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
7.1
The Simpsons
8.013
Law & Order
7.4
House
8.59
Gabriel's Fire
6.833
The One Show
4.741
According to Jim
6.5
Everwood
7.5
Two and a Half Men
7.449
Frasier
7.681
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
7
Stargate SG-1
8.288
Will & Grace
6.8
Homicide: Life on the Street
8.053
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
7.469
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
7.913
Obi-Wan Kenobi
7.05
The Magic of David Copperfield
7
Tony Awards
5.917
Star Wars Rebels
7.735
Long Ago and Far Away
9
CBS Schoolbreak Special
5.5
Faerie Tale Theatre
8.1
Reading Rainbow
8.333
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
8.013
The Simpsons
8.013
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
6
The Movies That Made Us
7.2
Black Omnibus
0
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
10
Tony Awards
5.917
The Dick Cavett Show
6.8
Touched by an Angel
7.2
Great Performances
5.5
Tony Awards
5.917
Tony Awards
5.917
Tony Awards
5.917
3rd Rock from the Sun
7.474
Highway to Heaven
7.357
Dinah!
6.667
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.459
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Tony Awards
5.917
Golden Globe Awards
7.2
Mathnet
7
Tony Awards
5.917
The Merv Griffin Show
6.222
Movies
Star Wars
8.2
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8.123
Sommersby
6.4
The Hunt for Red October
7.38
Sneakers
6.908
Field of Dreams
7.111
The Empire Strikes Back
8.4
Return of the Jedi
7.9
Dreamrider
7
Amy and the Angel
5.5
Earth
7.6
Finder's Fee
6.1
By Dawn's Early Light
6.6
The Meteor Man
5.783
The Sandlot
7.539
Excessive Force
4.9
Matewan
7.354
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
5.306
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
4.7
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
6.948
Clear and Present Danger
6.655
Coming to America
6.9
Conan the Barbarian
6.816
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
0
The Flight of Dragons
6.7
Patriot Games
6.7
Cry, the Beloved Country
6.7
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
6
Africa: The Serengeti
6.8
Gardens of Stone
6.203
Gang Related
6.4
Jack and the Beanstalk
5.2
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
7.102
A Family Thing
6.463
A Piece of the Action
5.6
Undercover Angel
6.859
Scorchers
4.393
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
5.761
Fantasia 2000
6.969
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
5.7
True Identity
5.5
The Star Wars Holiday Special
3.4
The River Niger
6.75
On Broadway
8.7
What the Deaf Man Heard
6.2
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
7.48
The Ambulance
5.872
Beauty and the Beast
4
Summer's End
7.2
11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried
0
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
7.3
My Little Girl
4.333
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
6.7
End of the Road
4.6
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
5.662
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
6.58
Best of the Best
6.5
The Creation
6.5
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
8.143
The Great White Hope
6.2
Waking Sleeping Beauty
7.2
Looking for Richard
6.785
Exorcist II: The Heretic
4.5
Dangerous: The Short Films
8.2
The Hunting of the Snark
0
Blackfish
7.842
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
Heat Wave
6.2
Ivory Hunters
4.2
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
7.2
Milius
7.1
Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal
7.9
Teach 109
7
Lincoln
6.8
The Annihilation of Fish
6.5
Broadway: The Next Generation
10
Last Flight Out
0
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar
6.7
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
7.727
Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast
0
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
7.3
Butterfly in the Sky
8.2
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
0
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
7.091
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
6.488
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
5
Malcolm X
6.462
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
7.5
Afro Promo
0
The Story of Star Wars
7.119
Robots
6.47
Muse of Fire
6.5
The Lion King
7.107
The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
0
Warning Shot
5.056
Click
6.299
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
5.856
Judge Dredd
5.8
On the Q.T.
6.9
John, Paul, George and Ben
5
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
6.4
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
0
Casper: A Spirited Beginning
5.434
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
5
Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
5.6
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
6.288
Scary Movie 4
5.488
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
Fredericksburg: A Documentary Film
0
Antietam: 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
6.278
BET News & ET Present James Earl Jones: Life and Legacy
0
Corwin
0
When It Was a Game
0
Moses
0