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Jason Robards
7 films · 557 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1968–1999
Born 26 July 1922 · Chicago, Illinois, USA · died 26 December 2000
Jason Nelson Robards Jr. was an American actor. Known as an interpreter of the works of playwright Eugene O'Neill, Robards received two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. He is one of 24 performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 557 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1968–1999
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1978
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1977
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor1962
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1988
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play1959
- National Medal of Arts
- Theatre World Award1957
- Drama League Award
- Kennedy Center Honors
How their films are shot
Measured across 557 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jason takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 53% of their frames are day, 46% natural — the look of the work Jason takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 557 frames from Jason Robards's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.