Talk:Jason Robards

message: Is it worth noting that Robards is the only actor to have ever played three different US Presidents on film? (Namely Abraham Lincoln in The Perfect Tribute, Ulysses S. Grant in The Legend of the Lone Ranger, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in FDR: The Final Years) GeeJo 03:01, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If he indeed is the only actor to do so (which I don't know), it's probably worth a trivia note. Old64mb 23:53, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's quite interesting and certainly deserves a note but I strongly doubt that he was the only actor to play at least three presidents. Don't ask me about the others, though, since I don't know offhand. Racing Forward (talk) 11:15, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Played 3 Presidents 

message: This was performed in 1973 for 330 performances and I saw
it with Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst sitting from the 
2nd row.
This was an unusual experience esp in this way, sitting in 
normal seats much further back you get no clue as to the
power of the actors delivery, as they near exploded in sound
during this performance. Jason would explode out dialogue so forcefully he was spitting out at the other actors and even the audience.
He later was a near neighbor in old Perry home in Southport, Ct.
:I love this anecdote! Racing Forward (talk) 12:58, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[A Moon for the Misbegotten]] 

message: I looked a bit - pretty sure it's in 'Stars in Blue' but don't have the book handy - but think a brief blurb about exactly what Robards did to earn the Navy Cross might be worthwhile.  The article also could use a lot more sourcing as has been noted elsewhere; tried but couldn't find Old64mb 23:53, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Navy Cross 

message: Should there be a mention on the Jason Robards page about his start in the filming of the epic Werner Herzog film Fitzcarraldo?
He started filming with Mick Jagger before getting dysentary and doctor's orders to go home and not return.
Should this info be included in Jason's page?
(59.101.248.185 07:50, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Most definitely! And of course a later time conflict with yet another of the literally endless tours with his band cost Mick Jagger his role in that marvelous film, which is arguably at least as frustrating as dysentery. Racing Forward (talk) 13:01, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fitzcarraldo inclusion into article 

message: It's listed that one of his spouses is Rachel Taylor, and the link directs to that of an Australian actress who was born in 1984, years before the marriage took place.  Clearly, the linked Rachel Taylor is not the correct person.  I don't know how to change this, I just thought I'd bring it to attention.
:The anonymity of a common name! I looked up a friend I hadn't interacted with in forty years the other day named Ivan Warmuth and it took longer to recognize him in a photo than it did to find the photo. (However, once you recognize someone that far removed in time, you can always do it instantaneously.)  Racing Forward (talk) 13:06, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrectly linked spouse 

message: I came to the page in hope I could find more information on his death, and found no section dedicated to it as I have with most other celebrities in Wikipedia, and instead find this sentence floating by itself as its own paragraph, under Personal Life: 
Robards was cremated.
That's it? Did he perhaps die first? Was that why he died? Did I miss something? A little more information about the circumstances surrounding, leading up to his death is appreciated, and certainly not as inclusive/deficient and confusing as 'Robards was cremated'. B.Soto (talk) 19:24, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: He died of premature cremation. Racing Forward (talk) 11:22, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: His ashes were pronounced dead at the mortuary. Racing Forward (talk) 11:22, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Neither breathing nor a heartbeat could be detected. Racing Forward (talk) 11:23, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Suspiciously, however, reams of Eugene O'Neill's dialogue intermittently emit from his urn for those who listen carefully. Racing Forward (talk) 11:38, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Sadly, the urn is only available for voice-overs and narration. Racing Forward (talk) 11:41, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Under the "Legacy" section of the article, the following: "The Jason Robards Award was created by the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City in his honor and his relationship with the theatre." I swear that when I read that a moment ago, at first I thought it said, "The Jason Robards Award was cremated by the Roundabout Theatre Company....." Racing Forward (talk) 23:07, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death 

message: The Heartwood (1998) entry in the Work / Film section is a link to an
article Heartwood that redirects to to a section in the article Wood...
I do not know the best way to fix this.  00:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been fixed. Racing Forward (talk) 17:15, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inappropriate link: Heartwood 

message: Was the story of his accident merely a cover for his cosmetic surgery operation? In 1972, plastic surgery was not as accepted as it is today.Lestrade (talk) 18:34, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I do recall that when Gary Cooper checked into a hospital for plastic surgery to look younger, the press was told that he was momentarily ill. Racing Forward (talk) 17:10, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  1972 accident 

message: A relation to Howard Hughes, other than playing him? Apple8800 (talk) 17:39, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No relation was ever cited as far as I know but I do think that watching actual newsreels of Hughes at the Senate hearings is as entertaining as anything Robards later did on screen, which is saying a hell of a lot. Racing Forward (talk) 17:07, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Howard Hughes? 

message: The link included in his filmography to this supposed film "Deceptions" from 1992 links to a different movie, so I'm removing the link. But as far as I can tell, this movie does not exist at all. IMDB lists it, with a complete cast and few credits, but I can find literally no evidence anywhere else that such a film ever existed. No reviews, no release information, no images, no trailer, no indication of any kind that it ever appeared anywhere in the real world. Since IMDB is not considered a reliable source, I suggest this film be removed from the official filmography until someone has some non-IMBD evidence that it was ever filmed or released. Even on IMDB there is no plot description or any reviews, extremely unusual for a film with high-profile actors which was apparently released so recently. I have serious doubts that it ever existed to begin with.Mr Subtlety (talk) 23:22, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we should just kill it as a hoax. 1992 isn't 1892. There should be records. The title itself, "Deceptions" should be our first clue. Kill it, but leave a comment up in case someone else tries to add it back. Rklawton (talk) 03:42, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK it's gone. That's been bothering me for like two years now, thanks for the encouragement to finally just kill it dead.Mr Subtlety (talk) 18:46, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Deceptions" 1992 

message: I am trying to find the movie and scene in which Robards flawlessly ties a bow tie. Does anyone know where that scene is found? Adm7141 (talk) 12:41, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bow tie tying scene