Personal Info
Birthday
January 17, 1931
Place of Birth
Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA
Known For
Acting
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.
Acting Filmography (247)
9.0
Indiana Jones Adventure | Disneyland Resort
Movie2025
0.0
BET News & ET Present James Earl Jones: Life and Legacy
Movie2024
8.3
Butterfly in the Sky
Movie2024
7.0
Obi-Wan Kenobi
TV Series2022
7.4
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Movie2021
6.3
Coming 2 America
Movie2021
6.3
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Movie2019
7.3
The Movies That Made Us
TV Series2019
8.7
On Broadway
Movie2019
0.0
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
Movie2019
7.1
The Lion King
Movie2019
0.0
The Space: Theatre of Survival
Movie2019
No Backdrop
0.0
Words from a Bear
Movie2019
5.1
Warning Shot
Movie2018
No Backdrop
2.0
The Lion Guard: Life In The Pride Lands
Movie2017
7.5
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Movie2016
9.0
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
Movie2016
6.7
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar
Movie2016
8.0
Driving Miss Daisy
Movie2015
7.9
Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal
Movie2015
No Backdrop
0.0
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
Movie2015
7.7
Star Wars Rebels
TV Series2014
7.3
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
Movie2014
5.6
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Movie2014
6.6
Gimme Shelter
Movie2013
6.5
Muse of Fire
Movie2013
7.8
Blackfish
Movie2013
7.1
Milius
Movie2013
6.0
An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road
Movie2012
No Backdrop
4.5
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Movie2012
No Backdrop
0.0
Strange Septembers: The Hill Abduction & the Exeter Encounter
Movie2011
6.1
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
Movie2010
5.2
Jack and the Beanstalk
Movie2009
7.2
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie2009
6.0
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
Movie2008
7.6
Earth
Movie2007
7.9
The Big Bang Theory
TV Series2007
No Backdrop
5.0
John, Paul, George and Ben
Movie2007
5.5
Searching for Orson
Movie2006
4.4
The One Show
TV Series2006
6.3
Click
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Movie2006
5.5
Scary Movie 4
Movie2006
5.9
The Benchwarmers
Movie2006
4.5
The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
Movie2006
No Backdrop
9.5
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
Movie2005
5.9
The Sandlot 2
Movie2005
No Backdrop
7.5
The Reading Room
Movie2005
7.5
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Movie2005
6.5
Robots
Movie2005
6.0
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Movie2005
8.6
House
TV Series2004
No Backdrop
5.8
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
Movie2004
5.6
Nine Dog Christmas
Movie2004
7.6
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Movie2004
No Backdrop
7.2
The Story of Star Wars
Movie2004
No Backdrop
6.4
Black Indians: An American Story
Movie2004
6.0
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
Movie2003
7.5
Two and a Half Men
TV Series2003
No Backdrop
9.0
The Great Year
Movie2003
5.4
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'The Hunt for Red October'
Movie2003
7.6
Everwood
TV Series2002
No Backdrop
0.0
Fredericksburg: A Documentary Film
Movie2002
8.0
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Movie2001
4.8
Feast of All Saints
Movie2001
6.3
Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street
Movie2001
6.5
According to Jim
TV Series2001
6.2
Finder's Fee
Movie2001
7.4
Disney's American Legends
Movie2001
No Backdrop
9.0
Antietam: A Documentary Film
Movie2000
6.8
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
Movie2000
No Backdrop
5.9
Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
Movie2000
No Backdrop
5.6
The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove
Movie2000
No Backdrop
6.7
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
Movie2000
7.0
Fantasia 2000
Movie2000
5.8
Santa and Pete
Movie1999
6.4
The Annihilation of Fish
Movie1999
6.9
Undercover Angel
Movie1999
7.1
On the Q.T.
Movie1999
No Backdrop
7.6
Summer's End
Movie1999
7.1
Our Friend, Martin
Movie1999
6.9
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
Movie1998
6.9
Will & Grace
TV Series1998
6.9
Merlin
TV Series1998
6.3
Primary Colors
Movie1998
6.7
Alone
Movie1997
6.1
The Second Civil War
Movie1997
6.4
What the Deaf Man Heard
Movie1997
6.4
Gang Related
Movie1997
5.4
Casper: A Spirited Beginning
Movie1997
8.3
Stargate SG-1
TV Series1997
9.0
Sports on the Silver Screen
Movie1997
No Backdrop
4.9
Good Luck
Movie1997
8.0
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
Movie1997
8.0
Afro Promo
Movie1997
No Backdrop
7.0
Timepiece
Movie1996
7.1
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
Movie1996
6.8
Looking for Richard
Movie1996
6.5
A Family Thing
Movie1996
7.5
3rd Rock from the Sun
TV Series1996
6.8
Cry, the Beloved Country
Movie1995
No Backdrop
0.0
Who's in Rabbit's House?
Movie1995
5.9
Judge Dredd
Movie1995
No Backdrop
8.0
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie1995
7.3
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
Movie1995
5.1
Jefferson in Paris
Movie1995
6.3
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV Series1995
No Backdrop
8.0
Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable
Movie1995
7.0
Signs and Wonders
TV Series1995
No Backdrop
6.6
People: A Musical Celebration
Movie1995
7.2
Touched by an Angel
TV Series1994
6.6
Clear and Present Danger
Movie1994
No Backdrop
10.0
The Making of the Lion King
Movie1994
8.3
The Lion King
Movie1994
6.8
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Movie1994
5.8
Clean Slate
Movie1994
7.0
Africa: The Serengeti
Movie1994
6.5
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Movie1994
0.0
Gangs: Turning the Corner
Movie1994
No Backdrop
5.4
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
Movie1994
No Backdrop
9.0
The Vernon Johns Story
Movie1994
8.2
Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films
Movie1993
7.7
Frasier
TV Series1993
6.9
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
TV Series1993
No Backdrop
8.0
Percy & Thunder
Movie1993
5.8
The Meteor Man
Movie1993
No Backdrop
7.2
Dreamrider
Movie1993
4.9
Excessive Force
Movie1993
7.6
The Sandlot
Movie1993
6.4
Sommersby
Movie1993
8.1
Homicide: Life on the Street
TV Series1993
7.5
Picket Fences
TV Series1992
6.9
Sneakers
Movie1992
6.7
Patriot Games
Movie1992
9.5
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
TV Series1992
No Backdrop
7.3
The JFK Conspiracy
Movie1992
No Backdrop
6.3
Pros and Cons
TV Series1991
5.6
True Identity
Movie1991
No Backdrop
10.0
When It Was a Game
Movie1991
4.4
Scorchers
Movie1991
No Backdrop
6.0
Visitors from the Unknown
Movie1991
5.7
Convicts
Movie1991
5.8
Grim Prairie Tales
Movie1990
7.3
Law & Order
TV Series1990
6.9
Gabriel's Fire
TV Series1990
4.9
Ivory Hunters
Movie1990
6.8
Heat Wave
Movie1990
6.5
By Dawn's Early Light
Movie1990
5.8
The Ambulance
Movie1990
7.4
The Hunt for Red October
Movie1990
No Backdrop
8.0
Teach 109
Movie1990
4.5
Terrorgram
Movie1990
8.0
The Simpsons
TV Series1989
No Backdrop
8.0
11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried
Movie1989
6.5
Best of the Best
Movie1989
7.1
Field of Dreams
Movie1989
6.7
Three Fugitives
Movie1989
No Backdrop
9.0
The Hunting of the Snark
Movie1989
No Backdrop
5.5
Stories to Remember: Noah's Ark
Movie1989
7.3
Garfield and Friends
TV Series1988
6.9
Coming to America
Movie1988
7.6
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
Movie1988
7.3
Matewan
Movie1987
5.6
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
Movie1987
6.2
Gardens of Stone
Movie1987
No Backdrop
7.0
Mathnet
TV Series1987
4.8
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
Movie1986
5.2
Soul Man
Movie1986
7.1
L.A. Law
TV Series1986
No Backdrop
4.6
My Little Girl
Movie1986
6.0
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Movie1986
No Backdrop
6.3
The Lone Star Kid
Movie1986
No Backdrop
2.8
City Limits
Movie1985
No Backdrop
6.8
Night of 100 Stars II
Movie1985
5.8
The Atlanta Child Murders
TV Series1985
No Backdrop
0.0
Visual Pathfinders: Robert Abel & Associates
Movie1985
4.0
The Vegas Strip War
Movie1984
7.4
Highway to Heaven
TV Series1984
No Backdrop
5.5
CBS Schoolbreak Special
TV Series1984
No Backdrop
0.0
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Movie1984
8.3
Reading Rainbow
TV Series1983
7.9
Return of the Jedi
Movie1983
5.0
Blood Tide
Movie1982
6.7
Amy and the Angel
Movie1982
8.1
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV Series1982
6.7
The Flight of Dragons
Movie1982
6.8
Conan the Barbarian
Movie1982
No Backdrop
5.8
Night of 100 Stars
Movie1982
6.6
American Playhouse
TV Series1982
No Backdrop
0.0
Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast
Movie1981
5.5
The Bushido Blade
Movie1981
No Backdrop
0.0
There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues
Movie1981
No Backdrop
0.0
God's Trombones
Movie1981
0.0
The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
Movie1980
8.4
The Empire Strikes Back
Movie1980
No Backdrop
0.0
The Me Nobody Knows
Movie1980
7.3
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
TV Series1980
No Backdrop
6.5
Paris
TV Series1979
No Backdrop
0.0
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Movie1979
7.5
Roots: The Next Generations
TV Series1979
No Backdrop
8.0
Paul Robeson
Movie1979
No Backdrop
9.0
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Movie1978
7.4
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV Series1978
3.4
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Movie1978
7.0
The Magic of David Copperfield
TV Series1978
No Backdrop
7.0
The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
Movie1977
5.8
A Piece of the Action
Movie1977
7.1
The Making of Star Wars
Movie1977
4.5
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Movie1977
5.7
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Movie1977
8.2
Star Wars
Movie1977
5.7
The Greatest
Movie1977
7.8
Jesus of Nazareth
TV Series1977
6.1
Swashbuckler
Movie1976
6.1
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Movie1976
No Backdrop
7.4
The River Niger
Movie1976
5.8
Deadly Hero
Movie1975
6.6
The UFO Incident
Movie1975
No Backdrop
8.0
Vegetable Soup
TV Series1975
6.5
The Cay
Movie1974
7.0
Dinah!
TV Series1974
7.1
Claudine
Movie1974
No Backdrop
9.0
King Lear
Movie1974
No Backdrop
6.3
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV Series1973
No Backdrop
9.0
Black Omnibus
TV Series1973
6.5
The Man
Movie1972
6.7
Malcolm X
Movie1972
No Backdrop
8.0
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Legacy of a Dream
Movie1971
6.1
Great Performances
TV Series1971
6.3
The Great White Hope
Movie1970
7.3
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Movie1970
5.1
End of the Road
Movie1970
7.1
Sesame Street
TV Series1969
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
TV Series1968
6.1
The Comedians
Movie1967
6.9
Tarzan
TV Series1966
8.1
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Movie1964
7.8
East Side/West Side
TV Series1963
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV Series1962
No Backdrop
6.6
The Merv Griffin Show
TV Series1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
TV Series1961
5.7
Dr. Kildare
TV Series1961
6.3
The Defenders
TV Series1961
No Backdrop
0.0
Tony Awards
TV Series1956
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV Series1951
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
TV Series1944
No Backdrop
0.0
Broadway: The Next Generation
MovieN/A