As I recall, the first time I saw James Earl Jones in a film (not counting his uncredited voicing of Darth Vader in “Star Wars”) was in 1997, in the Michael York/Marty Feldman comedy “The Last Remake Of Beau Geste,” in which Jones played “the Shiek.” Later, on a television Saturday matinee, I saw him as a young United States Air Force Lieutenant Lothar Zogg in “Doctor Strangelove.”
Now, James Earl Jones is gone, having died in his New York home. He was 93.
James Earl Jones, the revered actor who voiced Star Wars villain Darth Vader, starred in Field of Dreams and many other films and Broadway shows and is an EGOT winner, died this morning at his home in Dutchess County, NY. He was 93.
His reps at Independent Artist Group confirmed the news to Deadline.
Widely regarded as among the world’s great stage and screen actors Jones is one of the few entertainers to have won the EGOT…
