Freddie Jones
Birthday: 1927-09-12
Place of Birth: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
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.
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Dune
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Krull
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Firefox
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The Black Cauldron
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Cold Comfort Farm
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John Clare: "I Am"
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The NeverEnding Story III
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Goodbye Gemini
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Vampira
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Silas Marner
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David Copperfield
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The Last Butterfly
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Consuming Passions
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Kremlin Farewell
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Adam Bede
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House!
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind
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Antony and Cleopatra
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The Nativity
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Zulu Dawn
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The Passion
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Russian Roulette
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Married 2 Malcolm
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
1973 BBC TV movie adaptation of the book by Lewis Carroll....
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Accident
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Ghosts
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Come on Eileen
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Romance with a Double Bass
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Sweeney Todd
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Prince of Jutland
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All Creatures Great and Small
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Doctor in Trouble
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Brecht and Co
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By Our Selves
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
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A Pinch of Snuff
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Wild at Heart
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Sorry...
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David Macaulay: Castle
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Uncle Vanya
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Caught in the Act
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Marat/Sade
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The Last Vampyre
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A Midsummer Nightmare
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Renoir, My Father
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A Man Inside
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Item
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A Crack in the Ice
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The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Antho...
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Of Mycenae and Men
Historical comedy, showing what happened to Helen of Troy after the Trojan War....
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