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Mar 9, 2024 · It won seven Academy Awards, including that for best picture. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) The movie begins in Joliet, Illinois, in September 1936. Two men, Johnny Hooker (played by Redford) and his partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), trick a courier out of $11,000, unaware that the money was to have been ...
May 4, 2022 · Robert Earl Jones (February 3, 1910 – September 7, 2006),[1] sometimes credited as Earl Jones, was an American actor and prizefighter. One of the first prominent black film stars, Jones was a living link with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in his career.
Robert Earl Jones, the stage actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as The Sting and Cotton Club, has passed away on September 7, 2006 in Englewood, NJ. He was 102. He was 102. Born on February 3, 1904 in Senotobia, MS, Jones dropped out of school in the third grade to work as a sharecropper.
The only child of Robert Earl and Ruth Connolly Jones, James Earl Jones was born on January 17, 1931, in Arkabutla, Mississippi. Before his son's birth, James's father left the family to pursue a career as a boxer and later as an actor.
Mar 29, 1996 · A Family Thing: Directed by Richard Pearce. With Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach, Irma P. Hall. When an old woman dies, she leaves a note for her apparent son (Robert Duvall) which tells him that his biological mother died giving birth to him.
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Oct 3, 2006 · So Robert Earl Jones, blacklisted actor, former prizefighter (and Joe Louis sparring partner), former New York City Marathon runner, born Coldwater, Mississippi, February 3, 1910 or 1911, was the ...
Dec 10, 2014 · ROBERT EARL JONES I, 57, Senior Pastor for Hill Chapel Church, transitioned to his Heavenly Home, December 5, 2014. Visitation will be from 4-6 p.m. with Memorial service at 6 p.m., Friday, December 1
