Freddie Jones
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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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Heartbeat
Casualty
Sherlock Holmes
Midsomer Murders
The Royal
The Avengers
Inspector Morse
Dalziel & Pascoe
Target
Lovejoy
The Saint
The Wednesday Play
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Fall of Eagles
BBC Play of the Month
Nicholas Nickleby
Space: 1999
Vanity Fair
The Devil's Crown
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Emmerdale
Wild at Heart
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Last Vampyre
Far from the Madding Crowd
Young Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
The Elephant Man
Alice Through the Looking Glass
The Black Cauldron
Dune
Ghosts
Brecht and Co
Cold Comfort Farm
The NeverEnding Story III
Hotel Room
Silas Marner
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
The District Nurse
The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!
The Passion
Son of Dracula
Firestarter
Uncle Vanya
Firefox
Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind
Joe's Ark
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