Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

272

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-01-17

Deathday

2024-09-09 (93 years old)

Place of Birth

Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA

Also Known As

James Earl Boggins Jones
Todd Jones
Jimmy
جیمز ارل جونز

James Earl Jones

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.

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Acting

2024		BET News & ET Present James Earl Jones: Life and Legacy as Self (archive footage)
2024		Butterfly in the Sky as Guest Narrator (archive footage)

2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi as Darth Vader (voice)

2021		Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street as Self (archive footage)
2021		Coming 2 America as King Jaffe Joffer

2019		Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as Darth Vader (voice)
2019		The Movies That Made Us as Self (archive footage)
2019		On Broadway as Self (archive footage)
2019		Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage as Self
2019		The Lion King as Mufasa (voice)
2019		The Space: Theatre of Survival as Narrator
2019		Words from a Bear as Self

2018

Warning Shot as Pendleton

2017		Broadway: The Next Generation as Self
2017		The Lion Guard: Life In The Pride Lands as Mufasa (voice)

2016		Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as Darth Vader (voice)
2016		God Bless You, Mr Rosewater as Kilgore Trout
2016		The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar as Mufasa (voice)

2015		Driving Miss Daisy as Hoke Colburn
2015		Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal as Darth Vader (voice)
2015		August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand as Self

2014		Star Wars Rebels as Darth Vader (voice)
2014		Star Wars Rebels as Anakin Skywalker (voice)
2014		Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion as Darth Vader (voice)
2014		The Angriest Man in Brooklyn as Ruben

2013		Gimme Shelter as Frank McCarthy
2013		Muse of Fire as Self
2013		Blackfish as Self (archive footage)
2013		Milius as Self

2012		An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road as Self
2012		Joe Papp in Five Acts as Self

2010

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey as Admiral (voice)

2009		Jack and the Beanstalk as The Giant (voice)
2009		Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self (archive footage)

2008

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins as Papa Jenkins

2007		Earth as Narrator (voice)
2007		The Big Bang Theory as Self
2007		Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson as Self
2007		John, Paul, George and Ben as Narrator

2006		Searching for Orson as Self
2006		The One Show as Self - Guest
2006		Click as Narrator of Michael's Past (voice) (uncredited)
2006		The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Jack Jefferson (segment "The Great White Hope") / Troy Maxson (segment "Fences")
2006		Scary Movie 4 as Narrator (uncredited)
2006		The Benchwarmers as Darth Vader (voice)

2005		Hollywood's Greatest Villains as Self
2005		The Sandlot 2 as Mr. Mertle
2005		The Reading Room as William
2005		Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith as Darth Vader (voice - uncredited)
2005		Robots as Voice Box at Hardware Store (voice)
2005		By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' as Narrator

2004		House as Dibala
2004		No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat as Self
2004		Nine Dog Christmas as Storyteller (voice)
2004		Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy as Self
2004		The Story of Star Wars as Darth Vader (archive footage)
2004		Black Indians: An American Story as Narrator

2003		The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror as Maggie Simpson (voice)
2003		Two and a Half Men as Himself
2003		The Great Year as Narrator
2003		Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'The Hunt for Red October' as Self

2002		The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
2002		Everwood as Will Cleveland
2002		Fredericksburg: A Documentary Film as Narrator

2001		Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World as Self
2001		Feast of All Saints as Older Marcel
2001		Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street as Mister (voice)
2001		According to Jim as Royal Flush Voice (voice)
2001		Finder's Fee as Avery Phillips
2001		Disney's American Legends as Narrator

2000		Antietam: A Documentary Film as Narrator
2000		Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' as Self
2000		Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' as Self - 'Lieutenant Lothar Zogg'
2000		Summer's End as Dr. William 'Bill' Blakely
2000		The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove as Self
2000		Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000		Fantasia 2000 as Self - Host

1999		Santa and Pete as James Earl Jones
1999		The Annihilation of Fish as Fish
1999		Undercover Angel as The Judge
1999		On the Q.T. as Leo
1999		Our Friend, Martin as Daddy King (voice)

1998		The Lion King II: Simba's Pride as Mufasa (voice)
1998		Will & Grace as Self
1998		AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self
1998		Merlin as Rock of Ages
1998		Primary Colors as CNN Voiceover (voice)

1997		Alone as Grey
1997		The Second Civil War as Jim Kalla
1997		What the Deaf Man Heard as Archibald Thacker
1997		Gang Related as Arthur Baylor
1997		Hitler's Forgotten Victims as Narrator (voice) (DVD version)
1997		Casper: A Spirited Beginning as Kibosh (voice)
1997		Stargate SG-1 as Unas (Voice)
1997		Sports on the Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
1997		The Second Civil War as Jim Kalla
1997		Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery as Self
1997		Afro Promo as Self (archive footage)

1996		Timepiece as Lawrence
1996		Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault as Dr. McDuffie
1996		Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
1996		Corwin as Self
1996		A Family Thing as Ray Murdock
1996		3rd Rock from the Sun as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1995		Cry, the Beloved Country as Rev. Stephen Kumalo
1995		Who's in Rabbit's House? as Narrator (voice)
1995		Judge Dredd as Narrator (uncredited)
1995		The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self
1995		The Making of 'Jurassic Park' as Host
1995		Jefferson in Paris as Madison Hemings
1995		Under One Roof as Neb Langston
1995		Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as King Dakkar (voice)
1995		Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable as Mufasa (voice)
1995		Signs and Wonders as Diamond
1995		People: A Musical Celebration as The Storyteller (voice)

1994		Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' as Narrator
1994		Touched by an Angel as The Angel of Angels
1994		Clear and Present Danger as Admiral James Greer
1994		The Making of the Lion King as Self
1994		The Lion King as Mufasa (voice)
1994		The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics as Host
1994		Clean Slate as John Dolby
1994		Africa: The Serengeti as Narrator
1994		Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult as James Earl Jones (uncredited)
1994		Gangs: Turning the Corner as Self
1994		Confessions: Two Faces of Evil as Charles Lloyd
1994		The Vernon Johns Story as Vernon Johns

1993		Hallelujah as Old Man Taylor
1993		Dangerous: The Short Films as Self (voice) (uncredited)
1993		Frasier as Norman Royster
1993		Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Franklin Stern
1993		Percy & Thunder as Percy Banks
1993		The Meteor Man as Earnest Moses
1993		Dreamrider as Bill Perry
1993		Excessive Force as Jake
1993		The Sandlot as Mr. Mertle
1993		Sommersby as Judge Barry Conrad Issacs
1993		Homicide: Life on the Street

1992		Lincoln as Narrator (voice)
1992		Sneakers as Mr. Bernard Abbott
1992		Patriot Games as Adm. James Greer
1992		Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (Voice)

1991		Pros and Cons as Gabriel Bird
1991		True Identity as James Earl Jones
1991		When It Was a Game as (voice)
1991		Scorchers as Bear
1991		Portrait of Castro's Cuba as Host/Narrator
1991		Visitors from the Unknown as Narrator (voice)
1991		Convicts as Ben Johnson

1990		Grim Prairie Tales as Morrison
1990		Law & Order as Defense Attorney Horace McCoy
1990		Gabriel's Fire as Gabriel Bird
1990		Ivory Hunters as Inspector Nkuru
1990		Heat Wave as Junius Johnson
1990		Last Flight Out as Al Topping
1990		By Dawn's Early Light as Alice
1990		The Ambulance as Lt. Spencer
1990		The Hunt for Red October as Vice ADM James Greer
1990		Terrorgram as Retribution (voice)
1990		Teach 109 as Dr. Winston

1989		The Simpsons as Narrator (voice)
1989		The Simpsons as Moving Man / Serak the Preparer / Narrator (voice)
1989		The Simpsons as Maggie Simpson (voice)
1989		11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried as Narrator
1989		Best of the Best as Frank Couzo
1989		Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast as Narrator (voice)
1989		Field of Dreams as Terrence Mann
1989		Long Ago and Far Away as Host
1989		Three Fugitives as Dugan
1989		Stories to Remember: Noah's Ark as Narrator
1989		The Hunting of the Snark as Narrator (voice)

1988		Coming to America as King Jaffe Joffer
1988		Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues as Narrator (voice)

1987		Matewan as 'Few Clothes' Johnson
1987		Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night as Emperor of the Night (voice)
1987		Gardens of Stone as Sgt. Maj.'Goody' Nelson
1987		A House Divided
1987		Mathnet as Chief Thad Green (voice)
1987		Mathnet as Chief Thad Green
1987		Mathnet as Chief Thad Greene

1986		Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold as Umslopogaas
1986		Soul Man as Professor Banks
1986		L.A. Law as Lee Atkins
1986		My Little Girl as Ike Bailey
1986		Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp as Genie / Narrator
1986		The Lone Star Kid as Holmes

1985		Moses as Pharaoh
1985		City Limits as Albert
1985		Me & Mom
1985		Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1985		The Atlanta Child Murders as Major Walker
1985		Visual Pathfinders: Robert Abel & Associates

1984		The Vegas Strip War as Jack Madrid
1984		Highway to Heaven as Gabe Wilson
1984		CBS Schoolbreak Special as Detective Robb
1984		Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears as Narrator

1983		Reading Rainbow as Himself - Narrator (voice)
1983		Return of the Jedi as Darth Vader (voice)

1982		Blood Tide as Frye
1982		Amy and the Angel as Gabriel
1982		Faerie Tale Theatre as Genie / Narrator (voice)
1982		The Flight of Dragons as Ommadon (voice)
1982		Conan the Barbarian as Thulsa Doom
1982		Night of 100 Stars as Self

1981		The Creation as Narrator (voice)
1981		The Bushido Blade as The Prisoner
1981		There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues as himself, voice
1981		Beauty and the Beast as Narrator (voice)
1981		God's Trombones as Himself - Narrator (segment "The Creation")

1980		The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story as Dane Oliver
1980		The Empire Strikes Back as Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited)
1980		The Me Nobody Knows as Self
1980		Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones as Father Divine

1979		Paris as Woody Paris
1979		A Walking Tour of Sesame Street as Self - Host
1979		Roots: The Next Generations as Alex Haley
1979		Paul Robeson as Paul Robeson

1978		Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement as Self
1978		The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
1978		The Star Wars Holiday Special as Darth Vader (voice)
1978		The Magic of David Copperfield

1977		The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened as Morris Bird, Jr.
1977		A Piece of the Action as Joshua Burke
1977		The Making of Star Wars as Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited)
1977		Exorcist II: The Heretic as Older Kokumo
1977		The Last Remake of Beau Geste as Sheikh
1977		Star Wars as Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited)
1977		The Greatest as Malcolm X
1977		Jesus of Nazareth as Balthazar

1976		Swashbuckler as Nick Debrett
1976		The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings as Leon
1976		The River Niger as Johnny Williams

1975		Deadly Hero as Rabbit Shazam
1975		The UFO Incident as Barney Hill
1975		Vegetable Soup as Long John Spoilsport

1974		The Cay as Timothy
1974		Dinah! as Self
1974		Claudine as Rupert D. "Roop" Marshall
1974		King Lear as King Lear

1973		The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
1973		Black Omnibus as Self - Host

1972		The Man as Douglass Dilman
1972		Malcolm X as Biographical Narration (voice)

1971		Martin Luther King, Jr.: Legacy of a Dream as Narrator
1971		Great Performances as King Lear

1970		The Great White Hope as Jack Jefferson
1970		King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)
1970		End of the Road as Doctor D

1969

Sesame Street

1968		Film Night
1968		The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1967

The Comedians as Dr. Magiot

1966

Tarzan

1964

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as Lt. Lothar Zogg

1963

East Side/West Side

1962		The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962		The Merv Griffin Show as Self

1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
1961		Dr. Kildare as Dr. Lou Rush
1961		The Defenders as Lieutenant Andrews
1961		The Defenders as Reverend Harris Bonham

1956		Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1956		Tony Awards as Self - Winner/ Performer
1956		Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1956		Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1956		Tony Awards as Self - Nominee/Presenter
1956		Tony Awards as Self (archive footage)
1956		Tony Awards as Self - Winner/Performer

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Archibald Thacker

1948

Lamp Unto My Feet

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee/Presenter

Crew

2024

Mufasa: The Lion King as In Memory Of