James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, `The Lion King` and `Darth Vader` has died. He was 93. His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died Monday morning at home. The cause was not immediately clear.

The Star Wars team pay tribute to James Earl Jones

Jones made a rather interesting cameo once in the popular American sitcom `The Big Bang Theory` as himself. He meets with the protagonist Sheldon Cooper at his favourite restaurant.In the scene, Jones notices Sheldon staring at him in excitement. He tells him, "Let me guess, you love Star Wars?` Sheldon nods in the affirmative with his smile getting wider. `You know I have done other movies?` Sheldon nods.  "But you don`t care?" says Jones and gets Sheldon to once again agree with him. Jones immediately changes his expression to that of a child-like excitement and says that Star Wars is his favourite too.