CINEFILER

Freddie Jones

Born

September 12, 1927

Died

July 9, 2019

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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.

Known For

Dune

(1984)

Thufir Hawat

The Count of Monte Cristo

(2002)

Clarion

The NeverEnding Story III

(1994)

Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain

The Black Cauldron

(1985)

Dallben (voice)

Firestarter

(1984)

Doctor Joseph Wanless

Firefox

(1982)

Kenneth Aubrey

Krull

(1983)

Ynyr

The Elephant Man

(1980)

Bytes

Juggernaut

(1974)

Sidney Buckland

Wild at Heart

(1990)

George Kovich

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

(1969)

Prof. Richter

Young Sherlock Holmes

(1985)

Chester Cragwitch

And the Ship Sails On

(1983)

Orlando

Zulu Dawn

(1979)

Bishop Colenso

Erik the Viking

(1989)

Harald the Missionary

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)

Cucurucu

Full Filmography

Acting

Accident

(1967)

Man in Bell's Office

Far from the Madding Crowd

(1967)

Cainy Bell

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)