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James Earl Jones, stage and screen legend best known as voice of Darth Vader, dead at 93

The actor who earned Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, an honorary Academy Award and a Grammy, whose inimitable voice gave life to Mustafa and Darth Vader, died Monday, his agent said.

“When he was ‘The Great White Hope,’ it was shortly after [Martin Luther] King’s assassination, and there were riots in the streets of the United States,” said Dominic Taylor, a professor of African American theater at UCLA. Coburn, James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson and director Leonard Foglia during the Broadway opening night curtain call for 'The Gin Game' at the John Golden Theatre on Oct. 14, 2015, in New York.Walter McBride / WireImage file Director George Lucas tapped Jones to do some voiceover work for a quirky space opera called “Star Wars” to dub over Darth Vader actor David Prowse’s heavy British accent, made worse by the muffle effect of the mask.

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