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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