Freddie Jones
Acting
- Born:
- 1927-09-12
- Died:
- 2019-07-09
- Place of birth:
- Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Biography
Frederick Charles Jones (September 12, 1927 – July 9, 2019) 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.
Known For
Filmography
By Our Selves
Come on Eileen
Caught in the Act
Casanova
Ladies in Lavender
The Royal
The Count of Monte Cristo
Puckoon
David Copperfield
David Copperfield
Married 2 Malcolm
House!
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
The Passion
What Rats Won't Do
Keep in a Dry Place & Away from Children
Midsomer Murders
Neverwhere
Dalziel and Pascoe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Cold Comfort Farm
The NeverEnding Story III
A Pinch of Snuff
Prince of Jutland
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Last Vampyre
Mr. Wroe's Virgins
Hotel Room
Spies, Inc.
Heartbeat
Adam Bede
The Last Butterfly
Shoot the Revolution
The Paper Man
Wild at Heart
Kremlin Farewell
TECX
Erik the Viking
Sob Sisters
Consuming Passions
Vanity Fair
Comrades
Ghosts
Maschenka
Inspector Morse
Casualty
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Time After Time
Lovejoy
Silas Marner
Young Sherlock Holmes
Lost In London
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
Theatre Night
A Crack in the Ice
The Black Cauldron
Summer Season
Screen Two
Dune
Travelling Man
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
Firestarter
Sherlock Holmes
The District Nurse
And the Ship Sails On
Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind
Krull
David Macaulay: Castle
Firefox
Eleanor, First Lady of the World
Murder Is Easy
Can I Help You?
The Elephant Man
Brecht and Co
Screenplay
Zulu Dawn
Of Mycenae and Men
Secret Orchards
The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
The Talking Parcel
The Nativity
Renoir, My Father
Sorry...
Strangers
Pennies from Heaven
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hazell
The Dancing Princesses
BBC2 Play of the Week
Target
Nicholas Nickleby
Three Piece Suite
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Children of the Stones
Brensham People
The Government Inspector
The Duchess of Duke Street
Never Too Young to Rock
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
A Midsummer Nightmare
Space: 1999
All Creatures Great and Small
Snooker
Vampira
Juggernaut
Item
Son of Dracula
Fall of Eagles
Joe's Ark
Romance with a Double Bass
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Russian Roulette
Centre Play
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Thriller
Armchair 30
Emmerdale
The Protectors
The Adventurer
Van der Valk
Love and Mr Lewisham
Sitting Target
Antony and Cleopatra
Kidnapped
Film '72
Jason King
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
The Shattered Eye
Assault
Six Dates with Barker
Uncle Vanya
The Goodies
Play for Today
Menace
The Man Who Haunted Himself
Goodbye Gemini
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Doctor in Trouble
The Misfit
Sweeney Todd
John Clare: "I Am"
Germinal
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It
The Main Chance
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Otley
The Roy Hudd Show
The Caesars
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Nana
Cold Comfort Farm
Ooh La La!
ITV Playhouse
Far from the Madding Crowd
A Man Inside
Half Hour Story
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
Accident
Sword of Honour
Mystery and Imagination
BBC Play of the Month
Out of the Unknown
Theatre 625
Festival
The Saint
The Avengers
Androcles and the Lion
Armchair Theatre