James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is a multi-award-winning American actor of theater and film, well known for his distinctive bass voice and for his portrayal of characters of substance, gravitas and leadership. He is known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise and the tagline for CNN. James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, the son of Ruth (née Connolly) and Robert Earl Jones. At the age of five, he moved to Jackson, Michigan, to be raised by his maternal grandparents, but the adoption was traumatic and he developed a stutter so severe he refused to speak aloud. When he moved to Brethren, Michigan in later years a teacher at the Brethren schools started to help him with his stutter. He remained functionally mute for eight years until he reached high school. He credits his high school teacher, Donald Crouch, who discovered he had a gift for writing poetry, with helping him out of his silence. Jones attended the University of Michigan where he was a pre-med major. While there, he joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps, and excelled. During the course of his studies, Jones discovered he was not cut out to be a doctor. Instead he focused himself on drama, 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 left without his degree. In 1953 he found a part-time stage crew job at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan, which marked the beginning of his acting career. During the 1955–1957 seasons he was an actor and stage manager. He performed his first portrayal of Shakespeare’s Othello in this theater in 1955. After his discharge from the Military, Jones moved to New York, where he attended the American Theatre Wing to further his training and worked as a janitor to earn a living. His first film role was as a young and trim Lt. Lothar Zogg, the B-52 bombardier in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 1964. His first big role came with his portrayal of boxer Jack Jefferson in the film version of the Broadway play The Great White Hope, which was based on the life of boxer Jack Johnson. 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. In 1969, Jones participated in making test films for a proposed children’s television series; these shorts, combined with animated segments were the beginnings of the Sesame Street format. The next year, in the early 1970s, James appeared with Diahann Carroll in the film called Claudine. While he has appeared in many roles, he is well known as the voice of Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy. Darth Vader was portrayed in costume by David Prowse in the original trilogy, with Jones dubbing Vader’s dialogue in postproduction due to Prowse’s strong West Country accent being unsuitable for the role. At his own request, he was originally uncredited for the release of the first two films (he would later be credited for the two in the 1997 re-release).  His other voice roles include Mufasa in the 1994 film Disney animated blockbuster The Lion King, and its direct-to-video sequel, The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride. He also has done the CNN tagline, “This is CNN”, as well as “This is CNN International”, and the Bell Atlantic tagline, “Bell Atlantic: The heart of communication”. When Bell Atlantic became Verizon, Jones used the tagline greeting of “Welcome to Verizon” or “Verizon 411” right before a phone call would go through. The opening for NBC’s coverage of the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics; “the Big PI in the Sky” (God) in the computer game Under a Killing Moon; a Claymation film about The Creation; and several guest spots on The Simpsons. In addition to his film and voice over work, Jones is an accomplished stage actor as well; he has won Tony awards in 1969 for The Great White Hope and in 1987 for Fences. Othello, King Lear, Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Abhorson in Measure for Measure, and Claudius in Hamlet are Shakespearean roles he has played. He received Kennedy Center Honors in 2002. Jones has been married to actress Cecilia Hart since 1982. They have one child, Flynn Earl Jones. He was previously married to American actress/singer Julienne Marie (born March 21, 1933, Toledo, Ohio); they had no children. Jones is a registered Republican.
James Earl Jones Biography / Wiki
| Name | James Earl Jones |
| Also Know | James Earl Boggins Jones, Todd Jones |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1931-01-17 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 91 |
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James Earl Jones Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Flight of Dragons | Ommadon | 1982-08-17 | The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so Carolinus, the green wizard decides to shield it for all time. Ommadon, the evil red … |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Rev. Stephen Kumalo | 1995-12-15 | A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city…. |
| Africa: The Serengeti | Narrator | 1994-03-31 | Africa the Serengeti takes you on an extraordinary journey to view a spectacle few humans have ever witnessed: The Great Migration. Journey with more … |
| Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics | Host | 1994-05-19 | James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original ‘The Twilight Zone’ (1959) series… |
| The Reading Room | 2005-11-04 | Making good on a promise he made to his dying wife, a widower (Jones) opens a reading room, a place where people can learn to read. Despite his goodwi… | |
| Grim Prairie Tales | Morrison | 1990-09-14 | Two travelers meet on the open prairie, and pass their time together by trading stories with each other. Their tales become a sort of competition, eac… |
| Nine Dog Christmas | Narrator | 2004-10-05 | Animated tale about Santa’s reindeer, who have come down with the North Pole flu. Nearsighted elf leader Buzz thinks he’s found the perfect replacemen… |
| The Sandlot 2 | Mr. Mertle | 2005-05-03 | A decade has passed in the small town where the original Sandlot gang banded together during the summer of ’62 to play baseball and battle the Beast… |
| The River Niger | Johnny Williams | 1976-04-14 | An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support… |
| Blood Tide | Frye | 1982-09-01 | An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins…. |
| The UFO Incident | Barney Hill | 1975-10-20 | In the early 1960s, an interracial couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were … |
| Summer’s End | Dr. William ‘Bill’ Blakely | 2000-04-18 | 12-year-old boy and his older brother have just lost their dad. At their summer cottage, the younger boy befriends a black doctor who has to deal with… |
| The Making of ‘Jurassic Park’ | Host | 1995-05-09 | This documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Jurassic Park, one of the 90’s biggest hits and a milestone in special … |
| My Little Girl | Ike Bailey | 1986-08-31 | A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can’t stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and t… |
| The Great Year | Narrator | 2003-08-01 | The Great Year is a compelling documentary that explores the possibility that the fall of ancient civilizations around the globe, and the rise of mode… |
| Black Indians: An American Story | Narrator | 2004-01-01 | James Earl Jones narrates this examination of the historical relationship between American Indians and African-Americans, who often merged their cultu… |
| The Vernon Johns Story | Vernon Johns | 1994-01-15 | In 1948, Johns served as the outspoken spiritual leader of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Incensed at the racial injustice t… |
| The Cay | Timothy | 1974-10-24 | When Young Phillip is separated form his mother and found by a black man named Timothy and his cat Stewcat, Phillip becomes blind and they all end up … |
| The Man | Douglass Dilman | 1972-07-19 | When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, S… |
| The Creation | Narrator | 1981-01-01 | Animated short film that was nominated for an Oscar. Narrated by James Earl Jones!… |
| The Great White Hope | Jack Jefferson | 1970-10-11 | A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down…. |
| By Any Means Necessary: The Making of Malcolm X | Narrator | 2005-02-08 | A short documentary about the making of Spike Lee’s biopic, ‘Malcolm X’…. |
| Stories to Remember: Noah’s Ark | Narrator | 1989-01-01 | Embark on one of the greatest adventures of all time–presented by one of the screen’s most eloquent voices–as James Earl Jones narrates this beautif… |
| The Annihilation of Fish | Fish | 1999-01-01 | A woman who believes a dead composer is in love with her falls in love with a man who constantly fights an imaginary man named Hank…. |
| Malcolm X | Biographical Narration (voice) | 1972-05-24 | James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources…. |
| Terrorgram | Retribution (voice) | 1988-08-08 | Three horror stories linked by a sinister delivery boy. The stories are “Heroine Overdose”, “Pandora” and “Veteran’s Day”…. |
| King Lear | King Lear | 1974-02-20 | James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch who insists that his three daughters prove their lo… |
| John, Paul, George and Ben | Narrator | 2007-01-05 | This humorous and factual history of five lads who grew up to become Founding Fathers brings the early days of American history to life with sass and … |
| God’s Trombones | Himself – Narrator (segment “The Creation”) | 1981-01-01 | A trilogy of African-American poems that applies artistic interpretation to religious parables. Narrated by James Earl Jones…. |
| Visual Pathfinders: Robert Abel & Associates | 1985-01-01 | A retrospective of the work of Robert Abel and Associates, a pioneering commercial computer graphics company that created some of the most iconic earl… | |
| Paul Robeson | Paul Robeson | 1979-01-08 | Major events in the life of Robeson are recounted in this solo performance…. |
| The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove | Himself | 2000-04-10 | A documentary about the making of Stanley Kubricks 1964 film Dr Strangelove Or: How I Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and his career leading up to thi… |
| The Me Nobody Knows | Self | 1980-05-18 | Complex, introspective children in low-income neighborhoods of New York City tell their stories…. |
| Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears | Narrator | 1984-01-01 | An adaptation of the book by Verna Aardema… |
| Hallelujah | Old Man Taylor | 1993-12-22 | Christmas at the Messiah Church in Washington D.C. A young preacher and, later in the day, a mysterious pregnant girl arrive at the church doors looki… |
| Antietam: A Documentary Film | Narrator | 2000-12-03 | Re-enactments illustrate the details of the three principle stages of the battle of Antietam, fought November 17th, 1862. Also features animated tacti… |
| Fredericksburg: A Documentary Film | Narrator | 2002-01-01 | An action-packed, full hour documentary, filmed on the actual battlefield…. |
| Portrait of Castro’s Cuba | Host/Narrator | 1991-04-07 | Host/narrator James Earl Jones explores the island of Cuba, introduces the viewer to the Cuban people and discusses the uncertainty of the country’s f… |
| A Walking Tour of Sesame Street | Himself | 1979-03-01 | Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of S… |
| Who’s in Rabbit’s House? | Narrator (voice) | 1995-09-21 | Adapted from a Masai folktale about a rabbit who can’t get into her house because the Long One, who “eats trees and tramples on elephants, ” is hiding… |
| The Space: Theatre of Survival | Narrator | 2019-06-07 | When everything about you falls one man decides that theatre is the key, and the way to begin to unify a people. A film about the life and times of Th… |
| A House Divided | 1987-02-06 | A House Divided – Documentary about desegregation hosted by actor James Earl Jones. A House Divided explores the history of desegregation through the… | |
| The Hunting of the Snark | Narrator (voice) | 1989-01-01 | Enter the imaginative world of Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, in this animated adaptation of his classic The Hunting of the Snark. In t… |
| Percy & Thunder | Percy Banks | 1993-09-07 | A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé…. |
| Matewan | ‘Few Clothes’ Johnson | 1987-08-28 | Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, “Matewan” celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Keneh… |
| The Lion King | King Mufasa (voice) | 1994-06-23 | A young lion prince is cast out of his pride by his cruel uncle, who claims he killed his father. While the uncle rules with an iron paw, the prince g… |
| Conan the Barbarian | Thulsa Doom | 1982-04-02 | A film adaptation of the classic sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian. A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and en… |
| Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins | Papa Jenkins | 2008-02-08 | When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!… |
| Swashbuckler | Nick Debrett | 1976-07-29 | A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant…. |
| The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings | Leon Carter | 1976-07-16 | Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team’s owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormer… |
| Rebound: The Legend of Earl ‘The Goat’ Manigault | Dr. McDuffie | 1996-01-01 | A dramatization of the life of Earl ‘The Goat’ Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison… |
| Santa and Pete | James Earl Jones | 1999-12-05 | This warmhearted Yuletide tale tells the story of Grandpa Nichols (James Earl Jones) who is spending his first Christmas alone as a widower. His grand… |
| Claudine | Rupert D. “Roop” Marshall | 1974-04-22 | Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one c… |
| End of the Road | Doctor D | 1970-02-10 | After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner is taken to “The Farm”…… |
| Driving Miss Daisy | Hoke Colburn | 2015-06-04 | Driving Miss Daisy tells the affecting story of the decades-long relationship between a stubborn Southern matriarch and her compassionate chauffeur. A… |
| A Family Thing | Ray Murdock | 1996-03-29 | Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mothe… |
| Alone | Grey | 1997-12-21 | John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, a… |
| Lincoln | Narrator (voice) | 1992-12-26 | Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War…. |
| Last Flight Out | Al Topping | 1990-05-22 | Fact based story set in Saigon in April, 1975 shortly after the US combat troops have withdrawn and immediately before the Communist forces over run t… |
| Confessions: Two Faces of Evil | Charles Lloyd | 1994-01-17 | Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an investigato… |
| Afro Promo | Himself (archive footage) | 1997-01-31 | A series of thirty-two trailers put together to illustrate the film industry’s attitude to and packaging of African-American screen imagery…. |
| The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened | Morris Bird, Jr. | 1977-10-26 | Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia…. |
| The Lion Guard: Life In The Pride Lands | Mufasa | 2017-01-10 | Rough, tough and roarin’ to go, your favorite heroes are back for even more epic adventures! Join Kion and his fearless friends as they defend the Pri… |
| Visitors from the Unknown | Narrator | 1991-03-25 | A look at the Travis Walton abduction… |
| On the Q.T. | Leo | 1999-04-01 | A struggling violin player has his morals tested after he meets a wise musician while playing in the subway who introduces him to the music world in N… |
| The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Jack Jefferson (segment “The Great White Hope”) / Troy Maxson (segment “Fences”) | 2006-05-02 | The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway’s brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro… |
| Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson | Self | 2007-01-31 | A retrospective look at the career of Paul Robeson and his legacy as both an American and a citizen of the world…. |
| Earth | Narrator | 2007-04-22 | From the acclaimed team that brought you BBC’s visual feast “Planet Earth,” this feature length film incorporates some of the same footage from the se… |
| By Dawn’s Early Light | Looking Glass General – ‘Alice’ | 1990-05-19 | A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race… |
| The Sandlot | Mr. Mertle | 1993-04-07 | During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confront… |
| Excessive Force | Jake | 1993-05-14 | Chicago policeman Terry McCain is determined to put away mobster Sal DiMarco, who always gets acquitted on technicalities. While monitoring a drug sal… |
| Coming to America | King Jaffe Joffer | 1988-06-29 | An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess… and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disgui… |
| Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold | Umslopogaas | 1986-12-17 | After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary ‘white tribe’, Allan Quatermain decides to follow… |
| Gardens of Stone | Sgt. Maj.’Goody’ Nelson | 1987-05-05 | A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers … |
| A Piece of the Action | Joshua Burke | 1977-10-07 | How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follo… |
| Scorchers | Bear | 1991-07-07 | Bayou La Teche, Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and Dolan. The trouble comes on the wedding night when Splendid… |
| Clean Slate | John Dolby | 1994-05-06 | Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a ‘blank slate’. Since he is in the middle… |
| Timepiece | Lawrence | 1996-12-22 | Set in the 1940’s, James Earl Jones as an an old clockmaker faces racism and is tried for murder when the racist is killed. However, Kevin Kilner come… |
| Convicts | Ben Johnson | 1991-01-01 | Texas writer Horton Foote’s touching story set in 1902 features Robert Duvall as Sol, the hardened boss of a sugar plantation who unwittingly becomes … |
| Deadly Hero | Rabbit Shazam | 1975-12-14 | Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tend… |
| The Ambulance | Lt. Spencer | 1990-03-22 | Josh meets a young woman who shortly afterwards collapses and is rushed to hospital in an ambulance. He follows after her only to find that there is n… |
| The Vegas Strip War | Jack Madrid | 1984-11-25 | Neil Chaine, a charming Las Vegas hotel/casino owner, tries to turn his decaying building into the Strip’s top attraction to avenge his outing by his … |
| Best of the Best | Frank Couzo | 1989-11-10 | A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country–… |
| Ivory Hunters | Inspector Nkuru | 1990-08-20 | Ruthless elephant killers are confronted by determined conservationists…. |
| Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal | Darth Vader (voice) | 2015-04-18 | The Ghost crew and their allies face Darth Vader for the first time and Ahsoka Tano discovers the true identity of Darth Vader…. |
| The Lion King | Mufasa (voice) | 2019-07-12 | Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub’s arrival. Sc… |
| Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp | Genie / Narrator | 1986-07-14 | Based on the story “Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp”, directed by Tim Burton and starring Robert Carradine…. |
| Inside: ‘Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’ | Himself – ‘Lieutenant Lothar Zogg’ | 2000-05-05 | A documentary on the making of Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1964 film…. |
| An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road | Self | 2012-10-10 | Documentary about the 1970 film, “End of The Road.”… |
| People: A Musical Celebration | The Storyteller (voice) | 1995-01-01 | In how many wonderful ways are we different from each other’ What if the world were to rejoice in our differences’ Cara and her lovable Grandfather (H… |
| Sommersby | Judge Barry Conrad Issacs | 1993-02-05 | Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By al… |
| Three Fugitives | Dugan | 1989-01-27 | On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else’s robbery. Perry has decide… |
| Soul Man | Professor Banks | 1986-10-24 | A caucasian prospective grad student’s affluent family won’t pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to … |
| Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night | Emperor of the Night (voice) | 1987-08-06 | Pinocchio and his friends, a glow worm and a marionette, search for a magic music box, putting them in danger from the evil Scalawag and the Emperor o… |
| True Identity | Himself | 1991-07-23 | In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man…. |
| What the Deaf Man Heard | Archibald Thacker | 1997-11-23 | In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone beco… |
| The Second Civil War | Jim Kalla | 1997-03-15 | When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the sta… |
| City Limits | Albert | 1984-01-01 | A series of teenage gangs struggle against each other in a not-so-distant future. Eventually they united against an evil corporation, as represented b… |
| Heat Wave | Junius Johnson | 1990-08-13 | A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965…. |
| Teach 109 | Dr. Winston | 1990-01-01 | In the future, surgeons practice their skill on androids designed to imitate patients, but Dr. Garrett sees this as pointless since she cares little a… |
| Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable | Mufasa (voice) | 1995-01-21 | Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King are chopping down trees and clogging up rivers to build the Hakuna Matata Lakeside Village. Simba comes to them an… |
| Muhammad Ali – Through The Eyes Of The World | 2001-11-19 | “This is a kid who just said it. I’m the greatest – and he said it with poetry. And I don’t mean just the poems that he wrote but with the poetic ener… | |
| The Story of Star Wars | Darth Vader (archive footage) | 2004-08-18 | The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the characters who witnessed i… |
| The Lone Star Kid | Holmes | 1986-02-10 | The Lone Star Kid is about a compassionate eleven year old boy who becomes mayor of a small town when he witnesses an accident and a death due to lack… |
| Hollywood’s Greatest Villains | Self – Interviewee | 2005-12-01 | Hollywood’s Greatest Villains… |
| Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement | Self | 1978-12-31 | This documentary explores the growth and development of black theatre from its earliest roots, also examining its close ties with the civil rights mov… |
| Joe Papp in Five Acts | 2012-04-30 | Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North Americ… | |
| The Hunt for Red October | Admiral James Greer | 1990-03-02 | A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The Ameri… |
| Finder’s Fee | Avery Phillips | 2001-01-01 | After finding a wallet in the street tepper calls the owner in order to return it. After making the call he discovers that the lottery ticket inside i… |
| The Meteor Man | Earnest Moses | 1993-08-06 | One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he’s scared of heights. He can master the informatio… |
| Disney’s American Legends | Narrator | 2001-02-12 | Meet the doers and dreamers who made America great — including John Henry, the railroad builder who proved the value of believing in oneself. Journey… |
| Gang Related | Arthur Baylor | 1997-10-08 | Two corrupt cops have a successful, seemingly perfect money making scheme- they sell drugs that they seize from dealers, kill the dealers, and blame t… |
| Fantasia 2000 | Self – Host | 1999-12-31 | Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original ‘Fantasia’ restores ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ and adds seven new shorts…. |
| The Last Remake of Beau Geste | Sheikh | 1977-06-15 | Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom…. |
| Conan Unchained: The Making of ‘Conan’ | Self | 2000-01-01 | Nearly all the cast and crew are on hand to give stories and memories about the making of the film. Plenty of detail on every aspect of the film from … |
| Gimme Shelter | Frank McCarthy | 2013-10-17 | After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she’s pregnant…. |
| The Angriest Man in Brooklyn | Ruben | 2014-05-23 | After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make am… |
| August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | Unprecedented access to Wilson’s theatrical archives, rarely seen interviews and new dramatic readings bring to life his seminal 10-play cycle chron… | |
| Beneath the Surface: The Making of ‘The Hunt for Red October’ | Self | 2003-05-06 | This program features the standard mix of movie clips, production materials, and interviews. Cast and crew start at the beginning and discussed the ac… |
| Warning Shot | Pendleton | 2018-09-14 | A single mother and her young daughter struggle to make ends meet until they inherit their family’s farmhouse. When a business rival covets their wate… |
| Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street | Mister (voice) | 2001-11-06 | Principal Prickly gets his car stuck in a snowbank and decides it has to be the Recess gang’s fault, but the teachers look back and remember all the g… |
| Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light | 2000-02-02 | Actor/director Sidney Poitier discusses his life and career. He tells of his upbringing in Jamaica; the difficulties he encountered in New York City a… | |
| The Story of the Faithful Wookiee | Darth Vader (voice) | 1978-11-17 | Originally apart of The Star Wars Holiday Special, this animated story follows Chewbacca as he searches for a cure to the virus which knocked out his … |
| Field of Dreams | Terrence Mann | 1989-04-21 | Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice’s direct… |
| Exorcist II: The Heretic | Older Kokumo | 1977-06-17 | Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and kn… |
| No Fighting in the War Room Or: Dr Strangelove and the Nuclear Threat | Himself | 2004-10-28 | A documentary exploring the historical concept of the narrative of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and … |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Lt. Lothar Zogg | 1964-01-29 | After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diploma… |
| Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey | Admiral (voice) | 2012-12-02 | Dave, a young photon, who is forced out of the Sun on a journey of discovery. He must get to the Cassini Space Craft and save it from the forces of th… |
| Un vrai petit Ange | The Judge | 1999-05-16 | With his landlord breathing down his neck and his writing career stagnant, the last thing Harrison Tyler (Dean Winters) needs is a kid hanging around…. |
| The Star Wars Holiday Special | Darth Vader (voice) | 1978-12-01 | Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet – in time for Life Day, the… |
| Searching for Orson | Himself | 2006-11-02 | Narrated by Peter Bogdanovich, this biography of Orson Welles includes the emotional memoirs of actress Oja Kodar and interviews with Steven Spielberg… |
| The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride | Mufasa (voice) | 1998-10-24 | The circle of life continues for Simba, now fully grown and in his rightful place as the king of Pride Rock. Simba and Nala have given birth to a daug… |
| Jefferson in Paris | Madison Hemings | 1995-03-31 | His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult… |
| Sneakers | NSA Agent Bernard Abbott | 1992-09-09 | When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking ‘b… |
| Patriot Games | Adm. James Greer | 1992-06-04 | When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge…. |
| Feast of All Saints | Older Marcel | 2001-11-11 | Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught b… |
| There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues | himself, voice | 1981-04-03 | Chronicles the history of Negro Leagues baseball by using rare historical footage and interviews with black baseball greats…. |
| The Making of the Lion King | Self | 1994-06-24 | A behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Lion King…. |
| Return of the Jedi | Voice of Darth Vader (voice) | 1983-05-25 | Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion onc… |
| The Comedians | Dr. Magiot | 1967-10-31 | American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti…. |
| Looking for Richard | Himself/Interview | 1996-10-11 | Al Pacino’s deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare’s significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of “Ric… |
| Our Friend, Martin | Daddy King (voice) | 1999-01-12 | Two teens are sent back in time to meet Martin Luther King Jr. at several points during his life…. |
| Star Wars | Darth Vader (voice) | 1977-05-25 | Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker an… |
| Coming 2 America | King Jaffe Joffer | 2021-03-04 | Prince Akeem Joffer is set to become King of Zamunda when he discovers he has a son he never knew about in America – a street savvy Queens native na… |
| The Bushido Blade | The Prisoner | 1981-06-19 | A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sen… |
| The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story | Dane Oliver | 1980-05-25 | An American athlete and a Russian gymnast meet just before the Moscow Olympics and fall in love…. |
| The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar | Mufasa (voice) | 2015-11-22 | Set in the African savannah, the film follows Kion as he assembles the members of the ‘Lion Guard’. Throughout the film, the diverse team of young ani… |
| The Making of Star Wars | Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited) | 1977-09-16 | Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary hosted… |
| Michael Jackson – Dangerous – The Short Films | Himself (Superbowl Heal The World) Voice | 1993-09-28 | Michael Jackson’s Dangerous album once again rocketed the global superstar to mega-platinum success! “Dangerous – The Short Films” captures the visual… |
| Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage | Himself | 2019-09-13 | Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from his native Puerto Rico … |
| Casper: A Spirited Beginning | Kibosh (voice) | 1997-09-09 | A prequel to the first animated/live-action Casper feature, Casper: A Spirited Beginning introduces the friendliest ghost you’ll ever know and explain… |
| Milius | Himself | 2013-03-09 | The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of his generation…. |
| Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery | Self | 1997-02-06 | Host Howie Long takes viewers on a tour of the “Star Wars” universe, as Fox TV celebrates the re-release of the original three legendary films in this… |
| Clear and Present Danger | Admiral James Greer | 1994-08-03 | CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel…. |
| The Greatest | Malcolm X | 1977-05-17 | The Greatest is a 1977 film about the life of boxer Muhammad Ali, in which Ali plays himself. It was directed by Tom Gries and Monte Hellman. The song… |
| The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | Self | 1995-06-05 | Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write… |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | The Giant (voice) | 2009-11-06 | A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his fath… |
| Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street | Self (Archival Footage) | 2021-04-23 | Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most influential children’s show in television history. From the iconic furry characters… |
| Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy | Himself | 2004-09-12 | From the earliest versions of the script to the blockbuster debuts, explore the creation of the Star Wars Trilogy…. |
| Muse of Fire | Himself | 2013-09-26 | Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary fo… |
| Sports on the Silver Screen | Self (archive footage) | 1997-03-16 | HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from t… |
| Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Darth Vader (voice) | 2016-12-14 | A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy…. |
| The Benchwarmers | Darth Vader (voice) | 2006-04-07 | A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league… |
| Robots | Voice Box at Hardware Store (voice) | 2005-03-10 | Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Big Weld Industries. No… |
| Unraveling the Mystery: A Big Bang Farewell | James Earl Jones (archive footage) | 2019-05-16 | Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco share backstage secrets and personal memories, reveal their favorite moments playing their roles and remember some of t… |
| Naked Gun 33â…“: The Final Insult | James Earl Jones | 1994-03-18 | Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for wh… |
| Blackfish | Himself (archive footage) | 2013-06-07 | Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes… |
| King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | 1970-03-24 | Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activi… |
| Judge Dredd | Narrator (uncredited) | 1995-06-30 | In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his m… |
| Click | Narrator of Michael’s Past (uncredited) | 2006-06-23 | A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn’t have time for his wife and children, not if he’s to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved … |
| On Broadway | Self (archive footage) | 2021-08-20 | An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inc… |
| The Empire Strikes Back | Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited) | 1980-05-20 | The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Dar… |
| Primary Colors | CNN Voiceover (voice) | 1998-03-20 | In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton’s 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to… |
| Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | Darth Vader (voice – uncredited) | 2005-05-17 | The evil Darth Sidious enacts his final plan for unlimited power — and the heroic Jedi Anakin Skywalker must choose a side…. |
| Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Darth Vader (voice) | 2019-12-18 | The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of gener… |
| Waking Sleeping Beauty | Self (archive footage) | 2009-09-05 | By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovat… |
| Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 | The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York’s Radio City … |
| Scary Movie 4 | Narrator (uncredited) | 2006-04-12 | Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien “Tr-iPods” are i… |
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