In honor of James Earl Jones, who just died at age ninety-three, we’re all calling up memories of our favorite Jones performances. These memories probably involve his magnificently deep, rumbling voice.

As Darth Vader in Star Wars (1977) he unforgettably intoned to a subordinate officer who doubts the power of the Force, “I find your lack of faith disturbing.” That’s right before the throat-crushing begins.

In The Lion King (1994), millions of children were marked for life by the magisterial spirit of Mufasa urging from beyond the grave, “Simba, you must remember who you are — you are my son, the one true king.” And Conan the Barbarian (1982) features Jones’s remarkably unsettling grin as he delivers the “Steel isn’t strong, boy” speech to the bloodied but unbowed title character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.