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00:00I shall pray for you morning and evening.

00:03For over 70 years, he graced stage and screen with a voice that commanded attention.

00:08Don't you try and go through life worried if somebody like you or not.

00:15James Earl Jones was born in rural Mississippi in 1931, raised by his mother and his grandparents.

00:21As a child, he developed a debilitating stutter.

00:23You never get over it, really.

00:25You simply learn how to work around it, you know.

00:27A high school teacher helped Jones find his confidence and his voice.

00:31He fell in love with the stage at the University of Michigan and debuted on Broadway in 1957.

00:36Just on a block and then keeping them off me.

00:39His breakthrough Tony-winning performance came as boxing champ Jack Johnson in The Great

00:44White Hope, which was later turned into a movie.

00:47Because every time you push that pinched up face in front of me, I see where they got

00:50me.

00:51As his movie career grew, he continued acting on the small screen.

00:54I, the first celebrity guest on Sesame Street, I am the father.

01:02But it was a two and a half hour voiceover session from George Lucas that changed his

01:06life.

01:07So you hire a guy born in Mississippi, raised in Michigan who stutters, and that's the voice

01:14and that's me.

01:15I got, I lucked out.

01:18The role propelled him, or at least his voice, to worldwide fame as Darth Vader in Star Wars.

01:25For the next 40 years, he excelled on stage, winning a second Tony Award.

01:33And on the big screen, a Navy Admiral in the hunt for Red October.

01:37I was never here.

01:40In The Lion King.

01:41You are more than what you have become.

01:44The voice of a network.

01:46This is CNN.

01:48And the voice of all baseball fans in Field of Dreams.

01:52People will come, Ray.

01:54People will most definitely come.

01:57He received an Honorary Academy Award, had a Broadway theater named for him, became a

02:02Kennedy Center honoree, continuing to work in new projects and revisiting classic roles.

02:09I'm only brave when I have to be.

02:11May I have your attention, please?

02:13On screen and in life, James Earl Jones was a king.

02:18The goal wasn't to be a billionaire, to be a Hollywood star, to be a part of good storytelling.

02:25The goal was about that.

02:26I found you!

02:27He found his voice, and we got a legend.

02:30Steve Patterson, NBC News, Los Angeles.

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