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.
Movie | By Our Selves | Himself | 2015-10-01 |
Movie | Come on Eileen | Dermot | 2010-10-06 |
Movie | Caught in the Act | Collingsworth Jenkins | 2008-01-04 |
Series | Casanova | Bragadin | 2005-03-13 |
Movie | Ladies in Lavender | Jan Pendered | 2004-11-12 |
Movie | Puckoon | Sir John Meredith | 2002-01-01 |
Movie | The Count of Monte Cristo | Clarion | 2002-01-23 |
Movie | David Copperfield | Barkis | 2001-12-25 |
Series | Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | Unknown | 2000-03-18 |
Movie | House! | Mr Anzani | 2000-05-05 |
Movie | Married to Malcolm | Jasper | 2000-05-25 |
Movie | The Passion | George | 1999-05-01 |
Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Phantom Train of Doom | Birdy | 1999-10-24 |
Movie | What Rats Won't Do | Judge Foster | 1998-07-01 |
Series | Midsomer Murders | Unknown | 1997-03-23 |
Series | Neverwhere | The Earl | 1996-09-12 |
Series | Dalziel & Pascoe | Unknown | 1996-03-16 |
Movie | Cold Comfort Farm | Adam Lambsbreath | 1995-01-01 |
Movie | Royal Deceit | Bjorn | 1994-02-23 |
Movie | The NeverEnding Story III | Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain | 1994-10-26 |
Movie | A Pinch of Snuff | Dr Gilbert Haggard | 1994-04-09 |
Series | Hotel Room | Louis "Lou" Holchak | 1993-01-08 |
Movie | The Last Vampyre | Pedlar | 1993-03-14 |
Series | Mr. Wroe's Virgins | Tobias | 1993-02-24 |
Movie | Adam Bede | Old Squire | 1992-03-01 |
Series | Heartbeat | Unknown | 1992-04-10 |
Movie | Spies, Inc. | Filatov | 1992-09-11 |
Movie | The Last Butterfly | Karl Rheinberg | 1991-01-01 |
Series | TECX | Unknown | 1990-03-22 |
Movie | Wild at Heart | George Kovich | 1990-08-17 |
Movie | Erik the Viking | Harald the Missionary | 1989-09-01 |
Series | Sob Sisters | 1989-05-26 | |
Movie | Consuming Passions | Graham Chumley | 1988-04-06 |
Series | Inspector Morse | Unknown | 1987-01-06 |
Movie | Maschenka | Podtyagin | 1987-03-05 |
Movie | Comrades | Vicar of Tolpuddle | 1987-08-23 |
Movie | Ghosts | Unknown | 1987-06-14 |
Series | Lovejoy | Unknown | 1986-01-10 |
Series | Casualty | Iain Roles | 1986-09-06 |
Series | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole | Scruton | 1985-09-16 |
Series | Bulman | Unknown | 1985-06-05 |
Movie | The Black Cauldron | Dallben (voice) | 1985-07-24 |
Movie | Lost In London | Leo Porter | 1985-11-20 |
Movie | Silas Marner | Squire Cass | 1985-12-30 |
Movie | Young Sherlock Holmes | Chester Cragwitch | 1985-12-04 |
Series | The District Nurse | 1984-01-10 | |
Movie | Firestarter | Doctor Joseph Wanless | 1984-05-11 |
Movie | Dune | Thufir Hawat | 1984-12-14 |
Movie | The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood | 1984-05-22 | |
Movie | David Macaulay: Castle | Voice | 1983-01-01 |
Movie | And the Ship Sails On | Orlando | 1983-10-07 |
Movie | Krull | Ynyr | 1983-07-29 |
Movie | Murder Is Easy | Const. Reed | 1982-01-02 |
Movie | Eleanor, First Lady of the World | 1982-05-12 | |
Movie | Firefox | Kenneth Aubrey | 1982-06-18 |
Movie | The Elephant Man | Bytes | 1980-10-09 |
Movie | Secret Orchards | 1979-03-14 | |
Movie | Zulu Dawn | Bishop Colenso | 1979-05-14 |
Movie | Brecht and Co | 1979-08-10 | |
Series | Hazell | Unknown | 1978-01-16 |
Movie | The Dancing Princesses | King | 1978-01-01 |
Series | Pennies from Heaven | Headmaster | 1978-03-07 |
Series | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Unknown | 1978-01-22 |
Series | The Devil's Crown | Unknown | 1978-04-30 |
Movie | The Nativity | Diomedes | 1978-12-17 |
Movie | Sorry... | Headmaster - 'Audience' | 1978-11-21 |
Movie | The Talking Parcel | Parrot | 1978-12-26 |
Series | Children of the Stones | Dai | 1977-01-10 |
Series | The Galton & Simpson Playhouse | Unknown | 1977-02-17 |
Series | Target | Unknown | 1977-09-09 |
Series | Nicholas Nickleby | Unknown | 1977-03-27 |
Series | The Ghosts of Motley Hall | Sir George Uproar | 1976-04-28 |
Movie | Never Too Young to Rock | Mr. Rockbottom | 1976-07-01 |
Series | Space: 1999 | Dr. Charles Logan | 1975-09-04 |
Movie | All Creatures Great and Small | Cranford | 1975-07-27 |
Movie | Son of Dracula | The Baron | 1974-04-12 |
Movie | Romance with a Double Bass | Maestro Lakeyich | 1974-01-01 |
Series | Fall of Eagles | Witte | 1974-03-15 |
Movie | Juggernaut | Sidney Buckland | 1974-09-25 |
Movie | Vampira | Gilmore | 1974-10-10 |
Movie | The Satanic Rites of Dracula | Prof. Julian Keeley | 1973-11-03 |
Series | Thriller | Unknown | 1973-04-14 |
Movie | Russian Roulette | Fiodor Dostoyevski | 1973-11-06 |
Movie | Alice Through the Looking Glass | 1973-12-25 | |
Movie | Antony and Cleopatra | Pompey | 1972-03-18 |
Movie | Sitting Target | MacNeil | 1972-05-01 |
Series | Van der Valk | Unknown | 1972-09-13 |
Series | Emmerdale | Sandy Thomas | 1972-10-16 |
Series | Six Dates with Barker | Unknown | 1971-01-08 |
Movie | Assault | Reporter | 1971-02-11 |
Movie | Kidnapped | Cluny | 1971-12-22 |
Series | Jason King | Unknown | 1971-09-15 |
Movie | Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd | 1970-02-16 |
Movie | Doctor in Trouble | Master at Arms | 1970-06-16 |
Series | Germinal | 1970-01-11 | |
Movie | Goodbye Gemini | David Curry | 1970-08-06 |
Movie | John Clare: "I Am" | John Clare | 1970-02-08 |
Movie | The Man Who Haunted Himself | Dr. Harris | 1970-09-17 |
Movie | Uncle Vanya | Vanya | 1970-11-08 |
Series | The Goodies | Unknown | 1970-11-08 |
Series | Play for Today | Unknown | 1970-10-15 |
Series | Menace | Unknown | 1970-09-29 |
Series | The Roy Hudd Show | 1969-02-17 | |
Movie | Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | Prof. Richter | 1969-05-22 |
Movie | Otley | Philip Proudfoot | 1969-03-11 |
Series | Nana | Count Muffat | 1968-08-31 |
Movie | The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom | Det. Sergeant Dylan | 1968-09-11 |
Series | The Caesars | Claudius | 1968-09-22 |
Movie | Accident | Man in Bell's Office | 1967-02-09 |
Movie | Far from the Madding Crowd | Cainy Bell | 1967-06-18 |
Movie | The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade | Cucurucu | 1967-02-22 |
Series | Mystery and Imagination | Unknown | 1966-01-29 |
Series | BBC Play of the Month | Unknown | 1965-10-19 |
Series | The Wednesday Play | Unknown | 1964-09-30 |
Series | The Saint | Martin Graves | 1962-10-04 |
Series | The Avengers | Unknown | 1961-01-07 |