
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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Known For

Heartbeat

Casualty

Sherlock Holmes

Midsomer Murders

The Royal

Inspector Morse

Dalziel & Pascoe

Lovejoy

The Saint

The Wednesday Play

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Fall of Eagles

Target

BBC Play of the Month

Space: 1999

The Devil's Crown

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Nicholas Nickleby

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

The Black Cauldron

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Dune

Hotel Room

Ghosts

Cold Comfort Farm

The NeverEnding Story III

Brecht and Co

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

The District Nurse

Silas Marner

The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!

Firestarter

Son of Dracula

The Passion

Firefox

Uncle Vanya

Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind

Joe's Ark
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