Robert Earl Jones

Robert Earl Jones

Born: February 3, 1910
Died: September 7, 2006
in Tate County, Mississippi, USA
Robert Earl Jones (February 3, 1910 – September 7, 2006), sometimes credited as Earl Jones, was an American actor and professional boxer. One of the first prominent black film stars, Jones was a living link with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in his career.

Jones was best known for his leading roles in films such as Lying Lips (1939) and later in his career for supporting roles in films such as The Sting (1973), Trading Places (1983), The Cotton Club (1984), and Witness (1985). He was the father of actor James Earl Jones.

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Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor
Title: Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor
Character: Ben (archive footage)
Released: March 23, 2012
Type: Movie
Allison Kramer suffers recurring nightmares and selective amnesia, returning to camp to discover the truth as the secrets of infamous killer Angela Baker are revealed. [Production for this sequel to 'Sleepaway Camp III' (1989) was shut down after Double Helix Films went bankrupt in 1992, though the film was officially completed using archive footage and released on-demand beginning in 2012.]
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Rain Without Thunder
Title: Rain Without Thunder
Character: Old Lawyer
Released: February 5, 1993
Type: Movie
This evocative faux documentary imagines a dystopian near future in which the government monitors every woman's sexual activity. At its center is Allison Golding (Ali Thomas), serving a life sentence for having an abortion. As politicians, journalists and other key figures discuss Allison's case, they reveal how American society reached this totalitarian state.
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Maniac Cop 2
Title: Maniac Cop 2
Character: Harry
Released: July 18, 1990
Type: Movie
After being framed by corrupt superiors and brutally assaulted in prison, Officer Matt Cordell teams up with a vicious serial killer to track down those that wronged him.
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Witness
Title: Witness
Character: Custodian
Released: February 8, 1985
Type: Movie
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit, and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.
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The Cotton Club
Title: The Cotton Club
Character: Stage Door Joe
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
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A Billion for Boris
Title: A Billion for Boris
Character: Grandaddy
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
In this family-friendly sequel to Freaky Friday, teenaged Boris realizes that his television set is somehow receiving broadcasts from the future, so he starts betting piles of cash on horse races and making himself outrageously rich. Boris is on top of the world...until he discovers that something this good doesn't come without a price.
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Sleepaway Camp
Title: Sleepaway Camp
Character: Ben
Released: November 18, 1983
Type: Movie
After a terrible boating accident, Angela Baker is sent to Camp Arawak, where a series of bizarre and violent "accidents" begin to claim the lives of various campers.
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Trading Places
Title: Trading Places
Character: Attendant
Released: June 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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Cold River
Title: Cold River
Character: The Trapper
Released: March 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Based on the novel Winterkill, by William Judson, Cold River is the story of an Adirondack guide who takes his young daughter and step-son on a long camping trip in the fall of 1932. When winter strikes unexpectedly early (a natural phenomenon known as a 'winterkill' - so named because the animals are totally unprepared for a sudden, early winter, and many freeze or starve to death), a disastrous turn of events leaves the two children to find their own way home without food, or protection from the elements.
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Title: The Sophisticated Gents
Character: Big Ralph Joplin
Released: September 29, 1981
Type: TV
The 25-year reunion of members of a black athletic-social club brings together nine of its members for the first time to honor their old coach but is marred by a murder investigation involving one of the gents.
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Proof of the Man
Title: Proof of the Man
Character: Wilshire Hayward
Released: October 8, 1977
Type: Movie
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
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Title: Lou Grant
Released: September 20, 1977
Type: TV
The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.
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The Displaced Person
Title: The Displaced Person
Character: Astor
Released: April 12, 1977
Type: Movie
A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.
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Cockfighter
Title: Cockfighter
Character: Buford
Released: August 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.
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The Sting
Title: The Sting
Character: Luther Coleman
Released: December 25, 1973
Type: Movie
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Judge
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Creon
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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One Potato, Two Potato
Title: One Potato, Two Potato
Character: William Richards
Released: July 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.
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Pie in the Sky
Title: Pie in the Sky
Character: Farmer
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Rural runaway finds himself in Manhattan.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Joe Dean
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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The Secret of the Purple Reef
Title: The Secret of the Purple Reef
Character: Tobias
Released: December 11, 1960
Type: Movie
When a man mysteriously vanishes on his ship in the Caribbean, his two brothers journey there to investigate his disappearance.
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Wild River
Title: Wild River
Character: Sam Johnson (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1960
Type: Movie
A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.
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Odds Against Tomorrow
Title: Odds Against Tomorrow
Character: Jazz Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1959
Type: Movie
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
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The Notorious Elinor Lee
Title: The Notorious Elinor Lee
Character: Benny Blue
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.
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Lying Lips
Title: Lying Lips
Character: Detective Wenzer
Released: January 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt.