Most Tony award nominations for an actor

Jason Robards (USA, 1922 - 2000) was nominated for a record eight Tony awards beginning with Long Day's Journey Into Night (1957), The Disenchanted (1959) - which he won, Toys in the Attic (1960), After the Fall (1964), Hughie (1965), The Country Girl (1972), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1974) and A Touch of the Poet (1978).