James Earl Jones movies

January 17, 1931) is an American Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor of film and stage, perhaps best known for his deep baritone voice.Early lifeJones, born in Arkabutla Township, Mississippi in Tate County, the son of Ruth Williams and actor Robert Earl Jones (1910-2006), who left the family before James Earls birth. Jones and his father reconciled much later in the 1980s and 1990s. Jones was raised by his maternal grandparents and is of African, Irish and Cherokee descent.

He moved to his grandparents farm in rural Michigan at the age of five, but the adoption was traumatic and he developed a stutter so severe he refused to speak aloud. 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. The teacher believed forced public speaking would help him gain confidence and insisted he recite a poem in class each day. "I was a stutterer. I couldnt talk.

James Earl Jones Movies

All movies starring James Earl Jones.

• Coming to America
• Conan the Barbarian
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Fantasia/2000
• Field of Dreams
• Merlin
• Patriot Games
• Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
• The Better Man
• Star Wars