The Lion King1994
As Mufasa (voice)
TMDb 8.3 / 10
James Earl Jones
Born
James Earl Jones (January 17, 1931 – September 9, 2024) was an American actor. He was described as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors for his performances on stage and screen, and "one of the greatest actors in American history". Over his career, he received three Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985. He was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009 and the Honorary Academy Award in 2011. His deep voice has been praised as a "stirring basso profondo that has lent gravel and gravitas" to his projects.
Filmography (205)
Star Wars1977
As Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited)
TMDb 8.2 / 10
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker2019
As Darth Vader (voice)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Lion King2019
As Mufasa (voice)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story2016
As Darth Vader (voice)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Empire Strikes Back1980
As Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited)
TMDb 8.4 / 10
Return of the Jedi1983
As Darth Vader (voice)
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Click2006
As Narrator of Michael's Past (voice) (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride1998
As Mufasa (voice)
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Coming to America1988
As King Jaffe Joffer
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Robots2005
As Voice Box at Hardware Store (voice)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Conan the Barbarian1982
As Thulsa Doom
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Hunt for Red October1990
As Vice ADM James Greer
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith2005
As Darth Vader (voice - uncredited)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Scary Movie 42006
As Narrator (uncredited)
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964
As Lt. Lothar Zogg
TMDb 8.1 / 10
Patriot Games1992
As Adm. James Greer
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult1994
As James Earl Jones (uncredited)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Sneakers1992
As Mr. Bernard Abbott
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Judge Dredd1995
As Narrator (uncredited)
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Clear and Present Danger1994
As Admiral James Greer
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Sandlot1993
As Mr. Mertle
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins2008
As Papa Jenkins
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Coming 2 America2021
As King Jaffe Joffer
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Fantasia 20002000
As Self - Host
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Field of Dreams1989
As Terrence Mann
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Exorcist II: The Heretic1977
As Older Kokumo
TMDb 4.5 / 10
The Benchwarmers2006
As Darth Vader (voice)
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Sandlot 22005
As Mr. Mertle
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Gang Related1997
As Arthur Baylor
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Best of the Best1989
As Frank Couzo
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Sommersby1993
As Judge Barry Conrad Issacs
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Primary Colors1998
As CNN Voiceover (voice)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Three Fugitives1989
As Dugan
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Casper: A Spirited Beginning1997
As Kibosh (voice)
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold1986
As Umslopogaas
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Finder's Fee2001
As Avery Phillips
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Star Wars Holiday Special1978
As Darth Vader (voice)
TMDb 3.4 / 10
Clean Slate1994
As John Dolby
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Earth2007
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 7.7 / 10
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar2016
As Mufasa (voice)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Meteor Man1993
As Earnest Moses
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics1994
As Host
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn2014
As Ruben
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Ambulance1990
As Lt. Spencer
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Excessive Force1993
As Jake
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Blackfish2013
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Soul Man1986
As Professor Banks
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Matewan1987
As 'Few Clothes' Johnson
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Gardens of Stone1987
As Sgt. Maj.'Goody' Nelson
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Jack and the Beanstalk2009
As The Giant (voice)
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films1993
As Self (voice) (uncredited)
TMDb 8.2 / 10
Gimme Shelter2013
As Frank McCarthy
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Muse of Fire2013
As Self
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Second Civil War1997
As Jim Kalla
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Looking for Richard1996
As Self - Interviewee
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Great Year2003
As Narrator
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Undercover Angel1999
As The Judge
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Greatest1977
As Malcolm X
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Swashbuckler1976
As Nick Debrett
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy2004
As Self
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Waking Sleeping Beauty2009
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Flight of Dragons1982
As Ommadon (voice)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Feast of All Saints2001
As Older Marcel
TMDb 4.8 / 10
The Comedians1967
As Dr. Magiot
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Santa and Pete1999
As Grandpa Nicholas
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Our Friend, Martin1999
As Daddy King (voice)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Night of 100 Stars1982
As Self
TMDb 5.8 / 10
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis1970
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Disney's American Legends2001
As Narrator
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Last Remake of Beau Geste1977
As Sheikh
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion2014
As Darth Vader (voice)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Jefferson in Paris1995
As Madison Hemings
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Paul Robeson1979
As Paul Robeson
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Bushido Blade1981
As The Prisoner
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Milius2013
As Self
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey2010
As Admiral (voice)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies1995
As Self
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Diamonds on the Silver Screen
Diamonds on the Silver ScreenRelease date TBA
As Self
True Identity1991
As James Earl Jones
TMDb 5.6 / 10
On Broadway2019
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 8.7 / 10
Africa: The Serengeti1994
As Narrator
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault1996
As Dr. McDuffie
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Heat Wave1990
As Junius Johnson
TMDb 6.8 / 10
A Family Thing1996
As Ray Murdock
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Claudine1974
As Rupert D. "Roop" Marshall
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Timepiece1996
As Lawrence
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street2001
As Mister (voice)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Scorchers1991
As Bear
TMDb 4.4 / 10
The Making of Star Wars1977
As Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
By Dawn's Early Light1990
As Alice
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Dreamrider1993
As Bill Perry
TMDb 7.2 / 10
What the Deaf Man Heard1997
As Archibald Thacker
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street2021
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.4 / 10
A Piece of the Action1977
As Joshua Burke
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Ennis' Gift
Ennis' Gift2000
As Self
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'1995
As Host
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Me Nobody Knows1980
As Self
The Vegas Strip War1984
As Jack Madrid
TMDb 4.0 / 10
The Man1972
As Douglass Dilman
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings1976
As Leon
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Nine Dog Christmas2004
As Storyteller (voice)
TMDb 5.6 / 10
My Little Girl1986
As Ike Bailey
TMDb 4.6 / 10
Night of 100 Stars II1985
As Self
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Amy and the Angel1982
As Gabriel
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Story of the Faithful Wookiee1978
As Darth Vader (voice) (uncredited)
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Warning Shot2018
As Pendleton
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Hollywood's Greatest Villains2005
As Self
TMDb 9.5 / 10
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays2006
As Jack Jefferson (segment "The Great White Hope") / Troy Maxson (segment "Fences")
Blood Tide1982
As Frye
TMDb 5.1 / 10
The Great White Hope1970
As Jack Jefferson
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Convicts1991
As Ben Johnson
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror2003
As Maggie Simpson (voice)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Alone1997
As Grey
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage2019
As Self
King Lear1974
As King Lear
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Broadway: The Next GenerationRelease date TBA
As Self
Sports on the Silver Screen1997
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 9.0 / 10
On the Q.T.1999
As Leo
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal2015
As Darth Vader (voice)
TMDb 7.9 / 10
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat2004
As Self
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Story of Star Wars2004
As Darth Vader (archive footage)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues1988
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Deadly Hero1975
As Rabbit Shazam
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil1994
As Charles Lloyd
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Making of the Lion King1994
As Self
TMDb 8.7 / 10
Malcolm X1972
As Biographical Narration (voice)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'2000
As Self
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Cay1974
As Timothy
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story1980
As Dane Oliver
The UFO Incident1975
As Barney Hill
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Cry, the Beloved Country1995
As Rev. Stephen Kumalo
TMDb 6.8 / 10
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'2005
As Narrator
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Ivory Hunters1990
As Inspector Nkuru
TMDb 4.9 / 10
City Limits1985
As Albert
TMDb 2.8 / 10
The Reading Room2005
As William
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Driving Miss Daisy2015
As Hoke Colburn
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night1987
As Emperor of the Night (voice)
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Lincoln
Lincoln1992
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'2000
As Self - 'Lieutenant Lothar Zogg'
TMDb 5.9 / 10
When It Was a Game1991
As (voice)
TMDb 10.0 / 10
11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried1989
As Narrator
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove2000
As Self
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Last Flight Out
Last Flight Out1990
As Al Topping
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street1979
As Self - Host
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light2000
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Percy & Thunder1993
As Percy Banks
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Hunting of the Snark1989
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Joe Papp in Five Acts2012
As Self
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp1986
As Genie / Narrator
TMDb 6.0 / 10
God's Trombones1981
As Narrator (voice)
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World2001
As Self
TMDb 7.6 / 10
The River Niger1976
As Johnny Williams
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Moses
Moses1985
As Pharaoh
Teach 1091990
As Dr. Winston
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Butterfly in the Sky2024
As Guest Narrator (archive footage)
TMDb 8.3 / 10
Hallelujah
Hallelujah1993
As Old Man Taylor
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Space: Theatre of Survival2019
As Narrator
Visual Pathfinders: Robert Abel & Associates1985
End of the Road1970
As Doctor D
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Visitors from the Unknown1991
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery1997
As Self
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Grim Prairie Tales1990
As Morrison
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Gangs: Turning the Corner1994
As Self
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast1981
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 4.0 / 10
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater2016
As Kilgore Trout
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Good Luck1997
As James Bing
TMDb 4.9 / 10
The Annihilation of Fish1999
As Fish
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson2007
As Self
An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road2012
As Self
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened1977
As Morris Bird, Jr.
TMDb 7.0 / 10
BET News & ET Present James Earl Jones: Life and Legacy2024
As Self (archive footage)
Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable1995
As Mufasa
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Who's in Rabbit's House?1995
As Narrator (voice)
Summer's End1999
As Dr. William 'Bill' Blakely
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Searching for Orson2006
As Self
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Lone Star Kid1986
As Holmes
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Indiana Jones Adventure | Disneyland Resort2025
As Mara (voice)
TMDb 9.0 / 10
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand2015
As Self
A House Divided
A House Divided1987
Terrorgram1990
As Retribution (voice)
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Corwin
Corwin1996
As Self
TMDb 5.0 / 10
The Creation
The Creation1981
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Hitler's Forgotten Victims
Hitler's Forgotten Victims1997
As Narrator (voice) (DVD version)
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Strange Septembers: The Hill Abduction & the Exeter Encounter2011
As Himself
The Lion Guard: Life In The Pride Lands2017
As Mufasa (voice)
TMDb 2.0 / 10
The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy2006
As Narrator
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Words from a Bear2019
As Self
The JFK Conspiracy1992
As Self - Host
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'1994
As Narrator
TMDb 6.5 / 10
People: A Musical Celebration1995
As The Storyteller (voice)
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Fredericksburg: A Documentary Film2002
As Narrator
Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast1981
As Narrator (voice)
Afro Promo1997
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Vernon Johns Story1994
As Vernon Johns
TMDb 8.5 / 10
John, Paul, George and Ben2007
As Narrator
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'The Hunt for Red October'2003
As Self
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Antietam: A Documentary Film2000
As Narrator
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement1978
As Self
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Black Indians: An American Story2004
As Narrator
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Legacy of a Dream1971
As Narrator
TMDb 8.0 / 10
There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues1981
As himself, voice
Portrait of Castro's Cuba
Portrait of Castro's Cuba1991
As Host/Narrator
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears1984
As Narrator
Stories to Remember: Noah's Ark1989
As Narrator
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb