Freddie Jones
Birthday: 1927-09-12 | Place of Birth: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UKFrom 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
Role
as Dermot
as Collingsworth Jenkins
as Bragadin
as Bragadin
as Jan Pendered
as Barkis
as Jasper
as Mr Anzani
as George
as (voice, read by)
as Judge Foster
as Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain
as Adam Lambsbreath
as Fortunato
as Bjorn
as Dr Gilbert Haggard
as Louis "Lou" Holchak
as Tobias
as Old Squire
as Karl Rheinberg
as Sergei Popescu
