"I'm Your Father" Darth Vader's voice protagonist dies..He was 93
Sep 10, 2024
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Barry McPherson, his agent, said Wednesday that `James Earl Jones died this morning at his home in Dutchess County, New York.' The cause of death has not yet been released.
James Earl Jones is also familiar to Korean fans with his voice as the villain Darth Vader in the original `Star Wars' trilogy, the lion king in the `Lion King' movie ``````````````````````This is CNN.'
When James Earl Jones first recorded Darth Vader's voice in an interview during his lifetime, he was paid $7,000 (W9 million) in compensation because he had no idea the film would be a success," he recalled.
Born in 1931 in a shack in a rural Mississippi town, James Earl Jones had a deprived childhood when he was six years old when he was left at his grandparents' home in Michigan. He began to stutter while suffering from verbal abuse by his racist grandmother, and suffered from severe speech disorders until high school. After talking with his teachers and friends on notes for a while, he overcame his obstacles by encouraging the teacher he met in high school to read poetry aloud, and went to the University of Michigan to study theater.
After being discharged from the military, he moved to New York, where Broadway is located, and began acting. In the beginning, he played in plays, movies, and TV. After appearing in the play `The Great White Hope' in 1967, he won a Tony Award in 1969 for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1971. He was the second black male actor to be nominated for an Academy Award at the time. Since then, he has continued to work in movies and TV, and has voiced Darth Vader in the Star Wars series 'New Hope' (1977), 'Empire's Counterattack' (1980), and 'Return of the Jedi' (1983). At the time, producer George Lucas wanted a dark voice"He is said to have been cast. He also solidified his position in Hollywood in 1994 when he voiced the father of `Simba`````The Lion King.' "There were times when people didn't recognize until they heard their voices," he told CNN. Throughout his acting career, he has won Tony Award (twice), Emmy Award (twice), Grammy Award, and Academy Award for Achievement. In Manhattan, New York, the United States, 'Cort Theatre' was renamed the 'James Earl Jones Theatre' named after him in 2022.
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