James Earl Jones is an American actor, known for the films Driving Miss Daisy, The Lion King, Field of Dreams, Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith/Episode VI—Return of the Jedi/Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back/Episode IV—A New Hope, Conan the Barbarian, and Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Broadway theatre credits include his debut as Edward in Sunrise at Campobello (Cort Theatre); Weller Martin in The Gin Game and Hoke Colbum in Driving Miss Daisy (John Golden Theatre); Martin Vanderhof in You Can’t Take It With You (Longacre Theatre); President Arthur ‘Artie’ Hockstader in The Best Man (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre); Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Broadhurst Theatre); Troy Maxson in Fences (46th Street Theatre); Sam in Master Harold…and the Boys (Lyceum Theatre); Othello in Othello (Winter Garden Theatre); and Jack Jefferson in The Great White Hope (Alvin Theatre).