Cry, the Beloved Country
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…A Dry White Season (1989), Cry the Beloved Country (1995), and The Lion King II (1998). Ladysmith Black Mambazo performed in Steppenwolf Theater Company of Chicago’s staging of The Song of Jacob Zulu, a play about the apartheid era in South Africa. The production premiered in Chicago in 1992, opened…
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…and a wealthy landowner in Cry, the Beloved Country (1995), earning a newfound reputation as an engaging character actor. His best-known later roles were Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000) and Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001; also released as Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone) and…
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- In James Earl Jones
…of Alan Paton’s classic novel Cry, the Beloved Country. Jones next starred opposite Robert Duvall in A Family Thing (1996). His big-screen appearances diminished in the 21st century, though he did take occasional supporting roles. He received an honorary Academy Award in 2011.
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