This may be another case like "Vanessa Williams," where there were two actresses with the same name working in fairly high profile jobs. One was the actress we all know and love. The other was the girl on Melrose Place (as I recall, Season 1, at least--I didn't watch it).
SAG and Equity, etc., asked the MP actress to change her name, but she refused, saying that it was her "birth" name, which it was. There was a brief talk about legal action, but everyone pretty much agreed that if it is your real name, no organization or union has a legal right to demand that you change it, much as they'd like to "encourage" you to do so.
So for a while, we had "Vanessa L. Williams." She was doing what she could to distinguish herself. She later dropped the "L" again when the other actress wasn't so much of a confusion for audiences anymore.
If this is accurate, and his name is legally "James Earl Jones," they can't ask him to change it. Although common sense would tell you to do it anyway.
Check your OBCRs and you'll see that "Elizabeth Taylor" was in the original Broadway cast of West Side Story.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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