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American actor

James Earl Jones
Jones in 2013
Built-in	(1931-01-17) January 17, 1931 (age 91) Arkabutla, Mississippi, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Occupation	Player
Years active	1953–present
Works	Full list
Spouse(s)	Julienne Marie ​ ​ (m. 1968; div. 1972)​ Cecilia Hart ​ ​ (chiliad. 1982; died 2016)​
Children	one
Parent(s)	Robert Earl Jones (father)
Awards	Full list
James Earl Jones'due south voice ( 0:25 ) Recorded December 2009 from the BBC Radio iv plan Front end Row

James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American thespian. He has been described every bit "one of America'south most distinguished and versatile" actors for his performances in film, television set, and theater,^[1] and "i of the greatest actors in American history".^[ii] With a career spanning over six decades, Jones has achieved success in multiple fields of amusement, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). Jones has been said to possess "ane of the all-time-known voices in show business, a stirring basso profondo that has lent gravel and gravitas" to his projects, including alive-action acting, voice acting, and commercial voice-overs.^{[3] [4]}

Born with a babyhood stutter, Jones has said that poesy and interim helped him overcome the disability. A pre-med major in higher, he served in the United States Army during the Korean War before pursuing a career in acting. Since his Broadway debut in 1957, he has performed in several Shakespeare plays including Othello, Hamlet, Coriolanus, and King Lear.^[five] Jones fabricated his film debut in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove. Jones worked steadily in theater winning first Tony Award in 1968 for his role in The Cracking White Hope, which he reprised in the 1970 film adaptation earning him Academy Award and Gilded Globe nominations equally well. He received his second Gilt Globe Award nomination for his leading role opposite Diahann Carroll in the 1974 romantic comedy-drama picture show Claudine. Jones gained international acclaim when he was assigned the vocalisation of Darth Vader in the 1977 space opera film Star Wars and its sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983).

He won his 2nd Tony Accolade in 1987 for his part in August Wilson's Fences. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Jones appeared in a number of other successful films, including Conan the Barbarian (1982), Matewan (1987), Coming to America (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), The Hunt for Red Oct (1990), The Sandlot (1993), and The Panthera leo King (1994). During the 21st century, Jones has continued working in the theater, starring alongside Phylicia Rashad in True cat on a Hot Tin can Roof in 2008, and Angela Lansbury in Gore Vidal's The Best Human being (2012) on Broadway and in an Australian bout of Driving Miss Daisy (2013). He likewise appeared in You Can't Accept it With You lot (2014) with Annaleigh Ashford and in The Gin Game (2015–16) alongside Cicely Tyson. More recently, he has reprised his vox role of Darth Vader in the Star Wars films Revenge of the Sith (2005), Rogue 1 (2016), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019), and reprised his roles in The Lion Male monarch (2019) and Coming 2 America (2021).

Over his career Jones has won three Tony Awards (out of five nominations), two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985. Jones was presented with the National Medal of the Arts past President George H.Due west. Bush-league in 1992. He received the Kennedy Center Honour in 2002. Jones was invited by President Barack Obama to perform Shakespeare at the White Business firm Evening for Poetry in 2009.^[6] That same year he as well received the Screen Actors Gild Life Achievement Award.^[7] He received an Honorary Academy Award on November 12, 2011.^[ii] Jones received an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Harvard Academy on May 25, 2017.^[8] He was honored with a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Accomplishment in the Theatre in 2017.^[9] In 2022, it was appear the Cort Theatre would be renamed the James Earl Jones Theatre.

Early life and education [edit]

James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, on January 17, 1931,^[10] to Ruth (née Connolly); (1911–1986), a teacher and maid, and Robert Earl Jones (1910–2006), a boxer, butler and chauffeur. His father left the family shortly after James Earl'south birth and later became a stage and screen role player in New York and Hollywood.^{[eleven] [12]} Jones and his father did not get to know each other until the 1950s, when they reconciled. He has said in interviews that his parents were both of mixed African-American, Irish gaelic and Native American beginnings.^{[13] [14]}

From the age of five, Jones was raised by his maternal grandparents, John Henry and Maggie Connolly,^[x] on their farm in Jackson, Michigan; they had moved from Mississippi in the Bully Migration.^[15] Jones institute the transition to living with his grandparents in Michigan traumatic and adult a stutter so astringent that he refused to speak. "I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my starting time mute year, and then those mute years continued until I got to high schoolhouse."^[15] He credits his English language instructor, Donald Crouch, who discovered he had a gift for writing poesy, with helping him terminate his silence.^[12] Crouch urged him to claiming his reluctance to speak through reading poetry aloud to the class.^{[16] [17]}

Jones was educated at the Browning Schoolhouse for boys in his high school years and graduated as vice president of his class from Dickson Rural Agricultural School (at present Brethren High Schoolhouse) in Brethren, Michigan. He attended the Academy of Michigan, where he was initially a pre-med major.^[12] He joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and excelled. He felt comfy within the structure of the armed forces environment and enjoyed the esprit of his fellow cadets in the Pershing Rifles Drill Squad and Scabbard and Bract Honor Gild.^[18] During the grade of his studies, Jones discovered he was not cutting out to be a doctor.

Instead, he focused on drama at the University of Michigan Schoolhouse of Music, Theatre & Dance with the idea of doing something he enjoyed, earlier, he assumed, he would accept to become off to fight in the Korean War. After 4 years of college, Jones graduated from the academy in 1955.^[nineteen]

Military service [edit]

With the state of war intensifying in Korea, Jones expected to be deployed equally soon as he received his commission as a 2nd lieutenant. Every bit he waited for his orders, he worked as a role-fourth dimension phase crew hand at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan, where he had earlier performed. Jones was commissioned in mid-1953, afterward the Korean War's finish, and reported to Fort Benning to nourish the Infantry Officers Basic Grade. He attended Ranger School and received his Ranger Tab. Jones was assigned to Headquarter and Headquarters Visitor, 38th Regimental Combat Squad.^[20] He was initially to written report to Fort Leonard Wood, merely his unit was instead sent to establish a cold weather condition training command at the former Camp Unhurt near Leadville, Colorado. His battalion became a grooming unit of measurement in the rugged terrain of the Rocky Mountains. Jones was promoted to beginning lieutenant prior to his discharge.^[21]

He moved to New York, where he studied at the American Theatre Wing. He worked as a janitor to support himself.

Career [edit]

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James Earl Jones talks with Studs Terkel on WFMT; 1968/02, 49:25, Studs Terkel Radio Archive[22]

Early roles [edit]

Jones began his interim career at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan. In 1953, he was a stage carpenter. During the 1955–57 seasons, he was an histrion and stage director. He performed his first portrayal of Shakespeare's Othello in this theater in 1955.^[23] His early on career also included an advent in the ABC radio anthology series Theatre-5.^[24] In 1957, he made his Broadway debut as understudy to Lloyd Richards in the short-lived play The Egghead by Molly Kazan.^[25] The play ran only 21 performances,^[26] yet iii months afterward, Jones created the featured role of Edward the butler in Dore Schary'south Sunrise at Campobello at the Cort Theatre in January 1958.^[27]

1960s [edit]

During the early on to mid 1960s, Jones acted in various works of William Shakespeare, becoming one of the best known Shakespeareian actors of the time. He tackled roles such as Othello and King Lear, Oberon in A Midsummer Night'due south Dream, Abhorson in Measure for Measure out, and Claudius in Hamlet.

Besides during this time, Jones fabricated his moving-picture show debut in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Cease Worrying and Love the Flop (1964) as the immature Lt. Lothar Zogg, the B-52 bombardier. Jones would later play a surgeon and Haitian rebel leader in The Comedians, alongside Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Alec Guinness.

In December 1967, Jones starred alongside Jane Alexander in Howard Sackler'southward play The Great White Hope at the Loonshit Phase in Washington D.C. Jones took the role of the talented but troubled boxer "Jack Jefferson," who is based on the real champion Jack Johnson. The play was a huge success when information technology moved to Broadway on Oct 3, 1968. The play was well received, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Jones himself won the 1969 Tony Laurels for Best Actor in a Play, and the Drama Desk-bound Award for his performance.^[28]

In 1969, Jones participated in making examination films for the children's teaching series Sesame Street; these shorts, combined with animated segments, were shown to groups of children to gauge the effectiveness of the so-groundbreaking Sesame Street format. As cited by production notes included in the DVD release Sesame Street: Old School 1969–1974, the short that had the greatest impact with test audiences was one showing bald-headed Jones counting slowly to ten. This and other segments featuring Jones were eventually aired as role of the Sesame Street series itself when it debuted afterward in 1969 and Jones is often cited as the start celebrity guest on that series, although a segment with Ballad Burnett was the commencement to actually be broadcast.^[12] He also appeared on the soap opera Guiding Light.

1970s [edit]

In 1973, Jones played Hickey on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theater in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. Jones played Lennie on Broadway in the 1974 Brooks Atkinson Theatre production of the adaptation of John Steinbeck'south novella, Of Mice and Men, with Kevin Conway every bit George and Pamela Blair as Curley's Wife. That same year he starred in the title role of William Shakespeare's Rex Lear opposite Paul Sorvino, René Auberjonois and Raul Julia at the New York Urban center Shakespeare Festival in Primal Park.^[29]

In 1970, Jones reunited with Jane Alexander in the moving-picture show adaptation of The Great White Hope. This would be Jones' first leading film role. Jones portrayed boxer Jack Johnson, a role he had previously originated on stage. His functioning was acclaimed by critics and earned him an Academy Accolade nomination for Best Actor. He was the 2d African-American male performer after Sidney Poitier to be nominated for this accolade.^[12] Variety described his operation declaring, "Jones' re-creation of his stage role is an eye-riveting feel. The towering rages and unrestrained joys of which his character was capable are portrayed larger than life."^[30]

In The Man (1972), Jones starred as a senator who unexpectedly becomes the first African-American president of the Us. The film besides starred Martin Balsam and Burgess Meredith.

In 1974, Jones co-starred with Diahann Carroll in the moving picture Claudine, the story of a woman who raises her 6 children alone later two failed and ii "almost" marriages. The film is a romantic comedy and drama, focusing on systemic racial disparities black families face up. Information technology was 1 of the first major films to tackle themes such as welfare, economic inequality, and the typical marriage of men and women in the African American community during the 1970s. Jones, and Carroll received widespread critical acclaim and Gilded Globe nominations for their performances. Carroll was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1977, Jones made his debut in his iconic voiceover role as Darth Vader in George Lucas' science fiction blockbuster picture Star Wars: A New Hope, which he would reprise for the sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983) later on. Darth Vader was portrayed in costume by David Prowse in the pic trilogy, with Jones dubbing Vader's dialogue in postproduction because Prowse's stiff Westward Country emphasis was accounted unsuitable for the part by director George Lucas.^[31] At his own request, Jones was uncredited for the release of the first two Star Wars films,^[32] though he would be credited for the third film and eventually also for the get-go film'due south 1997 "Special Edition" re-release.^[33] As he explained in a 2008 interview:

When Linda Blair did the girl in The Exorcist, they hired Mercedes McCambridge to do the vocalism of the devil coming out of her. And there was controversy equally to whether Mercedes should go credit. I was one who thought no, she was just special effects. So when it came to Darth Vader, I said, no, I'grand merely special effects. Merely it became and so identified that past the tertiary ane, I thought, OK I'll let them put my name on it.^[32]

In 1977, Jones also received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Peachy American Documents.

In the autumn of 1979, Jones appeared on the short-lived CBS police drama Paris, which was notable every bit the first program on which Steven Bochco served as executive producer. Jones too starred that twelvemonth in the critically acclaimed TV mini-series sequel Roots: The Next Generations as the older version of author Alex Haley.^[12]

1980s [edit]

In 1987, Jones starred in Baronial Wilson's play Fences as Troy Maxson, a middle aged working class male parent who struggles to provide for his family unit. The play, prepare in the 1950s, is role of Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle". The play explores the evolving African American experience and examines race relations, amidst other themes. Jones won widespread critical acclamation, earning himself his 2nd Tony Honor for Best Actor in a Play.

Besides the Star Wars sequels, Jones was featured in several other box office hits of the 1980s: the activeness/fantasy film Conan the Barbaric (1982), the Eddie Murphy comedy Coming to America (1988), and the sports drama/fantasy Field of Dreams (1989) which earned an University Award for Best Picture nomination. He also starred in the contained film Matewan (1987). The film dramatized the events of the Battle of Matewan, a coal miners' strike in 1920 in Matewan, a modest town in the hills of West Virginia. He received an Contained Spirit Award nomination for his performance.

In 1985, Jones lent his bass voice as Pharaoh in the first episode of Hanna-Barbera'southward The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible. From 1989 to 1992, Jones served equally the host of the children'due south TV series Long Ago and Far Away.

1990s [edit]

Jones appeared in several more successful films during the early on-to-mid 1990s, including The Hunt for Red Oct (1990), Patriot Games (1992), The Sandlot (1993), Clear and Nowadays Danger (1994), and Cry, the Beloved Land (1995). He too lent his distinctive bass voice for the office of Mufasa in the 1994 Disney blithe movie The Panthera leo King.

In 1992, Jones was presented with the National Medal of the Arts by President George H. West. Bush-league.

Jones has the stardom of winning two Primetime Emmys^[34] in the same yr, in 1991 as All-time Actor for his role in Gabriel's Fire and as All-time Supporting Actor for his work in Rut Wave.^[1]

He has played atomic number 82 characters on goggle box in three series. The second bear witness aired on ABC between 1990 and 1992, the start season being titled Gabriel's Fire and the second (afterwards a format revision) Pros and Cons. In both formats of that show, Jones played a former policeman wrongly convicted of murder who, upon his release from prison, became a private eye. In 1995, Jones starred in Nether I Roof every bit Neb Langston, a widowed African-American police officer sharing his dwelling in Seattle with his daughter, his married son with his children, and Neb's newly adopted son. The bear witness was a mid-flavor replacement and lasted but six weeks, only earned him some other Emmy nomination. He also portrayed Thad Green on "Mathnet", a parody of Dragnet that appeared in the PBS programme Square One Television. In 1998, Jones starred in the widely acclaimed syndicated program An American Moment (created by James R. Kirk and Ninth Wave Productions). Jones took over the function left by Charles Kuralt, upon Kuralt'south death.

James has guest starred in many boob tube shows over the years, including for NBC'due south Constabulary & Guild, Frasier, and Will & Grace, and ABC's Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. In 1990, Jones performed vocalisation piece of work for The Simpsons first "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween special, in which he was the narrator for the Simpsons' version of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven". He also voiced the Emperor of the Night in Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night and Ommadon in Flight of Dragons. Accompanied by the Morgan State University choir, Jones spoke the U.Due south. National Anthem before the 1993 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Baltimore.^[35] In 1996, he recited the archetype baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra,^[36] and in 2007 before a Philadelphia Phillies home game on June ane, 2007.^[37]

2000s [edit]

During the 2000s Jones made appearances on various television shows such equally CBS'south 2 and a Half Men, the WB drama Everwood, Fox's medical drama Business firm, G.D., and CBS'southward The Big Bang Theory.^{[38] [39]}

In 2002, Jones received Kennedy Centre Honors at the John F. Kennedy Heart in Washington D.C. Also at the ceremony included fellow honorees Paul Simon, Elizabeth Taylor, and Chita Rivera. President George W. Bush joked, "People say that the phonation of the president is the most easily recognized vocalization in America. Well, I'm not going to make that merits in the presence of James Earl Jones."^[twoscore] Those there to honor Jones included, Sidney Poitier, Kelsey Grammer, Charles S. Dutton, and Courtney B. Vance.

He as well has washed the CNN tagline, "This is CNN", as well as "This is CNN International", and the opening for CNN'due south morning time evidence New Solar day. Jones was also a longtime spokesman for Bell Atlantic and afterward Verizon. He also lent his voice to the opening for NBC'southward coverage of the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics; "the Big PI in the Sky" (God) in the estimator game Under a Killing Moon; a Claymation film, The Creation; and several other invitee spots on The Simpsons. Jones narrated all 27 books of the New Testament in the audiobook James Earl Jones Reads the Bible.^[41]

Although uncredited, Jones's voice is possibly heard as Darth Vader at the conclusion of Star Wars: Episode 3 – Revenge of the Sith (2005). When specifically asked whether he had supplied the voice, maybe from a previous recording, Jones told Newsday: "Yous'd accept to inquire Lucas nearly that. I don't know."^[32]

On April 7, 2005, Jones and Leslie Uggams headed the cast in an African-American Broadway revival version of On Golden Pond, directed past Leonard Foglia and produced by Jeffrey Finn.^[12] In Feb 2008, he starred on Broadway equally Big Daddy in a limited-run, all-African-American production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin can Roof, directed by Debbie Allen and mounted at the Broadhurst Theatre. In November 2009, James reprised the part of Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre in London's West End. This production as well stars Sanaa Lathan as Maggie, Phylicia Rashad every bit Big Mamma, and Adrian Lester every bit Brick.

In 2009, Jones appeared as a patient in the fourth episode of the sixth season of the medical drama House M.D.

Also in 2009, for his work on film and television, Jones was presented with the Screen Actors Guild Life Accomplishment Honor by Woods Whitaker.

2010s [edit]

In October 2010, Jones returned to the Broadway phase in Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy, along with Vanessa Redgrave at the Golden Theatre.^[42]

In November 2011, Jones starred in Driving Miss Daisy in London's West End, and on November 12 received an honorary Oscar in front of the audience at the Wyndham's Theatre, which was presented to him by Ben Kingsley.^[43]

In March 2012, Jones played the role of President Art Hockstader in Gore Vidal'south The Best Homo on Broadway at the Schoenfeld Theatre: he was nominated for a Tony for All-time Performance in a Lead Office in a Revival. The play also starred Angela Lansbury, John Larroquette (equally candidate William Russell), Candice Bergen, Eric McCormack (as candidate Senator Joseph Cantwell), Jefferson Mays, Michael McKean, and Kerry Butler, with direction past Michael Wilson.^{[44] [45]}

In 2013, Jones starred contrary Vanessa Redgrave in a production of Much Ado About Zero directed by Mark Rylance at The Erstwhile Vic, London.^[46]

From February to June 2013, Jones starred alongside Matriarch Angela Lansbury in an Australian tour of Driving Miss Daisy.^[47]

In 2014, Jones starred alongside Annaleigh Ashford every bit Grandpa in the Broadway revival You Tin can't Take it With You lot at the Longacre Theatre, Broadway. Ashford received a Tony Award nomination for her performance.

On September 23, 2015, Jones opened in a new revival of The Gin Game reverse Cicely Tyson, in the John Golden Theater, where the play had originally premiered (with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy). The play had a planned limited run of 16 weeks.^[48] It closed on January 10, 2016.

In 2013–2014, he appeared aslope Malcolm McDowell in a series of commercials for Dart in which the 2 recited mundane phone and text-bulletin conversations in a dramatic fashion.^{[49] [50]} In 2015, Jones starred as the Chief Justice Caleb Thorne in the American drama series Amanuensis X aslope actress Sharon Stone, Jeff Hephner, Jamey Sheridan, and others. The tv set series was aired by TNT from November 8 to December 27, 2015, running only one season and ten episodes.

Jones officially reprised his vocalism office of Darth Vader for the graphic symbol's appearances in the animated Telly series Star Wars Rebels ^{[51] [52]} and the live-action motion picture Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016),^{[53] [54]} equally well as for a brief voice cameo in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).^[55]

In 2019, he reprised his voice function of Mufasa for the CGI remake of The King of beasts Male monarch, directed past Jon Favreau, in which he was the only original bandage member to practice and so.^{[56] [57]} According to Favreau, Jones's lines remained by and large the same from the original pic.^{[58] [59]} Chiwetel Ejiofor, who voiced Mufasa'due south evil brother Scar in the remake, said that "the comfort of [Jones reprising his part] is going to be very rewarding in taking [the audience] on this journey again. It's a once-in-a-generation song quality."^[58]

2020s [edit]

Jones reprised the part of Rex Jaffe Joffer in Coming 2 America (2021), the sequel to Coming to America (1988).^[sixty]

Personal life [edit]

In 1968, Jones married actress and singer Julienne Marie, whom he met while performing as Othello in 1964.^[61] They had no children and divorced in 1972.^[62] In 1982, he married extra Cecilia Hart, with whom he had one child, son Flynn (born 1982).^{[63] [64]} Hart died from ovarian cancer on October 16, 2016.^[65]

In April 2016, Jones spoke publicly for the start time in nearly xx years near his long-term health challenge with type 2 diabetes. He was diagnosed in the mid-1990s after his doctor noticed he had fallen asleep while exercising at a gym.^[66]

Jones is Cosmic, having converted during his time in the military.^[67]

Filmography [edit]

Jones has had an extensive career in various film, telly, and theatre. He started out in film by actualization in the 1964 political satire film Dr. Strangelove as Lt. Lothar Zogg. He then went on to star in the 1970 film The Slap-up White Hope equally Jack Jefferson, a role he first played in the Broadway production of the same proper name.

Jones' television receiver piece of work includes playing Woodrow Paris in the series Paris between 1979 and 1980. He voiced various characters on the animated serial The Simpsons in 3 split seasons (1990, 1994, 1998).

Jones' theatre work includes numerous Broadway plays, including Sunrise at Campobello (1958–1959), Danton's Death (1965), The Iceman Cometh (1973–1974), Of Mice and Men (1974–1975), Othello (1982), On Gilt Pond (2005), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008) and You lot Tin can't Have It with You (2014–2015).

Awards and honors [edit]

While Jones is technically a recipient of the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony), Jones has yet to win a competitive Oscar. In 2011, yet, Jones received the Honorary Academy Honour presented to him past Ben Kingsley.^{[68] [69]} He has received two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Grammy Award. He also is the recipient of a Golden Earth Honor and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

In 1985, Jones was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame^{[70] [71]} He was also the 1987 First recipient of the National Association for Hearing and Speech Activity's Annie Glenn Laurels.^[72] In 1991, he received the Common Wealth Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Dramatic Arts. In 1992, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by George H. Westward. Bush. He received the 1996 Gilded Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars.^[73] As well in 1996, he was given the Gilded Plate Award of the American Academy of Accomplishment presented by Awards Council member George Lucas.^{[74] [75]} In 2002, he was the featured Martin Luther Male monarch Twenty-four hours speaker for Lauderhill, Florida.^[76] In 2011, he received the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Monte Cristo Award Recipient.^[77] He was the 2012 Marian Anderson Award Recipient.^{[78] [79]} Jones won the 2014 Voice Icon Honor sponsored by Society of Voice Arts and Sciences at the Museum of the Moving Prototype. In 2017, he received an Honorary Dr. of Arts from Harvard University.^[80] In 2019, he was honored equally a Disney Fable.^[81] In March 2022, Broadway's Cort Theatre was renamed the James Earl Jones Theatre.^{[82] [83]}

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Farther reading [edit]

• Ann Hornaday, "James Earl Jones: A Vocalism for the Ages, Aging Gracefully," Washington Post, September 27, 2014.
• Jones, James Earl, and Penelope Niven. James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993) ISBN 0-684-19513-five
• Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts

External links [edit]

jacksonsamplim.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Jones

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