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James Earl Jones
- Department:Acting
- Place of birth:Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA
- Birthday:1/17/1931
- Deathday:9/9/2024
- Popularity:3
- Also known as:James Earl Boggins Jones | Todd Jones
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Acting and producing career
Acting
- 2024movie
BET News & ET Present James Earl Jones: Life and Legacy
as Self (archive footage)
- 2024movie
Butterfly in the Sky
as Guest Narrator (archive footage)
- 2021movie
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
- 2021movie
Coming 2 America
as King Jaffe Joffer
- 2019movie
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
as Darth Vader (voice)
- 2019movie
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
- 2019movie
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
as Self
- 2019movie
The Lion King
as Mufasa (voice)
- 2019movie
The Space: Theatre of Survival
as Narrator
- 2019movie
Words from a Bear
as Self
- 2018movie
Warning Shot
as Pendleton
- 2017movie
The Lion Guard: Life In The Pride Lands
as Mufasa (voice)
- 2016movie
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Darth Vader (voice)
- 2016movie
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
as Kilgore Trout
- 2016movie
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar
as Mufasa (voice)
- 2015movie
Driving Miss Daisy
as Hoke Colburn
- 2015movie
Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal
as Darth Vader (voice)
- 2015movie
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
as Self
- 2014movie
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
as Darth Vader (voice)
- 2014movie
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
as Ruben
- 2013movie
Gimme Shelter
as Frank McCarthy
- 2013movie
Muse of Fire
as Self
- 2013movie
Blackfish
as Self (archive footage)
- 2013movie
Milius
as Self
- 2012movie
An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road
as Self
- 2012movie
Joe Papp in Five Acts
as Self
- 2011movie
Strange Septembers: The Hill Abduction & the Exeter Encounter
as Himself
- 2010movie
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
as Admiral (voice)
- 2009movie
Jack and the Beanstalk
as The Giant (voice)
- 2009movie
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self (archive footage)
- 2008movie
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
as Papa Jenkins
- 2007movie
Earth
as Narrator (voice)
- 2007movie
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
as Self
- 2007movie
John, Paul, George and Ben
as Narrator
- 2006movie
Searching for Orson
as Self
- 2006movie
Click
as Narrator of Michael's Past (voice) (uncredited)
- 2006movie
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Jack Jefferson (segment "The Great White Hope") / Troy Maxson (segment "Fences")
- 2006movie
Scary Movie 4
as Narrator (uncredited)
- 2006movie
The Benchwarmers
as Darth Vader (voice)
- 2005movie
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
as Self
- 2005movie
The Sandlot 2
as Mr. Mertle
- 2005movie
The Reading Room
as William
- 2005movie
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
as Darth Vader (voice - uncredited)
- 2005movie
Robots
as Voice Box at Hardware Store (voice)
- 2005movie
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
as Narrator
- 2004movie
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
as Self
- 2004movie
Nine Dog Christmas
as Storyteller (voice)
- 2004movie
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
as Self
- 2004movie
The Story of Star Wars
as Darth Vader (archive footage)
- 2004movie
Black Indians: An American Story
as Narrator
- 2003movie
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
as Maggie Simpson (voice)
- 2003movie
The Great Year
as Narrator
- 2003movie
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'The Hunt for Red October'
as Self
- 2002movie
Fredericksburg: A Documentary Film
as Narrator
- 2001movie
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
as Self
- 2001movie
Feast of All Saints
as Older Marcel
- 2001movie
Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street
as Mister (voice)
- 2001movie
Finder's Fee
as Avery Phillips
- 2001movie
Disney's American Legends
as Narrator
- 2000movie
Antietam: A Documentary Film
as Narrator
- 2000movie
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
as Self
- 2000movie
Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
as Self - 'Lieutenant Lothar Zogg'
- 2000movie
The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove
as Self
- 2000movie
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
- 2000movie
Fantasia 2000
as Self - Host
- 1999movie
Santa and Pete
as Grandpa Nicholas
- 1999movie
The Annihilation of Fish
as Fish
- 1999movie
Undercover Angel
as The Judge
- 1999movie
On the Q.T.
as Leo
- 1999movie
Summer's End
as Dr. William 'Bill' Blakely
- 1999movie
Our Friend, Martin
as Daddy King (voice)
- 1998movie
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
as Mufasa (voice)
- 1998movie
Primary Colors
as CNN Voiceover (voice)
- 1997movie
Alone
as Grey
- 1997movie
The Second Civil War
as Jim Kalla
- 1997movie
What the Deaf Man Heard
as Archibald Thacker
- 1997movie
Gang Related
as Arthur Baylor
- 1997movie
Hitler's Forgotten Victims
as Narrator (voice) (DVD version)
- 1997movie
Casper: A Spirited Beginning
as Kibosh (voice)
- 1997movie
Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
- 1997movie
Good Luck
as James Bing
- 1997movie
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
as Self
- 1997movie
Afro Promo
as Self (archive footage)
- 1996movie
Timepiece
as Lawrence
- 1996movie
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
as Dr. McDuffie
- 1996movie
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
- 1996movie
Corwin
as Self
- 1996movie
A Family Thing
as Ray Murdock
- 1995movie
Cry, the Beloved Country
as Rev. Stephen Kumalo
- 1995movie
Who's in Rabbit's House?
as Narrator (voice)
- 1995movie
Judge Dredd
as Narrator (uncredited)
- 1995movie
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self
- 1995movie
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
as Host
- 1995movie
Jefferson in Paris
as Madison Hemings
- 1995movie
Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable
as Mufasa
- 1995movie
People: A Musical Celebration
as The Storyteller (voice)
- 1994movie
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
as Narrator
- 1994movie
Clear and Present Danger
as Admiral James Greer
- 1994movie
The Making of the Lion King
as Self
- 1994movie
The Lion King
as Mufasa (voice)
- 1994movie
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
as Host
- 1994movie
Clean Slate
as John Dolby
- 1994movie
Africa: The Serengeti
as Narrator
- 1994movie
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
as James Earl Jones (uncredited)
- 1994movie
Gangs: Turning the Corner
as Self
- 1994movie
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
as Charles Lloyd
- 1994movie
The Vernon Johns Story
as Vernon Johns
- 1993movie
Hallelujah
as Old Man Taylor
- 1993movie
Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
- 1993movie
Percy & Thunder
as Percy Banks
- 1993movie
The Meteor Man
as Earnest Moses
- 1993movie
Dreamrider
as Bill Perry
- 1993movie
Excessive Force
as Jake
- 1993movie
The Sandlot
as Mr. Mertle
- 1993movie
Sommersby
as Judge Barry Conrad Issacs
- 1992movie
Lincoln
as Narrator (voice)
- 1992movie
Sneakers
as Mr. Bernard Abbott
- 1992movie
Patriot Games
as Adm. James Greer
- 1992movie
The JFK Conspiracy
as Self - Host
- 1991movie
True Identity
as James Earl Jones
- 1991movie
When It Was a Game
as (voice)
- 1991movie
Scorchers
as Bear
- 1991movie
Portrait of Castro's Cuba
as Host/Narrator
- 1991movie
Visitors from the Unknown
as Narrator (voice)
- 1991movie
Convicts
as Ben Johnson
- 1990movie
Grim Prairie Tales
as Morrison
- 1990movie
Ivory Hunters
as Inspector Nkuru
- 1990movie
Heat Wave
as Junius Johnson
- 1990movie
Last Flight Out
as Al Topping
- 1990movie
By Dawn's Early Light
as Alice
- 1990movie
The Ambulance
as Lt. Spencer
- 1990movie
The Hunt for Red October
as Vice ADM James Greer
- 1990movie
Teach 109
as Dr. Winston
- 1990movie
Terrorgram
as Retribution (voice)
- 1989movie
11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried
as Narrator
- 1989movie
Best of the Best
as Frank Couzo
- 1989movie
Field of Dreams
as Terrence Mann
- 1989movie
Three Fugitives
as Dugan
- 1989movie
The Hunting of the Snark
as Narrator (voice)
- 1989movie
Stories to Remember: Noah's Ark
as Narrator
- 1988movie
Coming to America
as King Jaffe Joffer
- 1988movie
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
as Narrator (voice)
- 1987movie
Matewan
as 'Few Clothes' Johnson
- 1987movie
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
as Emperor of the Night (voice)
- 1987movie
Gardens of Stone
as Sgt. Maj.'Goody' Nelson
- 1987movie
A House Divided
- 1986movie
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
as Umslopogaas
- 1986movie
Soul Man
as Professor Banks
- 1986movie
My Little Girl
as Ike Bailey
- 1986movie
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
as Genie / Narrator
- 1986movie
The Lone Star Kid
as Holmes
- 1985movie
Moses
as Pharaoh
- 1985movie
City Limits
as Albert
- 1985movie
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
- 1985movie
Visual Pathfinders: Robert Abel & Associates
- 1984movie
The Vegas Strip War
as Jack Madrid
- 1984movie
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
as Narrator
- 1983movie
Return of the Jedi
as Darth Vader (voice)
- 1982movie
Blood Tide
as Frye
- 1982movie
Amy and the Angel
as Gabriel
- 1982movie
The Flight of Dragons
as Ommadon (voice)
- 1982movie
Conan the Barbarian
as Thulsa Doom
- 1982movie
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
- 1981movie
Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast
as Narrator (voice)
- 1981movie
The Creation
as Narrator (voice)
- 1981movie
The Bushido Blade
as The Prisoner
- 1981movie
There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues
as himself, voice
- 1981movie
Beauty and the Beast
as Narrator (voice)
- 1981movie
God's Trombones
as Narrator (voice)
- 1980movie
The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
as Dane Oliver
- 1980movie
The Empire Strikes Back
as Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited)
- 1980movie
The Me Nobody Knows
as Self
- 1979movie
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
as Self - Host
- 1979movie
Paul Robeson
as Paul Robeson
- 1978movie
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
as Self
- 1978movie
The Star Wars Holiday Special
as Darth Vader (voice)
- 1977movie
The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
as Morris Bird, Jr.
- 1977movie
A Piece of the Action
as Joshua Burke
- 1977movie
The Making of Star Wars
as Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited)
- 1977movie
Exorcist II: The Heretic
as Older Kokumo
- 1977movie
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
as Sheikh
- 1977movie
Star Wars
as Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited)
- 1977movie
The Greatest
as Malcolm X
- 1976movie
Swashbuckler
as Nick Debrett
- 1976movie
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
as Leon
- 1976movie
The River Niger
as Johnny Williams
- 1975movie
Deadly Hero
as Rabbit Shazam
- 1975movie
The UFO Incident
as Barney Hill
- 1974movie
The Cay
as Timothy
- 1974movie
Claudine
as Rupert D. "Roop" Marshall
- 1974movie
King Lear
as King Lear
- 1972movie
The Man
as Douglass Dilman
- 1972movie
Malcolm X
as Biographical Narration (voice)
- 1971movie
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Legacy of a Dream
as Narrator
- 1970movie
The Great White Hope
as Jack Jefferson
- 1970movie
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
- 1970movie
End of the Road
as Doctor D
- 1967movie
The Comedians
as Dr. Magiot
- 1964movie
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
as Lt. Lothar Zogg
- -movie
Broadway: The Next Generation
as Self
- -tv
L.A. Law
as Lee Atkins
- -tv
Sesame Street
- -tv
The Simpsons
as Narrator (voice)
- -tv
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Horace McCoy
- -tv
House
as Dibala
- -tv
Gabriel's Fire
as Gabriel Bird
- -tv
The One Show
as Self - Guest
- -tv
According to Jim
as Royal Flush Voice (voice)
- -tv
Everwood
as Will Cleveland
- -tv
Two and a Half Men
as James Earl Jones
- -tv
Frasier
as Norman Royster
- -tv
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
as Franklin Stern
- -tv
Stargate SG-1
as Unas (Voice)
- -tv
Will & Grace
as James Earl Jones
- -tv
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Felix Wilson
- -tv
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Archibald Thacker
- -tv
Mathnet
as Chief Thad Green (voice)
- -tv
Mathnet
as Chief Thad Green
- -tv
East Side/West Side
- -tv
Under One Roof
as Neb Langston
- -tv
Vegetable Soup
as Long John Spoilsport
- -tv
The Defenders
as Lieutenant Andrews
- -tv
Tarzan
- -tv
Roots: The Next Generations
as Alex Haley
- -tv
Paris
as Woody Paris
- -tv
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
- -tv
Jesus of Nazareth
as Balthazar
- -tv
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Lou Rush
- -tv
The Defenders
as Reverend Harris Bonham
- -tv
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
- -tv
Me & Mom
- -tv
Pros and Cons
as Gabriel Bird
- -tv
Merlin
as Rock of Ages
- -tv
The Big Bang Theory
as James Earl Jones
- -tv
Obi-Wan Kenobi
as Darth Vader (voice)
- -tv
The Magic of David Copperfield
- -tv
Star Wars Rebels
as Darth Vader (voice)
- -tv
Long Ago and Far Away
as Host
- -tv
CBS Schoolbreak Special
as Detective Robb
- -tv
Faerie Tale Theatre
as Genie / Narrator (voice)
- -tv
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
- -tv
Lamp Unto My Feet
- -tv
Signs and Wonders
as Diamond
- -tv
The Atlanta Child Murders
as Major Walker
- -tv
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
as Father Divine
- -tv
The Simpsons
as Moving Man / Serak the Preparer / Narrator (voice)
- -tv
The Simpsons
as Maggie Simpson (voice)
- -tv
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as King Dakkar (voice)
- -tv
The Movies That Made Us
as Self (archive footage)
- -tv
Black Omnibus
as Self - Host
- -tv
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
as Narrator (voice)
- -tv
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
- -tv
Touched by an Angel
as The Angel of Angels
- -tv
Great Performances
as King Lear
- -tv
3rd Rock from the Sun
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- -tv
Highway to Heaven
as Gabe Wilson
- -tv
Dinah!
as Self
- -tv
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
- -tv
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
- -tv
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
- -tv
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
- -tv
Mathnet
as Chief Thad Greene
- -tv
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
- -tv
Garfield and Friends
as Diablo
- -tv
Picket Fences
as Bryant Thomas
- -tv
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner / Performer
- -tv
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
- -tv
Tony Awards
as Self (archive footage)
- -tv
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
- -tv
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
- -tv
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
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