Freddie Jones
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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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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.
Known for
By Our Selves
Come on Eileen
Caught in the Act
Casanova
Ladies in Lavender
The Royal
The Count of Monte Cristo
Puckoon
David Copperfield
The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!
Married 2 Malcolm
House!
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Phantom Train of Doom
The Passion
What Rats Won't Do
Keep in a Dry Place & Away from Children
Midsomer Murders
Neverwhere
Dalziel & Pascoe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Cold Comfort Farm
The NeverEnding Story III
A Pinch of Snuff
Royal Deceit
The Last Vampyre
Mr. Wroe's Virgins
Hotel Room
Spies, Inc.
Heartbeat
Adam Bede
The Last Butterfly
Shoot the Revolution
Wild at Heart
Kremlin Farewell
Erik the Viking
Consuming Passions
Comrades
Ghosts
Maschenka
Inspector Morse
Casualty
Time After Time
Lovejoy
Silas Marner
Young Sherlock Holmes
Lost In London
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
The Black Cauldron
Bulman
Dune
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
Murder Is Easy
The Elephant Man
Brecht and Co
Zulu Dawn
The Talking Parcel
The Nativity
Sorry...
The Devil's Crown
Pennies from Heaven
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hazell
The Dancing Princesses
Target
Nicholas Nickleby
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Children of the Stones
Never Too Young to Rock
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
A Midsummer Nightmare
Space: 1999
All Creatures Great and Small
Vampira
Juggernaut
Son of Dracula
Fall of Eagles
Joe's Ark
Romance with a Double Bass
Alice Through the Looking Glass
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Thriller
Emmerdale
The Adventurer
Van der Valk
Sitting Target
Antony and Cleopatra
Kidnapped
Jason King
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
Assault
Six Dates with Barker
The Goodies
Play for Today
The Man Who Haunted Himself
Goodbye Gemini
Doctor in Trouble
Sweeney Todd
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
The Main Chance
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Otley
The Caesars
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Far from the Madding Crowd
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
Mystery and Imagination
BBC Play of the Month
The Wednesday Play
The Saint
The Avengers