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Robards received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in consecutive years for All the President's Men ( 1976) and Julia ( 1977). He was also nominated for another Oscar for his role in Melvin and Howard ( 1980). He received Kennedy Center Honors in 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep.
In Tora Tora Tora, a fairly historically accurate film about the Battle of Pearl HarborOn the morning of December 7, 1941, planes and midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy commanded by Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, carried out a surprise assault on the United States Navy base at Pearl Harbor, and against the Army Air Corps and Mari, he played the role of General Walter ShortLieutenant General Walter Campbell Short ( 1880 1949) was the U. military Commander responsible for the defense of U. military installations in Hawaii at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Short, Walter Short, Walter Shor. Robards was in fact a veteran of that battle.