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The daddy of them all

Had it not been for the power of poetry, cinema may well have lost out on one of its greatest villains.

Born in 1931 in Mississippi, the late thirties and early forties found James Earl Jones -- the child who as a man would create the voice of Darth Vader -- almost entirely mute through the effects of a crippling stutter.