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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) James Earl Jones, the actor, was sometimes in danger of being upstaged by James Earl Jones, the voice...
* Star Wars creator George Lucas wanted a commanding voice for Darth Vader and first considered casting Orson Welles..
* Other than a 7-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1933 musical short Rufus Jones for President, James Earl Jones is considered the first Black person to portray a U.S. president in a movie..
The Man, a 1972 adaptation of an Irving Wallace novel, starred Jones as Douglass Dilman, the president pro tempore of the Senate who ascends after the president and House speaker are killed and the vice president declines the office...
I am quoted as saying that primal therapy cured me of a cigarette habit, sinus trouble and a compulsive sexual urge and, last but not least, cured my hemorrhoids, Jones wrote in his 1993 autobiography, Voices and Silences..
