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James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones

ActingBorn January 17, 1931Died September 9, 2024 (age 93)Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA

Biography

James Earl Jones (January 17, 1931 – September 9, 2024) was an American actor. He was described as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors for his performances on stage and screen, and "one of the greatest actors in American history". Over his career, he received three Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985. He was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009 and the Honorary Academy Award in 2011. His deep voice has been praised as a "stirring basso profondo that has lent gravel and gravitas" to his projects.

Filmography

2024
Butterfly in the Sky

as Guest Narrator (archive footage)

Movie
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi

as Darth Vader (voice)

TV
2021Movie
2021
Coming 2 America

as King Jaffe Joffer

Movie
2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

as Darth Vader (voice)

Movie
2019
The Movies That Made Us

as Self (archive footage)

TV
2019
On Broadway

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2019
The Lion King

as Mufasa (voice)

Movie
2019Movie
2019Movie
2018
Warning Shot

as Pendleton

Movie
2017Movie
2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

as Darth Vader (voice)

Movie
2016Movie
2016Movie
2015
Driving Miss Daisy

as Hoke Colburn

Movie
2015Movie
2014
Star Wars Rebels

as Darth Vader (voice)

TV
2014Movie
2013
Gimme Shelter

as Frank McCarthy

Movie
2013Movie
2013
Blackfish

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2013
Milius

as Self

Movie
2012Movie
2010Movie
2009
Jack and the Beanstalk

as The Giant (voice)

Movie
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2008Movie
2007
Earth

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2007
The Big Bang Theory

as James Earl Jones

TV
2007Movie
2006Movie
2006
The One Show

as Self - Guest

TV
2006
Click

as Narrator of Michael's Past (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

as Jack Jefferson (segment "The Great White Hope") / Troy Maxson (segment "Fences")

Movie
2006
Scary Movie 4

as Narrator (uncredited)

Movie
2006
The Benchwarmers

as Darth Vader (voice)

Movie
2005
The Sandlot 2

as Mr. Mertle

Movie
2005Movie
2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

as Darth Vader (voice - uncredited)

Movie
2005
Robots

as Voice Box at Hardware Store (voice)

Movie
2004
House

as Dibala

TV
2004
Nine Dog Christmas

as Storyteller (voice)

Movie
2004
The Story of Star Wars

as Darth Vader (archive footage)

Movie
2003
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror

as Maggie Simpson (voice)

Movie
2003
Two and a Half Men

as James Earl Jones

TV
2003
The Great Year

as Narrator

Movie
2002
Everwood

as Will Cleveland

TV
2001
Feast of All Saints

as Older Marcel

Movie
2001
According to Jim

as Royal Flush Voice (voice)

TV
2001
Finder's Fee

as Avery Phillips

Movie
2001Movie
2000Movie
2000
Fantasia 2000

as Self - Host

Movie
1999
Santa and Pete

as Grandpa Nicholas

Movie
1999Movie
1999
Undercover Angel

as The Judge

Movie
1999Movie
1999
Summer's End

as Dr. William 'Bill' Blakely

Movie
1999
Our Friend, Martin

as Daddy King (voice)

Movie
1998Movie
1998
Will & Grace

as James Earl Jones

TV
1998
Merlin

as Rock of Ages

TV
1998
Primary Colors

as CNN Voiceover (voice)

Movie
1997
Alone

as Grey

Movie
1997Movie
1997
What the Deaf Man Heard

as Archibald Thacker

Movie
1997
Gang Related

as Arthur Baylor

Movie
1997
Hitler's Forgotten Victims

as Narrator (voice) (DVD version)

Movie
1997Movie
1997
Stargate SG-1

as Unas (Voice)

TV
1997
Sports on the Silver Screen

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1997
Good Luck

as James Bing

Movie
1997
Afro Promo

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1996
Timepiece

as Lawrence

Movie
1996
Looking for Richard

as Self - Interviewee

Movie
1996
Corwin

as Self

Movie
1996
A Family Thing

as Ray Murdock

Movie
1996
3rd Rock from the Sun

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

TV
1995
Cry, the Beloved Country

as Rev. Stephen Kumalo

Movie
1995
Who's in Rabbit's House?

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1995
Judge Dredd

as Narrator (uncredited)

Movie
1995
Jefferson in Paris

as Madison Hemings

Movie
1995
Under One Roof

as Neb Langston

TV
1995TV
1995
People: A Musical Celebration

as The Storyteller (voice)

Movie
1994
Touched by an Angel

as The Angel of Angels

TV
1994
Clear and Present Danger

as Admiral James Greer

Movie
1994
The Lion King

as Mufasa (voice)

Movie
1994
Clean Slate

as John Dolby

Movie
1994Movie
1994
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

as James Earl Jones (uncredited)

Movie
1994Movie
1994
The Vernon Johns Story

as Vernon Johns

Movie
1993
Hallelujah

as Old Man Taylor

Movie
1993Movie
1993
Frasier

as Norman Royster

TV
1993
Percy & Thunder

as Percy Banks

Movie
1993
The Meteor Man

as Earnest Moses

Movie
1993
Dreamrider

as Bill Perry

Movie
1993Movie
1993
The Sandlot

as Mr. Mertle

Movie
1993
Sommersby

as Judge Barry Conrad Issacs

Movie
1993TV
1992
Lincoln

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1992
Picket Fences

as Bryant Thomas

TV
1992
Sneakers

as Mr. Bernard Abbott

Movie
1992
Patriot Games

as Adm. James Greer

Movie
1992TV
1992
The JFK Conspiracy

as Self - Host

Movie
1991
Pros and Cons

as Gabriel Bird

TV
1991
True Identity

as James Earl Jones

Movie
1991Movie
1991
Scorchers

as Bear

Movie
1991Movie
1991
Visitors from the Unknown

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1991
Convicts

as Ben Johnson

Movie
1990Movie
1990
Law & Order

as Defense Attorney Horace McCoy

TV
1990
Gabriel's Fire

as Gabriel Bird

TV
1990
Ivory Hunters

as Inspector Nkuru

Movie
1990
Heat Wave

as Junius Johnson

Movie
1990
Last Flight Out

as Al Topping

Movie
1990Movie
1990
The Ambulance

as Lt. Spencer

Movie
1990
The Hunt for Red October

as Vice ADM James Greer

Movie
1990
Teach 109

as Dr. Winston

Movie
1990
Terrorgram

as Retribution (voice)

Movie
1989
The Simpsons

as Narrator (voice)

TV
1989
The Simpsons

as Moving Man / Serak the Preparer / Narrator (voice)

TV
1989
The Simpsons

as Maggie Simpson (voice)

TV
1989
Best of the Best

as Frank Couzo

Movie
1989
Field of Dreams

as Terrence Mann

Movie
1989Movie
1989
The Hunting of the Snark

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1988TV
1988
Coming to America

as King Jaffe Joffer

Movie
1988Movie
1987
Matewan

as 'Few Clothes' Johnson

Movie
1987
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

as Emperor of the Night (voice)

Movie
1987
Gardens of Stone

as Sgt. Maj.'Goody' Nelson

Movie
1987
Mathnet

as Chief Thad Green (voice)

TV
1987
Mathnet

as Chief Thad Green

TV
1987
Mathnet

as Chief Thad Greene

TV
1986
Soul Man

as Professor Banks

Movie
1986
L.A. Law

as Lee Atkins

TV
1986
My Little Girl

as Ike Bailey

Movie
1986Movie
1986Movie
1985
Moses

as Pharaoh

Movie
1985
City Limits

as Albert

Movie
1985TV
1985Movie
1985TV
1984
The Vegas Strip War

as Jack Madrid

Movie
1984
Highway to Heaven

as Gabe Wilson

TV
1984
CBS Schoolbreak Special

as Detective Robb

TV
1983
Reading Rainbow

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
1983
Return of the Jedi

as Darth Vader (voice)

Movie
1982
Blood Tide

as Frye

Movie
1982Movie
1982
Faerie Tale Theatre

as Genie / Narrator (voice)

TV
1982
The Flight of Dragons

as Ommadon (voice)

Movie
1982
Conan the Barbarian

as Thulsa Doom

Movie
1982Movie
1981Movie
1981
The Creation

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1981
The Bushido Blade

as The Prisoner

Movie
1981
Beauty and the Beast

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1981
God's Trombones

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1980
The Empire Strikes Back

as Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
1980Movie
1979
Paris

as Woody Paris

TV
1979Movie
1979TV
1979
Paul Robeson

as Paul Robeson

Movie
1978
The Star Wars Holiday Special

as Darth Vader (voice)

Movie
1977Movie
1977
A Piece of the Action

as Joshua Burke

Movie
1977
The Making of Star Wars

as Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
1977Movie
1977
Star Wars

as Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
1977
The Greatest

as Malcolm X

Movie
1977
Jesus of Nazareth

as Balthazar

TV
1976
Swashbuckler

as Nick Debrett

Movie
1976
The River Niger

as Johnny Williams

Movie
1975
Deadly Hero

as Rabbit Shazam

Movie
1975
The UFO Incident

as Barney Hill

Movie
1975
Vegetable Soup

as Long John Spoilsport

TV
1974
The Cay

as Timothy

Movie
1974
Dinah!

as Self

TV
1974
Claudine

as Rupert D. "Roop" Marshall

Movie
1974
King Lear

as King Lear

Movie
1973
Black Omnibus

as Self - Host

TV
1972
The Man

as Douglass Dilman

Movie
1972
Malcolm X

as Biographical Narration (voice)

Movie
1971
Great Performances

as King Lear

TV
1970
The Great White Hope

as Jack Jefferson

Movie
1970Movie
1970
End of the Road

as Doctor D

Movie
1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

TV
1967
The Comedians

as Dr. Magiot

Movie
1966TV
1961
The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host

TV
1961
Dr. Kildare

as Dr. Lou Rush

TV
1961
The Defenders

as Lieutenant Andrews

TV
1961
The Defenders

as Reverend Harris Bonham

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Winner / Performer

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self (archive footage)

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee / Presenter

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

TV
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Archibald Thacker

TV
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee / Presenter

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJanuary 17, 1931
Day of DeathSeptember 9, 2024
Place of BirthArkabutla, Mississippi, USA
Popularity1.9