Claudine
So what else did Darth Vader do? It’s often forgotten that James Earl Jones, the voice (though not the body – that was Dave Prowse) behind the galaxy’s most badass dad had an acting life away from Star Wars. Exhibit A – 1974’s Claudine, in which he goes toe to toe with Diahann Carroll in an earlier role as a feckless dad. Or is he? That, in a way, is what the film is all about. He plays the catalyst in the life of Carroll’s Claudine, an inner-city ghetto gal raising six kids by various fathers and working a job for a purse-lipped white family while also claiming welfare. Roop (Jones) is the … Read more