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.
Known For
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
as Benbow
Casualty
as Iain Roles
Dune
as Thufir Hawat
شرلوك هولمز
as Inspector Baynes
Krull
as Ynyr
الرجل الفيل
as Bytes
Hazell
as Dobson
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
as Sir George Uproar
Antony and Cleopatra
as Pompey
Emmerdale
as Sandy Thomas
Play for Today
The Caesars
as Claudius
BBC Play of the Month
as Vanya
The Avengers
as Basil / John Steed
Armchair Theatre
as John Dolby