Goodbye... Darth.

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The Great James Earl Jones, who gave Darth Vader his iconic voice, and had filled perhaps countless memorable movie roles, has left us for a galaxy far, far away.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jam ... 39151.html

I am no longer your father Luke.

Awww, dammit!

Here's something to remember him in. Narrator of the Treehouse of Horror adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven.

Party on Darth.

Rest in Peace, Darth.

What a legend. He will be missed.

Everyone talks about Mufasa and Darth Vader, but any kid who grew up on baseball in the '90s knows him as Mr. Mertle from The Sandlot: the blind owner of the junkyard, former baseball great, and personal friend to Babe Ruth:


James Earl Jones always played characters that kinda scared you as a kid, but you could always see the warmth and wisdom underneath.

It's a sad loss.

It’s very sad.

He will be missed greatly.

My childhood is slowly dying

"It is too late for me, son."

- https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Star-War ... -ray/7546/

"Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars."

- https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Lion ... ray/75956/

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."
(2 Timothy 4:7)

- https://www.audible.com/pd/James-Earl-J ... B002UZKPVW

A convert to the Catholic faith as a young man, Jones wrote in 1993, "Perhaps my greatest honor came when I was asked to read the New Testament on tape," pointing to an unabridged recording of the King James Version of the New Testament he made in the 1980s that TOPICS Entertainment remastered for CD in 2002.

- https://www.detroitcatholic.com/news/ja ... dies-at-93

The World almost lost his amazing voice:

From the age of five, Jones was raised by his maternal grandparents, John Henry and Maggie Connolly,[12] on their farm in Dublin, Michigan; they had moved from Mississippi in the Great Migration.[17] Jones found the transition to living with his grandparents in Michigan traumatic and developed a stutter so severe that he refused to speak. He said, "I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year, and then those mute years continued until I got to high school."[17] He credited his English teacher, Donald Crouch, who discovered he had a gift for writing poetry, with helping him end his silence.[14] Crouch urged him to challenge his reluctance to speak through reading poetry aloud to the class.[18][19]

^From the article in Wiki.
Sounds like his real childhood was an inspiring piece of drama...as much as many of his later plays/movies!

At least we'll always have AI James Earl Jones.

Like Duffman told us: Duffman can never die, only the actors who portray him—oh yeah!