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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Acting
Movie
The Elephant Man
as Bytes
1980
Movie
Dune
as Thufir Hawat
1984
Movie
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Colonel Villefort
2002
Movie
Wild at Heart
as George Kovich
1990
Movie
The Black Cauldron
as Dallben (voice)
1985
Movie
Firestarter
as Dr. Joseph Wanless
1984
Movie
Young Sherlock Holmes
as Chester Cragwitch
1985
Movie
Firefox
as Kenneth Aubrey
1982
Movie
Krull
as Ynyr
1983
Movie
The NeverEnding Story III
as Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain
1994
TV
Midsomer Murders
as Benbow
1997
TV
Sherlock Holmes
as Inspector Baynes
1984
TV
Sherlock Holmes
as Pedlar
1984
Movie
Erik the Viking
as Harald the Missionary
1989
Movie
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
as Prof. Julian Keeley
1973
Movie
And the Ship Sails On
as Orlando
1983
TV
Space: 1999
as Charles Logan
1975
TV
The Avengers
as Basil / John Steed
1961
Movie
Ladies in Lavender
as Jan Pendered
2004
TV
Inspector Morse
as Harry Field Senior
1987
Movie
Juggernaut
as Sidney Buckland
1974
Movie
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
as Prof. Richter
1969
TV
The Saint
as Martin Graves
1962
Movie
Accident
as Man in Bell's Office
1967