For his performance in the Broadway production of The Man Who Had All the Luck, he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
[3] Robards then attended Sarah Lawrence College, but was expelled after his freshman year due to poor grades and bad behavior.
Robards began his acting career in 1980 in an off-Broadway production of Album, and made his feature-film debut in director Paul Mazursky's 1982 film Tempest.
Robards acted opposite his father in the 1988 film Bright Lights, Big City, which was their only collaboration before his death in 2000.
Also in 1988, he was cast in the lead role of Kevin Keegan in the CBS drama TV 101 which was scheduled opposite top-10 shows Roseanne and Matlock; the series was cancelled amidst a controversial abortion story line.