Darth Vader. Mustafa. Terrance Mann. King Jaffe Joffrey. The old neighbor in Sandlot.
James Earl Jones, who voice the characters that a generation of "Children of the '80s" ... and some from the '70s ... grew up with, died Monday at the age of 93. His family and agent confirmed he passed in his Hudson Valley region home of upstate New York.
The man has 190 credits on the IMDB internet movie database, but to millions he's known as the voice of Darth Vader, the leader of the Evil Empire, from the Star Wars franchise. Many also know him as the voice of Musafa from The Lion King trilogy, and the character Terrance Mann in 'Field of Dreams,' who went from a rugged loner to a man in touch with his childhood who gave a stirring soliloquy on baseball before walking off into a cornfield in search of something nobody could explain.
Jones portrayed the boxer Jack Johnson in the stage and screen hit "The Great White Hope," the writer Alex Haley in "Roots" ... and, if you were a news junkie in the formative years of cable news, his was the voice that boomed, "This is CNN" during commercial breaks.