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  • Career honour for James Earl Jones - 3 October 2008
    James Earl Jones is to be honoured with the Screen Actors Guild's (SAG) lifetime achievement award, it has been reported.-The veteran actor – whose booming voice characterised Darth Vadar in the Star Wars movies – has been nominated for one Oscar and seven Emmy

James Earl Jones - what members say


  • Africa - The Serengeti
  • Africa - The Serengeti review by from BRIXTON
    Rated - 5 stars 29 July 2004
    ...James Earl Jones narration of this beautiful place is out of this world. It is interesting to see God's beautiful work. Enjoy....  
  • Field Of Dreams
  • Field Of Dreams review by from the middle of Dorset
    Rated - 4 stars Very good fanstasy drama 31 January 2005
    ...ure Oscar in 1989 but was beaten by Driving Miss Daisy (!). Burt Lancaster and James Earl Jones lend solid support and a great ending makes this one to watch. ...  
  • The Sandlot Kids
  • The Sandlot Kids review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 5 stars KIDS MOVIE !!! 17 May 2005
    ...ack!!! In the end, the pickle the beast ans meets the beast's owner Mr. Mertle (James Earl Jones) who ends up being a good friend. This movie is SO great, adn you haven't lived...  

James Earl Jones - filmography


  • Earth (2009)
    Starring: James Earl Jones
    Director: Alastair Fothergill,  Mark Linfield
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Narrated by James Earl Jones, "Earth" tells the remarkable story of three animal families and their amazing journeys across the planet we call home. "Earth" combines rare action, unimaginable scale and impossible locations by capturing the most intimate moments of our planet's wildest and most ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 13 members
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  • Santa And Pete (1999)
    Starring: Hume Cronyn,  Flex Alexander,  Tempestt Bledsoe
    Director: Duwayne Dunham
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    This warmhearted Yuletide tale tells the story of Grandpa Nichols (James Earl Jones) who is spending his first Christmas alone as a widower. His grandson Pete (Flex Alexander from SHE'S ALL THAT) is riveted by his grandfather's story of St. Nick, and Pete decides that it is his desire to do all he ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 3 members
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  • Merlin on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Sam Neill,  Helena Bonham-Carter,  John Gielgud
    Director: Steve Barron
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This ambitious, all-star miniseries treatment of the Round Table legends is narrated from the perspective of the sorcerer Merlin (Sam Neill), who must choose between loyalty to the court and his love for beautiful Nimue (Isabella Rossellini). Solid acting and spectacular special effects combine to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,877 member
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  • Gang Related on DVD (1997)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Lela Rochon,  Tupac Shakur
    Director: Jim Kouf,  Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A pair of world-weary vice cops (James Belushi and Tupac Shakur) spend their off-hours selling off their confiscated drugs and murdering their buyers, cleaning the streets and padding their own pockets simultaneously. But their plan falls flat when a victim turns out to have been an undercover DEA ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 604 members
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  • Jefferson In Paris on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Greta Scacchi,  Thandie Newton
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Statesman and 'Declaration Of Independence' author Thomas Jefferson is depicted during the time he served as America's Ambassador to France. The story follows his love life and dramatises a romance (widely believed to be exaggerated) between Jefferson and one of his youthful slaves.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 234 members
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  • Clear And Present Danger on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Willem Dafoe,  Anne Archer
    Director: Phillip Noyce
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Tom Clancy's bestseller has Jack Ryan acting as Head of the CIA when his mentor Admiral Greer falls prey to cancer. On his watch, the President of the United States orders a covert operation to attack some South American druglords responsible for a friend's death. Ryan, who swears before Congress ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 9,267 members
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  • Imax - Africa - The Serengeti - BLU-RAY ... (1994)
    Starring: James Earl Jones
    Director: George Casey
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
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    James Earl Jones narrates this stunning, award-winning IMAX film that explores the natural beauty and timeless cycles of Africa's Serengeti plains. The highlight is a spectacle that few humans have witnessed--the great migration--during which 2 million wildebeests, zebras and antelope travel over ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 32 members
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  • Africa - The Serengeti on DVD (1994)
    Starring: James Earl Jones
    Director: George Casey
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
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    In a land where archaeologists have traced human life back two million years and where the indigenous Masai people tend cattle and maintain their unique customs we are taken on an incredible journey into the wild Serengeti plains. Witness here a scene rarely seen by humans - The Great Migration. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 202 members
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  • The Lion King (1994)
    Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Whoopi Goldberg,  Rowan Atkinson
    Director: Roger Allers,  Rob Minkoff
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. This may be due to the title being deleted or on a limited release. We will continue to rent this title as soon as stock becomes available. Wild Africa is the setting for this animated tale of a young lion cub whose evil uncle usurps ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 17,782 members
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  • Sommersby on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Richard Gere,  James Earl Jones
    Director: Jon Amiel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A man returning home after six years in the Civil War struggles to reconstruct his life and marriage. His idyllic hopes are shattered when he is accused of not being who he claims. Based on the French film THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,731 member
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  • Percy And Thunder on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Mick E. Jones,  Ron Shipp,  James Earl Jones
    Director: Ivan Dixon
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Promising middleweight Wayne "Thunder" Carter (Courtney B. Vance) teams up with veteran trainer Percy Banks (James Earl Jones) to contend for the world title. But in the corrupt world of prize fighting, he finds that it takes more than talent to make it to the top.
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 28% from 26 members
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  • Sneakers on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Dan Aykroyd,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Phil Alden Robinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A computer expert (Robert Redford) heads a team of renegade hackers who test security systems. His past comes back to haunt him when government agents blackmail the "Sneakers" into carrying out a covert operation: track down an elusive black box filled with national security secrets.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,252 members
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  • Patriot Games on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Anne Archer,  Sean Bean
    Director: Phillip Noyce
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    His days as a CIA analyst behind him, Jack Ryan travels to London to vacation with his family. Outside Buckingham Palace, he is caught in the middle of an attack on a member of the royal family but manages to foil the attempt and dispatch one of the terrorists. The Irish terrorists vow revenge. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 11,661 members
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  • Scorchers (1991)
    Starring: Faye Dunaway,  Denholm Elliott,  James Earl Jones
    Director: David Beaird
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid (Emily Lloyd) and Dolan (James Wilder). The trouble comes on the wedding night when Splendid is determined to maintain her innocence.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 35% from 7 members
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  • The Hunt For Red October on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Alec Baldwin,  Sam Neill
    Director: John McTiernan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    It is the pre-Glasnost era, and the captain of a Soviet sub intends to betray his brutal government and defect, but as the deadly Red October approaches the eastern seaboard of the United States, only special agent Jack Ryan might be able to head off a nuclear confrontation. Based on Tom Clancy's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 10,119 members
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  • Field Of Dreams (1988)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  James Earl Jones,  Burt Lancaster
    Director: Phil Alden Robinson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A struggling Iowa farmer (Costner) obeys a mysterious voice in his cornfield that tells him to replace part of his crop with a baseball diamond resulting in the magical meeting of baseball heroes from the past. Mystical forces are at play here as ghosts of other sorts are confronted.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 7,270 members
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  • Matewan on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Chris Cooper,  James Earl Jones,  Mary McDonnell
    Director: John Sayles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The year is 1920, the setting Matewan, West Virginia, where the town's coal miners labor under miserable, unhealthy conditions. Enter Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper), a rebellious union leader who wants to organize the West Virginian miners, as well as the Italians and blacks brought in as workers. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,091 member
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  • Soul Man on DVD (1986)
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Arye Gross,  James Earl Jones
    Director: Steve Miner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Harvard Law freshman Mark Watson, having been cut off by his millionaire dad, tries to fund his education by tinting his skin with tanning pills and passing as African-American. But after being nearly evicted by his landlord, arrested by the police, and subjected to an endless barrage of 'no ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 242 members
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  • The Greatest on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Muhammad Ali,  Ernest Borgnine,  John Marley
    Director: Tom Gries
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    18 year-old Olympic gold medalist Cassius Clay feels ready to take on the heavyweight championship. In this dramatisation the incredible career of the legendary fighter is portrayed, as he gains in stature and power under the guidance of Angelo Dundee, Clay takes the heavyweight title away from ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 94 members
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  • Jesus Of Nazareth (2 discs) on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Robert Powell,  Anne Bancroft,  Ernest Borgnine
    Director: Franco Zeffirelli
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This epic chronicle of Christ begins with the arrangements of the wedding between Joseph and Mary, proceeds through Jesus' birth, his encounter with John the Baptist, and all the way to the grueling, transfigurative end. The all-star cast includes Anne Bancroft, Laurence Olivier, Michael York, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,138 member
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  • Doctor Strangelove on DVD (1963)
    Starring: George C. Scott,  Peter Sellers,  Sterling Hayden
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB is the cold war masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick. Based on the novel RED ALERT by Peter George, the film is set at the height of the tensions between Russia and the United States, when all it would take to destroy the world was one ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 23,532 members
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  • J.F.K. - The Day The Nation Cried on DVD
    Starring: James Earl Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    An examination of the events leading up to and immediately following the assassination of U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on 22nd November, 1963.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 52 members
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  • Atlanta Murders on DVD
    Starring: Calvin Levels,  Morgan Freeman,  James Earl Jones
    Director: John Erman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A ex-cop turned reporter investigates the death of a doctor and uncovers medical evidence that links him to the murder of 29 young black men in the area. He realises that it is up to him to track down the murderer, and enlists the help of some old friends for back-up. Based on real events.
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 29% from 76 members
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  • Nine Dog Christmas on DVD
    Starring: James Earl Jones,  Scott Hamilton
    Director: Michael Hack
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    James Earl Jones and Olympic ice skater Scott Hamilton provide voices for the charming animated tale NINE DOG CHRISTMAS. It's two days before Christmas, and Santa's reindeer have come down with the North Pole flu. Nearsighted elf leader Buzz thinks he's found the perfect replacements, but the ..read more »
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James Earl Jones - watch online


  • Earth to Watch Now (2007)
    Starring: Patrick Stewart,  James Earl Jones
    Director: Alastair Fothergill,  Mark Linfield
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 99 minutes
    Five years in the making and told using the Sun as a guide, the remarkable breath-taking story of EARTH is filmed with high definition cameras to create an unforgettable journey through the changing seasons and daily struggle for life across our planet. We follow a year on earth joining our fellow ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 3 members
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  • Africa - The Serengeti to Watch Now (1994)
    Starring: James Earl Jones
    Director: George Casey
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex (TBC)
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    Run time: 40 minutes
    Africa: The Serengeti takes you on an extraordinary journey to East Africa to view a spectacle few humans have ever witnessed: the great migration. Journey with more than two million wildebeast, zebras and antelope as they travel over 500 miles across the Serengeti plains. Filmed entirely on ..read more »
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  • Soul Man to Watch Now (1986)
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Arye Gross,  James Earl Jones
    Director: Steve Miner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 100 minutes
    When Mark is cut off by his millionaire dad just weeks before going to Harvard Law School, he attempts all manner of ways of raising the $54,000 he needs, failing dismally. But when he hears of the Bouchard Memorial Fellowship scholarship for a black student from Los Angeles, he makes the daring ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4 members
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James Earl Jones facts

5 most recent films

Earth - 3.0 stars
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins - 3.0 stars
Finder's Fee - 2.5 stars
Santa And Pete - 2.5 stars
Merlin - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Doctor Strangelove - 3.5 stars
The Lion King - 3.5 stars
Jesus Of Nazareth - 3.5 stars
The Hunt For Red October - 3.5 stars
Best Of The Best Collection - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The River Niger - 1.0 stars
Percy And Thunder - 1.5 stars
City Limits - 1.5 stars
Scorchers - 2.0 stars
The Road to Freedom - The Vernon Johns Story - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sterling Hayden - 3 times - show films
George C. Scott - 3 times - show films
Peter Bull - 3 times - show films
Jack Creley - 3 times - show films
Slim Pickens - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Stanley Kubrick - 3 times - show films
George Casey - 3 times - show films
Roger Allers - 2 times - show films
Alastair Fothergill - 2 times - show films
Rob Minkoff - 2 times - show films