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Actor James Earl Jones dies at age 93
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9/10/2024
Actor James Earl Jones dies at age 93
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I shall pray for you morning and evening.
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For over 70 years, he graced stage and screen with a voice that commanded attention.
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Don't you try and go through life worried if somebody like you or not.
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James Earl Jones was born in rural Mississippi in 1931, raised by his mother and his grandparents.
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As a child, he developed a debilitating stutter.
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You never get over it, really.
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You simply learn how to work around it, you know.
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A high school teacher helped Jones find his confidence and his voice.
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He fell in love with the stage at the University of Michigan and debuted on Broadway in 1957.
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Just on a block and then keeping them off me.
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His breakthrough Tony-winning performance came as boxing champ Jack Johnson in The Great
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White Hope, which was later turned into a movie.
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Because every time you push that pinched up face in front of me, I see where they got
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me.
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As his movie career grew, he continued acting on the small screen.
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I, the first celebrity guest on Sesame Street, I am the father.
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But it was a two and a half hour voiceover session from George Lucas that changed his
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life.
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So you hire a guy born in Mississippi, raised in Michigan who stutters, and that's the voice
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and that's me.
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I got, I lucked out.
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The role propelled him, or at least his voice, to worldwide fame as Darth Vader in Star Wars.
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For the next 40 years, he excelled on stage, winning a second Tony Award.
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And on the big screen, a Navy Admiral in the hunt for Red October.
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I was never here.
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In The Lion King.
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You are more than what you have become.
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The voice of a network.
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This is CNN.
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And the voice of all baseball fans in Field of Dreams.
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People will come, Ray.
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People will most definitely come.
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He received an Honorary Academy Award, had a Broadway theater named for him, became a
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Kennedy Center honoree, continuing to work in new projects and revisiting classic roles.
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I'm only brave when I have to be.
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May I have your attention, please?
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On screen and in life, James Earl Jones was a king.
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The goal wasn't to be a billionaire, to be a Hollywood star, to be a part of good storytelling.
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The goal was about that.
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I found you!
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He found his voice, and we got a legend.
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Steve Patterson, NBC News, Los Angeles.
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