Freddie Jones
Born: 1927-09-12 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Died: 2019-07-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2015
- By Our Selves as Himself
2010
- Come on Eileen as Dermot
2008
- Caught in the Act as Collingsworth Jenkins
2005
- Casanova as Bragadin
2004
- Ladies in Lavender as Jan Pendered
2003
- The Royal as Sebastian Fox-Kirby
2002
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Colonel Villefort
- Puckoon as Sir John Meredith
2001
- David Copperfield as Barkis
2000
- Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
- David Copperfield as Barkis
- House! as Mr Anzani
- Married 2 Malcolm as Jasper
1999
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom as Birdy
- The Passion as George
1998
- What Rats Won't Do as Judge Foster
- Keep in a Dry Place & Away from Children as (voice, read by)
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Benbow
1996
- Dalziel and Pascoe as French
- Neverwhere as The Earl
1995
- Tales of Mystery and Imagination as Fortunato
- Cold Comfort Farm as Adam Lambsbreath
1994
- The NeverEnding Story III as Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain
- Prince of Jutland as Bjorn
- A Pinch of Snuff as Dr Gilbert Haggard
1993
- Hotel Room as Louis "Lou" Holchak
- Mr. Wroe's Virgins as Tobias
- The Last Vampyre as Pedlar
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1992
- Heartbeat as Mr. Parrish
- Adam Bede as Old Squire
- Spies, Inc. as Filatov
1991
- The Last Butterfly as Karl Rheinberg
1990
- Wild at Heart as George Kovich
- TECX
- The Paper Man as Sir Charles Llewellyn
- Shoot the Revolution as Sergei Popescu
- Kremlin Farewell as Agejev
1989
- Erik the Viking as Harald the Missionary
- Sob Sisters
1988
- Consuming Passions as Graham Chumley
1987
- Inspector Morse as Harry Field Senior
- Vanity Fair as Sir Pitt Crawley
- Ghosts as Jacob Engstrand
- Comrades as Vicar of Tolpuddle
- Maschenka as Podtyagin
1986
- Casualty as Iain Roles
- Lovejoy as Arnold Tapie
- Time After Time as Ulick Uniake
1985
- The Black Cauldron as Dallben (voice)
- Theatre Night as Jacob Engstrand
- Young Sherlock Holmes as Chester Cragwitch
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ as Scruton
- Lost In London as Leo Porter
- Silas Marner as Squire Cass
- A Crack in the Ice as Lt. Col. Svinin
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Inspector Baynes
- Dune as Thufir Hawat
- Travelling Man as Morgan Rees
- The District Nurse
- Firestarter as Dr. Joseph Wanless
- The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
1983
- Krull as Ynyr
- And the Ship Sails On as Orlando
- David Macaulay: Castle as Voice
- Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind as Narrator
1982
- Firefox as Kenneth Aubrey
- Murder Is Easy as Const. Reed
- Eleanor, First Lady of the World
1980
- The Elephant Man as Bytes
1979
- Zulu Dawn as Bishop Colenso
- Secret Orchards as Roger Ackerley
- Brecht and Co
- Of Mycenae and Men
1978
- Strangers as Effingham
- Hazell as Dobson
- Pennies from Heaven as Headmaster
- The Mayor of Casterbridge as Fall
- Renoir, My Father as Vollard
- The Nativity as Diomedes
- The Dancing Princesses as The King
- The Talking Parcel as Parrot
- Sorry... as Headmaster - 'Audience'
1977
- BBC2 Play of the Week as Vollard
- Target as Det. Chief Supt. Neville Clegg
- Nicholas Nickleby as Vincent Crummles
- Children of the Stones as Dai
- The Galton & Simpson Playhouse as Peter
1976
- The Duchess of Duke Street as Professor Stubbs
- The Ghosts of Motley Hall as Sir George Uproar
- The Government Inspector as Mayor
- Never Too Young to Rock as Mr. Rockbottom
1975
- Space: 1999 as Charles Logan
- All Creatures Great and Small as Cranford
- Snooker as Tiny
- A Midsummer Nightmare as Arnold Tully
1974
- Fall of Eagles as Witte
- Juggernaut as Sidney Buckland
- Vampira as Gilmore
- Son of Dracula as The Baron
- Romance with a Double Bass as Maestro Lakeyich
- Joe's Ark as Joe
- Item as Mr Fisher
1973
- Thriller as Arnold Tully
- Centre Play as Tiny
- The Satanic Rites of Dracula as Prof. Julian Keeley
- Alice Through the Looking Glass
- Russian Roulette as Fiodor Dostoyevski
1972
- Emmerdale as Sandy Thomas
- The Protectors as Robard
- Van der Valk as Joop Pater
- The Adventurer as Calloway
- Antony and Cleopatra as Pompey
- Sitting Target as MacNeil
1971
- Jason King as Mr. Quirly
- Six Dates with Barker as Major Rupert Yappe
- Assault as Reporter
- Kidnapped as Cluny
- Mr. Horatio Knibbles as Gamekeeper
- The Shattered Eye as Lester
1970
- Play for Today
- The Goodies as Mr. Sparklipegs
- Menace as Elystan Griffiths
- The Misfit as Nitro
- The Man Who Haunted Himself as Dr. Harris
- Goodbye Gemini as David Curry
- The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens as William Shaw
- Germinal
- Doctor in Trouble as Humphrey, the Master-at-Arms
- Uncle Vanya as Vanya
- Sweeney Todd as Sweeney Todd
- John Clare: "I Am" as John Clare
1969
- The Main Chance as Professor Ian Allardyce
- Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as James McAllister
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed as Prof. Richter
- Otley as Philip Proudfoot
- The Roy Hudd Show
- You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It as Wilfred Eames
1968
- Ooh La La!
- The Caesars as Claudius
- Cold Comfort Farm as Urk Starkadder
- The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom as Det. Sergeant Dylan
- Nana as Count Muffat
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Wilfred Eames
- Accident as Man in Bell's Office
- Sword of Honour as Ludovic
- Far from the Madding Crowd as Cainy Bell
- The 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
- A Man Inside as Walter Bishop
1966
- Mystery and Imagination as Parkes
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Vanya
- Out of the Unknown as Lester
1964
- Theatre 625 as Ludovic
- The Wednesday Play
1963
1962
- The Saint as Martin Graves
1961
- The Avengers as Basil / John Steed
1960
- Androcles and the Lion as Christian
1956
- Armchair Theatre as John Dolby