
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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Acting (79 movies)

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
1969

The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!
2000

Dune
1984

Krull
1983

Far from the Madding Crowd
1967

The Elephant Man
1980

Firefox
1982

Mr. Horatio Knibbles
1971

Otley
1969

The Black Cauldron
1985

The Man Who Haunted Himself
1970

And the Ship Sails On
1983

Firestarter
1984

Murder Is Easy
1982

Kidnapped
1971

Cold Comfort Farm
1995

Ladies in Lavender
2004

The NeverEnding Story III
1994

The Satanic Rites of Dracula
1973

Juggernaut
1974

Time After Time
1986

Shoot the Revolution
1990

Comrades
1987

Sitting Target
1972

Goodbye Gemini
1970

Keep in a Dry Place & Away from Children
1998

Vampira
1974

Silas Marner
1985

Assault
1971

David Copperfield
2001

The Last Butterfly
1991

What Rats Won't Do
1998

Eleanor, First Lady of the World
1982

The Talking Parcel
1978

Never Too Young to Rock
1976

Consuming Passions
1988

Kremlin Farewell
1990

Son of Dracula
1974

Erik the Viking
1989

Adam Bede
1992

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968

Spies, Inc.
1992

House!
2000

The Count of Monte Cristo
2002

Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind
1983

Joe's Ark
1974

Antony and Cleopatra
1972

The Nativity
1978

Zulu Dawn
1979

The Passion
1999

Married 2 Malcolm
2000

Alice Through the Looking Glass
1973

Accident
1967

Ghosts
1987

Come on Eileen
2010

Romance with a Double Bass
1974

Sweeney Todd
1970

Prince of Jutland
1994

All Creatures Great and Small
1975

Doctor in Trouble
1970

Puckoon
2002

Brecht and Co
1979

Young Sherlock Holmes
1985

The Dancing Princesses
1978

By Our Selves
2015

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
1999

Maschenka
1987

A Pinch of Snuff
1994

Wild at Heart
1990

Sorry...
1978

David Macaulay: Castle
1983

The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
1984

Caught in the Act
2008

Lost In London
1985

Marat/Sade
1967

The Last Vampyre
1993

A Midsummer Nightmare
1975

Renoir, My Father
1978

A Crack in the Ice
1985
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