Freddie Jones
Acting
Born September 12, 1927 · Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description the Wikipedia article Freddie Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Films (90)
By Our Selves
2015
Come on Eileen
2010
Caught in the Act
2008
Ladies in Lavender
2004
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
Puckoon
2002
David Copperfield
2001
Married 2 Malcolm
2000
House!
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
1999
The Passion
1999
What Rats Won't Do
1998
Keep in a Dry Place & Away from Children
1998
Cold Comfort Farm
1995
The NeverEnding Story III
1994
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
Prince of Jutland
1994
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1993
The Last Vampyre
1993
Spies, Inc.
1992
Adam Bede
1992
The Last Butterfly
1991
Shoot the Revolution
1990
Wild at Heart
1990
Kremlin Farewell
1990
Erik the Viking
1989
Consuming Passions
1988
Comrades
1987
Ghosts
1987
Maschenka
1987
Time After Time
1986
Silas Marner
1985
Young Sherlock Holmes
1985
Lost In London
1985
A Crack in the Ice
1985
The Black Cauldron
1985
Dune
1984
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
1984
Firestarter
1984
And the Ship Sails On
1983
Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind
1983
Krull
1983
David Macaulay: Castle
1983
Firefox
1982
Eleanor, First Lady of the World
1982
Murder Is Easy
1982
The Elephant Man
1980
Brecht and Co
1979
Zulu Dawn
1979
Of Mycenae and Men
1979
Secret Orchards
1979
The Talking Parcel
1978
The Nativity
1978
Renoir, My Father
1978
Sorry...
1978
The Dancing Princesses
1978
Never Too Young to Rock
1976
A Midsummer Nightmare
1975
All Creatures Great and Small
1975
Snooker
1975
Vampira
1974
Juggernaut
1974
Item
1974
Son of Dracula
1974
Joe's Ark
1974
Romance with a Double Bass
1974
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1973
Russian Roulette
1973
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
1973
Sitting Target
1972
Antony and Cleopatra
1972
Kidnapped
1971
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
1971
The Shattered Eye
1971
Assault
1971
Uncle Vanya
1970
The Man Who Haunted Himself
1970
Goodbye Gemini
1970
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1970
Doctor in Trouble
1970
Sweeney Todd
1970
John Clare: "I Am"
1970
You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It
1969
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
1969
Otley
1969
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
A Man Inside
1967
Marat/Sade
1967
Accident
1967