I’ve continued to think about James Earl Jones since his death last month at 93, which focused lots of well-deserved attention on his legendary acting career. But Jones is also

James Earl Jones, who died last month at the age of 93, was acclaimed for his many decades of work on stage, screen and television, and was rightly considered one of the greatest American actors of the last century.

I’m proud to say that I was the first one they asked to help with the alphabet. And I did it without cue cards.”