Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 12, 1927
Died
Jul 09, 2019
Place of Birth
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Credits
167 titles
Freddie Jones
Biography
Frederick Charles Jones (September 12, 1927 – July 9, 2019) Jones was born in the town of Longton in the city of Stoke-on-Trent. He became an actor after ten years of working as a laboratory assistant with a firm making ceramic products, when his hobby of acting took over. He was trained at the prestigious Rose Bruford College and became famous for his role as Claudius in the 1968 British television series The Caesars. He often played eccentric characters. He narrated the award-winning video Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind: Pollination. He plays the character Sandy Thomas in ITV’s soap opera Emmerdale. He was also something of a David Lynch regular, appearing in The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984), Wild At Heart (1990), his short-lived TV series On The Air (1992) and the short film Hotel Room (1993). Jones was the father of actor Toby Jones. He died on the 9th July, 2019 following a short illness. Description the Wikipedia article Freddie Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
By Our Selves
Himself
Come on Eileen
Dermot
Caught in the Act
Collingsworth Jenkins
Casanova
Bragadin
Ladies in Lavender
Jan Pendered
The Royal
Sebastian Fox-Kirby
الكونت دي مونت كريستو
Colonel Villefort
Puckoon
Sir John Meredith
David Copperfield
Barkis
David Copperfield
Barkis
Married 2 Malcolm
Jasper
House!
Mr Anzani
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
Birdy
The Passion
George
What Rats Won't Do
Judge Foster
Keep in a Dry Place & Away from Children
(voice, read by)
Midsomer Murders
Benbow
Neverwhere
The Earl
Dalziel and Pascoe
French
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Fortunato
Cold Comfort Farm
Adam Lambsbreath
The NeverEnding Story III
Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain
A Pinch of Snuff
Dr Gilbert Haggard
Prince of Jutland
Bjorn
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Sapsea
The Last Vampyre
Pedlar
Mr. Wroe's Virgins
Tobias
Hotel Room
Louis "Lou" Holchak
Spies, Inc.
Filatov
Heartbeat
Mr. Parrish
Adam Bede
Old Squire
The Last Butterfly
Karl Rheinberg
Shoot the Revolution
Sergei Popescu
The Paper Man
Sir Charles Llewellyn
Wild at Heart
George Kovich
Kremlin Farewell
Agejev
TECX
Erik the Viking
Harald the Missionary
Sob Sisters
Consuming Passions
Graham Chumley
Vanity Fair
Sir Pitt Crawley
Comrades
Vicar of Tolpuddle
Ghosts
Jacob Engstrand
Maschenka
Podtyagin
Inspector Morse
Harry Field Senior
Casualty
Iain Roles
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Inspector Baynes
Time After Time
Ulick Uniake
Lovejoy
Arnold Tapie