James Earl Jones - Wikipedia. James Earl Jones (born January 1. American actor. His career has spanned more than 6. Jones has won three Emmy Awards, including two in the same year in 1. Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in the film version of The Great White Hope. He is also known for his voice roles as Darth Vader in the Star Wars film series and Mufasa in Disney's The Lion King as well as many other film, stage, and television roles. Jones has been said to possess . In his episode of Biography, he said he overcame the affliction through poetry, public speaking, and acting, although it lasted for several years. A pre- medmajor in college, he went on to serve in the United States Army during the Korean War before pursuing a career in acting. On November 1. 2, 2. Honorary Academy Award. Jones was raised by his maternal grandparents, farmers John Henry and Maggie Connolly. His grandmother was of African- American, Cherokee and Choctaw ancestry. He found the transition to be traumatic, and developed a stutter so severe he refused to speak. Jones, James Earl, and Penelope Niven. James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences. New York: Scribner, 1993. User Contributions: Comment about this. Audiobook James Earl Jones Reads The Bible The New Testament King James Version by Topics Entertai. James Earl Jones and His Unmistakable Voice. Listen to James Earl Jones Reads The Bible Audiobook by Topics Entertainment, narrated by James Earl Jones. This report will be reviewed by Audible and we will. The KJV Complete Audio Holy Bible. When he moved to Brethren, Michigan, a teacher helped him overcome his stutter. He remained functionally mute for eight years, until he entered high school. He credits his English teacher, Donald Crouch, who discovered he had a gift for writing poetry, with helping him end his silence. So my first year of school was my first mute year, and then those mute years continued until I got to high school. 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. Instead he focused on drama at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance 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 1. As he waited for his orders, he worked as a part- time stage crew hand at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan, where he had earlier performed. Jones was commissioned in mid 1. Fort Benning to attend Infantry Officers Basic Course. He then attended Ranger School and received his Ranger Tab (although he stated during an interview on the BBC's The One Show, screened on November 1. 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. In 1. 95. 3 he was a stage carpenter. He performed his first portrayal of Shakespeare.
He has acted in many Shakespearean roles: Othello, King Lear, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Abhorson in Measure for Measure, and Claudius in Hamlet. Jones played Lennie on Broadway in the 1. Brooks Atkinson Theatre production of the adaptation of Steinbeck's novella, . He received Kennedy Center Honors in 2. On April 7, 2. 00. James Earl 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. This production also stars Sanaa Lathan as Maggie, Phylicia Rashad as Big Mamma, and Adrian Lester as Brick. In October 2. 01. Jones returned to the Broadway stage in Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy along with Vanessa Redgrave at the Golden Theatre. Earning Jones a Tony nomination for Best Performance in a Lead Role in a Play. The play also starred Angela Lansbury, John Larroquette (as candidate William Russell), Candice Bergen, Eric Mc. Cormack (as candidate Senator Joseph Cantwell), Jefferson Mays, Michael Mc. Kean and Kerry Butler, with direction by Michael Wilson. The play will have a limited run of 1. Lothar Zogg, the B- 5. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 1. In 1. 96. 7 Jones portrayed a surgeon and Haitian rebel leader in The Comedians. His first starring film role came with his portrayal of boxer Jack Jefferson in 1. The Great White Hope. For his role, Jones was nominated Best Actor by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, making him the second African- American male performer (following Sidney Poitier) to receive a nomination. Mertle in The Sandlot, King Jaffe Joffer in Coming to America, Reverend Stephen Kumalo in Cry, the Beloved Country, Raymond Lee Murdock in A Family Thing, and Vice Admiral James Greer in The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, among many other roles. Voice roles. 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 George Lucas. 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. When specifically asked whether he had supplied the voice, possibly from a previous recording, Jones told Newsday: . Archive recordings from the film would later be used for the English version of the 2. Kingdom Hearts II, since Jones himself did not reprise the role. He also voiced the Emperor of the Night in Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night and Ommadon in Flight of Dragons. In 1. 99. 0, Jones performed voice work for The Simpsons first . In 1. 99. 2, Jones was often seen as the host on the video monitor at Sea. World Orlando, in Florida, US. The opening for NBC's coverage of the 2. Summer Olympics; . He also appeared in television and radio advertising for Verizon Business DSL and Verizon Online DSL from Verizon Communications. Jones appeared in the 1. He appeared on the soap opera Guiding Light. He portrayed Thad Green on . As cited by production notes included in the DVD release Sesame Street: Old School 1. This and other segments featuring Jones were eventually aired as part of the Sesame Street series itself when it debuted later in 1. 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. First, he appeared on the short- lived CBS police drama Paris, which aired during autumn 1. That show was notable as the first program on which Steven Bochco served as executive producer. The second show aired on ABC between 1. 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 1. 99. 5, 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. From 1. 98. 9 to 1. Jones served as the host of the children's TV series Long Ago and Far Away. In 1. 99. 6, James guest starred in the CBS drama Touched by an Angel as the Angels of Angels in the episode . In 1. 99. 8, 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. He also made a cameo appearance in a penultimate episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and has guest- starred on such sitcoms as NBC's Frasier and Will & Grace, CBS's Two and a Half Men, and the WB drama Everwood. Jones also lent his voice for a narrative part in the Adam Sandler comedy Click, released in June 2. His voice is also used to create an audio version of the King James New Testament. In 2. 00. 9, Jones guest starred in the Fox medical drama House, M. D., in season 6, episode 4, entitled . The dictator had made threats of ethnic cleansing against an ethnic minority, the Sitibi, and the team deals with ethical issues of treating a potential mass murderer. In 2. 01. 3- 1. 4 he appeared alongside Malcolm Mc. Dowell in a series of commercials for Sprint in which the two recited mundane phone and text- message conversations in a dramatic way. He has been dealing with diabetes since the mid 1. Invokana to help manage it. Retrieved 1. 1 January 2. 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