Jason Robards

The Voice Still Carries: The Aimee Mann Story

2026 · Earl Partridge (Magnolia archive footage)

Arthur Miller: Writer

2017 · Self (archive footage)

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

2016 · Ben Bradlee (archive footage)

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004

2006 · Joe's Father (video "One")

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006 · Self

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004 · Self (archive footage)

Going Home

2000 · Charles Barton

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

2000 · Self (archive footage)

That Moment: Magnolia Diary

2000 · Self

Magnolia

1999 · Earl Partridge

My Best Fiend

1999 · Self (archive footage)

Enemy of the State

1998 · Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

Beloved

1998 · Mr. Bodwin

The Real Macaw

1998 · Grandpa Girdis

Heartwood

1998 · Logan Reeser

Truman

1997 · Narrator (voice)

A Thousand Acres

1997 · Larry Cook

T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt

1996 · Narrator

Journey

1995 · Marcus

Crimson Tide

1995 · Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

My Antonia

1995 · Josea Burden

The Great American West

1995 · Narrator (voice)

The Enemy Within

1994 · General R. Pendleton Lloyd

Little Big League

1994 · Thomas Heywood

The Paper

1994 · Graham Keighley

Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital

1994 · Narrator

La Classe américaine

1993 · The Newspaper Director (archive footage)

Philadelphia

1993 · Charles Wheeler

Roots of Roe

1993 · Anthony Comstock (voice)

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

1993 · Self

The Trial

1993 · Doctor Huld

The Adventures of Huck Finn

1993 · The King

Lincoln

1992 · President Abraham Lincoln (voice)

The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library

1992 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Storyville

1992 · Clifford Fowler

When It Was a Game 2

1992 · Passage Narrator (voice)

Deceptions

1992 · Clay (voice)

Mark Twain and Me

1991 · Mark Twain

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

1991 · Narrator (voice)

Rabbit Ears - Jonah and the Whale

1991 · Narrator (voice)

When It Was a Game

1991 · (voice)

Chernobyl: The Final Warning

1991 · Dr. Armand Hammer

The Perfect Tribute

1991 · President Abraham Lincoln

Quick Change

1990 · Chief Rotzinger

Night of 100 Stars III

1990 · Self

Black Rainbow

1989 · Walter Travis

Thomas Hart Benton

1989 · Narrator (voice)

Parenthood

1989 · Frank Buckman

Reunion

1989 · Henry Strauss

Dream a Little Dream

1989 · Coleman Ettinger

The Christmas Wife

1988 · John Tanner

The Good Mother

1988 · W. O. Muth

Bright Lights, Big City

1988 · Mr. Hardy (uncredited)

Inherit the Wind

1988 · Harry Drummond

Breaking Home Ties

1987 · Lloyd Wells

Laguna Heat

1987 · Wade Shephard

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

1987 · Self

Square Dance

1987 · Dillard

Johnny Bull

1986 · Stephan Kovacs

Portrait: Werner Herzog

1986 · Self (archive footage)

Empire City

1985 · Self - Narrator (voice)

The World of Tomorrow

1984 · Self / Narrator

You Can't Take it With You

1984 · Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

America and Lewis Hine

1984 · Voice

Sakharov

1984 · Andrei Sakharov

The Day After

1983 · Dr. Russell Oakes

The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History

1983 · Self - Host

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1983 · Charles Halloway

Max Dugan Returns

1983 · Max Dugan

Burden of Dreams

1982 · Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

Night of 100 Stars

1982 · Self

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

1981 · President Ulysses S. Grant

Melvin and Howard

1980 · Howard Hughes

Ghosts of Cape Horn

1980 · Narrator

Raise the Titanic

1980 · Admiral James Sandecker

F.D.R.: The Last Year

1980 · President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Haywire

1980 · Leland Hayward

Caboblanco

1980 · Gunther Beckdorff

A Plague on Our Children

1979 · Narrator (voice)

Hurricane

1979 · Capt. Charles Bruckner

A Christmas to Remember

1978 · Daniel Larson

Comes a Horseman

1978 · Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

Julia

1977 · Dashiell Hammett

The Spy Who Never Was

1976 · Inspector Barkan

All the President's Men

1976 · Ben Bradlee

Addie and the King of Hearts

1976 · James "Jamie" Mills

Mr. Sycamore

1975 · John Gwilt

A Moon for the Misbegotten

1975 · James Tyrone Jr.

The Easter Promise

1975 · James "Jamie" Mills

A Boy and His Dog

1975 · Lou Craddock

The Country Girl

1974 · Frank Elgin

The Thanksgiving Treasure

1973 · James "Jamie" Mills

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973 · Governor Wallace

Old Faithful

1973 · Jason Robards

The House Without a Christmas Tree

1972 · James "Jamie" Mills

The War Between Men and Women

1972 · Stephen Kozlenko

Johnny Got His Gun

1971 · Joe's Father

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971 · Cesar Charron

Fools

1970 · Matthew South

Julius Caesar

1970 · Marcus Brutus

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1970 · Cable Hogue

Operation Snafu

1970 · Sam Armstrong

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970 · General Walter C. Short

The Night They Raided Minsky's

1968 · Raymond Paine

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968 · 'Cheyenne'

Isadora

1968 · Paris Singer

Hour of the Gun

1967 · Doc Holliday

The Belle of 14th Street

1967 · Performer

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1967 · Al Capone

Divorce American Style

1967 · Nelson Downes

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1967 · Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

Noon Wine

1966 · Royal Earle Thompson

Any Wednesday

1966 · John Cleves

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

1966 · Henry Drummond

The Face of Genius

1966 · Self - Narrator (voice)

A Thousand Clowns

1965 · Murray

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1964 · Abraham Lincoln

Act One

1963 · George S. Kaufman

Long Day's Journey Into Night

1962 · Jamie Tyrone

Tender Is the Night

1962 · Dick Diver

By Love Possessed

1961 · Julius Penrose

The Bat

1960 · Detective Anderson

A Doll's House

1959 · Dr. Rank

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1959 · Robert Jordan

The Journey

1959 · Paul Kedes

The West

1996 · Self - Brigham Young

Baseball

1994 · (voice)

Heidi

1993 · Grandfather

An Inconvenient Woman

1991 · Jules Mendelson

The Civil War

1990 · Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

American Experience

1988 · Narrator (voice)

The Last Frontier

1986 · Ed Stenning

The Long Hot Summer

1985 · Will Varner

The Atlanta Child Murders

1985 · Alvin Binder

Screen Two

1985 · Doctor Huld

Reading Rainbow

1983 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Broadway on Showtime

1979 · Erie Smith

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978 · Self

The Magic of David Copperfield

1978

Washington: Behind Closed Doors

1977 · President Richard Monckton

Ghost Story

1972 · Elliot Brent

Film '72

1971 · Self

The Dick Cavett Show

1968 · Self - Guest

ABC Stage 67

1966 · Royal Earle Thompson

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963

The Danny Kaye Show

1963 · Self

The Iceman Cometh

1960 · Theodore "Hickey" Hickman

The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries

1960 · Detective Anderson

Play of the Week

1959

Playhouse 90

1956 · Robert Jordan

Tony Awards

1956 · Self - Host, Self - Presenter

The Alcoa Hour

1955 · Bert Palmer

The Oscars

1953 · Self

General Electric Theater

1953 · Col. Carter

Omnibus

1952

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Dr. Rank, Marcus, Abe Lincoln, Frank Elgin

What's My Line?

1950 · Self - Mystery Guest

Studio One

1948 · Frank Cameron, Prisoner, Walter Osgood, Leonard O'Brien

The Philco Television Playhouse

1948 · Joe Grant, Mason

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948 · Self