James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones

Birthday: 1931-01-17

Deathday: 2024-09-09

Place of birth: Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA

Also known as: James Earl Boggins Jones, Todd Jones, Jimmy, جیمز ارل جونز

imdb_id: nm0000469

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.

Played in movies:

The Making of the Lion King

Score: 10.0

Hollywood's Greatest Villains

Score: 10.0

Broadway: The Next Generation

Score: 10.0

Hitler's Forgotten Victims

Score: 10.0

Sports on the Silver Screen

Score: 10.0

God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

Score: 9.0

The Great Year

Score: 9.0

On Broadway

Score: 8.7

The Vernon Johns Story

Score: 8.5

The Empire Strikes Back

Score: 8.4

The Lion King

Score: 8.3

Star Wars

Score: 8.2

Butterfly in the Sky

Score: 8.2

Dangerous: The Short Films

Score: 8.2

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Score: 8.1

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

Score: 8.1

Night of 100 Stars II

Score: 8.0

Driving Miss Daisy

Score: 8.0

Return of the Jedi

Score: 7.9

Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal

Score: 7.9

Blackfish

Score: 7.8

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy

Score: 7.7

Earth

Score: 7.6

The Sandlot

Score: 7.5

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Score: 7.5

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Score: 7.5

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Score: 7.5

The Hunt for Red October

Score: 7.4

Disney's American Legends

Score: 7.4

Matewan

Score: 7.4

Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World

Score: 7.3

Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion

Score: 7.3

The Making of 'Jurassic Park'

Score: 7.3

Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues

Score: 7.2

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Score: 7.2

Summer's End

Score: 7.2

The Story of Star Wars

Score: 7.1

Field of Dreams

Score: 7.1

The Lion King

Score: 7.1

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Score: 7.1

Milius

Score: 7.1

Claudine

Score: 7.1

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Score: 7.1

The Making of Star Wars

Score: 7.0

Teach 109

Score: 7.0

Timepiece

Score: 7.0

The Reading Room

Score: 7.0

Dreamrider

Score: 7.0

Fantasia 2000

Score: 7.0

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

Score: 6.9

Sneakers

Score: 6.9

On the Q.T.

Score: 6.9

The UFO Incident

Score: 6.9

Our Friend, Martin

Score: 6.9

Coming to America

Score: 6.9

Undercover Angel

Score: 6.9

Conan the Barbarian

Score: 6.8

Lincoln

Score: 6.8

Looking for Richard

Score: 6.8

Africa: The Serengeti

Score: 6.8

The River Niger

Score: 6.8

The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar

Score: 6.7

Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

Score: 6.7

Cry, the Beloved Country

Score: 6.7

The Flight of Dragons

Score: 6.7

Patriot Games

Score: 6.7

Three Fugitives

Score: 6.7

Night of 100 Stars

Score: 6.7

Clear and Present Danger

Score: 6.7

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

Score: 6.6

By Dawn's Early Light

Score: 6.6

Gimme Shelter

Score: 6.6

The Cay

Score: 6.6

Muse of Fire

Score: 6.5

Robots

Score: 6.5

The Annihilation of Fish

Score: 6.5

Alone

Score: 6.5

The Creation

Score: 6.5

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Score: 6.5

A Family Thing

Score: 6.5

Best of the Best

Score: 6.5

Malcolm X

Score: 6.5

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

Score: 6.4

Sommersby

Score: 6.4

Coming 2 America

Score: 6.4

Gang Related

Score: 6.4

Click

Score: 6.3

The Man

Score: 6.3

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Score: 6.3

Primary Colors

Score: 6.3

Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street

Score: 6.3

Black Indians: An American Story

Score: 6.3

Gardens of Stone

Score: 6.2

Heat Wave

Score: 6.2

The Great White Hope

Score: 6.2

What the Deaf Man Heard

Score: 6.2

People: A Musical Celebration

Score: 6.2

Swashbuckler

Score: 6.2

The Second Civil War

Score: 6.1

The Comedians

Score: 6.1

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

Score: 6.1

Finder's Fee

Score: 6.1

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

Score: 6.0

Hallelujah

Score: 6.0

An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road

Score: 6.0

Visitors from the Unknown

Score: 6.0

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

Score: 6.0

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

Score: 6.0

The Ambulance

Score: 5.9

The Sandlot 2

Score: 5.9

The Benchwarmers

Score: 5.9

The Meteor Man

Score: 5.8

Judge Dredd

Score: 5.8

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

Score: 5.8

Clean Slate

Score: 5.8

Grim Prairie Tales

Score: 5.8

The Greatest

Score: 5.7

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

Score: 5.7

Deadly Hero

Score: 5.7

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

Score: 5.6

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

Score: 5.6

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

Score: 5.6

A Piece of the Action

Score: 5.6

Searching for Orson

Score: 5.5

Scary Movie 4

Score: 5.5

The Lone Star Kid

Score: 5.5

Stories to Remember: Noah's Ark

Score: 5.5

True Identity

Score: 5.5

Convicts

Score: 5.5

Amy and the Angel

Score: 5.5

Casper: A Spirited Beginning

Score: 5.4

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

Score: 5.4

The Bushido Blade

Score: 5.4

Soul Man

Score: 5.3

Santa and Pete

Score: 5.3

Nine Dog Christmas

Score: 5.2

Jack and the Beanstalk

Score: 5.2

Jefferson in Paris

Score: 5.1

The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove

Score: 5.1

Warning Shot

Score: 5.1

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

Score: 5.0

John, Paul, George and Ben

Score: 5.0

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil

Score: 5.0

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

Score: 5.0

Blood Tide

Score: 4.9

Excessive Force

Score: 4.9

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

Score: 4.7

Feast of All Saints

Score: 4.7

End of the Road

Score: 4.6

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Score: 4.5

Joe Papp in Five Acts

Score: 4.5

Scorchers

Score: 4.4

My Little Girl

Score: 4.3

Terrorgram

Score: 4.3

Ivory Hunters

Score: 4.2

Beauty and the Beast

Score: 4.0

The Star Wars Holiday Special

Score: 3.4

The Vegas Strip War

Score: 2.7

City Limits

Score: 2.6

The Lion Guard: Life In The Pride Lands

Score: 2.0

Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable

Score: 0.0

Moses

Score: 0.0

When It Was a Game

Score: 0.0

Corwin

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

Score: 0.0

Portrait of Castro's Cuba

Score: 0.0

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

Score: 0.0

Antietam: A Documentary Film

Score: 0.0

Fredericksburg: A Documentary Film

Score: 0.0

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Score: 0.0

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement

Score: 0.0

The Me Nobody Knows

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

Score: 0.0

Paul Robeson

Score: 0.0

Visual Pathfinders: Robert Abel & Associates

Score: 0.0

God's Trombones

Score: 0.0

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

Score: 0.0

King Lear

Score: 0.0

The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened

Score: 0.0

Afro Promo

Score: 0.0

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

Score: 0.0

Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast

Score: 0.0

The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story

Score: 0.0

Last Flight Out

Score: 0.0

Words from a Bear

Score: 0.0

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Legacy of a Dream

Score: 0.0

The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror

Score: 0.0

Percy & Thunder

Score: 0.0

The Hunting of the Snark

Score: 0.0

A House Divided

Score: 0.0

Gangs: Turning the Corner

Score: 0.0

11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried

Score: 0.0

The Space: Theatre of Survival

Score: 0.0

Who's in Rabbit's House?

Score: 0.0

Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

Score: 10.0

Long Ago and Far Away

Score: 9.0

House

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Reading Rainbow

Score: 8.3

Stargate SG-1

Score: 8.3

Faerie Tale Theatre

Score: 8.1

Homicide: Life on the Street

Score: 8.1

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

The Big Bang Theory

Score: 7.9

East Side/West Side

Score: 7.8

Jesus of Nazareth

Score: 7.8

Star Wars Rebels

Score: 7.7

Frasier

Score: 7.7

Everwood

Score: 7.6

3rd Rock from the Sun

Score: 7.5

Roots: The Next Generations

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

The Kennedy Center Honors

Score: 7.4

Two and a Half Men

Score: 7.4

Highway to Heaven

Score: 7.4

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Touched by an Angel

Score: 7.2

The Movies That Made Us

Score: 7.2

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

Score: 7.2

Sesame Street

Score: 7.1

L.A. Law

Score: 7.1

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Score: 7.0

Mathnet

Score: 7.0

The Magic of David Copperfield

Score: 7.0

Mathnet

Score: 7.0

Mathnet

Score: 7.0

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Score: 6.9

Merlin

Score: 6.9

Will & Grace

Score: 6.8

Gabriel's Fire

Score: 6.8

The Dick Cavett Show

Score: 6.8

Tarzan

Score: 6.7

Dinah!

Score: 6.7

According to Jim

Score: 6.5

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Score: 6.3

The Merv Griffin Show

Score: 6.2

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Score: 6.0

The Atlanta Child Murders

Score: 6.0

Pros and Cons

Score: 6.0

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

The Defenders

Score: 5.9

The Defenders

Score: 5.9

Great Performances

Score: 5.5

CBS Schoolbreak Special

Score: 5.5

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

Me & Mom

Score: 5.0

Paris

Score: 5.0

The One Show

Score: 4.6

Black Omnibus

Score: 0.0

Signs and Wonders

Score: 0.0

Lamp Unto My Feet

Score: 0.0

Vegetable Soup

Score: 0.0

Under One Roof

Score: 0.0