James Earl Jones, a multi-award-winning actor of stage and
screen is best known for providing his deep voice for Darth 
Vader in the Star Wars franchise. His first big role was the
part of boxer Jack Jefferson in the film version of the
Broadway play The Great White Hope, 1967.

James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope

Jones as B-52 bombardier Lt. Zogg in Dr. Strangelove

 
                                     Darth Vader

Holland Taylor’s long acting career began in the theater. She 
appeared in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions
from 1960 to 1980. Taylor has been nominated four times for her
role as Evelyn Harper, Charlie and Alan’s mother in the CBS-TV
sitcom series Two and a Half Men.

Holland Taylor with Charlie Sheen in a scene from Two and a Half Men

Holland Taylor shown here on stage in a one-person show as late 
Texas Governor Ann Richards.

Pete Postlethwaite died Sunday following a long
battle with cancer. He was a veteren of the Royal
Shakespeare Company along with other acting 
companies. Steven Spielberg once called Pete
”the best actor in the world” after working
with him on The Lost World: Jurassic Park 
(1997). Postlethwaite was nominated for an 
Oscar for his role in In The Name of the
Father (1993).

Pete Postlethwaite in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

Postletheaite with Daniel Day Lewis in a scene from
In the Name of the Father.

Frank played Count Dracula in this 1979 American-
British horror  film.

Frank Langella’s role as a devil worshipper in  Roman
Polanski’s The Ninth Gate,1999.

Frank was Richard M. Nixon in Ron Howard’s 2008
film Frost/Nixon. He was also cast in the same role
for a stage production of Frost/Nixon in 2007.