the first episode of the Star Wars anthology series, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the third episode in the sequel trilogy. In a crucial battle sequence in
The Empire Strikes Back, Vader declares to Mark Hamill’s character, Luke Skywalker, “I am your father.” It is a turn that will go down in movie history. ‘RIP Dad’ was written by Hamill on X on Monday, along with a sign of a crushed heart.
The creator of “Star Wars,” George Lucas, praised Jones in 2015 at an event held in New York, saying, “He created, with very little dialogue, one of the greatest villains that ever lived.”
Jones said in September 2022 that he would be leaving his position as Darth Vader’s voice actor. Respeecher will now produce Vader’s voice parts based on Jones’s back catalog of recordings.
Among many other movies, Jones starred in Conan the Barbarian (1982), Field of Dreams (1989), and The Hunt for Red October (1990) during his commercial peak in the 1980s and 1990s.
