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- James Earl Jones in ‘The Great White Hope’ 20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterst. James Earl Jones packs the punch in 1970’s The Great White Hope. He earned an Oscar nomination for the film, which was based on a 1967 play of the same name.
- James Early Jones in 1977. Elisa Leonelli/Shutterstock. James Earl Jones smiles in a portrait from 1977. James dealt with a strong stutter during his youth, something he said was tempered by acting and literature.
- James Earl Jones Draws in 1977. Elisa Leonelli/Shutterstock. James Earl Jones ponders during a photoshoot in 1977. He was a fan of all the arts. January 17, 2022, 11:12AM.
- James Earl Jones in New York. M Reichenthal/AP/Shutterstock. James Earl Jones promotes his Broadway play A Lesson from Aloes. At the time, he was splitting his time between stage and screen.
- James Earl Jones' Early Life. Born in 1931 in Mississippi, James Earl Jones is the son of Ruth and Robert Earl Jones. Jones' father left shortly after he was born to pursue acting in New York and Hollywood, so the two were never close until they reconciled in the 1950s.
- James Earl Jones' Time in the Military. Jones attended the University of Michigan, where he was a pre-med major and a member of the Reserve Officer Training Corps.
- James Earl Jones' Broadway Debut. Prior to his work on Broadway, Jones nabbed the role of Shakespeares' Othello for a 1955 Michigan production, the first of many times the actor would play the character.
- James Earl Jones' Shakespeare Sucess. Jones held various roles in a number of Shakespeare productions in the '60s, including Othello, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet.
Head and shoulders portrait of the actor James Earl Jones as a boxer, a still from the 1970 movie 'The Great White Hope', 1970. American actor James Earl Jones in the titular role of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of 'King Lear' in Central Park, New...
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Jones worked steadily in theater winning his first Tony Award in 1968 for his role in The Great White Hope, which he reprised in the 1970 film adaptation earning him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. Jones won his second Tony Award in 1987 for his role in August Wilson 's Fences.
James Earl Jones packs the punch in 1970’s The Great White Hope. He earned an Oscar nomination for the film, which was based on a 1967 play of the same name. © 20th Century...
GREAT WHITE HOPE, THE (1970) Photo of James Earl Jones – 1. Sold. Vintage original 14 x 11” (36 x 28 cm.) double weigbt photo, USA. With the credit/agency stamp on back of photographer Lawrence Schiller, along with the stamp of Transworld Feature Syndicate. Fine.
