This handsome, easy-going actor, son of famed actors Jason Robards and Lauren Bacall, has had roles in film and series TV. Robards studied acting and had respectable stage experience before making an impressive screen debut as a suitor to Molly Ringwald in Paul Mazursky's "Tempest" (1982), a savvy adaptation of Shakespeare's deserted island fantasy. Robards next co-starred in the coming-of-age drama "Fandango" (1985), which also featured a then unknown Kevin Costner and Robards' wife-to-be Suzy Amis, before playing opposite his father in the film adaptation of Jay McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City" (1988).

Supporting roles for Robards followed in "Bird" (1988), Clint Eastwood's heartfelt biopic of famed jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, and Brian De Palma's flawed yet majestic Vietnam film, "Casualties of War" (1989). He co-starred with Amis in the western "The Ballad of Little Jo" (1993). In 1994 Robards landed roles in Alan Rudolph's "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle", as THE NEW YORKER magazine founder Harold Ross, and Robert Altman's "Ready To Wear", a sharp satire of the French fashion industry, as the efficient assistant to an influential fashion editor. The latter film also featured Bacall.

On the small screen, Robards debuted as a regular on the educational TV series "Reading Rainbow" (PBS, 1982), headlined the short-lived drama "TV 101" (CBS, 1988-89) as a journalism teacher and co-starred on the wacky sitcom "Get a Life!" (Fox, 1990-91) as straight man to series star Chris Elliott's antics.

Source: entertainment.lycos.com