Talk:Robert Earl Jones

message: The page introduction says that REJ was best known for his appearances in The Sting and The Cotton Club,  but he is not listed on the Wikipedia page for The Cotton Club.  Someone who knows more about this might want to look into it. Sbabones (talk) 09:32, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: More semi-reliable internet sources are still claiming that Jones died September 7th.  Wencer 15:46, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Death rumours

message: AP is saying that he was 96, which would put his birth year at 1910 or 1909. BGyss 23:58, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  I think it is impossible for him to be born in 1904 when his obituary said he was 96 and public records say 1910. Marcus2 18:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Well, the obituaries say he was 96 when he died, and the Social Security Death Index says he was born in 1910.  People may lie about their relatives ages to make them appear over 100.  If he was born in 1904, we could also say that singer Frankie Valli may have been born in 1929.  Who knows what his birth records say?  Could both REJ and Frankie have legally changed their birthyears?  Who knows?  But the most authoritative sources say 1910 for REJ.  That's why it should stay. 74.36.25.237 14:42, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly.  His age at death was reported as 96, not 102.  Someone has said that 96 popped up because the family or whoever didn't report an age at the time of his death.  Do you think that can happen?  No, because they can't do that.  The age at a person's death must be reported by a family member.  And REJ said in the past he was born in 1911, not 1910.  How do we know that this user who claims the 1904 family bible birthdate isn't lying, unless REJ legally changed his age?  If I can be proven wrong, it is possible that Frankie Valli was born in 1929, and his birth certificate may say that, because it has been suggested that his band mates Nick Massi and Tommy DeVito of the Four Seasons were born in the 1920s as well. 70.101.182.149 (talk) 18:24, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Age dispute

message: I had added brief cast information for some of Jones' films that someone almost immediately deleted, saying that it was totally unnecessary since anyone wanting to know the cast could look it up. This misses the nuanced point of what I had in mind: I wanted to indicate to the casual reader, who'd be less likely to look up the films individually, that Jones was appearing in major mainstream films featuring top actors of the day in the latter stages of his career. So that you can see what I mean, here are my earlier contributions:
:Jones was best known for his leading roles in films such as Lying Lips (1939) and later in his career for supporting roles in films such as The Sting (1973) with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Trading Places (1983) with Dan Ackroyd and Eddie Murphy, The Cotton Club (1984) with Richard Gere and Gregory Hines, and Witness (1985) with Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis.
::I had initially intended to discuss this with the editor who made the changes but his site directs contributors to post comments on the original site's Talk page instead. Racing Forward (talk) 18:11, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing out cast information