The 50 Best James Earl Jones Movies Ranked Worst To Best

A veteran of stage and screen, actor James Earl Jones' career spans seven decades. After getting his start on Broadway, some of his earliest film roles were adapted from award-winning plays, including one where he reprised his own role, bringing "The Great White Hope" from stage to screen. Though today he may be best known for his deep, resonant voice, having brought life roles like Darth Vader and Mufasa, for decades he was Hollywood's go-to actor for kind, gentle, wise men in key supporting roles.

He was also one of Hollywood's busiest working actors, appearing on screens big and small, in everything from big-budget blockbusters to made-for-TV movies airing on the Hallmark Channel. Some of his best films, no matter their size or budget, often explored serious dramatic themes of racism, bigotry, and intolerance, with life lessons to be drawn from heartfelt stories that saw characters triumphing over adversity.

In his many years on the screen, James Earl Jones has done it all: comedies, dramas, thrillers, science fiction, children's movies, and even exploitation films. From his biggest franchise roles to his smallest indie dramas, these are James Earl Jones' best.

1999's "On the QT" is one of many television movies in Jones' career, set in the subways of New York City. Sam Bell ("13 Going On 30") stars as Jari, a young dock laborer from Michigan who plays the violin and aspires to one day perform in grand concert halls. He leaves home with dreams of finding stardom in the Big Apple, and hopes of getting accepted into a prestigious musical academy. But it's not long before he becomes frustrated with life in New York, where instead of being up on a big stage in front of throngs of adoring fans and critics, he's relegated to playing his violin for spare change in the city's underground.

But while eking out a living along the tracks, Jari meets an older, wiser musician named Leo (Jones) who takes him under his wing. Leo introduces him to the greater world of musical art and culture in the city, invigorating his passion for life, and whose inspiration drives him even further. But when he meets a successful singer who may be his gateway to a lucrative career in show business, he's torn between the inspiring and creative world below, and the hum-drum but financially secure world above.

The 1975 thriller "Deadly Hero" stars Don Murray ("Peggy Sue Got Married") as Lacy, an NYPD officer who's been busted down to a city beat cop for his abusive and racist behavior. On one fateful call, Lacy arrives to discover a young woman named Sally being held at knife point by Rabbit (James Earl Jones), a mugger at the end of his rope. But even after Rabbit gives himself up and releases his hostage — seemingly repentant for what he's done — Lacy shoots and kills him in cold blood. 

Knowing this could be the end of his career, Lacy convinces the woman to tell the press that he'd heroically saved her life in a deadly armed conflict. But when a mayoral hopeful uses Lacy's tale in his campaign and Sally begins to have second thoughts, the embattled officer must make sure that she sticks to her story. A low-rent neo-noir drama, "Deadly Force" may not have a lot of screen time to offer James Earl Jones, but Rabbit's crucial role in sparking the story's conflict makes it a memorable performance.

From Larry Cohen, the director of the underrated blaxploitation gangster film "Black Caesar," comes the wickedly funny horror thriller "The Ambulance," starring James Earl Jones, Eric Roberts, Megan Gallagher, and Red Buttons. The film tells the story of a Marvel Comics artist named Josh Baker (Roberts) who gets involved in an investigation into a series of kidnappings around New York City. After his ailing girlfriend is picked up by an ambulance and promptly goes missing, he's determined to get to the truth, because no one else seems to be able to help. 

James Earl Jones stars in the film as grizzled police lieutenant Frank Spencer, who's on the case and has no time for Baker's wild theories about an ambulance that kidnaps women. But together with intrepid officer Mallory (Gallagher), he realizes that the young superhero artist may just be on to something. A mind-bendingly bizarre joyride, "The Ambulance" is one of Jones' most unique movies. It also happens to feature Marvel legend Stan Lee's very first feature film cameo – playing himself of course — making the movie a must-see for comic book fanboys as much as for those who love wild horror movies and James Earl Jones.

"No matter what games the weasels play outside the ring, what happens inside is pure — that's your edge." That's the sage advice that James Earl Jones gives Courtney B. Vance ("Law and Order") in "Percy and Thunder," where they star as the title characters. Jones is Percy, the former a retired boxing champ, and Vance is a current contender for a major title, whose ringside nickname is "Thunder." 

Thunder is a small town tussler who quickly makes a name for himself and eventually finds the limelight in the big city. But he's ill-equipped for the rampant corruption that greets him: greasy promoters and slimy con-men always looking for an edge and who only want to exploit him. Thunder is soon saved by the grace of grizzled veteran — and his new mentor — Percy. With Percy's wit and wisdom, Thunder may just have a shot at conquering the ring. A strong script and a good cast, which also includes Billy Dee Williams and Robert Wuhl, make it nice little picture, even if it's got some predictable elements we've seen in other, similar movies before.

No, this isn't some cheesy sci-fi B-movie about a monster that lands in the woods and terrorizes a group of teenagers. Instead, the 1979 made-for-TV movie "The UFO Incident" tells the startling true story of Barney (James Earl Jones) and Betty Hill (Estelle Parsons), an ordinary married couple who've apparently had their memories erased following an encounter with an unidentified flying object. But Barney and Betty's lives are thrown upside down when they are both shaken by the traumatic event, which neither of them can seem to recall. 

Plagued by nightmares and haunted by horrific imagery, they decide to seek the aid of a psychiatrist (Barnard Hughes), who helps them dig out their buried memories. Through treatment — and hypnosis — Betty and Barney realize they may have been abducted and experimented on by aliens from outer space. Now the otherwise average couple must fight to come to terms with their other-worldly experience and find a way to live normal lives.

Though it might sound like schlock, "The UFO Incident" takes the Hills' story seriously, with a strong cast that treats it as a sensitive and moving drama as it recounts one of alien folklore's most famous stories (per History). 

Before he was one of Hollywood's biggest stars, "Deadpool" actor Ryan Reynolds teamed up with Darth Vader himself for "Finder's Fee," a 2001 drama that also featured Robert Forster ("Jackie Brown"), Matthew Lillard ("Scream"), and Eric Palladino ("ER"). Part mystery, part thriller, part touching character drama, the film follows a young man named Tepper (Palladino) who comes across a lost wallet, only to discover that it happens to contain a winning lottery ticket that's worth 6 million dollars.

But Tepper and his group of friends are hosting a friendly game of poker, and when the owner of the wallet Avery Phillips (James Earl Jones) comes looking for it, a police lockdown keeps them all inside. That's when Avery gets a little surprise: his winning jackpot lotto ticket is now up for grabs in Tepper's poker game, and if he wants it back he's going to have to stay and play to win it all. A surprisingly unpredictable, twist-filled story, "Finder's Fee" will keep you guessing right up until the very end. Variety gave it high marks, calling it a "one act play disguised as a movie." An underrated, under-the-radar film starring a pair of big names, it might be one of Jones' best movies that more people should see.

Based on the novel by "Interview with the Vampire" author Anne Rice, the 1997 Showtime original movie "Feast of All Saints" was a lavish television production with a massive ensemble cast, including James Earl Jones, Forest Whitaker, Eartha Kitt, Pam Grier, Ossie Davis, Jasmine Guy, and Jennifer Beals. But "Feast of All Saints" is no supernatural gothic horror movie, instead recounting the story of the the gens de couleur libres, otherwise known as the free people of color, a group of people of African descent who came from Europe and who lived free lives in New Orleans prior to the outbreak of the Civil War.

The film adaptation focuses on Marcel, a young man borne of the union between a Black woman and a wealthy landowner. Though he lives a life of wealth, privilege, and status thanks to his parentage, his racial background often creates problems for him amidst the nation's boiling racial tensions. James Earl Jones stars as the older Marcel, who narrates the film and is shown in his later years looking back on his troubled youth.

The same year that James Earl Jones first voiced the diabolical intergalactic villain Darth Vader, he also starred alongside Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier in the caper comedy "A Piece of the Action." Cosby and Poitier (who also directed) play a pair of lifelong crooks who've gotten away with big scores in daring heists throughout their criminal careers. James Earl Jones stars opposite the two stars as a retired detective named Joshua Burke, who has all the goods on their many past crimes. But to their surprise, Burke isn't looking to put them behind bars. Instead, the former lawman wants their help in running an inner city youth program that works with delinquent youngsters, and offers to stay quiet on their criminal pasts if they'll agree to work at his job-training center.

After some early hilarious hiccups, the two former con men become do-gooders, but when one of their old heists come back to haunt them, everything the three men have built threatens to come crashing down. Though not the funniest film on this list, it's got plenty of heart, and its three stars deliver good comic performances, especially Jones in the role of the well-meaning mentor Burke.

A prequel to the Hallmark holiday classic "The Christmas Box," the 1996 film "Timepiece" is set during World War II. The film tells the story of how Mary, played by future star Naomi Watts, came to be in the possession of the Christmas Box that would become a family heirloom while working at a factory owned by David Parkin (Kevin Kilner). James Earl Jones stars as an old friend of Parkin's, a local clockmaker who faces racism and prejudice when he's accused of murdering the son of one of his customers.

The kind and lovable clockmaker is of course innocent of the crime, but it will take Parkin's help to prove it. That's not the only crisis facing the newly wedded factory owner, who's now raising Mary's son while his daughter is diagnosed with a terrible disease. A story of family, friendship, and forgiveness, "Timepiece" may be a tear-jerking melodrama from Hallmark, but Jones and his fellow castmates Watts, Kilner, and Ellyn Burstyn help elevate the material to become a solid family film.

Based on the book "Trinity's Child," the HBO original movie "By Dawn's Early Light" from 1990 was one of the last products of the Cold War-era fear of a potential third World War sparked by nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union. The movie centers on the President of the United States (Martin Landau) and a handful of his high-ranking military officials. This includes James Earl Jones as a United States Air Force General nicknamed "Alice" who runs the military's airborne command center nicknamed "Looking Glass."

The action begins when a breakaway group within the USSR launches a nuclear attack on the United States, against orders. The Russian leader threatens the U.S. President that if a large scale counter attack is launched against them, it will trigger total Armageddon. With all options on the table, the President and his forces must now determine how to respond. But when a second attack from Russian forces is launched, the President authorizes "Alice" to take command of American military forces and carry out an assault that could end in the annihilation of all mankind. Powers Booth, Rebecca DeMornay, Peter McNichol, Darren McGavin, and Rip Torn round out the stellar cast.

Another TV movie from 1997, the HBO original "The Second Civil War" was a black comedy and satire of America's growing disdain for immigration. Focusing on a potential armed conflict over refugees from Pakistan, it's packed full of social commentary on everything from fanatical nationalism to the greed of the news media. As the president cynically uses immigration for political gains (funneling refugees into districts where he needs more votes), his opponents want to close down borders entirely, despite profiting off of foreign industries.

But a war is nearly sparked when Idaho orders its National Guard to refuse refugees, leading to a tense standoff with the federal government. All the while, a ratings-obsessed cable news network uses the event for its own ends, manipulating public opinion whichever way they desire. It all culminates in a clash between two former Gulf War veterans who command the opposing national and state troops in a second American Civil War. 

Directed by Joe Dante ("Gremlins"), the film is incisively ironic and pointedly political, feeling nothing short of prescient today. James Earl Jones appears as a part of the fictional news team, alongside James Coburn, Denis Leary, Ron Perlman, and Phil Hartman as the President of the United States.

While many believe that Muhammad Ali helped coin the term GOAT, an acronym meaning the "Greatest of All Time" (via Boston.com), one-time street hoopster Earl Manigault may take umbrage with that claim. Back in the late 1950s, Manigault was a promising basketball phenom nicknamed "The Goat" thanks to his unusual surname, which many believe lead to the backronym "the Greatest Of All Time" long before Ali coined the term for himself. 

Whatever the case, Manigault's life was dramatized in the 1996 HBO movie "The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault," with Don Cheadle as the aspiring young athlete. It chronicles the early days of the young star as he becomes a celebrity in Harlem for his skills on the court, but is drawn into a life of sex and drugs that threatens to derail his big league hopes.

Once pushed to a prep school in South Carolina by local basketball guru Holcolm Rucker (Forest Whitaker), Manigault meets school headmaster and mentor Dr. McDuffie (James Earl Jones), who helps straighten the young man out and reorganize his priorities. But struggles at home endanger his future and threaten to tear down all of his future potential. Clarence Williams III, Ronny Cox, Loretta Devine, and Eric LaSalle (who also directed) co-star.

Also starring Blair Underwood ("Dirty Sexy Money") and Cicely Tyson ("Diary of a Mad Black Woman"), the 1990 television film "Heat Wave" stars James Earl Jones in the story of the 1965 Watts Riots in Los Angeles, more accurately referred to as the Watts Rebellion (per History). The movie follows Bob Richardson (Underwood), a low-level classified ad messenger for the L.A. Times who is caught in the middle of the civil unrest sparked by racial tensions between the Black community and the bigoted police force. The gung-ho Richardson takes it upon himself to chronicle the horrific events as he experiences them, and eventually comes to work for the paper as a full-time reporter. 

In this deeply dramatic retelling of the chaos that unfolded on L.A. streets, "Heat Wave" sees Underwood's Bob Richardson encounter shoe shop owner Junius (played by James Earl Jones), as well as characters played by a number of Oscar-nominated actors including Tyson, Sally Kirkland, and Margaret Avery. The film would go on to win four Cable Ace Awards, with Jones taking home the Prime Time Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special.

The feature film directorial debut for Helen Shaver (who would go on to direct episodes of "Westworld," "Law and Order: SVU," and "Station Eleven"), the 1999 family movie "Summer's End" saw James Earl Jones star as retired doctor Bill Blakely. Once a prominent physician at an Atlanta Hospital, Blakely has never quite come to terms with his troubled youth, and takes a trip back to his boyhood hometown where he is confronted by the ghosts of his dark past.

While there, the old doctor meets and befriends a young local boy going through his own traumatic experiences in the here and now. Devastated by the death of his father, the boy meets Blakely while he and his family are spending the summer at the lakeside community. As their bond grows, the two have a chance to teach each other lessons about trauma, truth, and the spirit of friendship, but only if they can overcome the town's bigotry and prejudice that has long haunted Blakely. Winner of two Daytime Emmy Awards, Jones would nab the trophy for his role as Blakely, winning Outstanding Performance in a Children's Special.

A film co-written by screenwriter and actor Billy Bob Thornton, the 1996 film "A Family Thing" united two longtime Hollywood legends, Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones, who play a pair of surprising biological brothers. It all starts with the death of a white woman named Ruby Pilcher, who leaves behind a letter for her son Earl (Duvall) informing him that his real mother was in fact an African American maid who had worked for the family and had been sexually assaulted by his father. 

Shaken by this revelation, Earl seeks out his real mother's surviving family and meets Ray Murdoch (Jones), a Chicago police officer who had always blamed Earl's father for his mother's death, and hates him by association. After being hospitalized, Earl is taken in by Ray, whose family struggles to understand him. But thanks to the kind and loving words of the family matriarch, Ray and Earl slowly bond and begin to understand each other, finding more similarities than they had ever realized. Together, along with Ray's adult son Virgil, they learn the true meaning of family, faith, and tolerance.

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Based on the acclaimed 1948 novel by Alan Paton, "Cry the Beloved Country" is a 1995 film that was one of the first South African productions after the election of Nelson Mandela and the fall of apartheid. Its impressive cast includes James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, and Charles S. Dutton. Set just prior to the implementation of apartheid in the early 1940s, Jones plays Reverend Stephen Kumalo, who is summoned to Johannesburg by a fellow minister. 

When he arrives, he discovers his two children in trouble, having fallen in with a dangerous crowd. And when the son of a white wealthy landowner (Harris) is killed, his son Absalom is arrested for the crime. Reverend Kumalo gets to know the father of the victim, a man named James Jarvis (Harris), a racist apartheid supporter, and the film shows us the two men forced to find common ground. A film that sets lofty goals for itself, "Cry the Beloved Country" doesn't quite meet them all, but is a spiritually fulfilling story with a powerful message.

A 2005 Hallmark Channel original movie, "The Reading Room" is a feel-good story of a man who wants to do right by his community, but faces many challenges along the way. The film centers on William Campbell (James Earl Jones), a wealthy man whose wife has recently passed away. In order to honor her last requests, Campbell spearheads the opening of a free library and learning center to serve the impoverished community where he had spent much of his youth. 

But the endeavor proves easier said than done, as a local preacher is skeptical of Campbell's intentions, while car-jackings and break-ins threaten to shut down his library. But Campbell perseveres and soldiers on, and teaches under-privileged children how to read, bringing a beacon of hope into a neighborhood desperately in need of way to the light. An inspiring story, "The Reading Room" holds few surprises, but with Jones' towering performance as the gentle and wise Campbell, we get a heartwarming story of one man's commitment to honor his true love by helping others.

With the 1992 film "Patriot Games" a big hit, a sequel was quickly moved into production, landing just two years later. The film reunited Harrison Ford and James Earl Jones, in his third appearance as Jim Greer after his debut in "The Hunt for Red October." Here, Greer is an ailing admiral, hospitalized with pancreatic cancer, but continues to act as CIA Agent Jack Ryan's friend, mentor, and advisor in his latest assignment. In the film, Ryan is made Deputy Director of Intelligence thanks to Greer's recent hospitalization, and is tasked with negotiating with the Colombian government at the behest of the President of the United States, in a deal to seize the assets of an international drug lord.

Unbeknownst to Ryan, however, is that a secret mission has been launched by covert U.S. forces; a deadly kill mission to take out the ruthless Cali Cartel, led by steely-eyed CIA special ops soldier John Clark (Willem Dafoe). The clandestine conflict puts Ryan in the middle of a dangerous international game, and makes him an unwitting target of the cartels while on a diplomatic mission. Though it couldn't quite match "Patriot Games" or "Red October," the threequel "Clear and Present Danger" is still a top notch political thriller and action adventure film — Ford and Jones' last on-screen pairing to date.

The first big screen adaptation of the classic sword-and-sandal series of novels by Robert E. Howard, "Conan the Barbarian" stars future action hero icon Arnold Schwarzenegger in the first major role of his career. The film was directed by John Millius ("Red Dawn") and written by Millius and Oliver Stone. A brutally violent fantasy epic, Arnold plays the titular barbarian as a larger-than-life, muscle-bound, sword-wielding warrior out for vengeance after the death of his parents. When Conan was but a child, the cruel tyrant Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones) invaded his homeland of Cimmeria, murdered his parents, and stole his father's sword.

Years later, now a highly trained warrior, Conan sets out across the land to track down Thulsa Doom, recover his family sword, and get his bloody revenge. Along the way he allies himself with the outlaw Valeria and the mystical wizard Akiro, going on to loot the Tower of the Serpent and rescue a beautiful princess. An '80s classic, it helped usher in a new wave of fantasy adventure films like "Hercules" (starring Arnold's body building rival Lou Ferrigno), while receiving its own sequel in 1984 and a spin-off in the form of "Red Sonja" a year later.

A '90s thriller that boasts a broad ensemble cast, "Sneakers" features James Earl Jones alongside the likes of Robert Redford, Ben Kingsley, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, and Mary McDonnell. The story centers on Martin (Redford), a reformed criminal who now leads a team of "break-in" professionals — hackers and heist experts who are hired by banks, insurance companies, and tech moguls to test their security systems. Perhaps the earliest cyber-security pros, these reformed crooks have turned their criminal pasts into a lucrative legal business.

The story kicks off when the team is approached by a pair of government agents who need their services for an actual heist. Asked to recover a so-called "black box" supposedly stolen by a Russian operative, they're in way over their heads when it's discovered the device is a bleeding edge decryption device, and the men who hired them aren't who they seem. But with the help of a noble NSA agent (James Earl Jones), they must navigate the high-stakes world of international espionage to thwart a plot by a devious criminal from Martin's past.

A modern crime caper with a veteran cast of award-winning actors, "Sneakers" is full of clever twists and turns.

James Earl Jones stars alongside Chris Cooper ("The Amazing Spider-Man 2") and Mary McDonnell ("Battlestar Galactica") in the 1987 film "Matewan," which depicts the 1920 coal miners' strike in West Virginia. The movie begins with the Stone Mountain Coal Company doing what they can to prevent their labor force from striking, but union organizer Joe Kenehan (Cooper) has other ideas. While the company tries to provoke the miners into violence, Joe does his best to tamp down hostilities between the company and his men, while trying to smooth relations with Black and Italian laborers who've been brought in to cross the picket line.

Things go from bad to worse when armed men hired by the company attempt to intimidate the workers. But unexpected sympathy from nearby hill people embolden the striking miners to fight back and hold their ground. As the strike drags on, tensions between Kenehan and his miners threatens to boil over as he's framed for an assault, turning Few Clothes Johnson (James Earl Jones) against him.

Though a box office flop, "Matewan" was lauded by critics and audiences alike. A historical western of a sort, it's a dramatic recounting of an important event in the history of American worker's rights that had been left untold on screen for far too long. 

Before John Krasinski, before Chris Pine and Ben Affleck, before even Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin played American super-spy Jack Ryan in the first big screen Tom Clancy adaptation, "The Hunt for Red October." The 1990 movie was directed by John McTiernan ("Die Hard," "Predator"), and co-stars James Earl Jones as Admiral Jim Greer, in his first of three appearances in the role. Sean Connery plays Marko Ramius, who at the height of the Cold War commands a deadly new Russian submarine called the Red October. With global tensions already at a fever pitch, Ryan and Greer must track down the sub when Ramius defies his own people's orders and goes rogue with the nuclear-armed undersea vessel.

In addition to Jones, Baldwin, and Connery, the all-star cast also features Scott Glenn and Courtney B. Vance on Greer's side, while Sam Neill, Stellan Skarsgård, and Tim Curry appear as Russian officers under Ramius. A devastating action thriller classic, it officially heralded the arrival of the Jack Ryan franchise that's still going strong today.

Adapted from the Tony Award-winning stage play that James Earl Jones had appeared in on Broadway, "The Great White Hope" would see the actor reprise his role on the big screen in 1970. Alongside his original on-stage co-star Jane Alexander, Jones stars as Jack Jefferson, a boxer who began to dominate the boxing world in the early 1910s. But as he rises through the ranks, beating fighter after fighter, the white establishment does its best to stop a Black man from becoming champion. As Jefferson knocks out every white opponent he faces, he just can't compete against the intolerance that surrounds him.

Complicating matters for Jefferson is his courtship of a young white woman named Eleanor Bachman, which only enflames the public's disdain for him. Now the boxing world prays for a "Great White Hope" — a new fighter who might stand a chance against Jefferson and prevent him from taking the heavyweight title. With the world against him, Jefferson won't back down, but it may come at a terrible cost.

A triumphant film that turned James Earl Jones into a bonafide big screen star, both he and Alexander would be nominated for Oscars for their performances.

The classic 1994 Disney animated feature "The Lion King" was a smash hit for the studio, and still remains one of the highest grossing animated films ever made three decades later (via Newsweek). With memorable musical numbers and an all-star voice cast, it stars James Earl Jones as the King of the Pride Lands, Mufasa. The elder royal lion is teaching his young son Simba (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) the ways of the world, in order to prepare him for the day when he will become king. But secretly, Mufasa's cousin Scar (Jeremy Irons) plots to kill the king and his son and take the throne for himself. Though Mufasa is killed, he is able to save his son's life.

With his father dead, the young Simba runs away and goes to live in the jungle, making friends with animals like the lovable warthog Pumbaa and his weaselly meerkat pal Timon. But once he grows up, Simba must face his family legacy, and with his friends' help, sets out to retake the kingdom from Scar and his tyrannical forces. One of Disney's most celebrated animated features, it spawned multiple sequels and spinoffs, and was remade in 2019 in CGI/live-action, with Jones reprising his role as Mufasa.

James Earl Jones returned as the inimitable voice of galactic despot Darth Vader in the highly anticipated 1980 sequel, "The Empire Strikes Back," and this time around he played an even more important role than he had three years before. Set not long after the previous film, the young Luke Skywalker is off searching for an ancient warrior said to be able to train him in the ways of the Jedi, to prepare him for his next encounter with the Empire and the Dark Lord of the Sith. 

Vader, meanwhile, is determined to track down the troublesome rebel, and with the help of bounty hunter Boba Fett, he lures Luke to Cloud City by placing his friends in danger. Hoping to ensnare the powerful Skywalker and turn him to the dark side of the Force, Vader meets Luke in a momentous confrontation that would change cinema forever.

Often cited as one of the best sequels ever made, "The Empire Strikes Back" also immortalized Jones with one of the most famous lines of dialog ever spoken on screen. Rocking audiences to their core, his revelation to Luke — "I am your father" — sent audiences into a frenzy and cemented Vader's (and Jones') place in Hollywood history.