Freddie Jones
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 12 September 1927 · Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
- Died
- 9 July 2019
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
Acting 93
- 2015By Our Selves as Himself
- 2010Come on Eileen as Dermot
- 2008Caught in the Act as Collingsworth Jenkins
- 2004Ladies in Lavender as Jan Pendered
- 2002The Count of Monte Cristo as Colonel Villefort
- 2002Puckoon as Sir John Meredith
- 2001David Copperfield as Barkis
- 2000The League of Gentlemen's Christmas Special: Yule Never Leave! as Dr Magnus Purblind
- 2000Married 2 Malcolm as Jasper
- 2000House! as Mr Anzani
- 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom as Birdy
- 1999The Passion as George
- 1998What Rats Won't Do as Judge Foster
- 1998Keep in a Dry Place & Away from Children as (voice, read by)
- 1995Cold Comfort Farm as Adam Lambsbreath
- 1994The NeverEnding Story III as Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain
- 1994A Pinch of Snuff as Dr Gilbert Haggard
- 1994Prince of Jutland as Bjorn
- 1993The Mystery of Edwin Drood as Sapsea
- 1993The Last Vampyre as Pedlar
- 1992Spies, Inc. as Filatov
- 1992Adam Bede as Old Squire
- 1991The Last Butterfly as Karl Rheinberg
- 1990Shoot the Revolution as Sergei Popescu
- 1990Wild at Heart as George Kovich
- 1990Kremlin Farewell as Agejev
- 1989Erik the Viking as Harald the Missionary
- 1988Consuming Passions as Graham Chumley
- 1987Comrades as Vicar of Tolpuddle
- 1987Ghosts as Jacob Engstrand
- 1987Maschenka as Podtyagin
- 1986Time After Time as Ulick Uniake
- 1985Silas Marner as Squire Cass
- 1985Young Sherlock Holmes as Chester Cragwitch
- 1985Lost In London as Leo Porter
- 1985A Crack in the Ice as Lt. Col. Svinin
- 1985The Black Cauldron as Dallben (voice)
- 1984Dune as Thufir Hawat
- 1984The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
- 1984Firestarter as Dr. Joseph Wanless
- 1983And the Ship Sails On as Orlando
- 1983Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind as Narrator
- 1983Krull as Ynyr
- 1983David Macaulay: Castle as Voice
- 1982Firefox as Kenneth Aubrey
- 1982Eleanor, First Lady of the World
- 1982Murder Is Easy as Const. Reed
- 1981Can I Help You?
- 1980The Elephant Man as Bytes
- 1979Brecht and Co
- 1979Zulu Dawn as Bishop Colenso
- 1979Of Mycenae and Men
- 1979Secret Orchards as Roger Ackerley
- 1978The Talking Parcel as Parrot
- 1978The Nativity as Diomedes
- 1978Renoir, My Father as Vollard
- 1978Sorry... as Headmaster - 'Audience'
- 1978The Dancing Princesses as The King
- 1976Never Too Young to Rock as Mr. Rockbottom
- 1976The Ghosts of Motley Hall as Sir George Uproar/Sir Henry/'Sir Richard'
- 1975A Midsummer Nightmare as Arnold Tully
- 1975All Creatures Great and Small as Cranford
- 1975Snooker as Tiny
- 1974Vampira as Gilmore
- 1974Juggernaut as Sidney Buckland
- 1974Item as Mr Fisher
- 1974Son of Dracula as The Baron
- 1974Joe's Ark as Joe
- 1974Romance with a Double Bass as Maestro Lakeyich
- 1973Alice Through the Looking Glass as Humpty Dumpty
- 1973Russian Roulette as Fiodor Dostoyevski
- 1973The Satanic Rites of Dracula as Prof. Julian Keeley
- 1972Sitting Target as MacNeil
- 1972Antony and Cleopatra as Pompey
- 1971Kidnapped as Cluny
- 1971Mr. Horatio Knibbles as Gamekeeper
- 1971The Shattered Eye as Lester
- 1971Assault as Reporter
- 1970Uncle Vanya as Vanya
- 1970The Man Who Haunted Himself as Dr. Harris
- 1970Goodbye Gemini as David Curry
- 1970The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens as William Shaw
- 1970Doctor in Trouble as Humphrey, the Master-at-Arms
- 1970Sweeney Todd as Sweeney Todd
- 1970John Clare: "I Am" as John Clare
- 1969You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It as Wilfred Eames
- 1969Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed as Prof. Richter
- 1969Otley as Philip Proudfoot
- 1968The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom as Det. Sergeant Dylan
- 1967Far from the Madding Crowd as Cainy Bell
- 1967A Man Inside as Walter Bishop
- 1967The 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 as Cucurucu
- 1967Accident as Man in Bell's Office