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Jul 9, 2019 · 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 ...
Jul 11, 2019 · Freddie Jones, an accomplished actor of stage and screen, has died at the age of 91, per The Guardian. A kind of old-fashioned thespian, Jones graced the screen as a number of memorable characters in genre.
Frederick Charles Jones [1] [2] (12 September 1927 – 9 July 2019) was an English character actor. He portrayed Sandy Thomas in Emmerdale . He appeared in David Lynch 's movies The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984), Wild at Heart (1990) as well as the short-lived television series On the Air (1992) and the short movie Hotel Room (1993).
Jul 10, 2019 · Emmerdale star Freddie Jones has been described as one of the TV soap's "favourite human beings" following his death at 91. The father of fellow actor Toby Jones played Sandy Thomas in the ITV ...
Jul 10, 2019 · Jones was also a favorite of director David Lynch, who cast him in the films The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984), and Wild at Heart (1990).
Jul 11, 2019 · Freddie Jones was one of a kind. The Stoke born actor and father of Toby Jones, who has died at the age of 91, was best known in his later years for playing Sandy Thomas in the ITV soap Emmerdale (from 2005 to 2018). But he first made his name half a century ago as Claudius in Granada’s The Caesars (1968), having come to acting late after ...
Freddie Jones was born Frederick Charles Jones on September 12, 1927, in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, (Staffordshire), England, to Ida Elizabeth (née Goodwin), a clerk and a pianist, and Charles Edward Jones, an electrical porcelain thrower. He had a brother.
