Freddie Jones
Known for Acting · 167 credits
- Born
- 1927-09-12
- Died
- 2019-07-09
- Place of birth
- Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Фредди Джонс · Frederick Charles Jones · فردی جونز
Biography
Frederick Charles Jones (September 12, 1927 – July 9, 2019)
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.
Known For
TV Shows (76)
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Benbow
Play for Today
1970
Casualty
1986
as Iain Roles / Henry Wallowski
Emmerdale
1972
as Sandy Thomas
Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Inspector Baynes / Pedlar
The Avengers
1961
as Basil / John Steed
Heartbeat
1992
as Mr. Parrish / George Woodford / Fred Braithwaite / Howard Druce
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Vanya / Gibbet
Screen Two
1985
as Agejev
The Saint
1962
as Martin Graves
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as Vollard
Theatre 625
1964
as Ludovic
Inspector Morse
1987
as Harry Field Senior
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Wilfred Eames
Film '72
1971
as Self
Space: 1999
1975
as Charles Logan
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
as French
Strangers
1978
as Effingham
Thriller
1973
as Arnold Tully
Lovejoy
1986
as Arnold Tapie
Centre Play
1973
as Tiny / Waiter
The Protectors
1972
as Robard
Van der Valk
1972
as Joop Pater
The Main Chance
1969
as Professor Ian Allardyce
Festival
1963
The Goodies
1970
as Mr. Sparklipegs
Target
1977
as Det. Chief Supt. Neville Clegg
Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Parkes / Vaudin / Sweeney Todd
The Duchess of Duke Street
1976
as Professor Stubbs
Travelling Man
1984
as Morgan Rees
The Adventurer
1972
as Calloway
Casanova
2005
as Bragadin
Jason King
1971
as Mr. Quirly
David Copperfield
2000
as Barkis
Fall of Eagles
1974
as Witte
Vanity Fair
1987
as Sir Pitt Crawley
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
Theatre Night
1985
as Jacob Engstrand
Neverwhere
1996
as The Earl
Ooh La La!
1968
Half Hour Story
1967
as Walter Bishop
The Misfit
1970
as Nitro
TECX
1990
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
1969
as James McAllister
Out of the Unknown
1965
as Lester
Sob Sisters
1989
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1976
as Sir George Uproar / 'Sir Richard'
Hazell
1978
as Dobson
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
1985
as Scruton / Mr. Scruton
Hotel Room
1993
as Louis "Lou" Holchak
Menace
1970
as Elystan Griffiths
Six Dates with Barker
1971
as Major Rupert Yappe
Armchair 30
1973
as Santa Claus
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
1977
as Peter
Armchair Theatre
1956
as John Dolby / Seymour / Fiodor Dostoyevski
Pennies from Heaven
1978
as Headmaster
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
1995
as Fortunato
The Caesars
1968
as Claudius
Screenplay
1979
as Richard Morrison
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1986
as Inspector Baynes
Movies (91)
Dune
1984
as Thufir Hawat
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
as Colonel Villefort
The Elephant Man
1980
as Bytes
Krull
1983
as Ynyr
The Black Cauldron
1985
as Dallben (voice)
Wild at Heart
1990
as George Kovich
Firefox
1982
as Kenneth Aubrey
Juggernaut
1974
as Sidney Buckland
House!
2000
as Mr Anzani
Consuming Passions
1988
as Graham Chumley
Erik the Viking
1989
as Harald the Missionary
Ladies in Lavender
2004
as Jan Pendered
Snooker
1975
as Tiny
Secret Orchards
1979
as Roger Ackerley
Young Sherlock Holmes
1985
as Chester Cragwitch
The NeverEnding Story III
1994
as Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain
Firestarter
1984
as Dr. Joseph Wanless
The Last Butterfly
1991
as Karl Rheinberg
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
as Cainy Bell
Zulu Dawn
1979
as Bishop Colenso
Caught in the Act
2008
as Collingsworth Jenkins
Antony and Cleopatra
1972
as Pompey
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
1967
as Cucurucu
Prince of Jutland
1994
as Bjorn
What Rats Won't Do
1998
as Judge Foster
Sitting Target
1972
as MacNeil
Item
1974
as Mr Fisher
The Last Vampyre
1993
as Pedlar
Cold Comfort Farm
1995
as Adam Lambsbreath
Accident
1967
as Man in Bell's Office
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1973
as Humpty Dumpty
Vampira
1974
as Gilmore
By Our Selves
2015
as Himself
Doctor in Trouble
1970
as Humphrey, the Master-at-Arms
Married 2 Malcolm
2000
as Jasper
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
1973
as Prof. Julian Keeley
And the Ship Sails On
1983
as Orlando
Murder Is Easy
1982
as Const. Reed
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
1999
as Birdy
Kidnapped
1971
as Cluny
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
1969
as Prof. Richter
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968
as Det. Sergeant Dylan
All Creatures Great and Small
1975
as Cranford
Assault
1971
as Reporter
Time After Time
1986
as Ulick Uniake
David Copperfield
2001
as Barkis
The Shattered Eye
1971
as Lester
Of Mycenae and Men
1979
Goodbye Gemini
1970
as David Curry
Renoir, My Father
1978
as Vollard
Son of Dracula
1974
as The Baron
Keep in a Dry Place & Away from Children
1998
as (voice, read by)
Romance with a Double Bass
1974
as Maestro Lakeyich
The Man Who Haunted Himself
1970
as Dr. Harris
Silas Marner
1985
as Squire Cass
Russian Roulette
1973
as Fiodor Dostoyevski
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1970
as William Shaw
Can I Help You?
1981
Shoot the Revolution
1990
as Sergei Popescu
The Nativity
1978
as Diomedes
Puckoon
2002
as Sir John Meredith
Maschenka
1987
as Podtyagin
Adam Bede
1992
as Old Squire
A Man Inside
1967
as Walter Bishop
Sorry...
1978
as Headmaster - 'Audience'
Ghosts
1987
as Jacob Engstrand
Comrades
1987
as Vicar of Tolpuddle
Spies, Inc.
1992
as Filatov
Lost In London
1985
as Leo Porter
A Midsummer Nightmare
1975
as Arnold Tully
The Dancing Princesses
1978
as The King
Come on Eileen
2010
as Dermot
Uncle Vanya
1970
as Vanya
Otley
1969
as Philip Proudfoot
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
as Dr Gilbert Haggard
You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It
1969
as Wilfred Eames
Brecht and Co
1979
Kremlin Farewell
1990
as Agejev
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
1984
David Macaulay: Castle
1983
as Voice
The Passion
1999
as George
A Crack in the Ice
1985
as Lt. Col. Svinin
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1993
as Sapsea
Sweeney Todd
1970
as Sweeney Todd
The Talking Parcel
1978
as Parrot
Eleanor, First Lady of the World
1982
Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind
1983
as Narrator
John Clare: "I Am"
1970
as John Clare
Joe's Ark
1974
as Joe
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
1971
as Gamekeeper
Never Too Young to Rock
1976
as Mr. Rockbottom
About Freddie Jones
Frederick Charles Jones (September 12, 1927 – July 9, 2019) 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. H… With 167 credits spanning from 1956 to 2015, Freddie Jones has appeared in 91 films and 76 TV shows.
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Most Popular Freddie Jones Movies
- Dune (1984) — as Thufir Hawat
- The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) — as Colonel Villefort
- The Elephant Man (1980) — as Bytes
- Krull (1983) — as Ynyr
- The Black Cauldron (1985) — as Dallben (voice)
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