CELEBRITY JASON ROBARDS DEAD AT 78

Star of stage and screen, and two-time Oscar winner Jason Robards died on Tuesday, at age 78 after a long battle with cancer.

Robards’ last big-screen appearance was in the 1999 film “Magnolia,” in which he played the dying father of the character played by Tom Cruise. His first academy award was for best supporting actor in the 1976 drama “All the President’s Men,” about the Watergate scandal. His second Oscar came the following year and was for his role as Dashiell Hammett in the film “Julia”.

Robards was also known for his stage interpretations of characters in the Eugene O’Neill plays “The Iceman Cometh,” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”

A spokesperson for Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut reports that the actor died at about 2:45 p.m. EDT.


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