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James Earl Jones

September 2022

  • Darth Vader, played by Hayden Christensen, in Obi-Wan Kenobi.

    The droids you’re looking for: how Ukrainian AI recreated Darth Vader’s voice

    A Kyiv startup helped ‘clone’ the voice of legendary actor James Earl Jones, 91, for the recent Obi-Wan Kenobi series

July 2019

  • null<br>THE LION KING - Featuring the voices of John Oliver as Zazu, James Earl Jones as Mufasa and JD McCrary as Young Simba, Disney’s “The Lion King” is directed by Jon Favreau. In theaters July 19, 2019. © 2019 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    The Lion King review – resplendent but pointless

  • This image released by Disney shows characters, from left, Zazu, voiced by John Oliver, and young Simba, voiced by JD McCrary, in a scene from “The Lion King.” (Disney via AP)

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    The Lion King review – deepfake copycat ain't so grrreat

February 2016

  • Pulp Fiction

    The black Oscar wins that got away

    The shadow of possible Academy prejudice has loomed large over this year’s awards. So which black actors were unjustly snubbed? Whose great performance went unrewarded? The Guardian’s chief film critic on the ones that got away

November 2015

  • “Misery” Broadway - Curtain Call<br>NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 22: Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf onstage during the first Broadway performance curtain call of ‘Misery’ at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 22, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images)

    When a star doesn't know the script, send for the earpiece

    China Doll, starring Al Pacino, will open two weeks later than scheduled, with some suggesting that the actor is relying on an earpiece to feed him his lines – and he wouldn’t be the only star to need technical assistance

October 2015

  • Eclipsed, starring Lupita Nyong’o, and Saycon Sengbloh

    Lupita, Keira and King Charles III: New York's essential theatre - in pictures

    Clive Owen does Pinter’s Old Times, Sam Rockwell does Shepard’s Fool for Love and Arthur Miller’s centenary is celebrated with the arrival of Ivo van Hove’s sensational View from the Bridge. Plus: Lupita Nyong’o, James Earl Jones and Keira Knightley are treading the boards

September 2014

  • NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 28: Fran Kranz, Rose Byrne, James Earl Jones and Kristine Nielsen during the Broadway Opening Night performance Curtain Call for 'You Can't Take It With You' at the Longarce Theatre on September 28, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Walter McBride/Getty Images)Performancetopicstopixbestoftoppicstoppix

    You Can't Take It With You: an ode to oddity returns to Broadway – review

    Alexis Soloski: Scott Ellis’s revival of the 1936 play, starring James Earl Jones, will melt the hardest hearts with its strange central family

June 2014

  • Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy

    Mark Lawson's theatre studies
    Why theatre can't resist planes, trains and automobiles

    Travel may be tough to stage, but whether its the car in Driving Miss Daisy, the bus in Circles or the barge in Bring up the Bodies, vehicles are theatre's most potent props, writes Mark Lawson

May 2014

  • Driving Miss Daisy: The Play review – hefty stage presences but benign drama

  • Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy

    How we made
    Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones: how we made Driving Miss Daisy

April 2014

  • Charles Edwards and Eve Best in Much Ado About Nothing

    Shakespeare's plays – as you like them
    Best Shakespeare productions: Much Ado About Nothing

    From Robert Stephens and Maggie Smith to Simon Russell Beale and Zoë Wanamaker, countless duos have sparred as Benedick and Beatrice. What's your favourite version of the play?

October 2013

  • Star Wars

    Top 10...
    Top 10 sci-fi movies

  • Clare Holman, Stella Gonet, Marion Bailey and Fenella Woolgar in Handbagged

    Mark Lawson's theatre studies
    Doubling the fun? When actors do two for the price of one

September 2013

  • Much Ado About Nothing, theatre

    Much Ado About Nothing; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Herd – review

  • Much Ado About Nothing

    Much Ado About Nothing – review

July 2013

  • mark rylance

    Mark Rylance: 'You have to move into the chaos'

    His role as Rooster Byron in Jerusalem won him unprecedented acclaim, but there is so much more to Mark Rylance. Artistic director, writer, performer – he talks about it all to Rachel Cooke

December 2012

  • James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave on the opening night of Driving Miss Daisy, New York, 2010.

    Theatre blog
    Too old for Beatrice and Benedick – or much ado about nothing?

  • Star turns … Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy.

    Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones to reunite for Old Vic's Much Ado

October 2012

  • The mask slips … Bruce Willis plays a condemned man who faces up to the powers that be in Looper.

    Face off: Looper and the movie mask trend

    Joe Queenan: From Darth Vader to Judge Dredd, a mask can make a man – and it could prolong the careers of Hollywood's heartthrobs

May 2012

  • James Earl Jones in The Best Man

    Theatre blog
    Tony awards 2012: what we learned from the nominations

    David Cote: James Corden's comedy versus Philip Seymour Hoffman's tragedy, Seminar and Alan Rickman left out, but Spider-Man and James Earl Jones left in. Has Tony got it right?
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