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