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He received Kennedy Center Honors in 2002. He followed this up with a critically acclaimed performance in Martin Scorsese's 1983 film The King of Comedy in which Lewis plays a late night TV host plagued by an obsessive fan. He won Tony awards in 1959 in The Great White Hope and in 1987 in Fences. After an eight year absence from movies, Lewis returned in the early 1980s with Hardly Working, a film he both directed and starred in. He also read the opening tease for NBC's coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Athens. It has been seen by very few select individuals, but those who see it either praise it for comediec genius or the utmost in bad taste. He appears in television and radio advertising for Verizon Wireless. Lewis has explained why the film hasn't been released by suggesting litigation over post-production financial difficulties.

He also starred in the television program Under One Roof as Neb Langston, a widowed police officer, a role for which he received an Emmy nomination. The film was a comedy taking place in a Nazi concentration camp. James portrayed General Solomon in the computer game Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun. Later, Lewis starred in and directed the unreleased The Day The Clown Cried in 1972. He has also periodically performed guest voices on television's The Simpsons. In 1966 he began hosting an annual Labor Day Telethon For The Muscular Dystrophy Association, a charity he had already been publicly associated with for more than ten years. He has appeared in many roles since, but is probably best known as the sonorous voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars films, Mufasa in The Lion King, a Disney animated feature, and CNN tagline, "This is CNN." He has performed considerable amounts of other voice-over work. Lewis box office appeal waned by the mid sixties.

Strangelove in 1964. Lewis directed several more of his own films including The Ladies Man, The Errand Boy, and the iconic film, The Nutty Professor. During this period he was consistently praised by many French critics for his comedy and was awarded the Légion d'honneur, the highest civilian honor in France. His first film role was in Dr. Later, this technique would become an industry standard known as video assist. So my first year of school was my first mute year, and then those mute years continued until I got to high school." Ironically, he is most famous for his deep authoritative voice. During production Lewis decided to use a video camera to tape the scene while he was filming it, allowing him to review the footage instantly. I couldn't talk. Legend has it that he edited the film by day and performed in Las Vegas at night.

There is also a musician named Jerry Lee Lewis.. politician. This article is about the comedian and telethon host; Jerry Lewis is also the name of a U.S. (Golden Raspberry Awards).