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Aliases: Фредди Джонс , Frederick Charles Jones

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 58

TV Involvements: 29


Most Famous Work

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 Famous Work

The Main Chance
Average
8

The Main Chance

(1969) Professor Ian Allardyce
The Avengers
Average
8

The Avengers

(1961) Basil / John Steed
Van der Valk
Average
6

Van der Valk

(1972) Joop Pater
Midsomer Murders
Average
8

Midsomer Murders

(1997) Benbow
Emmerdale
Average
4

Emmerdale

(1972) Sandy Thomas
Casualty
Average
6

Casualty

(1986) Iain Roles
Play of the Month
Average
5

Play of the Month

(1965) Vanya
The Adventurer
Average
6

The Adventurer

(1972) Calloway

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2015 Himself
2010 Dermot
2008 Collingsworth Jenkins
2005 Bragadin
2004 Jan Pendered
2003 Sebastian Fox-Kirby
2002 Clarion
Sir John Meredith
2001 Barkis
2000 N/A
Jasper
Mr Anzani
N/A
1999 Birdy
George
1998 Judge Foster
(voice, read by)
1997 Benbow
1996 The Earl
N/A
1995 Fortunato
Adam Lambsbreath
1994 Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain
Dr Gilbert Haggard
Bjorn
1993 N/A
Pedlar
Tobias
Louis "Lou" Holchak
1992 Filatov
Mr. Parrish
George Woodford
Fred Braithwaite
Howard Druce
Old Squire
1991 Karl Rheinberg
1990 Politician
Sir Charles Llewellyn
George Kovich
Agejev
N/A
1989 Harald the Missionary
N/A
1988 Graham Chumley
1987 Vicar of Tolpuddle
Engstrand
Podtyagin
Harry Field Senior
1986 Iain Roles
Henry Wallowski
Ulick Uniake
Arnold Tapie
1985 Squire Cass
Chester Cragwitch
Leo Porter
Scruton
Dallben (voice)
N/A
1984 Thufir Hawat
N/A
Dr. Joseph Wanless
Inspector Baynes
Pedlar
N/A
1983 Orlando
Narrator
Ynyr
Voice
1982 Kenneth Aubrey
N/A
Const. Reed
1980 Bytes
1979 N/A
Bishop Colenso
N/A
1978 Parrot
Diomedes
Vollard
Headmaster - 'Audience'
N/A
Headmaster
N/A
N/A
The King
1977 N/A
Mr. Vincent Crummles
N/A
Dai
1976 Mr. Rockbottom
Sir George Uproar
1975 Arnold Tully
Charles Logan
Cranford
Tiny
1974 Gilmore
Sidney Buckland
The Baron
Witte
Joe
Maestro Lakeyich
1973 N/A
Fiodor Dostoyevski
Prof. Julian Keeley
Arnold Tully
1972 Sandy Thomas
Robard
Calloway
Joop Pater
MacNeil
Pompey
1971 Cluny
Mr. Quirly
Gamekeeper
Reporter
N/A
1970 N/A
Mr. Sparklipegs
Vanya
N/A
N/A
Dr. Harris
David Curry
Master at Arms
Sweeney Todd
John Clare
N/A
1969 James McAllister
Wilfred Eames
Professor Ian Allardyce
Prof. Richter
Philip Proudfoot
N/A
1968 Claudius
Det. Sergeant Dylan
N/A
Count Muffat
N/A
1967 Cainy Bell
Cucurucu
Man in Bell's Office
1966 N/A
1965 Vanya
1964 N/A
1962 Martin Graves
1961 Basil / John Steed
Year Character Movie/Tv

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