James theatre work includes numerous Broadway plays, like “Sunrise at Campobello” (1958–1959), “The Merchant of Venice” (1962), “The Winter's Tale” (1963), “Othello” (1964–1965), “Coriolanus” (1965), “Danton's Death” (1965), “The Great White Hope” (1969, he won a Tony Award as the Best Leading Actor) “Hamlet” (1972), “King Lear” (1973), “The Iceman Cometh” (1973–1974), “Of Mice and Men” (1974–1975), “Othello” (1982), “Fences” (1987, he won another Tony Award, always as the Best Leading Actor) “On Golden Pond” (2005), “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (2008) and “You Can't Take It with You” (2014–2015).

James married the actress Julienne Marie in 1968, but the couple divorced in 1972. In 1982, James married the actress Cecilia Hart, with whom he had one child, Flynn Earl Jones. His wife died on October 16, 2016, after a one-year battle with ovarian cancer. James has been dealing with diabetes since the mid 1990s.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Jones

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000469/?nmdp=1&ref_=nm_ql_4#filmography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Earl_Jones_performances