James Earl Jones, who has died aged 93, was hailed in the 1960s as the most exciting presence in the American theatre since Marlon Brando and became the pre-eminent black stage actor of his ...

“I was a stutterer,” Jones said in a 2019 interview with The American ... Black actor to have a Broadway Theatre named in his honor when The Cort Theatre was rechristened as The James Earl ...

As many continue to react to veteran actor James Earl Jones’ death on September 9, 2024, we are learning more about his life and his impact on some of Black ... into the American Academy of ...

James. Earl. Jones. And with the utmost respect, we called you then, and still call you today, ‘The King of the American Theater.'” “When I was starting out, there were only two Black actors ...

Legendary actor James Earl ... Jones later earned his first Oscar nod, adapting "The Great White Hope" to the silver screen in 1970, playing boxer Jack Jefferson. Jones was just the second Black ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept 9 - American actor James ... co-stars. Earl and his second wife, actress Cecilia Hart, who died in 2016, had one child, Flynn Earl Jones. Jones was a trailblazing Black actor ...

By Reginald Dwayne Betts When James Earl Jones ... the “Great American Negro Hustler Generation,” alongside such figures as his onetime office neighbor Quincy Jones: “Young Black men ...

denouncement of American policies and Jim Crow and active participation in communist organizations. Fittingly, James Earl Jones went on to play Othello as momentously as Robeson, the first Black ...

In 1961, Jones performed in the American ... the first black heavyweight boxing champion. Jones was also nominated for an Academy Award for the 1970 film adaptation. James Earl Jones with his ...

The word epitomizes the gifts of a nonpareil American actor of stage and screen ... It’s a note that James Earl Jones took unforgettably to heart.

James Earl Jones would say, across the many years that he was asked about his role in Star Wars, that he recorded his original performance as Darth Vader in only a couple of hours. The voice is so ...

Jones’ rise to become one of the most-admired American ... ll take the Black one, too.’ That’s not what he actually said, but that’s the way I like to put it.” James Earl Jones and ...