Editing Jason Robards (section)

=== Family ===
[[File:Jason Robards Sr. by Lewis-Smith.jpg|thumb|left|170px|[[Jason Robards Sr.]] circa 1915]] 
Robards was born July 26, 1922, in [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]], the son of actor [[Jason Robards Sr.]] and Hope Maxine Robards (née Glanville).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dgmweb.net/FGS/R/RobardsJasonNelson-HopeMaxineGlanville-AgnesE_.html|title=Jason Nelson ROBARDS Sr. & Hope Maxine GLANVILLE & Agnes E. __?__|website=dgmweb.net}}</ref> He was of German, English, Welsh, Irish, and Swedish descent.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70717F8385F107A93C2AB178AD85F408785F9 |title=Jason Jamie Robards Tyrone - Playing O'Neil, in life and on stage - Article |website=New York Times |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106224849/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70717F8385F107A93C2AB178AD85F408785F9 |archive-date=2012-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB0F3EB12656F62&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D|title=NewsLibrary Search Results|work=newsbank.com}}</ref> The family moved to New York City when Jason Jr. was still a toddler, and then moved to Los Angeles when he was six years old. Later interviews with Robards suggested that the trauma of his parents' divorce, which occurred during his grade-school years, greatly affected his personality and world view. From his parents' first marriage together, he had a younger brother named Glenn. He had little or no contact with his mother after the divorce. She later married a second time to Arthur Milburn, making him his stepfather, although he may or may not have known about it at the time. His father married a second time to Agnes Lynch. He was probably closer to his stepmother than his biological one. From his father's second marriage, he had a half-sister named Laurel.

As a youth, Robards also experienced the decline of his father's acting career. The elder Robards had enjoyed considerable success during the era of [[silent film]]s, but he fell out of favor after the advent of sound film, leaving the younger Robards soured on the Hollywood film industry. The teenage Robards excelled in athletics at [[Hollywood High School]] in Los Angeles. Although his prowess in sports attracted interest from several universities, Robards decided to enlist in the United States Navy upon his graduation in 1940.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}