{"id":135959,"date":"2024-09-10T10:42:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T14:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=135959"},"modified":"2024-09-10T10:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T14:42:06","slug":"james-earl-jones-legendary-stage-and-screen-actor-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=135959","title":{"rendered":"James Earl Jones, Legendary Stage And Screen Actor, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The award-winning actor James Earl Jones<\/a>\u00a0died Monday at his home in Dutchess County, New York. He was 93.<\/p>\n

Deadline was the first to report<\/a> the news, which was confirmed by Jones\u2019\u00a0representatives at Independent Artist Group.<\/p>\n

The prolific actor\u2019s signature deep, rumbling voice<\/a> gave life to iconic movie characters, such as Darth Vader in \u201cStar Wars<\/a>\u201d and Mufasa in both the 1994 and 2019 versions of Disney\u2019s \u201cThe Lion King<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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James Earl Jones with his honorary Academy Award statue, presented in 2011 for “extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement.” Luke MacGregor \/ Reuters<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Jones, born in Arkabutla, Mississippi<\/a>, in 1931, was the son of Broadway actor Robert Earl Jones<\/a> and Ruth Connolly Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The award-winning actor James Earl Jones\u00a0died Monday at his home in Dutchess County, New York. He was 93. Deadline was the first to report the news, which was confirmed by Jones\u2019\u00a0representatives at Independent Artist Group. The prolific actor\u2019s signature deep, rumbling voice gave life to iconic movie characters, such as Darth Vader in \u201cStar Wars\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135962,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135959\/revisions\/135962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}