James Earl Jones' Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Gabriel's Fire Gabriel Bird Me and Mom Lou Garfield Vegetable Soup Long John S…

Main Movie Roles 2008 - Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins 2007 - Earth 2006 - Scary Movie 4 2006 - The Benchwarmers 2006 - Click 2005 - Robots 2005 - Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 2004 - Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson 2001 - Finder's Fee 1999 - Fantasia/2000 1998 - Primary Colors 1997 - Gang Related 1996 - Looking For Richard 1995 - Cry, The Beloved Country 1995 - Judge Dredd 1994 - Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult 1994 - The Lion King 1994 - Clear and Present Danger 1994 - Clean Slate 1993 - The Meteor Man 1993 - The Sandlot 1993 - Sommersby 1993 - Excessive Force 1992 - Patriot Games 1992 - Sneakers 1990 - The Hunt for Red October 1989 - Field of Dreams 1989 - Three Fugitives 1989 - Best of the Best 1988 - Coming to America 1987 - Matewan 1987 - Gardens of Stone 1987 - Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night 1986 - Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold 1986 - Soul Man 1983 - Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi 1982 - Conan the Barbarian 1982 - The Flight of Dragons 1980 - Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 1977 - Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope 1977 - Exorcist II: The Heretic 1976 - The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings 1976 - Swashbuckler 1970 - The Great White Hope 1964 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

BIOGRAPHY:

James Earl Jones was born in 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA. At an early age he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred in many films over a 40-year period, beginning with the Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Probably best known for his role as Darth Vader (for the voice only, as the man in the Darth Vader suit was David Prowse (I), whose voice was dubbed because of his British West Country accent). Has appeared on "The Simpsons" (1989) a couple of times and played Mufasa in The Lion King (1994). James Earl Jones returned as the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).


TRIVIA:

• On October 8, 2002 appeared along with Theo Lion from PBS's _"Between the Lions" (2000)_ (qv) before the House Education Reform Subcommittee to explain the importance of supporting literacy programs.
• Son of prizefighter-turned-actor 'Robert Earl Jones' (qv), from whom it is said he was estranged long into adulthood.
• Callers using Bell Atlantic pay phones often hear Jones's voice assuring them "Welcome to Bell Atlantic", just before a female voice asks for a calling card number.
• Is a member of the National Rifle Assocation of America (NRA).
• Was once an Army officer after college.
• Is a US Army veteran and former member of the 75th Rangers Regiment.
• Announced the forty-fifth greatest movie villain of all time by Maxim Magazine's "Fifty Greatest Movie Villains of all Time" list for his character of Darth Vader in _Star Wars (1977)_ (qv).
• His first time acting was at the Ramsdell Theater in Manistee, Michigan.