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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Full filmography
- Midsomer Murders (1997) as Benbow
- Casualty (1986) as Iain Roles
- Casualty (1986) as Henry Wallowski
- Play for Today (1970)
- The Avengers (1961) as Basil / John Steed
- Heartbeat (1992) as Mr. Parrish
- Heartbeat (1992) as George Woodford
- Heartbeat (1992) as Fred Braithwaite
- Heartbeat (1992) as Howard Druce
- Emmerdale (1972) as Sandy Thomas
- The Saint (1962) as Martin Graves
- Sherlock Holmes (1984) as Inspector Baynes
- Sherlock Holmes (1984) as Pedlar
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Vanya
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Gibbet
- Screen Two (1985) as Agejev
- Inspector Morse (1987) as Harry Field Senior
- Space: 1999 (1975) as Charles Logan
- Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) as French
- Theatre 625 (1964) as Ludovic
- ITV Playhouse (1967) as Wilfred Eames
- Dune (1984) as Thufir Hawat
- Lovejoy (1986) as Arnold Tapie
- The Main Chance (1969) as Professor Ian Allardyce