Freddie Jones
Biography
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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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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1927-09-12
Place of birth
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
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Cast
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
1969
6.44
Dune
1984
6.18
Krull
1983
6.07
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
6.90
The Elephant Man
1980
8.05
Firefox
1982
6.00
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
1971
5.70
Otley
1969
6.20
The Black Cauldron
1985
6.40
The Man Who Haunted Himself
1970
6.10
And the Ship Sails On
1983
7.21
Firestarter
1984
6.30
Murder Is Easy
1982
6.40
Kidnapped
1971
6.20
Cold Comfort Farm
1995
6.70
John Clare: "I Am"
1970
0.00
Ladies in Lavender
2004
6.40
The NeverEnding Story III
1994
4.45
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
1973
5.64
Juggernaut
1974
6.20
Time After Time
1986
0.00
Shoot the Revolution
1990
0.00
Comrades
1987
6.90
Secret Orchards
1979
0.00
Sitting Target
1972
6.10
Goodbye Gemini
1970
4.40
Vampira
1974
5.10
Silas Marner
1985
5.62
Assault
1971
5.37
David Copperfield
2001
6.30
The Last Butterfly
1991
5.40
What Rats Won't Do
1998
5.30
Eleanor, First Lady of the World
1982
6.00
The Talking Parcel
1978
7.00
Never Too Young to Rock
1976
4.70
Consuming Passions
1988
8.00
Kremlin Farewell
1990
0.00
Son of Dracula
1974
4.50
Erik the Viking
1989
5.90
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1993
5.70
Adam Bede
1992
7.30
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968
6.70
Spies, Inc.
1992
4.30
House!
2000
6.30
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
7.67
Joe's Ark
1974
0.00
Antony and Cleopatra
1972
5.60
The Nativity
1978
6.00
Zulu Dawn
1979
6.03
The Passion
1999
0.00
Snooker
1975
0.00
Russian Roulette
1973
0.00
Married 2 Malcolm
2000
6.20
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1973
6.20
Accident
1967
6.30
Ghosts
1987
0.00
Come on Eileen
2010
6.70
Romance with a Double Bass
1974
6.10
Sweeney Todd
1970
0.00
Prince of Jutland
1994
5.60
All Creatures Great and Small
1975
6.60
Doctor in Trouble
1970
4.80
Puckoon
2002
6.20
Brecht and Co
1979
0.00
Young Sherlock Holmes
1985
6.74
The Dancing Princesses
1978
0.00
By Our Selves
2015
5.50
Maschenka
1987
0.00
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
0.00
Wild at Heart
1990
7.02
Sorry...
1978
0.00
David Macaulay: Castle
1983
6.00
Uncle Vanya
1970
6.00
Caught in the Act
2008
0.00
Lost In London
1985
0.00
Marat/Sade
1967
6.10
The Last Vampyre
1993
6.90
A Midsummer Nightmare
1975
0.00
Renoir, My Father
1978
0.00
A Man Inside
1967
0.00