Freddie Jones

Freddie Jones

1927-09-12 – 2019-07-09 (age 91) Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
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Biography

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Freddie Jones was an English character actor.

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.

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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo

2002

as Colonel Villefort

Dune
Dune

1984

as Thufir Hawat

The Elephant Man
The Elephant Man

1980

as Bytes

Krull
Krull

1983

as Ynyr

Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart

1990

as George Kovich

The Black Cauldron
The Black Cauldron

1985

as Dallben (voice)

Firefox
Firefox

1982

as Kenneth Aubrey

Young Sherlock Holmes
Young Sherlock Holmes

1985

as Chester Cragwitch

Firestarter
Firestarter

1984

as Dr. Joseph Wanless

The NeverEnding Story III
The NeverEnding Story III

1994

as Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain

Zulu Dawn
Zulu Dawn

1979

as Bishop Colenso

Juggernaut
Juggernaut

1974

as Sidney Buckland

Prince of Jutland
Prince of Jutland

1994

as Bjorn

Ladies in Lavender
Ladies in Lavender

2004

as Jan Pendered

Erik the Viking
Erik the Viking

1989

as Harald the Missionary

Accident
Accident

1967

as Man in Bell's Office

Kidnapped
Kidnapped

1971

as Cluny

Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd

1967

as Cainy Bell

Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra

1972

as Pompey

The Last Vampyre
The Last Vampyre

1993

as Pedlar