James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen – eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to Mufasa in The Lion King and Darth Vader in Star Wars – has died.
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“The need to storytell has always been with us,” he told the Associated Press news agency then. “I think it first happened around campfires when the man came home and told his family he got the bear, the bear didn’t get him.
Teacher and student worked together to restore the boy’s normal speech. “I could not get enough of speaking, debating, orating – acting,” he recalled in his book. Jones’ two wives were also actors. He married Julienne Marie Hendricks in 1967. After their divorce, he married Cecilia Hart, best known for her role as Stacey Erickson in the CBS police dramaand words from Mayor Eric Adams, Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson Jackson.
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