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Frederick Charles "Freddie" Jones (born 12 September 1927) is an English character actor. He currently plays Sandy Thomas in Emmerdale.
Life and career
Jones was born in the town of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, the son of Ida Elizabeth (née Goodwin) and Charles Edward Jones. He became an actor after ten years of working as a laboratory assistant with the British Ceramic Research Association in Penkhull, leaving (according to him) because of a 'ban on beards '. He was then able to pursue his hobby of acting on a full-time basis. He was trained at the prestigious Rose Bruford College and became famous for his award-winning role as Claudius in the 1968 British television series The Caesars.
He narrated the award-winning video Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind: Pollination. He plays the character Sandy Thomas in ITV's Emmerdale. He appeared in David Lynch's films The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984), Wild at Heart (1990) as well as the short-lived TV series On The Air (1992) and the short film Hotel Room (1993). Jones created the part of Sir in the original production of The Dresser by Ronald Harwood at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.
Actor Toby Jones is the eldest of Freddie and Jennifer (née Heslewood) Jones's three sons.
Filmography
Film
- Accident (1967)
- Marat/Sade (1967)
- Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
- The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
- Otley (1968)
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
- Doctor in Trouble (1970)
- Goodbye Gemini (1970)
- The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
- Horatio Knibbles (1971)
- Kidnapped (1971)
- Assault (1971)
- Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
- Sitting Target (1972)
- Son of Dracula (1974)
- Juggernaut (1974)
- Romance with a Double Bass (1974)
- Vampira (aka Old Dracula) (1974)
- The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974)
- All Creatures Great and Small (1975)
- Never Too Young to Rock (1975)
- The Nativity (1978) (TV)
- Zulu Dawn (1979)
- The Elephant Man (1980)
- Murder Is Easy (1982)
- Firefox (1982)
- And the Ship Sails On (1983)
- Krull (1983)
- Dune (1984)
- Firestarter (1984)
- The Black Cauldron (1985)
- Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
- Maschenka (1987)
- Consuming Passions (1988)
- How to Be Cool (1988)
- Erik the Viking (1989)
- Dark River (1990)
- Wild at Heart (1990)
- The Last Butterfly (1992)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1993)
- The Neverending Story 3: Escape from Fantasia (1994)
- Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
- Keep in a Dry Place and Away from Children (voiceover) (1997)
- The Life and Crimes of William Palmer (1998)
- David Copperfield (2000)
- House! (2000)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
- Puckoon (2002)
- Ladies in Lavender (2004)
- Caught in the Act (2008)
Television
- Z-Cars "Pay by Results" (1963)
- Mystery and Imagination "Lost Hearts" (1966)
- Sword of Honour (1967)
- The Avengers "Who’s Who???" (1967)
- The Caesars (1968)
- Nana (1968)
- Cold Comfort Farm (1968)
- Mystery and Imagination "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1968)
- The Saint "A Time To Die" (1968)
- Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) "For the Girl Who Has Everything" (1969)
- Germinal (BBC2 TV series) (1970)
- Mystery and Imagination "Sweeney Todd" (1970)
- Doctor at Large (1971)
- Joe's Ark (1974)
- Romance with a Double Bass (1974)
- Fall of Eagles (1974)
- Children of the Stones (1976)
- Just William (1976)
- Space: 1999 "Journey to Where" (1976)
- Thriller (1976)
- The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976–78)
- The Galton and Simpson Playhouse "Cheers" (1977)
- Duchess of Duke Street (1977)
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978)
- The Devil's Crown (1978)
- Pennies From Heaven (1978)
- In Loving Memory (Jeremiah Unsworth) (TV series 1 episode 1) (1979)
- Spine Chillers (1980)
- Travelling Man episode 3 "The Watcher" TV series (1984)
- Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1985)
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (TV series) (1985)
- Bulman "Another Part of the Jungle" (1985)
- The District Nurse BBC TV Series 3 - Dr. Emlyn Isaacs (1986)
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes "Wisteria Lodge" (1987)
- The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1987)
- Vanity Fair (TV Series 1987) Sir Pitt Crawley
- Inspector Morse "Who Killed Harry Field?" (1991)
- On The Air (1992)
- Hotel Room (1993)
- Lovejoy "Goose Bumps" (1993)
- The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes "The Last Vampyre" (1993)
- Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
- Neverwhere (1996)
- The Passion (1999)
- The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special (2000)
- Heartbeat "Old Masters" (2001)
- Midsomer Murders "The Maid in Splendour" (2004)
- Casanova (2005)
- Emmerdale (2005 onwards)