Actor James Earl Jones passed away on September 9, 2024, at the age of 93. The distinguished performer was best known for playing Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise and Mufasa in The Lion King.

DEL BARCO: James Earl Jones became the voice of CNN, the announcer for TV commercials for Verizon, Goodyear Tires, car companies and the Yellow Pages. He even read the Bible for audiobooks and CDs.

"James Earl Jones Reads the Bible" was an instant bestseller when it was released, and has returned to number one on the charts. The audiobook features more than 19 hours on 16 digitally ...

Like millions of other people around the world, the announcement Monday of James Earl Jones ... discovered that Jones liked to write poetry. He encouraged Jones to read his poetry aloud to ...

Stage and screen actor James Earl Jones ... King James Bible and "The Simpsons." In 2008, when he returned to Broadway to play Big Daddy in a revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Jones was asked ...

James Earl Jones, the voice of “Star Wars ... But when he was 14, his high school English teacher, Donald Crouch, pressed Jones to read one of his poems aloud in class and Jones rediscovered ...