James Earl Jones
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.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
L.A. Law
7.1
Sesame Street
7.072
The Simpsons
8
Law & Order
7.4
House
8.592
Gabriel's Fire
6.2
The One Show
4.538
According to Jim
6.532
Everwood
7.5
Two and a Half Men
7.452
Frasier
7.674
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
7
Stargate SG-1
8.3
Will & Grace
6.855
Homicide: Life on the Street
8.1
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Mathnet
7
Mathnet
7
East Side/West Side
7.8
Under One Roof
0
Vegetable Soup
0
The Defenders
6.2
Tarzan
6.7
Roots: The Next Generations
7.4
Paris
5
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
6.3
Jesus of Nazareth
7.8
Dr. Kildare
5.5
The Defenders
6.2
The Kennedy Center Honors
7.4
Me & Mom
5
Pros and Cons
6
Merlin
6.875
The Big Bang Theory
7.909
Obi-Wan Kenobi
7.1
The Magic of David Copperfield
7
Tony Awards
5.1
Star Wars Rebels
7.735
Long Ago and Far Away
9
CBS Schoolbreak Special
5.5
Faerie Tale Theatre
8.1
Reading Rainbow
8.4
Lamp Unto My Feet
0
Signs and Wonders
0
The Atlanta Child Murders
6
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
7.2
The Simpsons
8
The Simpsons
8
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
6
The Movies That Made Us
7.193
Black Omnibus
0
Star Wars Rebels
7.735
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
10
Tony Awards
5.1
The Dick Cavett Show
6.7
Touched by an Angel
7.2
Great Performances
5.3
The Second Civil War
6
Tony Awards
5.1
Tony Awards
5.1
Tony Awards
5.1
3rd Rock from the Sun
7.475
Highway to Heaven
7.385
Dinah!
6.667
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.4
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Tony Awards
5.1
Golden Globe Awards
7
Mathnet
7
Tony Awards
5.1
The Merv Griffin Show
5.75
Movies
Star Wars
8.205
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8.12
Sommersby
6.346
The Hunt for Red October
7.381
Sneakers
6.906
Field of Dreams
7.105
The Empire Strikes Back
8.396
Return of the Jedi
7.903
Dreamrider
7
Amy and the Angel
5.5
Earth
7.615
Finder's Fee
6.1
By Dawn's Early Light
6.6
The Meteor Man
5.8
The Sandlot
7.53
Excessive Force
4.9
Matewan
7.4
Three Fugitives
6.668
Disney's American Legends
7.368
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
6.615
The Lion King
8.258
Soul Man
5.317
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
4.7
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
6.949
Clear and Present Danger
6.656
Coming to America
6.885
Conan the Barbarian
6.814
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
0
The Flight of Dragons
6.7
Patriot Games
6.686
Cry, the Beloved Country
6.7
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
6
Africa: The Serengeti
6.7
Gardens of Stone
6.224
Gang Related
6.354
Jack and the Beanstalk
5.205
Swashbuckler
6.2
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
6.1
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
6.6
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
7.142
A Family Thing
6.485
A Piece of the Action
5.6
Undercover Angel
7
Scorchers
4.6
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
5.6
The Reading Room
7
The Sandlot 2
5.9
Nine Dog Christmas
5.2
Grim Prairie Tales
5.8
Clean Slate
5.8
Fantasia 2000
6.97
People: A Musical Celebration
6.2
Timepiece
7
Who's in Rabbit's House?
0
Convicts
5.5
Claudine
7.1
Feast of All Saints
4.65
Santa and Pete
5.3
Deadly Hero
5.7
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
5.667
True Identity
5.5
The Star Wars Holiday Special
3.374
The River Niger
6.75
On Broadway
8.7
What the Deaf Man Heard
6.263
The UFO Incident
6.9
The Comedians
6.1
Blood Tide
4.9
The Space: Theatre of Survival
0
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
7.5
The Ambulance
5.9
Beauty and the Beast
4
Summer's End
7.2
11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried
0
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
7.2
My Little Girl
4.333
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
6.7
End of the Road
4.6
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
5.664
The Bushido Blade
5.4
Gangs: Turning the Corner
0
The Great Year
9
A House Divided
0
Black Indians: An American Story
6.25
Joe Papp in Five Acts
4.5
The Vegas Strip War
2.667
The Cay
6.55
The Vernon Johns Story
8.5
The Man
6.3
Gimme Shelter
6.6
Best of the Best
6.46
The Creation
6.5
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
8.143
The Great White Hope
6.1
Waking Sleeping Beauty
7.2
Looking for Richard
6.8
Exorcist II: The Heretic
4.532
Dangerous: The Short Films
8.2
The Hunting of the Snark
0
Blackfish
7.84
Sports on the Silver Screen
10
The Second Civil War
6.125
Hitler's Forgotten Victims
10
City Limits
2.607
Driving Miss Daisy
8
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
6
Percy & Thunder
0
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
5
Ivory Hunters
4.2
Heat Wave
6.2
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
0
Jefferson in Paris
5.128
The Greatest
5.7
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Legacy of a Dream
0
Our Friend, Martin
6.885
Alone
6.5
Stories to Remember: Noah's Ark
5.5
Words from a Bear
0
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
7.167
Milius
7.1
Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal
7.9
Teach 109
7
Lincoln
6.8
The Annihilation of Fish
6.6
Broadway: The Next Generation
10
Last Flight Out
0
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar
6.724
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
9
The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
0
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
7.3
Night of 100 Stars II
8
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
7.7
Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast
0
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
7.3
Butterfly in the Sky
8
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
0
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
7.091
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
6.486
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
5
Malcolm X
6.4
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
7.5
Terrorgram
4.3
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'The Hunt for Red October'
5.4
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
7.447
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
0
Afro Promo
0
The Story of Star Wars
7.119
Robots
6.467
Muse of Fire
6.5
The Lion King
7.108
The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
0
Warning Shot
5.056
Click
6.297
The Making of Star Wars
7
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
5.8
King Lear
0
The Lion Guard: Life In The Pride Lands
2
Visitors from the Unknown
6
The Lone Star Kid
5.5
The Benchwarmers
5.855
Judge Dredd
5.8
On the Q.T.
6.9
John, Paul, George and Ben
0
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
0
God's Trombones
0
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
10
Visual Pathfinders: Robert Abel & Associates
0
Paul Robeson
0
Coming 2 America
6.383
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
0
Casper: A Spirited Beginning
5.4
Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
5.6
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
5
The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove
5.1
There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues
0
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
6.294
Scary Movie 4
5.487
The Me Nobody Knows
0
Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street
6.263
Searching for Orson
5.5
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
0
An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road
6
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
0
Hallelujah
6
Antietam: A Documentary Film
0
Fredericksburg: A Documentary Film
0
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
0
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
6
The Making of the Lion King
10
Portrait of Castro's Cuba
0
Night of 100 Stars
6.667
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
0
Primary Colors
6.302
BET News & ET Present James Earl Jones: Life and Legacy
0
Corwin
0
When It Was a Game
0
Moses
0