Acting great James Earl Jones, who voiced Star Wars villain Darth Vader and Mufasa in The Lion King, has died at the age of 93.
He appeared in Conan the Barbarian, played Eddie Murphy’s dad in Coming to America and starred in The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games.
Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, Vader’s son in Star Wars, tweeted: “RIP dad.”
He was one of the few entertainers to have won the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards).
Fellow Star Wars actor Samuel L. Jackson previously said of him: “If you were an actor or aspired to be an actor, if you pounded the payment in these streets looks for jobs, one of the standards we always had was to be a James Earl Jones.”
One of his earliest roles was a small part in Stanley Kubrick’s famous Cold War satire, Dr Strangelove.
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