James Earl Jones, the award-winning stage and screen actor whose deep and booming yet gentle voice led to multiple emblematic movie roles, including one of the greatest villains of all time, has died. He was 93. His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died Monday morning at home. The cause was not immediately clear. Jones was born January 17, 1931, in Arkabutla, Miss. He struggled with stuttering throughout his early years. It caused him to remain nearly mute for eight years of his childhood, he told The Daily Mail in 2010. "As a small child, I would communicate to my family, or at least those who didn't mind being embarrassed by my stutter or my being embarrassed," Jones said. "I did communicate with the animals quite freely, but then that's calling the hogs, the cows, the chickens. They don't care how you sound, they just want to hear your voice." MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/james-earl-jones-dead-darth-vader-actor/507-71b15e94-15e0-47fb-88a0-a14a4baa630b