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
- David Copperfield as Barkis
- Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
- House! as Mr Anzani
- Married 2 Malcolm as Jasper
1999
- The Passion as George
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom as Birdy
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 as Sapsea
1992
- Heartbeat as Mr. Parrish
- Spies, Inc. as Filatov
- Adam Bede as Old Squire
1991
- The Last Butterfly as Karl Rheinberg
1990
- Wild at Heart as George Kovich
- The Paper Man as Sir Charles Llewellyn
- TECX
- Kremlin Farewell as Agejev
- Shoot the Revolution as Sergei Popescu
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
- Comrades as Vicar of Tolpuddle
- Ghosts as Jacob Engstrand
- Maschenka as Podtyagin
1986
- Casualty as Iain Roles
- Lovejoy as Arnold Tapie
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes as Inspector Baynes
- Time After Time as Ulick Uniake
1985
- Screen Two as Agejev
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ as Scruton
- The Black Cauldron as Dallben (voice)
- Theatre Night as Jacob Engstrand
- Young Sherlock Holmes as Chester Cragwitch
- Silas Marner as Squire Cass
- Lost In London as Leo Porter
- A Crack in the Ice as Lt. Col. Svinin
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Inspector Baynes
- Dune as Thufir Hawat
- Travelling Man as Morgan Rees
- Firestarter as Dr. Joseph Wanless
- The District Nurse
- 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
1981
1980
- The Elephant Man as Bytes
1979
- Screenplay as Richard Morrison
- Zulu Dawn as Bishop Colenso
- Secret Orchards as Roger Ackerley
- Of Mycenae and Men
- Brecht and Co
1978
- Strangers as Effingham
- Hazell as Dobson
- Pennies from Heaven as Headmaster
- The Mayor of Casterbridge as Fall
- The Nativity as Diomedes
- Sorry... as Headmaster - 'Audience'
- The Talking Parcel as Parrot
- Renoir, My Father as Vollard
- The Dancing Princesses as The King
1977
- BBC2 Play of the Week as Vollard
- Target as Det. Chief Supt. Neville Clegg
- Children of the Stones as Dai
- Nicholas Nickleby as Vincent Crummles
- The Galton & Simpson Playhouse as Peter
1976
- The Duchess of Duke Street as Professor Stubbs
- The Ghosts of Motley Hall as Sir George Uproar
- Brensham People as Mr. Chorlton
- The Government Inspector as Mayor
- Never Too Young to Rock as Mr. Rockbottom
1975
- Space: 1999 as Charles Logan
- Snooker as Tiny
- All Creatures Great and Small as Cranford
- A Midsummer Nightmare as Arnold Tully
1974
- Fall of Eagles as Witte
- Juggernaut as Sidney Buckland
- Item as Mr Fisher
- Vampira as Gilmore
- Son of Dracula as The Baron
- Joe's Ark as Joe
- Romance with a Double Bass as Maestro Lakeyich
1973
- Centre Play as Tiny
- Thriller as Arnold Tully
- Armchair 30 as Santa Claus
- The Satanic Rites of Dracula as Prof. Julian Keeley
- Alice Through the Looking Glass as Humpty Dumpty
- Russian Roulette as Fiodor Dostoyevski
1972
- Emmerdale as Sandy Thomas
- The Protectors as Robard
- Van der Valk as Joop Pater
- The Adventurer as Calloway
- Love and Mr Lewisham as Mr. Chaffery
- 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
- The Shattered Eye as Lester
- Mr. Horatio Knibbles as Gamekeeper
1970
- Play for Today
- The Goodies as Mr. Sparklipegs
- The Misfit as Nitro
- Menace as Elystan Griffiths
- The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens as William Shaw
- The Man Who Haunted Himself as Dr. Harris
- Germinal
- Doctor in Trouble as Humphrey, the Master-at-Arms
- Goodbye Gemini as David Curry
- Uncle Vanya as Vanya
- John Clare: "I Am" as John Clare
- Sweeney Todd as Sweeney Todd
1969
- The Main Chance as Professor Ian Allardyce
- Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as James McAllister
- The Roy Hudd Show
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed as Prof. Richter
- Otley as Philip Proudfoot
- You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It as Wilfred Eames
1968
- Ooh La La!
- Nana as Count Muffat
- The Caesars as Claudius
- Cold Comfort Farm as Urk Starkadder
- The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom as Det. Sergeant Dylan
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Wilfred Eames
- Half Hour Story as Walter Bishop
- 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
- Sword of Honour as Ludovic
- Accident as Man in Bell's Office
- 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
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