He was also on House, M.D. season 6, The Tyrant.
The Jedi have finally won.
Well, damn. 
May The Force be with him.
One of my favorite roles of his was in an episode of Frasier with the clever title:
“Roz’s Krantz & Gouldenstein Are Dead”
Plot: Fraiser’s producer Roz does community service in an old people’s home (What?? The Home??) and Frasier goes with her. He meets JEJ, a blind man who has a plaster face mask of his late wife that gives him comfort to hold and touch. Of course, Frasier accidentally breaks it and then tries to cover up… but all turns out well. Jones is a delightful, sensitive, upbeat character. It’s a great episode.
I was lucky enough to see him in his memorable stage role as Othello (with Christopher Plummer as Iago, Dianne Wiest as Desdemona and Kelsey Grammer as Cassio!) I couldn’t begin to list all of the other roles, large and small, in which I’ve seen (and heard) him. RIP.
I thought about him for no reason about half an hour before hearing of this. A little creepy.
I used to work in a used book/ antiques store. He came in one day. I got a vibe he didn’t want to be fawned over, so I treated him like any other customer, which he seemed to appreciate. He was super cool and bought thousands of dollars worth of African art and art books. Really nice chill guy. RIP.
I am envious.
This is the first role I saw him in:
My parents said I used to freak out when he ducked out of the frame at the end of the scene.
My favorite cameo of his on The Simpsons is this scene.
OMG, he’s so young…
And it is scary the way he ducks out!
Jej was quoted saying he is a goofy dad. That is exactly what he was in that episode, a goofy, fun, dad.
That was his film debut.
He showed off some leading-man charm in THE GREAT WHITE HOPE, where he believably clowns around as a guy who can turn on a dime to ‘unsmiling bonebreaker’ mode — and who also has a ‘smiling bonebreaker’ mode, at that.
We were just talking about him last weekend. He lived a bit east of Poughkeepsie, where we were last weekend, not quite in his neighborhood, but close. Friend from the area (who’d been to his house a few times when he delivered for UPS) said he was an absolute regular guy; came out to get his own packages, shopped for his own groceries, would always take time for fans in the store, etc.
I ran into him once when I was in grad school. He was there to give a speech, though I didn’t know it. On the way to my office one day I said hello to a friend, passed by a classroom another friend was teaching in, then I saw James Earl Jones in the hallway… wait, what?
Somebody was showing him around. Didn’t meet him, but I filed that away as an interesting random encounter. Sorry he’s gone.
Lucky! I saw him live in the 2010 Broadway production of Driving Miss Daisy, and he was great, but I would love to have seen him as Othello.
The most surprising thing about that role is it was the first time Carrie Fisher and Jones met.
Oh, I loved the Sprint commercials he did with Malcolm McDowell.
I am sad to hear of his passing.
I do occasional voicework myself, and James Earl Jones was somebody I always aspired to. That deep baritone voice, that sureness that he always delivered—yes, if you ever doubted, this was indeed CNN—that was what I hoped I could do. I never could. Not in his voice, anyway.
But he inspired me to use my voice, as I stated. Rest well, James, and know that there are a number of us who learned from you, and who wish we had your voice.
A giant. Anybody that can transform the silly drek of Thulsa Doom’s lines in Conan the Barbarian into such pure scenery-chewing gold deserves to be remembered as a master.
It’s definitely not a hidden masterpiece but for something off the beaten path with some decent acting, try the 1976 film The River Niger. Appears to be fairly available streaming.