JAMES EARL JONES has won Tony Awards for the Broadway productions of The Great White Hope and Fences; a Tony nomination for On Golden Pond; Drama Desk Awards for Othello, Les Blancs, Hamlet, The Cherry Orchard and Fences; Obie Awards for Clandestine on the Morning Line, The Apple, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl and Baal; a Theatre World Award for Moon on a Rainbow Shawl; and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Fences. Additional theatre credits include Paul Robeson, The Iceman Cometh and Of Mice and Men. Jones was nominated for an Academy Award for the film version of The Great White Hope. Additional films: Dr. Strangelove, Claudine, The Comedians, The River Niger, The Greatest, A Piece of the Action, Gardens of Stone, Coming to America, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Matewan, Cry the Beloved Country and Field of Dreams. He is perhaps best known as the voices of Darth Vader in the Star Wars films and Mufasa in Disney's animated classic The Lion King. Jones has won two Emmy Awards (for "Gabriel's Fire" and "Heat Wave") and been nominated for six others. For 18 years he was spokesperson for Verizon and the "voice" behind CNN. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts and is a Kennedy Center honoree. His memoir, last published by Limelight Editions in 2002, is called Voices and Silences.

Previously seen in Show Theatre Role Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Broadhurst Theatre Big Daddy On Golden Pond Cort Theatre Norman Thayer, Jr.

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