Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1927-09-12
Day of Death
2019-07-09
Place of Birth
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Freddie Jones
Biography
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.
Filmography (90)
By Our Selves
2015
Come on Eileen
2010
Caught in the Act
2008
Ladies in Lavender
2004
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
Puckoon
2002
David Copperfield
2001
Married 2 Malcolm
2000
House!
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
1999
The Passion
1999
What Rats Won't Do
1998
Keep in a Dry Place & Away from Children
1998
Cold Comfort Farm
1995
