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James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor. He has been described as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors for his performances on stage and screen,[1] and "one of the greatest actors in American history".[2] His deep voice has been praised as a "a stirring basso profondo that has lent gravel and gravitas" to his projects.[3][4] Over his career, he has 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.[5][2]

James Earl Jones
Jones in 2013
Born (1931-01-17) January 17, 1931 (age 93)
Alma materUniversity of Michigan (BA)
OccupationActor
Years active1953–present
WorksFull list
Spouses
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Having had a stutter since childhood, Jones has said that poetry and acting helped him overcome the challenges of his disability. A pre-med major in college, 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.[6] Jones worked steadily in theater winning his first Tony Award in 1968 for his role in The Great White Hope, which he reprised in the 1970 film adaptation earning him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations.

Jones won his second Tony Award in 1987 for his role in August Wilson's Fences. He was further Tony nominated for his roles in On Golden Pond (2005), and The Best Man (2012). Other Broadway performances include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008), Driving Miss Daisy (2010–2011), You Can't Take It with You (2014), and The Gin Game (2015–2016). He received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2017.[7][8]

Jones made his film debut in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964). He received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Claudine (1974). Jones gained international fame for his voice role as Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise, beginning with the original 1977 film. Jones' other notable roles include in Conan the Barbarian (1982), Matewan (1987), Coming to America (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Sandlot (1993), and The Lion King (1994). Jones has reprised his roles in Star Wars media, The Lion King (2019), and Coming 2 America (2021).

Early life and education edit

 
Jones' father, Robert Earl Jones, in promotional still for the Langston Hughes play Don't You Want to Be Free? (1938)

James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, on January 17, 1931,[citation needed] 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's birth and later became a stage and screen actor in New York and Hollywood.[9] 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 and Native American ancestry.[10][11] His great grandfather's mother was Parthenia Connolly; who is a 3rd great grandchild of Rob Roy MacGregor on her mothers side [12]

From the age of five, Jones was raised by his maternal grandparents, John Henry and Maggie Connolly,[citation needed] on their farm in Jackson, Michigan; they had moved from Mississippi in the Great Migration.[13] Jones found the transition to living with his grandparents in Michigan traumatic and developed a stutter so severe that he refused to speak. "I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year, and then those mute years continued until I got to high school."[13] He credits his English teacher, Donald Crouch, who discovered he had a gift for writing poetry, with helping him end his silence.[9] Crouch urged him to challenge his reluctance to speak through reading poetry aloud to the class.[14][15]

In 1949, Jones graduated from Dickson Rural Agricultural School[16] (now Brethren High School) in Brethren, Michigan, where he served as vice president of his class.[17] He attended the University of Michigan, where he was initially a pre-med major.[9] He joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and excelled. He felt comfortable within the structure of the military environment and enjoyed the camaraderie of his fellow cadets in the Pershing Rifles Drill Team and Scabbard and Blade Honor Society.[18] During the course of his studies, Jones discovered he was not cut out to be a physician.[citation needed]

Instead, he focused on drama at the University of Michigan with the thought of doing something he enjoyed, before, he assumed, he would have to go off to fight in the Korean War. After four years of college, Jones graduated from the university in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in drama.[19][20]

Military service edit

With the war intensifying in Korea, Jones expected to be deployed as soon as he received his commission as a second lieutenant. As he waited for his orders, he worked on the stage crew and acted at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan.[21] Jones was commissioned in mid-1953, after the Korean War's end, and reported to Fort Moore to attend the Infantry Officers Basic Course. He attended Ranger School and received his Ranger Tab. Jones was assigned to Headquarter and Headquarters Company, 38th Regimental Combat Team.[22] He was initially to report to Fort Leonard Wood, but his unit was instead sent to establish a cold-weather training command at the former Camp Hale near Leadville, Colorado. His battalion became a training unit in the rugged terrain of the Rocky Mountains. Jones was promoted to first lieutenant prior to his discharge.[23]

Jones moved to New York, where he studied at the American Theatre Wing and worked as a janitor to support himself.[24][25]

Career edit

External audio
  James Earl Jones talks with Studs Terkel on WFMT; 1968/02, 49:25, Studs Terkel Radio Archive[26]

1953–1973: Early roles and acclaim edit

Jones began his acting career at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan. In 1953, he was a stage carpenter, and between 1955 and 1957, he acted and was a stage manager. In his first acting season at the Ramsdell, he portrayed Othello.[27] His early career also included an appearance in the ABC radio anthology series Theatre-Five.[28] In 1957, he made his Broadway debut as understudy to Lloyd Richards in the short-lived play The Egghead by Molly Kazan.[29] The play ran only 21 performances,[30] however three months later, Jones created the featured role of Edward the butler in Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello at the Cort Theatre in January 1958.[31]

Jones performs Othello's Act I, scene III monolog from Shakespeare's Othello at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009.

During the early to mid 1960s, Jones acted in various works of William Shakespeare, becoming one of the best known Shakespearean actors of the time. He tackled roles such as Othello and King Lear, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Abhorson in Measure for Measure, and Claudius in Hamlet. Also during this time, Jones made his film debut in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) as the young 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's play The Great White Hope at the Arena Stage 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 it moved to Broadway on October 3, 1968. The play was well received, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Jones himself won the 1969 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, and the Drama Desk Award for his performance.[32]

In 1969, Jones participated in making test films for the children's education series Sesame Street; these shorts, combined with animated segments, were shown to groups of children to gauge the effectiveness of the then-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 part of the Sesame Street series itself when it debuted later in 1969 and Jones is often cited as the first celebrity guest on that series, although a segment with Carol Burnett was the first to actually be broadcast.[9] He also appeared on the soap opera Guiding Light.

 
Jones and Jill Clayburgh in the stage production of "Othello" at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, California on April 9, 1971

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's novella, Of Mice and Men, with Kevin Conway as George and Pamela Blair as Curley's Wife. That same year he starred in the title role of William Shakespeare's King Lear opposite Paul Sorvino, René Auberjonois and Raul Julia at the New York City Shakespeare Festival in Central Park.[33]

In 1970, Jones reunited with Jane Alexander in the film 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 performance was acclaimed by critics and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He was the second African-American male performer after Sidney Poitier to be nominated for this award.[9] Variety described his performance declaring, "Jones' recreation of his stage role is an eye-riveting experience. The towering rages and unrestrained joys of which his character was capable are portrayed larger than life."[34] In The Man (1972), Jones starred as a senator who unexpectedly becomes the first African-American president of the United States. The film also starred Martin Balsam and Burgess Meredith.

1974–1983: Rise to prominence edit

In 1974, Jones co-starred with Diahann Carroll in the film Claudine, the story of a woman who raises her six children alone after two failed and two "almost" marriages. The film is a romantic comedy and drama, focusing on systemic racial disparities black families face. It was one 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 Golden 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' space opera blockbuster film Star Wars: A New Hope, which he would reprise for the sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). Darth Vader was portrayed in costume by David Prowse in the film trilogy, with Jones dubbing Vader's dialogue in postproduction because Prowse's strong West Country accent was deemed unsuitable for the role by director George Lucas.[35] At his own request, Jones was uncredited for the release of the first two Star Wars films,[36] though he would be credited for the third film and eventually also for the first film's 1997 "Special Edition" re-release.[37] As he explained in a 2008 interview:

When Linda Blair did the girl in The Exorcist, they hired Mercedes McCambridge to do the voice of the devil coming out of her. And there was controversy as to whether Mercedes should get credit. I was one who thought no, she was just special effects. So when it came to Darth Vader, I said, no, I'm just special effects. But it became so identified that by the third one, I thought, OK I'll let them put my name on it.[36]

In 1977, Jones also received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Great American Documents. In late 1979, Jones appeared on the short-lived CBS police drama Paris, which was notable as the first program on which Steven Bochco served as executive producer. Jones also starred that year in the critically acclaimed TV mini-series sequel Roots: The Next Generations as the older version of author Alex Haley.[9]

1985–1999: Established career edit

In 1987, Jones starred in August Wilson's play Fences as Troy Maxson, a middle aged working class father who struggles to provide for his family. The play, set in the 1950s, is part of Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle". The play explores the evolving African American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. Jones won widespread critical acclaim, earning himself his second Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Beside the Star Wars sequels, Jones was featured in several other box office hits of the 1980s: the action/fantasy film Conan the Barbarian (1982), the Eddie Murphy comedy Coming to America (1988), and the sports drama/fantasy Field of Dreams (1989) which earned an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination. He also starred in the independent film Matewan (1987). The film dramatized the events of the Battle of Matewan, a coal miners' strike in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia. He received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his performance.

 
Jones with President George H. W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush in 1992

In 1985, Jones lent his bass voice as Pharaoh in the first episode of Hanna-Barbera's The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible. From 1989 to 1992, Jones served as the host of the children's TV series Long Ago and Far Away. Jones appeared in several more successful films during the early-to-mid 1990s, including The Hunt for Red October (1990), Patriot Games (1992), The Sandlot (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), and Cry, the Beloved Country (1995). He also lent his distinctive bass voice to the role of Mufasa in the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King. In 1992, Jones was presented with the National Medal of the Arts by President George H. W. Bush. Jones has the distinction of winning two Primetime Emmys[38] in the same year, in 1991 as Best Actor for his role in Gabriel's Fire and as Best Supporting Actor for his work in Heat Wave.[1]

He has played lead characters on television in three series. The second show aired on ABC between 1990 and 1992, the first season being titled Gabriel's Fire and the second (after 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 Under One Roof as Neb Langston, a widowed African-American police officer sharing his home in Seattle with his daughter, his married son with his children, and Neb's newly adopted son. The show was a mid-season replacement and lasted only six weeks, but earned him another Emmy nomination. He also portrayed Thad Green on "Mathnet", a parody of Dragnet that appeared in the PBS program 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 role left by Charles Kuralt, upon Kuralt's death.

Jones has guest starred in many television shows over the years, including for NBC's Law & Order, Frasier, and Will & Grace, and ABC's Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. In 1990, Jones performed voice 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.

On July 13, 1993, accompanied by the Morgan State University choir, Jones spoke the U.S. National Anthem before the 1993 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Baltimore.[39][40] In 1996, he recited the classic baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra,[41] and in 2007 before a Philadelphia Phillies home game on June 1, 2007.[42] On August 20, 1999, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun released starring Jones as a lead character known as General Solomon. Further mentions of General Solomon continue throughout the series, indicating praise for James' outstanding work in the game.

2000–2009 edit

During the 2000s Jones made appearances on various television shows such as CBS' Two and a Half Men, the WB drama Everwood, Fox's medical drama House, M.D., and CBS' The Big Bang Theory.[43][44]

In 2002, Jones received Kennedy Center Honors at the John F. Kennedy Center 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 voice of the president is the most easily recognized voice in America. Well, I'm not going to make that claim in the presence of James Earl Jones."[45] Those there to honor Jones included, Sidney Poitier, Kelsey Grammer, Charles S. Dutton, and Courtney B. Vance.

He also has done the CNN tagline, "This is CNN", as well as "This is CNN International", and the opening for CNN's morning show New Day. Jones was also a longtime spokesman for Bell Atlantic and later Verizon and DirecTV. He also lent his voice to the opening for NBC's coverage of the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics; "the Big PI in the Sky" (God) in the computer game Under a Killing Moon; a Claymation film, The Creation; and several other guest spots on The Simpsons. Jones narrated all 27 books of the New Testament in the audiobook James Earl Jones Reads the Bible.[46] Although uncredited, Jones' voice is possibly heard as Darth Vader at the conclusion of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005). When specifically asked whether he had supplied the voice, possibly from a previous recording, Jones told Newsday: "You'd have to ask Lucas about that. I don't know."[36] On April 7, 2005, Jones and Leslie Uggams headed the cast in an African-American Broadway revival version of On Golden Pond, directed by Leonard Foglia and produced by Jeffrey Finn.[9] In February 2008, he starred on Broadway as Big Daddy in a limited-run, all-African-American production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Debbie Allen and mounted at the Broadhurst Theatre. In November 2009, James reprised the role of Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre in London's West End. This production also stars Sanaa Lathan as Maggie, Phylicia Rashad as Big Mamma, and Adrian Lester as 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 Achievement Award by Forest Whitaker.

2010–present edit

 
James Earl Jones in the 2010 revival of the play Driving Miss Daisy at the Theatre Royal in Sydney

In October 2010, Jones returned to the Broadway stage in Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy, along with Vanessa Redgrave at the Golden Theatre.[47] 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.[48] In March 2012, Jones played the role of President Art Hockstader in Gore Vidal's The Best Man on Broadway at the Schoenfeld Theatre: he was nominated for a Tony for Best Performance in a Lead Role in a Revival. The play also starred Angela Lansbury, John Larroquette (as candidate William Russell), Candice Bergen, Eric McCormack (as candidate Senator Joseph Cantwell), Jefferson Mays, Michael McKean, and Kerry Butler, with direction by Michael Wilson.[49][50]

 
Jones with Dame Angela Lansbury in 2013

In 2013, Jones starred opposite Vanessa Redgrave in a production of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Mark Rylance at The Old Vic, London.[51] From February to June 2013, Jones starred alongside Dame Angela Lansbury in an Australian tour of Driving Miss Daisy.[52] In 2014, Jones starred alongside Annaleigh Ashford as Grandpa in the Broadway revival of the George S. Kaufman comedic play You Can't Take It with You at the Longacre Theatre, Broadway. Ashford received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination for her performance. On September 23, 2015, Jones opened in a new revival of The Gin Game opposite 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.[53] It closed on January 10, 2016.

In 2013–2014, he appeared alongside Malcolm McDowell in a series of commercials for Sprint in which the two dramatically recited mundane phone and text-message conversations.[54][55] In 2015, Jones starred as the Chief Justice Caleb Thorne in the American drama series Agent X alongside actress Sharon Stone, Jeff Hephner, Jamey Sheridan, and others. The television series was aired by TNT from November 8 to December 27, 2015, running only one season and 10 episodes. Jones officially reprised his voice role of Darth Vader for the character's appearances in the animated TV series Star Wars Rebels[56][57] and the live-action film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016),[58][59] as well as for a three-word cameo in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).[60]

In 2019, he reprised his voice role of Mufasa for the CGI remake of The Lion King, directed by Jon Favreau, in which he was the only original cast member to do so.[61][62] According to Favreau, Jones' lines remained mostly the same from the original film.[63][64] Chiwetel Ejiofor, who voiced Mufasa's evil brother Scar in the remake, said that "the comfort of [Jones reprising his role] is going to be very rewarding in taking [the audience] on this journey again. It's a once-in-a-generation vocal quality."[63] Jones reprised the role of King Jaffe Joffer in Coming 2 America (2021), the sequel to Coming to America (1988).[65] In 2022, his voice was used via Respeecher software for Darth Vader in the Disney+ miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi.[66] During production, Jones signed a deal with Lucasfilm authorizing archival recordings of his voice to be used in the future to artificially generate the voice of Darth Vader.[67] In September 2022, Jones announced that he would retire from the role of voicing Darth Vader with future voice roles for Vader being created with AI voice software using archive audio of Jones.[68]

Personal life edit

In 1968, Jones married actress and singer Julienne Marie, whom he met while performing as Othello in 1964.[69] They had no children and divorced in 1972.[70] In 1982, he married actress Cecilia Hart, with whom he had a son, Flynn.[71][72] Hart died from ovarian cancer on October 16, 2016.[73]

In April 2016, Jones spoke publicly for the first time in nearly 20 years about 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.[74]

Jones is Catholic, having converted during his time in the military.[75]

Filmography edit

Jones has had an extensive career in film, television, and theater. He started out in film by appearing in the 1964 political satire film Dr. Strangelove as Lt. Lothar Zogg. He then went on to star in the 1970 film The Great White Hope as Jack Jefferson, a role he first played in the Broadway production of the same name.

Jones' television work includes playing Woodrow Paris in the series Paris between 1979 and 1980. He voiced various characters on the animated series The Simpsons in three separate seasons (1990, 1994, 1998).

Jones' theater 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 Golden Pond (2005), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008) and You Can't Take It with You (2014–2015).

Awards and honors edit

 
Formerly known as the Cort Theatre, now the James Earl Jones Theatre on Broadway

Jones has received two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Grammy Award. He also is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2011, he received an Academy Honorary Award.[76] As such, he is a recipient of the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony).[77]

In 1985, Jones was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame[78][79] He was also the 1987 First recipient of the National Association for Hearing and Speech Action's Annie Glenn Award.[80] 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. W. Bush. He received the 1996 Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars.[81] Also in 1996, he was given the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member George Lucas.[82][83] In 2002, he was the featured Martin Luther King Day speaker for Lauderhill, Florida.[84] In 2011, he received the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Monte Cristo Award Recipient.[85] He also received an Honorary Academy Award on November 12, 2011.[2] He was the 2012 Marian Anderson Award Recipient.[86][87] Jones won the 2014 Voice Icon Award sponsored by Society of Voice Arts and Sciences at the Museum of the Moving Image. In 2017, he received an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Harvard University.[88] He was honored with a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2017.[89] In 2019, he was honored as a Disney Legend.[90] In March 2022, Broadway's Cort Theatre was renamed the James Earl Jones Theatre in his honour.[91][92]

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Further reading edit

  • Ann Hornaday, "James Earl Jones: A Voice 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 0-684-19513-5

External links edit

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For the US Marines Commandant see James L Jones James Earl Jones born January 17 1931 is an American actor He has been described as one of America s most distinguished and versatile actors for his performances on stage and screen 1 and one of the greatest actors in American history 2 His deep voice has been praised as a a stirring basso profondo that has lent gravel and gravitas to his projects 3 4 Over his career he has 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 5 2 James Earl JonesJones in 2013Born 1931 01 17 January 17 1931 age 93 Arkabutla Mississippi U S Alma materUniversity of Michigan BA OccupationActorYears active1953 presentWorksFull listSpousesJulienne Marie m 1968 div 1972 wbr Cecilia Hart m 1982 died 2016 wbr Children1ParentRobert Earl Jones father AwardsFull listJames Earl Jones voice source source source Recorded December 2009 from the BBC Radio 4 program Front RowHaving had a stutter since childhood Jones has said that poetry and acting helped him overcome the challenges of his disability A pre med major in college 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 6 Jones worked steadily in theater winning his first Tony Award in 1968 for his role in The Great White Hope which he reprised in the 1970 film adaptation earning him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations Jones won his second Tony Award in 1987 for his role in August Wilson s Fences He was further Tony nominated for his roles in On Golden Pond 2005 and The Best Man 2012 Other Broadway performances include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 2008 Driving Miss Daisy 2010 2011 You Can t Take It with You 2014 and The Gin Game 2015 2016 He received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2017 7 8 Jones made his film debut in Stanley Kubrick s Dr Strangelove 1964 He received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Claudine 1974 Jones gained international fame for his voice role as Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise beginning with the original 1977 film Jones other notable roles include in Conan the Barbarian 1982 Matewan 1987 Coming to America 1988 Field of Dreams 1989 The Hunt for Red October 1990 The Sandlot 1993 and The Lion King 1994 Jones has reprised his roles in Star Wars media The Lion King 2019 and Coming 2 America 2021 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Military service 3 Career 3 1 1953 1973 Early roles and acclaim 3 2 1974 1983 Rise to prominence 3 3 1985 1999 Established career 3 4 2000 2009 3 5 2010 present 4 Personal life 5 Filmography 6 Awards and honors 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksEarly life and education edit nbsp Jones father Robert Earl Jones in promotional still for the Langston Hughes play Don t You Want to Be Free 1938 James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla Mississippi on January 17 1931 citation needed to Ruth nee 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 s birth and later became a stage and screen actor in New York and Hollywood 9 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 and Native American ancestry 10 11 His great grandfather s mother was Parthenia Connolly who is a 3rd great grandchild of Rob Roy MacGregor on her mothers side 12 From the age of five Jones was raised by his maternal grandparents John Henry and Maggie Connolly citation needed on their farm in Jackson Michigan they had moved from Mississippi in the Great Migration 13 Jones found the transition to living with his grandparents in Michigan traumatic and developed a stutter so severe that he refused to speak I was a stutterer I couldn t talk So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school 13 He credits his English teacher Donald Crouch who discovered he had a gift for writing poetry with helping him end his silence 9 Crouch urged him to challenge his reluctance to speak through reading poetry aloud to the class 14 15 In 1949 Jones graduated from Dickson Rural Agricultural School 16 now Brethren High School in Brethren Michigan where he served as vice president of his class 17 He attended the University of Michigan where he was initially a pre med major 9 He joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps and excelled He felt comfortable within the structure of the military environment and enjoyed the camaraderie of his fellow cadets in the Pershing Rifles Drill Team and Scabbard and Blade Honor Society 18 During the course of his studies Jones discovered he was not cut out to be a physician citation needed Instead he focused on drama at the University of Michigan with the thought of doing something he enjoyed before he assumed he would have to go off to fight in the Korean War After four years of college Jones graduated from the university in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in drama 19 20 Military service editWith the war intensifying in Korea Jones expected to be deployed as soon as he received his commission as a second lieutenant As he waited for his orders he worked on the stage crew and acted at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee Michigan 21 Jones was commissioned in mid 1953 after the Korean War s end and reported to Fort Moore to attend the Infantry Officers Basic Course He attended Ranger School and received his Ranger Tab Jones was assigned to Headquarter and Headquarters Company 38th Regimental Combat Team 22 He was initially to report to Fort Leonard Wood but his unit was instead sent to establish a cold weather training command at the former Camp Hale near Leadville Colorado His battalion became a training unit in the rugged terrain of the Rocky Mountains Jones was promoted to first lieutenant prior to his discharge 23 Jones moved to New York where he studied at the American Theatre Wing and worked as a janitor to support himself 24 25 Career editExternal audio nbsp James Earl Jones talks with Studs Terkel on WFMT 1968 02 49 25 Studs Terkel Radio Archive 26 1953 1973 Early roles and acclaim edit Jones began his acting career at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee Michigan In 1953 he was a stage carpenter and between 1955 and 1957 he acted and was a stage manager In his first acting season at the Ramsdell he portrayed Othello 27 His early career also included an appearance in the ABC radio anthology series Theatre Five 28 In 1957 he made his Broadway debut as understudy to Lloyd Richards in the short lived play The Egghead by Molly Kazan 29 The play ran only 21 performances 30 however three months later Jones created the featured role of Edward the butler in Dore Schary s Sunrise at Campobello at the Cort Theatre in January 1958 31 source source source source source source source track Jones performs Othello s Act I scene III monolog from Shakespeare s Othello at the White House Evening of Poetry Music and the Spoken Word on May 12 2009 During the early to mid 1960s Jones acted in various works of William Shakespeare becoming one of the best known Shakespearean actors of the time He tackled roles such as Othello and King Lear Oberon in A Midsummer Night s Dream Abhorson in Measure for Measure and Claudius in Hamlet Also during this time Jones made his film debut in Stanley Kubrick s Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 as the young 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 s play The Great White Hope at the Arena Stage 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 it moved to Broadway on October 3 1968 The play was well received winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Jones himself won the 1969 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for his performance 32 In 1969 Jones participated in making test films for the children s education series Sesame Street these shorts combined with animated segments were shown to groups of children to gauge the effectiveness of the then 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 part of the Sesame Street series itself when it debuted later in 1969 and Jones is often cited as the first celebrity guest on that series although a segment with Carol Burnett was the first to actually be broadcast 9 He also appeared on the soap opera Guiding Light nbsp Jones and Jill Clayburgh in the stage production of Othello at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles California on April 9 1971In 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 s novella Of Mice and Men with Kevin Conway as George and Pamela Blair as Curley s Wife That same year he starred in the title role of William Shakespeare s King Lear opposite Paul Sorvino Rene Auberjonois and Raul Julia at the New York City Shakespeare Festival in Central Park 33 In 1970 Jones reunited with Jane Alexander in the film 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 performance was acclaimed by critics and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor He was the second African American male performer after Sidney Poitier to be nominated for this award 9 Variety described his performance declaring Jones recreation of his stage role is an eye riveting experience The towering rages and unrestrained joys of which his character was capable are portrayed larger than life 34 In The Man 1972 Jones starred as a senator who unexpectedly becomes the first African American president of the United States The film also starred Martin Balsam and Burgess Meredith 1974 1983 Rise to prominence edit In 1974 Jones co starred with Diahann Carroll in the film Claudine the story of a woman who raises her six children alone after two failed and two almost marriages The film is a romantic comedy and drama focusing on systemic racial disparities black families face It was one 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 Golden 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 space opera blockbuster film Star Wars A New Hope which he would reprise for the sequels The Empire Strikes Back 1980 and Return of the Jedi 1983 Darth Vader was portrayed in costume by David Prowse in the film trilogy with Jones dubbing Vader s dialogue in postproduction because Prowse s strong West Country accent was deemed unsuitable for the role by director George Lucas 35 At his own request Jones was uncredited for the release of the first two Star Wars films 36 though he would be credited for the third film and eventually also for the first film s 1997 Special Edition re release 37 As he explained in a 2008 interview When Linda Blair did the girl in The Exorcist they hired Mercedes McCambridge to do the voice of the devil coming out of her And there was controversy as to whether Mercedes should get credit I was one who thought no she was just special effects So when it came to Darth Vader I said no I m just special effects But it became so identified that by the third one I thought OK I ll let them put my name on it 36 In 1977 Jones also received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Great American Documents In late 1979 Jones appeared on the short lived CBS police drama Paris which was notable as the first program on which Steven Bochco served as executive producer Jones also starred that year in the critically acclaimed TV mini series sequel Roots The Next Generations as the older version of author Alex Haley 9 1985 1999 Established career edit In 1987 Jones starred in August Wilson s play Fences as Troy Maxson a middle aged working class father who struggles to provide for his family The play set in the 1950s is part of Wilson s ten part Pittsburgh Cycle The play explores the evolving African American experience and examines race relations among other themes Jones won widespread critical acclaim earning himself his second Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play Beside the Star Wars sequels Jones was featured in several other box office hits of the 1980s the action fantasy film Conan the Barbarian 1982 the Eddie Murphy comedy Coming to America 1988 and the sports drama fantasy Field of Dreams 1989 which earned an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination He also starred in the independent film Matewan 1987 The film dramatized the events of the Battle of Matewan a coal miners strike in 1920 in Matewan a small town in the hills of West Virginia He received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his performance nbsp Jones with President George H W Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush in 1992In 1985 Jones lent his bass voice as Pharaoh in the first episode of Hanna Barbera s The Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible From 1989 to 1992 Jones served as the host of the children s TV series Long Ago and Far Away Jones appeared in several more successful films during the early to mid 1990s including The Hunt for Red October 1990 Patriot Games 1992 The Sandlot 1993 Clear and Present Danger 1994 and Cry the Beloved Country 1995 He also lent his distinctive bass voice to the role of Mufasa in the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King In 1992 Jones was presented with the National Medal of the Arts by President George H W Bush Jones has the distinction of winning two Primetime Emmys 38 in the same year in 1991 as Best Actor for his role in Gabriel s Fire and as Best Supporting Actor for his work in Heat Wave 1 He has played lead characters on television in three series The second show aired on ABC between 1990 and 1992 the first season being titled Gabriel s Fire and the second after 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 Under One Roof as Neb Langston a widowed African American police officer sharing his home in Seattle with his daughter his married son with his children and Neb s newly adopted son The show was a mid season replacement and lasted only six weeks but earned him another Emmy nomination He also portrayed Thad Green on Mathnet a parody of Dragnet that appeared in the PBS program 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 role left by Charles Kuralt upon Kuralt s death Jones has guest starred in many television shows over the years including for NBC s Law amp Order Frasier and Will amp Grace and ABC s Lois amp Clark The New Adventures of Superman In 1990 Jones performed voice 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 On July 13 1993 accompanied by the Morgan State University choir Jones spoke the U S National Anthem before the 1993 Major League Baseball All Star Game in Baltimore 39 40 In 1996 he recited the classic baseball poem Casey at the Bat with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra 41 and in 2007 before a Philadelphia Phillies home game on June 1 2007 42 On August 20 1999 Command amp Conquer Tiberian Sun released starring Jones as a lead character known as General Solomon Further mentions of General Solomon continue throughout the series indicating praise for James outstanding work in the game 2000 2009 edit During the 2000s Jones made appearances on various television shows such as CBS Two and a Half Men the WB drama Everwood Fox s medical drama House M D and CBS The Big Bang Theory 43 44 In 2002 Jones received Kennedy Center Honors at the John F Kennedy Center 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 voice of the president is the most easily recognized voice in America Well I m not going to make that claim in the presence of James Earl Jones 45 Those there to honor Jones included Sidney Poitier Kelsey Grammer Charles S Dutton and Courtney B Vance He also has done the CNN tagline This is CNN as well as This is CNN International and the opening for CNN s morning show New Day Jones was also a longtime spokesman for Bell Atlantic and later Verizon and DirecTV He also lent his voice to the opening for NBC s coverage of the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics the Big PI in the Sky God in the computer game Under a Killing Moon a Claymation film The Creation and several other guest spots on The Simpsons Jones narrated all 27 books of the New Testament in the audiobook James Earl Jones Reads the Bible 46 Although uncredited Jones voice is possibly heard as Darth Vader at the conclusion of Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith 2005 When specifically asked whether he had supplied the voice possibly from a previous recording Jones told Newsday You d have to ask Lucas about that I don t know 36 On April 7 2005 Jones and Leslie Uggams headed the cast in an African American Broadway revival version of On Golden Pond directed by Leonard Foglia and produced by Jeffrey Finn 9 In February 2008 he starred on Broadway as Big Daddy in a limited run all African American production of Tennessee Williams Pulitzer Prize winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof directed by Debbie Allen and mounted at the Broadhurst Theatre In November 2009 James reprised the role of Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre in London s West End This production also stars Sanaa Lathan as Maggie Phylicia Rashad as Big Mamma and Adrian Lester as 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 Achievement Award by Forest Whitaker 2010 present edit nbsp James Earl Jones in the 2010 revival of the play Driving Miss Daisy at the Theatre Royal in SydneyIn October 2010 Jones returned to the Broadway stage in Alfred Uhry s Driving Miss Daisy along with Vanessa Redgrave at the Golden Theatre 47 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 48 In March 2012 Jones played the role of President Art Hockstader in Gore Vidal s The Best Man on Broadway at the Schoenfeld Theatre he was nominated for a Tony for Best Performance in a Lead Role in a Revival The play also starred Angela Lansbury John Larroquette as candidate William Russell Candice Bergen Eric McCormack as candidate Senator Joseph Cantwell Jefferson Mays Michael McKean and Kerry Butler with direction by Michael Wilson 49 50 nbsp Jones with Dame Angela Lansbury in 2013In 2013 Jones starred opposite Vanessa Redgrave in a production of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Mark Rylance at The Old Vic London 51 From February to June 2013 Jones starred alongside Dame Angela Lansbury in an Australian tour of Driving Miss Daisy 52 In 2014 Jones starred alongside Annaleigh Ashford as Grandpa in the Broadway revival of the George S Kaufman comedic play You Can t Take It with You at the Longacre Theatre Broadway Ashford received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination for her performance On September 23 2015 Jones opened in a new revival of The Gin Game opposite 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 53 It closed on January 10 2016 In 2013 2014 he appeared alongside Malcolm McDowell in a series of commercials for Sprint in which the two dramatically recited mundane phone and text message conversations 54 55 In 2015 Jones starred as the Chief Justice Caleb Thorne in the American drama series Agent X alongside actress Sharon Stone Jeff Hephner Jamey Sheridan and others The television series was aired by TNT from November 8 to December 27 2015 running only one season and 10 episodes Jones officially reprised his voice role of Darth Vader for the character s appearances in the animated TV series Star Wars Rebels 56 57 and the live action film Rogue One A Star Wars Story 2016 58 59 as well as for a three word cameo in Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker 2019 60 In 2019 he reprised his voice role of Mufasa for the CGI remake of The Lion King directed by Jon Favreau in which he was the only original cast member to do so 61 62 According to Favreau Jones lines remained mostly the same from the original film 63 64 Chiwetel Ejiofor who voiced Mufasa s evil brother Scar in the remake said that the comfort of Jones reprising his role is going to be very rewarding in taking the audience on this journey again It s a once in a generation vocal quality 63 Jones reprised the role of King Jaffe Joffer in Coming 2 America 2021 the sequel to Coming to America 1988 65 In 2022 his voice was used via Respeecher software for Darth Vader in the Disney miniseries Obi Wan Kenobi 66 During production Jones signed a deal with Lucasfilm authorizing archival recordings of his voice to be used in the future to artificially generate the voice of Darth Vader 67 In September 2022 Jones announced that he would retire from the role of voicing Darth Vader with future voice roles for Vader being created with AI voice software using archive audio of Jones 68 Personal life editIn 1968 Jones married actress and singer Julienne Marie whom he met while performing as Othello in 1964 69 They had no children and divorced in 1972 70 In 1982 he married actress Cecilia Hart with whom he had a son Flynn 71 72 Hart died from ovarian cancer on October 16 2016 73 In April 2016 Jones spoke publicly for the first time in nearly 20 years about 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 74 Jones is Catholic having converted during his time in the military 75 Filmography editMain article James Earl Jones on screen and stageJones has had an extensive career in film television and theater He started out in film by appearing in the 1964 political satire film Dr Strangelove as Lt Lothar Zogg He then went on to star in the 1970 film The Great White Hope as Jack Jefferson a role he first played in the Broadway production of the same name Jones television work includes playing Woodrow Paris in the series Paris between 1979 and 1980 He voiced various characters on the animated series The Simpsons in three separate seasons 1990 1994 1998 Jones theater 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 Golden Pond 2005 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 2008 and You Can t Take It with You 2014 2015 Awards and honors editMain article List of awards and nominations received by James Earl Jones nbsp Formerly known as the Cort Theatre now the James Earl Jones Theatre on BroadwayJones has received two Primetime Emmy Awards two Tony Awards and a Grammy Award He also is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award In 2011 he received an Academy Honorary Award 76 As such he is a recipient of the EGOT Emmy Grammy Oscar Tony 77 In 1985 Jones was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame 78 79 He was also the 1987 First recipient of the National Association for Hearing and Speech Action s Annie Glenn Award 80 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 W Bush He received the 1996 Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs California Walk of Stars 81 Also in 1996 he was given the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member George Lucas 82 83 In 2002 he was the featured Martin Luther King Day speaker for Lauderhill Florida 84 In 2011 he received the Eugene O Neill Theater Center Monte Cristo Award Recipient 85 He also received an Honorary Academy Award on November 12 2011 2 He was the 2012 Marian Anderson Award Recipient 86 87 Jones won the 2014 Voice Icon Award sponsored by Society of Voice Arts and Sciences at the Museum of the Moving Image In 2017 he received an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Harvard University 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