James Earl Jones
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Actor James Earl Jones
Jones is one of the distinctive voices of our time, yet few people know he fights a stutter. The Tony-Award winning actor took just one day to record the voice track for Darth Vader in Star Wars. That performance lead to many commercial voice-over projects. There's a new Star Wars trilogy on DVD. This show was originally broadcast on Sept. 15, 1993.
Actor James Earl Jones
His is one of the distinctive voices of our time, yet few people know he fights a stutter; Jones' stage work off-Broadway in Jean Genet's The Blacks and Athol Fugard's The Blood Knot lead to a Broadway success in The Great White Way, for which Jones won a Tony. His work in August Wilson's Fences won him another. It took one day to record the voice track for Darth Vader in Star Wars: a performance which lead to many other commercial voice-over projects. A new edition of his memoir Voices and Silences has just been published.
From the Archives: James Earl Jones Discusses his Life and Career.
Actor James Earl Jones. His is one of the distinctive voices of our time, yet few people know he fights a stutter; Jones' stage work off-Broadway in Jean Genet's "The Blacks" and Athol Fugard's "The Blood Knot" lead to a Broadway success in "The Great White Way", for which Jones won a Tony. His work in August Wilson's "Fences" won him another. It took one day to record the voice track for Darth Vader in "Star Wars": a performance which lead to many other commercial voice-over projects.