RIP James Earl Jones

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Posted by Surtac
9/09/2024 5:54 pm
#1

Yes, he may have been best known for the voices of Darth Vader and Mufasa, but I remember him best for his other roles: a B52 crewman in Dr Strangelove, Thulsa Doom in the first Conan movie, and as Admiral Greer in several Tom Clancy film adaptations.
And who can forget that marvelous self-parody of himself in an episode of Big Bang Theory.

Vale James.
 


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Posted by HRHSpence
9/09/2024 8:21 pm
#2

an icon. He will be missed.


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Posted by Griffinmoon
9/09/2024 11:03 pm
#3

Yep. going to be missing him. Somebody posted elsewhere that he, Morgan Freeman and Sidney Poitier are some of the best.
 

 
Posted by joekc6nlx
9/10/2024 8:40 am
#4

You would not know it to hear him speak, but as a boy, he stuttered.  According to an interview, he said his father would have him read Shakespeare as one part while his father read another part.  "I will be Othello, and you will be Iago."


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