James Earl Jones

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Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-01-17

Popularity

29.3

James Earl Jones

Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA

James Earl Jones

Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-01-17

Popularity

29.3

Biography

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

Movie Credits

Star Wars

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8.2

1977

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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8.1

1964

Sommersby

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6.3

1993

The Hunt for Red October

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7.4

1990

Sneakers

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6.9

1992

Field of Dreams

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7.1

1989

Return of the Jedi

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7.9

1983

The Empire Strikes Back

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8.4

1980

Dreamrider

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7.5

1993

Amy and the Angel

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6.0

1982

Earth

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7.6

2007

Finder's Fee

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6.1

2001

By Dawn's Early Light

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6.5

1990

The Meteor Man

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5.7

1993

The Sandlot

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7.5

1993

Excessive Force

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4.7

1993

Matewan

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7.3

1987

Disney's American Legends

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7.6

2001

Three Fugitives

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6.7

1989

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

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6.8

2010

The Lion King

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8.3

1994

Soul Man

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5.4

1986

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

‌

4.7

1986

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

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7.0

1998

Clear and Present Danger

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6.6

1994

Coming to America

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6.9

1988

Conan the Barbarian

‌

6.8

1982

Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery

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0.0

1997

The Flight of Dragons

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6.6

1982

Patriot Games

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6.7

1992

Cry, the Beloved Country

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6.7

1995

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

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6.0

2008

Africa: The Serengeti

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6.4

1994

Gardens of Stone

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6.3

1987

Gang Related

‌

6.3

1997

Jack and the Beanstalk

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5.3

2009

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

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6.0

1976

Swashbuckler

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6.1

1976

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

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6.5

1994

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

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7.2

1996

A Family Thing

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6.3

1996

A Piece of the Action

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5.5

1977

Undercover Angel

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7.0

1999

Scorchers

‌

4.9

1991

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

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5.6

1987

The Reading Room

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7.0

2005

The Sandlot 2

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5.8

2005

Nine Dog Christmas

‌

5.2

2004

Grim Prairie Tales

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5.5

1990

Clean Slate

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5.8

1994

Fantasia 2000

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7.0

2000

People: A Musical Celebration

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6.3

1995

Timepiece

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7.4

1996

Who's in Rabbit's House?

‌

0.0

1995

Convicts

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5.4

1991

Claudine

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7.0

1974

Feast of All Saints

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4.6

2001

Santa and Pete

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5.3

1999

Deadly Hero

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6.0

1975

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

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5.6

1977

True Identity

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5.6

1991

The Star Wars Holiday Special

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3.3

1978

The River Niger

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7.3

1976

On Broadway

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8.7

2019

What the Deaf Man Heard

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6.8

1997

The UFO Incident

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6.9

1975

The Comedians

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6.1

1967

Blood Tide

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4.9

1982

The Space: Theatre of Survival

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0.0

2019

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

‌

7.4

2021

The Ambulance

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5.8

1990

Beauty and the Beast

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0.0

1981

Summer's End

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7.2

2000

11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried

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0.0

1989

The Making of 'Jurassic Park'

‌

7.1

1995

My Little Girl

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4.8

1986

Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

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6.6

2000

End of the Road

‌

5.6

1970

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

‌

5.7

2014

The Bushido Blade

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5.4

1981

The Great Year

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9.0

2003

Gangs: Turning the Corner

‌

0.0

1994

A House Divided

‌

0.0

1987

Black Indians: An American Story

‌

6.7

2004

Joe Papp in Five Acts

‌

4.5

2012

The Vegas Strip War

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3.5

1984

The Cay

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6.9

1974

The Vernon Johns Story

‌

9.0

1994

The Man

‌

6.3

1972

Gimme Shelter

‌

6.6

2013

Best of the Best

‌

6.5

1989

The Creation

‌

6.9

1981

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

‌

8.5

1995

The Great White Hope

‌

6.0

1970

Waking Sleeping Beauty

‌

7.2

2009

Looking for Richard

‌

6.7

1996

Exorcist II: The Heretic

‌

4.5

1977

Dangerous: The Short Films

‌

8.1

1993

The Hunting of the Snark

‌

0.0

1989

Blackfish

‌

7.9

2013

Sports on the Silver Screen

‌

10.0

1997

The Second Civil War

‌

6.3

1997

Hitler's Forgotten Victims

‌

10.0

1997

City Limits

‌

2.8

1985

Driving Miss Daisy

‌

8.1

2015

Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'

‌

0.0

1994

Percy & Thunder

‌

0.0

1993

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'

‌

5.0

2005

Heat Wave

‌

7.0

1990

Ivory Hunters

‌

4.0

1990

The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror

‌

0.0

2003

Jefferson in Paris

‌

5.1

1995

The Greatest

‌

5.6

1977

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Legacy of a Dream

‌

0.0

1971

Our Friend, Martin

‌

7.4

1999

Alone

‌

7.0

1997

Stories to Remember: Noah's Ark

‌

5.5

1989

Words from a Bear

‌

0.0

2019

Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues

‌

7.0

1988

Milius

‌

7.0

2013

Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal

‌

7.8

2015

Teach 109

‌

7.0

1990

Lincoln

‌

7.2

1992

The Annihilation of Fish

‌

6.2

1999

Broadway: The Next Generation

‌

10.0

2017

Last Flight Out

‌

0.0

1990

The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar

‌

6.7

2015

God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

‌

9.0

2016

The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story

‌

0.0

1980

Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion

‌

7.2

2014

Night of 100 Stars II

‌

8.0

1985

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy

‌

7.7

2004

Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable

‌

6.2

1995

Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast

‌

0.0

1989

Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

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7.3

2001

Butterfly in the Sky

‌

7.3

2024

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

‌

0.0

2015

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

‌

7.0

1970

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

‌

6.5

1994

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil

‌

4.0

1994

Malcolm X

‌

6.4

1972

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

‌

7.5

2016

Terrorgram

‌

4.3

1990

Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'The Hunt for Red October'

‌

5.4

2003

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

‌

7.4

2005

The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror

‌

0.0

2002

Afro Promo

‌

0.0

1997

The Story of Star Wars

‌

7.0

2004

Robots

‌

6.5

2005

Muse of Fire

‌

6.5

2013

The Lion King

‌

7.1

2019

The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened

‌

0.0

1977

Click

‌

6.3

2006

Warning Shot

‌

4.9

2018

The Making of Star Wars

‌

7.0

1977

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

‌

6.0

1986

King Lear

‌

0.0

1974

The Lion Guard: Life In The Pride Lands

‌

2.0

2017

Visitors from the Unknown

‌

6.0

1991

The Lone Star Kid

‌

5.5

1986

The Benchwarmers

‌

5.9

2006

Judge Dredd

‌

5.8

1995

On the Q.T.

‌

7.5

1999

John, Paul, George and Ben

‌

0.0

2007

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

‌

0.0

2006

God's Trombones

‌

0.0

1981

Hollywood's Greatest Villains

‌

10.0

2005

Visual Pathfinders: Robert Abel & Associates

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0.0

1985

Paul Robeson

‌

0.0

1979

Coming 2 America

‌

6.4

2021

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

‌

0.0

2019

Casper: A Spirited Beginning

‌

5.4

1997

No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat

‌

5.0

2004

Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'

‌

5.6

2000

The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove

‌

5.1

2000

There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues

‌

0.0

1981

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

‌

6.3

2019

Scary Movie 4

‌

5.5

2006

The Me Nobody Knows

‌

0.0

1980

Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street

‌

6.3

2001

Searching for Orson

‌

5.5

2006

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement

‌

0.0

1978

An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road

‌

6.0

2012

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

‌

0.0

1984

Hallelujah

‌

0.0

1993

Fredericksburg: A Documentary Film

‌

0.0

2002

Antietam: A Documentary Film

‌

0.0

2000

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

‌

0.0

2007

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

‌

6.0

2000

The Making of the Lion King

‌

10.0

1994

Portrait of Castro's Cuba

‌

0.0

1991

Night of 100 Stars

‌

6.0

1982

A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

‌

0.0

1979

Primary Colors

‌

6.3

1998

BET News & ET Present James Earl Jones: Life and Legacy

‌

0.0

2024

Obi-Wan Kenobi - The Patterson Cut

‌

9.0

2022

Tv Credits

L.A. Law

‌

7.0

1986

Sesame Street

‌

7.1

1969

The Simpsons

‌

8.0

1989

Law & Order

‌

7.4

1990

House

‌

8.6

2004

Gabriel's Fire

‌

6.2

1990

The One Show

‌

4.6

2006

According to Jim

‌

6.5

2001

Everwood

‌

7.6

2002

Two and a Half Men

‌

7.5

2003

Frasier

‌

7.7

1993

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

‌

7.0

1993

Stargate SG-1

‌

8.3

1997

Will & Grace

‌

6.8

1998

Homicide: Life on the Street

‌

8.0

1993

Hallmark Hall of Fame

‌

8.8

1951

Mathnet

‌

7.0

1987

Mathnet

‌

7.0

1987

East Side/West Side

‌

7.8

1963

Under One Roof

‌

0.0

1995

Vegetable Soup

‌

0.0

1975

The Defenders

‌

6.2

1961

Tarzan

‌

6.7

1966

Roots: The Next Generations

‌

7.3

1979

Paris

‌

5.0

1979

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

‌

4.5

1973

Jesus of Nazareth

‌

7.7

1977

Film Night

‌

0.0

1968

Dr. Kildare

‌

5.4

1961

The Defenders

‌

6.2

1961

The Kennedy Center Honors

‌

7.2

1978

Me & Mom

‌

5.0

1985

Pros and Cons

‌

6.0

1991

Merlin

‌

6.8

1998

The Big Bang Theory

‌

7.9

2007

Obi-Wan Kenobi

‌

7.1

2022

The Magic of David Copperfield

‌

6.0

1978

Tony Awards

‌

5.0

1956

Star Wars Rebels

‌

7.7

2014

Long Ago and Far Away

‌

9.0

1989

CBS Schoolbreak Special

‌

5.5

1984

Faerie Tale Theatre

‌

8.4

1982

The Ed Sullivan Show

‌

6.5

1948

Reading Rainbow

‌

8.4

1983

Lamp Unto My Feet

‌

0.0

1948

Signs and Wonders

‌

0.0

1995

The Atlanta Child Murders

‌

5.9

1985

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

‌

7.3

1980

The Simpsons

‌

8.0

1989

The Simpsons

‌

8.0

1989

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

‌

6.6

1995

The Movies That Made Us

‌

7.3

2019

Black Omnibus

‌

0.0

1973

Star Wars Rebels

‌

7.7

2014

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

‌

10.0

1992

Tony Awards

‌

5.0

1956

The Dick Cavett Show

‌

6.6

1968

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

‌

8.0

1998

Touched by an Angel

‌

7.2

1994

Great Performances

‌

4.9

1971

The Second Civil War

‌

6.0

1997

Tony Awards

‌

5.0

1956

Tony Awards

‌

5.0

1956

Tony Awards

‌

5.0

1956

3rd Rock from the Sun

‌

7.5

1996

Highway to Heaven

‌

7.4

1984

Dinah!

‌

6.0

1974

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

‌

7.4

1962

The Mike Douglas Show

‌

4.8

1961

The Mike Douglas Show

‌

4.8

1961