Freddie Jones
- Acting
- September 12, 1927 · Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
- July 9, 2019
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 · Self
- Come on Eileen · Dermot
- Caught in the Act · Collingsworth Jenkins
- Casanova · Bragadin
- Ladies in Lavender · Jan Pendered
- The Royal · Sebastian Fox-Kirby
- The Count of Monte Cristo · 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, George Woodford
- 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, Henry Wallowski
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes · Inspector Baynes
- Time After Time · Ulick Uniake
- Lovejoy · Arnold Tapie
- Silas Marner · Squire Cass
- Young Sherlock Holmes · Chester Cragwitch
- Lost In London · Leo Porter
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ · Scruton, Mr. Scruton
- Theatre Night · Jacob Engstrand
- A Crack in the Ice · Lt. Col. Svinin
- The Black Cauldron · Dallben (Voice)
- Summer Season · Lieutenant-Colonel Svinin
- Screen Two · Agejev
- Dune · Thufir Hawat
- Travelling Man · Morgan Rees
- The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
- Firestarter · Dr. Joseph Wanless
- Sherlock Holmes · Inspector Baynes, Pedlar
- The District Nurse
- And the Ship Sails On · Orlando
- Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind · Narrator
- Krull · Ynyr
- David Macaulay: Castle · Voice
- Firefox · Kenneth Aubrey
- Eleanor, First Lady of the World
- Murder Is Easy · Const. Reed
- Can I Help You?
- The Elephant Man · Bytes
- Brecht and Co
- Screenplay · Richard Morrison
- Zulu Dawn · Bishop Colenso
- Of Mycenae and Men
- Secret Orchards · Roger Ackerley
- The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris · Selwyn Raven