Noteworthy shows and movies turning 30 this year:
- Animaniacs
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Rocko’s Modern Life
- Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (and Sonic SatAM)
- Beavis and Butt-Head
- Boy Meets World
- Jurassic Park
- Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Sandlot
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James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor. Over his career, he has received three Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985. He was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009 and the Honorary Academy Award in 2011.
Suffering from a stutter in childhood, Jones has said that poetry and acting helped him overcome the disability. A pre-med major in college, he served in the United States Army during the Korean War before pursuing a career in acting. Since his Broadway debut in 1957, he has performed in several Shakespeare plays including Othello, Hamlet, Coriolanus, and King Lear. Jones worked steadily in theater winning his first Tony Award in 1968 for his role in The Great White Hope, which he reprised in the 1970 film adaptation earning him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations.
Jones won his second Tony Award in 1987 for his role in August Wilson's Fences. He was further Tony nominated for his roles in On Golden Pond (2005), and The Best Man (2012). Other Broadway performances include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008), Driving Miss Daisy (2010–2011), You Can't Take It with You (2014), and The Gin Game (2015–2016). He received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2017.
Jones made his film debut in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964). He received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Claudine (1974). Jones gained international fame for his voice role as Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise, beginning with the original 1977 film. Jones' other notable roles include in Conan the Barbarian (1982), Matewan (1987), Coming to America (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Sandlot (1993), and The Lion King (1994). Jones has reprised his roles in Star Wars media, The Lion King (2019), and Coming 2 America (2021).
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In genral whats your favorite movies?
my complete list of 60 of my favorite movies (i might make an edit of it sooner or later):
peter pan (2003)
nosferatu (1922)
I married a witch (1942)
black christmas (1974)
9 (2009)
fantastic mr. fox (2009)
metropolis (1927)
mars attacks! (1996)
the sandlot (1993)
vampire hunter d (1985)
sucker punch (2011)
the impossible (2012)
sword of the stranger (2007)
pandora's box (1929)
scooby doo! and the cyber chase (2001)
peter pan (1953)
scoody doo! and the legend of the vampire (2003) (i was a scooby doo child)
the outsiders (1983)
pacific rim (2013)
kramer vs kramer (1979)
howl's moving castle (2004)
captain america: the winter soldier (2014)
return of the jedi (1983)
willy wonka & the chocolate factory (1971)
midnight special (2016)
bottoms (2023)
now you see me (2013)
spirited away (2001)
shutter island (2010)
zodiac (2007)
trick 'r treat (2007)
juno (2007)
return of the living dead (1985)
rec (2007)
dumbo (1941)
double indemnity (1944)
the red shoes (1948)
the asphalt jungle (1950)
godzilla (1954)
the producers (1967)
the boy friend (1971)
coffy (1973)
rumble fish (1983)
oldboy (2003)
spring breakers (2012)
snowpiercer (2013)
green room (2015)
cleoptra (1963)
the florida project (2017)
house of wax (1953)
haxan (1922)
train to busan (2016)
blood on satan's claw (1971)
let the right one in (2008)
vampyr (1932)
pastoral: to die in the country (1974)
gold diggers of 1933 (1933)
grand hotel (1932)
terminator 2: judgement day (1991)
wicked city (1987)
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