Freddie Jones

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Age

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Born: September 12, 1927 – July 9, 2019
From: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK

Biography

Frederick Charles Jones (September 12, 1927 – July 9, 2019) 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.

Works

91 films

Dune

19846.2

The Count of Monte Cristo

20027.7

The Elephant Man

19808.0

Wild at Heart

19907.0

The Black Cauldron

19856.4

Krull

19836.0

Firefox

19826.1

Young Sherlock Holmes

19856.8

Ladies in Lavender

20046.5

Zulu Dawn

19796.1

The NeverEnding Story III

19944.5

Juggernaut

19746.3

Firestarter

19846.3

Erik the Viking

19895.9

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

19676.1