Jason Robards

UCLA Festival of Preservation turns spotlight on Julie Harris, TV

2013-03-15 05:00:00

The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation turns its spotlight on the small screen with a tribute Saturday to the television work of an award-winning actress and a celebration March 23 of an acclaimed but short-lived ABC anthology...

Sterling Lord shares insight, memories

2013-02-01 07:05:00

Without Sterling Lord, there would be no Jack Kerouac — not Kerouac as we know him, anyway, the writer who introduced the Beat Generation. Lord was a former magazine editor and fledgling literary agent working in a basement apartment in New York...

Deborah Raffin dies at 59; actress was also a force in audio books

2012-11-21 19:34:00

Deborah Raffin, a film actress, veteran of television miniseries and entrepreneur whose company, Dove Books-on-Tape, became a major force in the audio book industry, died Wednesday of leukemia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She was 59. She...

Christopher Plummer still has 'A Word or Two' to say

2012-08-24 12:20:00

"First you're young. Then you're old. Then you're wonderful." — Alice Roosevelt Longworth STRATFORD, Canada — Christopher Plummer is in the wonderful phase of his career — and at 82 he's seizing the opportunity. In February, the six-...

‘Dark Knight Rises’: Tom Hardy, a Brando for Blu-ray era?

2012-07-13 10:40:21

Ray Bradbury was a huge influence on the film world too

2012-06-06 16:39:21

Oscars by the Numbers

2012-02-02 16:41:14

Ian Abercrombie dies at 77; actor played Elaine's boss on 'Seinfeld'

2012-01-30 00:00:00

Ian Abercrombie, 77, the British character actor who played Elaine's demanding boss, Mr. Pitt, on "Seinfeld," died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his friend Cathy Lind Hayes. He suffered complications of kidney failure and...

Around Town: Oscar fever hits the Academy, American Cinematheque

2012-02-23 16:37:17

PASSINGS: George Green, David Pressman, Robert Hollister, Laurie Hoyt

2011-09-02 00:00:00

George Green Lyricist and songwriter George Green, 59, who wrote lyrics for some of John Mellencamp's biggest hits, as well as songs for Barbra Streisand and others, died Sunday in Albuquerque of a rapid-forming lung cancer, his wife, Kathryn, told...

Peter Falk dies at 83; actor found acclaim as 'Columbo'

2011-06-24 14:44:00

Peter Falk, the gravel-voiced actor who became an enduring television icon portraying Lt. Columbo, the rumpled raincoat-wearing Los Angeles police homicide detective who always had "just one more thing" to ask a suspect, died Thursday. He was 83. Falk,...

Appreciation: Peter Falk, 1927-2011

2011-06-24 16:35:45

Apparently, though we don't recommend trying any of Freddie's cocktail recipes at home. Anderson took inspiration for an early scene of Freddie draining and drinking torpedo fuel from a story Jason Robards told him while working together on "Magnolia.

2012-10-18 14:57:47

This movie adaptation of the book of the same name stars Jason Robards, Anne Archer and Alec Guinness - but is considered absolutely terrible.

2012-04-13 10:45:00

Who Won: Jason Robards (All The President's Men) Who Should Have Won: Burgess Meredith (Rocky) We like Robards as an actor but Burgess Meredith gave us one of the most iconic characters in movie history.

2012-02-22 12:03:13