Freddie Jones

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK, 1927-09-12

Died: 2019-07-09

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	Accident	Man in Bell's Office	63
2	1967	Marat/Sade	Cucurucu	62
3	1967	A Man Inside	Walter Bishop	0
4	1967	Far from the Madding Crowd	Cainy Bell	69
5	1968	The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom	Det. Sergeant Dylan	67
6	1969	Otley	Philip Proudfoot	62
7	1969	Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed	Prof. Richter	64
8	1969	You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It	Wilfred Eames	0
9	1970	John Clare: "I Am"	John Clare	0
10	1970	Sweeney Todd	Sweeney Todd	0
11	1970	Doctor in Trouble	Master at Arms	42
12	1970	Goodbye Gemini	David Curry	48
13	1970	The Man Who Haunted Himself	Dr. Harris	61
14	1970	Uncle Vanya	Vanya	60
15	1971	Assault	Reporter	52
16	1971	Mr. Horatio Knibbles	Gamekeeper	57
17	1971	Kidnapped	Cluny	62
18	1972	Antony and Cleopatra	Pompey	56
19	1972	Sitting Target	MacNeil	61
20	1973	The Satanic Rites of Dracula	Prof. Julian Keeley	56
21	1973	Russian Roulette	Fiodor Dostoyevski	0
22	1973	Alice Through the Looking Glass		62
23	1974	Romance with a Double Bass	Maestro Lakeyich	61
24	1974	Joe's Ark	Joe	0
25	1974	Son of Dracula	The Baron	45
26	1974	Item	Mr Fisher	0
27	1974	Juggernaut	Sidney Buckland	62
28	1974	Vampira	Gilmore	53
29	1975	Snooker	Tiny	0
30	1975	All Creatures Great and Small	Cranford	66
31	1975	A Midsummer Nightmare	Arnold Tully	0
32	1976	Never Too Young to Rock	Mr. Rockbottom	47
33	1978	The Dancing Princesses	The King	0
34	1978	Sorry...	Headmaster - 'Audience'	0
35	1978	Renoir, My Father	Vollard	0
36	1978	The Nativity	Diomedes	60
37	1978	The Talking Parcel	Parrot	70
38	1979	Secret Orchards		0
39	1979	Zulu Dawn	Bishop Colenso	60
40	1979	Brecht and Co		0
41	1980	The Elephant Man	Bytes	81
42	1982	Murder Is Easy	Const. Reed	64
43	1982	Eleanor, First Lady of the World		60
44	1982	Firefox	Kenneth Aubrey	60
45	1983	David Macaulay: Castle	Voice	60
46	1983	Krull	Ynyr	61
47	1983	Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind	Narrator	0
48	1983	And the Ship Sails On	Orlando	72
49	1984	Firestarter	Dr. Joseph Wanless	63
50	1984	The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood		53
51	1984	Dune	Thufir Hawat	62
52	1985	The Black Cauldron	Dallben (voice)	64
53	1985	Lost In London	Leo Porter	0
54	1985	Young Sherlock Holmes	Chester Cragwitch	67
55	1985	Silas Marner	Squire Cass	56
56	1986	Time After Time	Ulick Uniake	0
57	1987	Maschenka	Podtyagin	0
58	1987	Ghosts	Jacob Engstrand	0
59	1987	Comrades	Vicar of Tolpuddle	68
60	1988	Consuming Passions	Graham Chumley	80
61	1989	Erik the Viking	Harald the Missionary	59
62	1990	Kremlin Farewell	Agejev	0
63	1990	Wild at Heart	George Kovich	70
64	1990	Shoot the Revolution	Sergei Popescu	0
65	1991	The Last Butterfly	Karl Rheinberg	54
66	1992	Adam Bede	Old Squire	73
67	1992	Spies, Inc.	Filatov	43
68	1993	The Last Vampyre	Pedlar	68
69	1993	The Mystery of Edwin Drood		57
70	1993	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom	Birdy	59
71	1994	Prince of Jutland	Bjorn	55
72	1994	A Pinch of Snuff	Dr Gilbert Haggard	0
73	1994	The NeverEnding Story III	Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain	44
74	1995	Cold Comfort Farm	Adam Lambsbreath	68
75	1998	Keep in a Dry Place & Away from Children	(voice, read by)	0
76	1998	What Rats Won't Do	Judge Foster	50
77	1999	The Passion	George	0
78	2000	House!	Mr Anzani	63
79	2000	Married 2 Malcolm	Jasper	62
80	2000	The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!		90
81	2001	David Copperfield	Barkis	62
82	2002	Puckoon	Sir John Meredith	62
83	2002	The Count of Monte Cristo	Colonel Villefort	77
84	2004	Ladies in Lavender	Jan Pendered	64
85	2008	Caught in the Act	Collingsworth Jenkins	0
86	2010	Come on Eileen	Dermot	67
87	2015	By Our Selves	Himself	55

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1960	Androcles and the Lion	Christian	0
2	1961	The Avengers	Basil / John Steed	77
3	1962	The Saint	Martin Graves	73
4	1964	The Wednesday Play		45
5	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Vanya	50
6	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Gibbet	50
7	1966	Mystery and Imagination		55
8	1968	Ooh La La!		0
9	1968	Nana		0
10	1968	Nana	Count Muffat	0
11	1968	The Caesars	Claudius	78
12	1969	The Roy Hudd Show		0
13	1969	The Main Chance	Professor Ian Allardyce	77
14	1969	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)	James McAllister	70
15	1970	Germinal		50
16	1970	The Misfit	Nitro	0
17	1970	Menace		0
18	1970	Play for Today		63
19	1970	The Goodies	Mr. Sparklipegs	75
20	1971	Six Dates with Barker		70
21	1971	Jason King	Mr. Quirly	73
22	1972	Van der Valk	Joop Pater	58
23	1972	The Protectors	Robard	56
24	1972	The Adventurer	Calloway	55
25	1972	Emmerdale	Sandy Thomas	42
26	1973	Thriller	Arnold Tully	66
27	1974	Fall of Eagles	Witte	68
28	1975	Space: 1999	Charles Logan	71
29	1976	The Ghosts of Motley Hall	Sir George Uproar	68
30	1977	Children of the Stones	Dai	66
31	1977	The Galton & Simpson Playhouse		0
32	1977	Nicholas Nickleby	Vincent Crummles	55
33	1977	Target		65
34	1977	BBC2 Play of the Week	Vollard	70
35	1978	Hazell		53
36	1978	The Mayor of Casterbridge		57
37	1978	Pennies from Heaven	Headmaster	76
38	1978	The Devil's Crown		73
39	1984	The District Nurse		55
40	1984	Sherlock Holmes	Inspector Baynes	81
41	1984	Sherlock Holmes	Pedlar	81
42	1985	Bulman		67
43	1985	Theatre Night	Jacob Engstrand	0
44	1985	The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾	Scruton	65
45	1986	Lovejoy	Arnold Tapie	73
46	1986	Casualty	Iain Roles	61
47	1986	Casualty	Henry Wallowski	61
48	1987	Inspector Morse	Harry Field Senior	78
49	1989	Sob Sisters		50
50	1990	TECX		60
51	1990	The Paper Man	Sir Charles Llewellyn	0
52	1992	Heartbeat	Mr. Parrish	71
53	1992	Heartbeat	George Woodford	71
54	1992	Heartbeat	Fred Braithwaite	71
55	1992	Heartbeat	Howard Druce	71
56	1993	Hotel Room	Louis "Lou" Holchak	64
57	1993	Mr. Wroe's Virgins	Tobias	53
58	1995	Tales of Mystery and Imagination	Fortunato	50
59	1996	Dalziel & Pascoe		64
60	1996	Neverwhere	The Earl	66
61	1997	Midsomer Murders	Benbow	75
62	2000	Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)		61
63	2003	The Royal	Sebastian Fox-Kirby	76
64	2005	Casanova	Bragadin	71

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