The best James Earl Jones’s comedy movies on Google Play Movies

James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones

17/01/1931 (93 años)
We present our ranking of the best James Earl Jones’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about James Earl Jones.

Coming to America

Coming to America
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/06/1988
  • Character: King Jaffe Joffer
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.

Sneakers

Sneakers
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/09/1992
  • Character: NSA Agent Bernard Abbott
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.

Click

Click
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaFantasy
  • Release: 23/06/2006
  • Character: Narrator of Michael's Past (uncredited)
A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.

Robots

Robots
6.4/10
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Big Weld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.

Scary Movie 4

Scary Movie 4
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/04/2006
  • Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.

Soul Man

Soul Man
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/10/1986
  • Character: Professor Banks
A caucasian prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American scholarship at Harvard. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.

Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove
8.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 29/01/1964
  • Character: Lt. Lothar Zogg
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 18/03/1994
  • Character: Himself
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.

The Sandlot

The Sandlot
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 07/04/1993
  • Character: Mr. Mertle
During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall.

The Benchwarmers

The Benchwarmers
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/04/2006
  • Character: Darth Vader (voice)
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.

The Second Civil War

The Second Civil War
6.6/10
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho (Beau Bridges, who won an Emmy) defies the president (Phil Hartman) and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/02/2008
  • Character: Papa Jenkins
When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!

Three Fugitives

Three Fugitives
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/01/1989
  • Character: Dugan
On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
4.5/10
After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost City of Gold, controlled by the evil lord Agon, and mined by his legions of white slaves.

The Sandlot 2

The Sandlot 2
4.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 03/05/2005
  • Character: Mr. Mertle
A decade has passed in the small town where the original Sandlot gang banded together during the summer of ’62 to play baseball and battle the Beast. Now comes the sequel, a campy romp back to the dugout where nine new kids descend on the diamond only to discover that a descendant of the Beast lives in Mr. Mertle’s backyard--a monster of mythical proportions known as "The Great Fear."

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/05/2014
  • Character: Ruben
After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk
4.6/10
A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his father before him. Anxious to make good, Jack sells his C.O.W. (Computer of Wonder) for a handful of magic beans and a mysterious book that records his adventures as he's having them. Accompanied by his sidekick Grayson -- a goose who ate a bean and underwent an amazing transformation -- Jack climbs the magic beanstalk to recover the fabled Harp of Destiny from the evil Giant who lives in the sky. Helping Jack on his perilous quest is the spunky Jillian, a fearless young girl whom Jack meets on his journey -- and who just may have a hidden agenda...

True Identity

True Identity
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/07/1991
  • Character: Himself
In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.

A Family Thing

A Family Thing
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/03/1996
  • Character: Ray Murdock
Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who died in childbirth; plus, he has a half brother Ray, in Chicago, she wants him to visit. Earl makes the trip, initially receiving a cold welcome from Ray and Ray's son, Virgil. His birth mother's sister, Aunt T., an aged and blind matriarch, takes Earl in tow and insists that the family open up to him.

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/07/1976
  • Character: Leon Carter
Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930s.

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