Freddie Jones
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1927-09-12
Day of Death
2019-07-09 (91 years old)
Place of Birth
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Freddie Jones
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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Known For
Acting
(2015)
By Our Selves
as Himself
(2010)
Come on Eileen
as Dermot
(2008)
Caught in the Act
as Collingsworth Jenkins
(2004)
Ladies in Lavender
as Jan Pendered
(2002)
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Colonel Villefort
(2002)
Puckoon
as Sir John Meredith
(2001)
David Copperfield
as Barkis
(2000)
House!
as Mr Anzani
(2000)
Married 2 Malcolm
as Jasper
(2000)
(1999)
The Passion
as George
(1998)
What Rats Won't Do
as Judge Foster
(1998)
Keep in a Dry Place & Away from Children
as (voice, read by)
(1995)
Cold Comfort Farm
as Adam Lambsbreath
(1994)
The NeverEnding Story III
as Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain
(1994)
Prince of Jutland
as Bjorn
(1994)
A Pinch of Snuff
as Dr Gilbert Haggard
(1993)
The Last Vampyre
as Pedlar
(1993)
(1993)
(1992)
Spies, Inc.
as Filatov
(1992)
Adam Bede
as Old Squire
(1991)
The Last Butterfly
as Karl Rheinberg
(1990)
Wild at Heart
as George Kovich
(1990)
Kremlin Farewell
as Agejev
(1990)
Shoot the Revolution
as Sergei Popescu
(1989)
Erik the Viking
as Harald the Missionary
(1988)
Consuming Passions
as Graham Chumley
(1987)
Comrades
as Vicar of Tolpuddle
(1987)
Ghosts
as Jacob Engstrand
(1987)
Maschenka
as Podtyagin
(1986)
Time After Time
as Ulick Uniake
(1985)
Young Sherlock Holmes
as Chester Cragwitch
(1985)
The Black Cauldron
as Dallben (voice)
(1985)
Silas Marner
as Squire Cass
(1985)
Lost In London
as Leo Porter
(1984)
Dune
as Thufir Hawat
(1984)
Firestarter
as Dr. Joseph Wanless
(1984)
(1983)
Krull
as Ynyr
(1983)
And the Ship Sails On
as Orlando
(1983)
David Macaulay: Castle
as Voice
(1983)
Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind
as Narrator
(1982)
Firefox
as Kenneth Aubrey
(1982)
Murder Is Easy
as Const. Reed
(1982)
(1980)
The Elephant Man
as Bytes
(1979)
Zulu Dawn
as Bishop Colenso
(1979)
(1979)
(1978)
The Nativity
as Diomedes
(1978)
The Dancing Princesses
as The King
(1978)
Sorry...
as Headmaster - 'Audience'
(1978)
The Talking Parcel
as Parrot
(1978)
Renoir, My Father
as Vollard
(1976)
Never Too Young to Rock
as Mr. Rockbottom
(1975)
All Creatures Great and Small
as Cranford
(1975)
A Midsummer Nightmare
as Arnold Tully
(1975)
Snooker
as Tiny
(1974)
Juggernaut
as Sidney Buckland
(1974)
Vampira
as Gilmore
(1974)
Son of Dracula
as The Baron
(1974)
Romance with a Double Bass
as Maestro Lakeyich
(1974)
Item
as Mr Fisher
(1974)
Joe's Ark
as Joe
(1973)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
as Prof. Julian Keeley
(1973)
(1973)
Russian Roulette
as Fiodor Dostoyevski
(1972)
Antony and Cleopatra
as Pompey
(1972)
Sitting Target
as MacNeil
(1971)
Assault
as Reporter
(1971)
Kidnapped
as Cluny
(1971)
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
as Gamekeeper
(1970)
The Man Who Haunted Himself
as Dr. Harris
(1970)
Goodbye Gemini
as David Curry
(1970)
Doctor in Trouble
as Master at Arms
(1970)
Uncle Vanya
as Vanya
(1970)
John Clare: "I Am"
as John Clare
(1970)
Sweeney Todd
as Sweeney Todd
(1969)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
as Prof. Richter
(1969)
Otley
as Philip Proudfoot
(1969)
You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It
as Wilfred Eames
(1968)
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
as Det. Sergeant Dylan
(1967)
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Cainy Bell
(1967)
Accident
as Man in Bell's Office
(1967)
Marat/Sade
as Cucurucu
(1967)
A Man Inside
as Walter Bishop