Though Jones was a contemporary of actors like Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte ... It’s impossible to choose a favorite James Earl Jones performance, but here are two possibilities: His ...

Legendary actor James Earl Jones ... playing boxer Jack Jefferson. Jones was just the second Black actor after Sidney Poitier -- who was nominated in 1958 and 1963 -- to be recognized by the ...

"Early on, Sidney said — I don’t know if it was ... Haley had previously been played by James Earl Jones in the groundbreaking 1977 TV miniseries Roots and its 1979 sequel Roots: The Next ...

One of James Earl Jones’ greatest performances was actually playing author Alex Haley in the book adaptation miniseries Roots and Roots: The Next Generations. So, needless to say, that role ...

As Murphy, 63, reveals in the new two-episode Apple TV+ documentary Number One on the Call Sheet, he was advised by none other than Oscar-winning Hollywood legend Sidney Poitier to ... previously been ...