RIP James Earl Jones

[Shebengal]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/09/09/james-earl-jones-dead-star-wars-lion-king/75149628007/

 

Great voice, great actor, rare EGOT recipient. He will be missed.

[Jamie_B]

Legend 

[KA14_HOF]

Very sad. Loved him particularly in "Field of Dreams" and "Hunt for Red October."

 

But the first I saw of him was in a made-for-TV movie back in the mid-70s called "The Cay." He (sporting white hair & beard and a Jamaican accent) and a young white boy end up stranded on an isolated island along with a cat after their boat is torpedoed by a German sub. Definitely low-budget, but I always liked him as an actor from then on. FWIW, "The Cay" is actually on YouTube. (50 min. runtime)

 

Interesting fact: his father played Luther, Johnny Hooker's (Robert Redford) partner, in "The Sting."

[claptonrocks]

Arby's has the meats..

[Shebengal]

This is CNN.

[KA14_HOF]

On 9/14/2024 at 1:10 AM, claptonrocks said:

Arby's has the meats..

I think that's Ving Rhames.

[claptonrocks]

9 hours ago, KA14_HOF said:

I think that's Ving Rhames.

Never knew that.

 

Ving Rhames 

" I'm gonna get mid evil on your ass"...

[AmishBengalFan]

Shoot!  I didn't know that he had passed. 

 

My Bacon Number is Three (via Television) because of him.  The Oracle does not have me in its' database, but I was on a TV show (CBS Sunday Morning) with him... his TV Bacon number is 2, so mine is 3.

 

I already had a 4 (via Film). I was in a documentary with Little Feat's Richie Hayward, who has a Bacon number of 3. But since I've already got a 3 via Jones, I'll just go with that.

 

Anyway, belated RIP JEJ.  

 

"You don't build a bond without being present."