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Article: The late Jason Robards: The regal curmudgeon.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- December 29, 2000
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In 1999's "Magnolia," Jason Robards played a bitter man facing his last days. Dying of cancer, Earl Partridge rages against the dying of the light as he mimes a last cigarette and asks to see his estranged son one more time.
On Tuesday, Robards lost his own long battle to cancer. The authoritative, craggy-voiced marvel of American stage, screen and television, known for keeping his cards close to his chest in public, was 78. He leaves behind a resume and reputation matched by few actors of any era.
The author and film historian David Thomson called Robards "a surviving exponent of the grand manner." Indeed, this Chicago-born son of silent film and stage ...