James Earl Jones burst into national prominence in 1970 with his powerful Oscar-nominated performance as America’s first Black heavyweight champion in The Great White Hope
By Kehinde Okeowo
Hollywood actor, James Earl Jones has passed on at the age of 93.
He gave up the ghost on Monday, September 9, at his home in Duchess County, New York.
His death was confirmed by his agency, though no additional details were shared about the circumstances.
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James Earl Jones burst into national prominence in 1970 with his powerful Oscar-nominated performance as America’s first Black heavyweight champion in The Great White Hope.
The legendary thespian made his big-screen debut in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) and was noteworthy in many other films, including Claudine (1974) opposite Diahann Carroll; Field of Dreams (1989), as the reclusive author Terence Mann; and The Sandlot (1993), as the intimidating neighborhood guy Mr. Mertle.
Fans are already mourning the actor’s loss on social media, given how Jones has been one of Hollywood’s most beloved legends for decades.
