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Freddie Jones

Freddie Jones

Birthday: 1927-09-12 | Place of Birth: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description the Wikipedia article Freddie Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2010
Come on Eileen

as    Dermot

2008
Caught in the Act

as    Collingsworth Jenkins

2005
Casanova

as    Bragadin

2005
Casanova

as    Bragadin

2004
Ladies in Lavender

as    Jan Pendered

1998
What Rats Won't Do

as    Judge Foster

1996
The NeverEnding Story III

as    Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain

1995
Cold Comfort Farm

as    Adam Lambsbreath

1994
Royal Deceit

as    Bjorn

1993
Hotel Room

as    Louis "Lou" Holchak

1992
Adam Bede

as    Old Squire

1991
The Last Butterfly

as    Karl Rheinberg

1987
Ghosts

as    Engstrand

1985
Young Sherlock Holmes

as    Chester Cragwitch

1985
The Black Cauldron

as    Dallben (voice)

1985
1985
Silas Marner

as    Squire Cass

1984
Firestarter

as    Doctor Joseph Wanless

1984
Dune

as    Thufir Hawat

1983
And the Ship Sails On

as    Orlando

1982
Firefox

as    Kenneth Aubrey

1980
The Elephant Man

as    Bytes

1978
The Nativity

as    Diomedes

1976
The Ghosts of Motley Hall

as    Sir George Uproar