James Earl Jones and His Headmaster Voice.
I was very saddened to hear of the death of Mr James Earl Jones. When Star Wars was first released in 1977 I was at school. Until I saw that film my only other Si Fi watch had been the TV show 'Lost in Space'. The actor inside Darth Vader's costume was the man from the Green Cross Code road safety adverts, David Prowse. The character as we all know was voiced by James Earl Jones. Although I went to an all girls school his voice always reminded me of that of an headmaster, the sort that you would never dare disobey. Although, in some films it had a beautiful comic twist, such as the "I want to be left alone" character in Fields of Dreams Terence Mann or King Jaffe Joffer.in Coming to America . He was magnificent as a lawyer defending a racist serial killer in an episode of Law and Order . I really regret I missed the opportunity to see him on stage as Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . I think it was a lovely goodbye message from Mark Hamill who simply wrote ...