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.

Filmography

• 2010Come on Eileen — Dermot
• 2008Caught in the Act — Collingsworth Jenkins
• Casanova — Bragadin
• 2004Ladies in Lavender — Jan Pendered
• The Royal — Sebastian Fox-Kirby
• 2002Puckoon — Sir John Meredith
• 2002The Count of Monte Cristo — Colonel Villefort
• 2001David Copperfield — Barkis
• David Copperfield — Barkis
• 2000House! — Mr Anzani
• 2000Married 2 Malcolm — Jasper
• Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
• 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom — Birdy
• 1999The Passion — George
• 1998Keep in a Dry Place & Away from Children — (voice, read by)
• 1998What Rats Won't Do — Judge Foster
• Midsomer Murders — Benbow
• Dalziel and Pascoe — French
• Neverwhere — The Earl
• 1995Cold Comfort Farm — Adam Lambsbreath
• Tales of Mystery and Imagination — Fortunato
• 1994A Pinch of Snuff — Dr Gilbert Haggard
• 1994Prince of Jutland — Bjorn
• 1994The NeverEnding Story III — Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain
• Hotel Room — Louis "Lou" Holchak
• Mr. Wroe's Virgins — Tobias
• 1993The Last Vampyre — Pedlar
• 1993The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Sapsea
• 1992Adam Bede — Old Squire
• Heartbeat — Mr. Parrish, George Woodford, Fred Braithwaite, Howard Druce
• 1992Spies, Inc. — Filatov
• 1991The Last Butterfly — Karl Rheinberg
• 1990Kremlin Farewell — Agejev
• 1990Shoot the Revolution — Sergei Popescu
• TECX
• The Paper Man — Sir Charles Llewellyn
• 1990Wild at Heart — George Kovich
• 1989Erik the Viking — Harald the Missionary
• Sob Sisters
• 1988Consuming Passions — Graham Chumley
• 1987Comrades — Vicar of Tolpuddle
• 1987Ghosts — Jacob Engstrand
• Inspector Morse — Harry Field Senior
• 1987Maschenka — Podtyagin
• Vanity Fair — Sir Pitt Crawley
• Casualty — Iain Roles, Henry Wallowski
• Lovejoy — Arnold Tapie
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Inspector Baynes
• 1986Time After Time — Ulick Uniake
• 1985A Crack in the Ice — Lt. Col. Svinin
• 1985Lost In London — Leo Porter
• Screen Two — Agejev
• 1985Silas Marner — Squire Cass
• 1985The Black Cauldron — Dallben (voice)
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ — Scruton, Mr. Scruton
• Theatre Night — Jacob Engstrand
• 1985Young Sherlock Holmes — Chester Cragwitch
• 1984Dune — Thufir Hawat
• 1984Firestarter — Dr. Joseph Wanless
• Sherlock Holmes — Inspector Baynes, Pedlar
• The District Nurse
• 1984The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
• Travelling Man — Morgan Rees
• 1983And the Ship Sails On — Orlando
• 1983David Macaulay: Castle — Voice
• 1983Krull — Ynyr
• 1983Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind — Narrator
• 1982Eleanor, First Lady of the World
• 1982Firefox — Kenneth Aubrey
• 1982Murder Is Easy — Const. Reed
• 1981Can I Help You?
• 1980The Elephant Man — Bytes
• 1979Brecht and Co
• 1979Of Mycenae and Men
• Screenplay — Richard Morrison
• 1979Secret Orchards — Roger Ackerley
• The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris — Selwyn Raven
• 1979Zulu Dawn — Bishop Colenso
• Hazell — Dobson
• Pennies from Heaven — Headmaster
• 1978Renoir, My Father — Vollard
• 1978Sorry... — Headmaster - 'Audience'
• Strangers — Effingham
• 1978The Dancing Princesses — The King
• The Mayor of Casterbridge — Fall
• 1978The Nativity — Diomedes
• 1978The Talking Parcel — Parrot
• BBC2 Play of the Week — Vollard
• Children of the Stones — Dai
• Nicholas Nickleby — Vincent Crummles
• Target — Det. Chief Supt. Neville Clegg
• The Galton & Simpson Playhouse — Peter
• Brensham People — Mr. Chorlton
• 1976Never Too Young to Rock — Mr. Rockbottom
• The Duchess of Duke Street — Professor Stubbs
• The Ghosts of Motley Hall — Sir George Uproar, 'Sir Richard'
• The Government Inspector — Mayor
• 1975A Midsummer Nightmare — Arnold Tully
• 1975All Creatures Great and Small — Cranford
• 1975Snooker — Tiny
• Space: 1999 — Charles Logan
• Fall of Eagles — Witte
• 1974Item — Mr Fisher
• 1974Joe's Ark — Joe
• 1974Juggernaut — Sidney Buckland
• 1974Romance with a Double Bass — Maestro Lakeyich
• 1974Son of Dracula — The Baron
• 1974Vampira — Gilmore
• 1973Alice Through the Looking Glass — Humpty Dumpty
• Armchair 30 — Santa Claus
• Centre Play — Tiny, Waiter
• 1973Russian Roulette — Fiodor Dostoyevski
• 1973The Satanic Rites of Dracula — Prof. Julian Keeley
• Thriller — Arnold Tully
• 1972Antony and Cleopatra — Pompey
• Emmerdale — Sandy Thomas
• Love and Mr Lewisham — Mr. Chaffery
• 1972Sitting Target — MacNeil
• The Adventurer — Calloway
• The Protectors — Robard
• Van der Valk — Joop Pater
• 1971Assault — Reporter
• Jason King — Mr. Quirly
• 1971Kidnapped — Cluny
• 1971Mr. Horatio Knibbles — Gamekeeper
• Six Dates with Barker — Major Rupert Yappe
• 1971The Shattered Eye — Lester
• 1970Doctor in Trouble — Humphrey, the Master-at-Arms
• Germinal — Maheu
• 1970Goodbye Gemini — David Curry
• 1970John Clare: "I Am" — John Clare
• Menace — Elystan Griffiths
• Play for Today
• 1970Sweeney Todd — Sweeney Todd
• The Goodies — Mr. Sparklipegs
• 1970The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens — William Shaw
• 1970The Man Who Haunted Himself — Dr. Harris
• The Misfit — Nitro
• 1970Uncle Vanya — Vanya
• 1969Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed — Prof. Richter
• 1969Otley — Philip Proudfoot
• Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) — James McAllister
• The Main Chance — Professor Ian Allardyce
• The Roy Hudd Show
• 1969You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It — Wilfred Eames
• Cold Comfort Farm — Urk Starkadder
• Nana — Count Muffat
• Ooh La La!
• 1968The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom — Det. Sergeant Dylan
• The Caesars — Claudius
• 1967A Man Inside — Walter Bishop
• 1967Accident — Man in Bell's Office
• 1967Far from the Madding Crowd — Cainy Bell
• Half Hour Story — Walter Bishop
• ITV Playhouse — Wilfred Eames
• Sword of Honour — Ludovic
• 1967The 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 — Cucurucu
• Mystery and Imagination — Parkes, Vaudin, Sweeney Todd
• BBC Play of the Month — Vanya, Gibbet
• Out of the Unknown — Lester
• Theatre 625 — Ludovic
• Festival
• The Saint — Martin Graves
• The Avengers — Basil / John Steed
• Androcles and the Lion — Christian
• Armchair Theatre — John Dolby, Seymour, Fiodor Dostoyevski

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2015By Our Selves — Himself
• Film '72 — Self