
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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Casualty

Heartbeat

Sherlock Holmes

Midsomer Murders

The Royal

Inspector Morse

The Saint

Space: 1999

Emmerdale

Wild at Heart

The Last Vampyre

Far from the Madding Crowd

Young Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom

Dune

The Black Cauldron

The Elephant Man

The NeverEnding Story III

Hotel Room

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

Son of Dracula

Firestarter

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