American actor James Earl Jones, who, among other things, played detective Gabriel Bird in the TV series Gabriel’s Fire and lent the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars film series, died on Monday at the age of 93. The black actor, who had to fight racial prejudice in his career, won two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. He died at his home near New York, according to his agent, the AP reported.
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23:58 9. 9. 2024 (Updated: 8:44 9/10/2024)
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American actor James Earl Jones died at the age of 93 | Photo: Jemal Countess | Source: Getty Images North America / AFP / Profimedia
In the Czech Republic, Jones became especially famous for the mentioned role of a private detective in the series, for which he received an Emmy television award in 1991.
He also appeared in the narrative saga Roots, describing the fate of several generations of an African family, or in the series Here at Sprigfield, the first “soap opera” in which black characters began to appear regularly.
Many viewers are also familiar with his characteristic deep voice, in addition to Star Wars, it was also heard, for example, in the animated Lion King.
“The need to tell stories has been with us since time immemorial. I think it started at the bonfires when a man came home and told his family he got a bear and it wasn’t his bear,” Jones told the AP in 2015 about his passion for stories. Even at that time, when he was 84 years old, he tried out for a play on Broadway.
On the stage, he achieved great success, especially for his portrayal of heavyweight boxer Jack Jefferson in the drama Great White Hope. He received a Tony Award for this performance, and the film adaptation earned him an Oscar nomination in 1971. He received the prestigious golden statuette in 2012, when he received an honorary Oscar.
During his life he acted in five dozen films. Among the most well-known among the audience are Hunt for the Submarine, Doktor Divnoláska or How I Learned Not to Worry and Love the Bomb, Conan the Barbarian or The Greatest about the boxer Muhammad Ali.
His voice is also familiar to the viewers of the American television CNN, where for many years the sentence spoken by Jones was heard: “This is CNN.”
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