07
Irène Bordoni is cast as Vivienne Rolland, a Parisian chorus girl in love with Massachusetts boy And

1946-07-19
Rita informs Leon that, as a lark, he stole a valuable necklace at a dinner party the night before a

1937-01-02
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobil

1945-07-20
While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl

1926-12-01
Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover.

1927-07-13
At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son

1933-11-01
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a

1946-05-04
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a

1927-11-15
Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past I

1945-06-15
Leon suspects something between his wife (Dorothy Granger) - talk about the pot calling the kettle b

1947-02-19
Bat Masterson cleans up Liberal, Kansas.

1933-10-20
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved c

1939-12-16
The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I

1938-10-12
An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.

1921-03-27
A hostess at a Broadway cafe marries one of her many suitors, and finds out her new husband is prone

1947-02-10
Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-

1946-08-23
Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day o

1947-09-26
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome

1926-02-28
Jacob Cohen, who owns a dry goods store, and Patrick Kelly, an Irish cop, are constantly at loggerhe

1927-03-19
A smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz, stands in the way of the engagement of her college son Frank

1927-12-15

1958-02-28
A drunken driver, his wife and a hitchhiker equals murder.

1961-06-15
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pu

1950-04-10
An agent searches for a psychopath guilty of robbery and murder, and falls in love with a murder vic

1949-12-01
A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.

1949-11-02
Eddy Arnold, singing star of the Ace Lucky radio program gets involved when Ace's equipment for a te

1949-08-14
Texas Rangers Tim Holt and Richard Martin are dispatched to halt a gang of masked outlaws terrorizin

1929-06-05
Released in both a silent and a sound version: Mitch Moran, a veteran WWI pilot and now a commercial

1929-10-16
The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitap

1933-08-20
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name

1930-03-20
Young heiress Ann Jordan and her fiancè Frank Oakes would be happy except for the constant appearanc

1945-12-01
Detective Tracy rescues Tess Trueheart and Junior from a killer called Splitface.

1936-10-01
A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being mar

1935-05-03
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store o

1936-12-11
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publ

1945-10-25
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

1944-10-06
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to th
Leon (Leon Errol) wants to spend quiet evenings at home but his wife, Dorothy (Dorothy Granger) want
1945-07-13
There is movement afoot in Edgar Kennedy's house, where he lives with his wife Florence, and relucta