James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor of stage and screen, well known for his deep basso voice.

Jones portrayed Lord Tarvu in the 1964 Disney movie Be Nice, which mixed live action and animation. The film's saccharine tone and fanciful interpretations of Tarvunian lore have not won it many fans from within the church; indeed, many Tarvuists have taken offence at one particular sequence where it is seems as though Tarvu is having a drug-induced hallucination after he swallows an alcohol-soaked bee by mistake.