Freddie Jones
Actor
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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Filmography
Dune
as Thufir Hawat 1984
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Colonel Villefort 2002
Wild at Heart
as George Kovich 1990
The Black Cauldron
as Dallben (voice) 1985
Firestarter
as Dr. Joseph Wanless 1984
Young Sherlock Holmes
as Chester Cragwitch 1985
Krull
as Ynyr 1983
Firefox
as Kenneth Aubrey 1982
The NeverEnding Story III
as Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain 1994
Erik the Viking
as Harald the Missionary 1989
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
as Prof. Julian Keeley 1973
And the Ship Sails On
as Orlando 1983
Ladies in Lavender
as Jan Pendered 2004
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
as Prof. Richter 1969
Juggernaut
as Sidney Buckland 1974
Accident
as Man in Bell's Office 1967