James Earl Jones

Highest Rated:
100% Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Lowest Rated:
0% Casper - A Spirited Beginning (1997)
Birthday:
Jan 17, 1931
Birthplace:
Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA
Bio:
Possessing one of the most instantly recognizable voices in entertainment history, James Earl Jones is one of America's most distinguished and versatile actors. Although best-known to many people as the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars or as the booming "Voice of CNN," Jones has led a decades-old…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%
Number of Movies: 158
Box Office Since 2001: $945.4M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2012 Joe Papp In Five Acts
  • Actor
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2010 Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
  • Actor
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2009 87% Earth (Disneynature's Earth) (Planet Earth)
  • Narrator
$32.0M
2009 Jack and the Beanstalk
  • The Giant
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2008 22% Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
  • Papa Jenkins
$42.2M
2008 18% Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  • Darth Vader
$35.1M
2007 Twenty Five Years of Circle in the Square
  • Actor
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2007 The Magic 7
  • Actor
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2006 Searching for Orson
  • Actor
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2006 The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
  • Narrator
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2006 The Clinton 12
  • Actor
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2006 11% The Benchwarmers
  • Darth Vader
$57.7M
2006 Ali Rap
  • Actor
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2006 37% Scary Movie 4
  • Narrator
$90.7M
2005 64% Robots
  • Voice Box at Hardware Store
$128.1M
2005 40% The Sandlot 2
  • Mr. Mertle
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2005 God's Trombones
  • Actor
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2005 Nine Dog Christmas: The Movie
  • Actor
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2005 Clay Classics: God's Trombones
  • Actor
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2005 The Reading Room
  • William Campbell
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2005 80% Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 3D
  • Darth Vader
$380.2M
2004 100% Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  • Actor
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2004 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
  • Actor
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2004 Paul Robeson: James Earl Jones One-Man Show
  • Actor
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2004 68% The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
  • Actor
$85.4M
2004 Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
  • Actor
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2004 Black Indians: An American Story
  • Actor
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2004 The Great Year
  • Actor
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2003 Stories to Remember - Noah's Ark
  • Actor
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2001 The Feast of All Saints
  • Older Marcel
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2001 60% Finder's Fee
  • Avery Phillips
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2001 Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street
  • Actor
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2001 American Legends
  • Actor
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2000 Black Indians: An American Story
  • Narrator
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1999 70% The Annihilation of Fish
  • Fish
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1999 82% Fantasia 2000
  • Narrator
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1999 Santa and Pete
  • Grandpa Nicholas
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1999 Undercover Angel
  • Actor
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1999 On the Qt
  • Leo
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1999 Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
  • Actor
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1999 Our Friend, Martin
  • Actor
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1998 Summer's End
  • Actor
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1998 Bingo Long And His Traveling All Stars
  • Actor
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1998 80% Merlin
  • Mountain King
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1998 The Lion King 2 - Simba's Pride
  • Mufasa
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1998 Summer's End
  • Actor
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1997 0% Casper - A Spirited Beginning
  • Kibosh
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1997 Century of Black Cinema
  • Actor
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1997 The Second Civil War
  • Actor
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1997 What the Deaf Man Heard
  • Actor
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1997 56% Gang Related
  • Arthur Baylor
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1997 Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
  • Actor
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1997 Alone
  • Actor
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1997 Horton Foote's Alone
  • Actor
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1997 Afro Promo
  • Actor
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1996 73% A Family Thing
  • Ray Murdock
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1996 Dreamfield
  • Host
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1996 Rebound: The Legend of Earl The Goat Manigault
  • Actor
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1996 Good Luck
  • James Bing
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1996 Timepiece
  • Lawrence Flynn
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1996 81% Looking for Richard
  • Interviewee
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1995 33% Jefferson in Paris
  • Madison Hemings
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1995 85% Cry, the Beloved Country
  • Father Stephen Kumalo
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1995 18% Judge Dredd
  • Narrator
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1995 People
  • Actor
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1995 Making of Jurassic Park
  • Host
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1994 90% The Lion King
  • Mufasa
$94.2M
1994 100% Africa: The Serengeti
  • Narrator
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1994 19% Clean Slate
  • Dolby
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1994 The Road to Freedom: The Vernon Johns Story
  • Vernon Johns
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1994 82% Clear and Present Danger
  • Admiral James Greer
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1994 Bah! Humbug!
  • Actor
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1994 God's Trombones: A Trilogy
  • Actor
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1994 53% The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
  • Himself (uncredited)
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1993 Percy and Thunder
  • Percy
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1993 Dream Rider
  • Actor
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1993 63% The Sandlot
  • Director
  • Mr. Mertle
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1993 Excessive Force
  • Jake
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1993 Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama
  • Actor
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1993 63% Sommersby
  • Judge Issacs
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1993 Dreamrider
  • Actor
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1993 29% The Meteor Man
  • Mr. Moses
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1992 Scorchers
  • Bear
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1992 Lincoln - The Pivotal Year: 1863
  • Narrator
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1992 Lincoln - "I Want to Finish This Job": 1864
  • Narrator
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1992 Stories to Remember - Noah's Ark
  • Narrator
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1992 Great Bears of Alaska
  • Actor
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1992 Lincoln - "Now He Belongs to the Ages": 1865
  • Narrator
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1992 74% Patriot Games
  • Admiral James Greer
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1992 Stories From the Black Tradition
  • Actor
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1992 Freddie as F.R.O.7 (Freddie the Frog)
  • Actor
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1992 81% Sneakers
  • Mr. Bernard Abbott
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1992 Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
  • Actor
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1992 Lincoln - The Making of a President: 1860 - 1862
  • Narrator
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1991 43% True Identity
  • Himself
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1991 Convicts
  • Ben Johnson
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1991 JFK Conspiracy
  • Actor
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1991 Greatest Adventure Stories From the Bible - Queen Esther
  • Actor
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1990 Heat Wave
  • Junius Johnson
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1990 Terrorgram
  • Retribution
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1990 Last Flight Out
  • Al Topping
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1990 The Ambulance
  • Lt. Spencer
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1990 Ivory Hunters
  • Inspector Nkuru
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1990 96% The Hunt for Red October
  • Admiral James Greer
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1989 Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail... to Terror (Hellbent)
  • Morrison
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1989 By Dawn's Early Light
  • Alice
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1989 Insects - The Little Things That Run the World
  • Actor
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1989 15% Three Fugitives
  • Detective Dugan
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1989 Best of the Best
  • Coach Couzo
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1989 JFK: The Day the Nation Cried
  • Actor
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1989 87% Field of Dreams
  • Terence Mann
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1988 68% Coming to America
  • King Jaffe Joffer
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1987 93% Matewan
  • Few Clothes Johnson
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1987 Hard Road to Glory, A - The Black Athlete in America
  • Narrator
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1987 Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
  • Emperor of the Night
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1987 43% Gardens of Stone
  • Sgt. Maj. "Goody" Nelson
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1986 14% Soul Man
  • Prof. Banks
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1986 Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
  • Umslopogaas
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1986 My Little Girl
  • Mr. Bailey
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1986 Great Bible Stories - Moses
  • Actor
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1985 City Limits
  • Albert
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1985 Atlanta Child Murders
  • Major Walker
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1985 Greatest Adventure Stories From the Bible - Moses
  • Actor
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1984 The Vegas Casino War
  • Jack Madrid
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1983 79% Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
  • Darth Vader
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1982 77% Conan the Barbarian
  • Thulsa Doom
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1982 Amy and the Angel
  • The Angel Gabriel
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1982 The Flight of Dragons
  • Omadon
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1981 Blood Tide (Demon Island) (The Red Tide) (Bloodtide)
  • Frye
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1980 Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (The Mad Messiah)
  • Father Divine
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1980 Bushido Blade
  • Harpooner
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1980 97% Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
  • Darth Vader
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1979 Paul Robeson
  • Actor
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1978 40% Star Wars: Holiday Special
  • Actor
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1977 22% Exorcist II - The Heretic
  • Kokumo
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1977 33% The Last Remake of Beau Geste
  • Abdul
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1977 A Piece of the Action
  • Joshua Burke
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1977 The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
  • Malcolm X
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1977 93% Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
  • Darth Vader
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1977 Jesus of Nazareth
  • Balthazar
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1976 87% The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings
  • Leon
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1976 Deadly Hero
  • Rabbit
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1976 Swashbuckler
  • Nick Debrett
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1976 The River Niger
  • Johnny Williams
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1975 The UFO Incident (Interrupted Journey)
  • Actor
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1974 Claudine
  • Roop
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1974 King Lear
  • King Lear
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1972 The Man
  • Douglas Dilman
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1972 Malcolm X: His Own Story As It Really Happened
  • Narrator
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1972 Malcolm X
  • Actor
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1970 End of the Road
  • Dr. D
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1970 King - Montgomery to Memphis
  • Actor
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1970 33% The Great White Hope
  • Jack Jefferson
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1967 27% The Comedians
  • Dr. Magiot
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1964 100% Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Lt. Lothar Zogg
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1958 Ebony Elegance
  • Actor
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Guys With Guns
  • Actor
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Lone Star Kid
  • Actor
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Quotes from James Earl Jones's Characters

    1. Mufasa: And so we are all connected in the great circle of life.
    From The Lion King. Submitted by Maarten H (3 months ago)
    1. Princess Leia Organa: Darth Vader. Only you could be so bold. The Imperial Senate will not sit still for this. When they hear you've attacked a--
    2. Darth Vader (voice): Don't act so surprised, Your Highness. You weren't on any mercy mission after all. Several transmissions were beamed up to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you.
    3. Princess Leia Organa: I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan!
    4. Darth Vader (voice): You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor! Taker her away!
    From Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Submitted by Cody H (4 months ago)
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