Just heard that James Earl Jones, aka the voice of Darth Vader has died. I've had him on my 'list of dinner guests' for some time. A wonderfully resonant voice that sometimes distracted you from the quality of his acting. John Rhys-Davies another I could spend time just listening to.
A great voice that I could listen to for hours. Among my other favourites are/were Alec Guinness and Ian Richardson.
Just reading his list of credits. An amazing array of roles. He described himself as a journeyman actor. Some journey. Star Wars, Lion King, Coming to America, Clear and Present Danger, Driving Miss Daisy, Roots, and a film that I've cried at, Field of Dreams. Amazed to find that the first time he met Carrie Fisher was on the set of Big Bang Theory. He sat alone in a sound booth during the making of all the Star Wars films and never visited a set.
A line I've used in a number of scenarios in life, 'If you build it, they will come'. Though I think what Ray Kinsella hears from the corn field is 'If you build it, he will come', referring to Shoeless Joe Jackson (played expertly by Ray Liotta). Or was 'he' Kevin Costner's dead father?
Not sure James Earl Jones spoke bollocks. Given the depth of his voice, he might have had a third testicle though. When I saw them live, Brad Roberts of Crash Test Dummies put his bass baritone voice down to his third testicle.
Bumptious guy Sheen. One of those "too proud" of everything he does people. A very good character actor but I switch off when he appears on TV as himself
He’s a hypocrite. Demanding Welsh actors get Welsh roles yet he was happy to take an USA role (Masters of Sex and probably others) rather than state that role should be given to an USA actor.
Have to agree. I feel he is all about self promotion and the Welsh bit is his selling point - as long as it fits. Ken Dodd had a good word for it - plumptiousness. He has it, the sports news presenter on BBC Wales (Tomos something or other) and the pitch side announcer for Wales games at CCS (don't know his name) has it. The last one gets right on my tits. Everything announced in Welsh first despite 99.9% of home fans being English speakers. And probably only 30% at most speaking or even understanding the language.
