Freddie Jones
Known For
Acting
Born
1927-09-12 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Died
2019-07-09
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.
Most Known For
Midsomer Murders
as Benbow
The Avengers
as Basil / John Steed
The Saint
as Martin Graves
Casualty
as Iain Roles
Casualty
as Henry Wallowski
Play for Today
Space: 1999
as Charles Logan
Heartbeat
as Mr. Parrish
Heartbeat
as George Woodford
Heartbeat
as Fred Braithwaite
Heartbeat
as Howard Druce
Sherlock Holmes
as Inspector Baynes
Sherlock Holmes
as Pedlar
BBC Play of the Month
as Vanya
BBC Play of the Month
as Gibbet
Inspector Morse
as Harry Field Senior
Emmerdale
as Sandy Thomas
Dune
as Thufir Hawat
Theatre 625
as Ludovic
