Freddie Jones

Actor Sep 12 (died age 91) Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK 1956–2015 (59 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

The Elephant Man

Bytes

Film

The Count of Monte Cristo

Colonel Villefort

Film

Wild at Heart

George Kovich

Film

Dune

Thufir Hawat

Film

The Black Cauldron

Dallben (voice)

Film

Young Sherlock Holmes

Chester Cragwitch

Film

Firestarter

Dr. Joseph Wanless

Film

Firefox

Kenneth Aubrey

Filmography

Acting (160)

Movies (90)

By Our Selves

as Himself

Come on Eileen

as Dermot

Caught in the Act

as Collingsworth Jenkins

Ladies in Lavender

2004

as Jan Pendered

6.4

The Count of Monte Cristo

as Colonel Villefort

Puckoon

as Sir John Meredith

David Copperfield

as Barkis

House!

as Mr Anzani

The League of Gentlemen's Christmas Special: Yule Never Leave!

2000

as Dr Magnus Purblind

Married 2 Malcolm

as Jasper

The Passion

as George

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom

1999

as Birdy

6.0

Keep in a Dry Place & Away from Children

1998

as (voice, read by)

What Rats Won't Do

as Judge Foster

Cold Comfort Farm

as Adam Lambsbreath

The NeverEnding Story III

1994

as Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain

Prince of Jutland

as Bjorn

A Pinch of Snuff

as Dr Gilbert Haggard

The Last Vampyre

1993

as Pedlar

6.8

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Spies, Inc.

as Filatov

Adam Bede

as Old Squire

The Last Butterfly

as Karl Rheinberg

Wild at Heart

as George Kovich

Shoot the Revolution

as Sergei Popescu

Kremlin Farewell

1990

as Agejev

Erik the Viking

1989

as Harald the Missionary

Consuming Passions

as Graham Chumley

Comrades

as Vicar of Tolpuddle

6.8

Ghosts

1987

as Jacob Engstrand

Maschenka

1987

as Podtyagin

Time After Time

1986

as Ulick Uniake

Young Sherlock Holmes

1985

as Chester Cragwitch

6.7

A Crack in the Ice

1985

as Lt. Col. Svinin

Lost In London

1985

as Leo Porter

The Black Cauldron

as Dallben (voice)

Silas Marner

as Squire Cass

Dune

as Thufir Hawat

Firestarter

as Dr. Joseph Wanless

6.3

The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood

Krull

as Ynyr

Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind

1983

as Narrator

And the Ship Sails On

1983

as Orlando

7.2

David Macaulay: Castle

1983

as Voice

6.0

Eleanor, First Lady of the World

Firefox

as Kenneth Aubrey

Murder Is Easy

as Const. Reed

The Elephant Man

as Bytes

Zulu Dawn

as Bishop Colenso

Secret Orchards

as Roger Ackerley

Of Mycenae and Men

Brecht and Co

The Talking Parcel

as Parrot

The Nativity

as Diomedes

Sorry...

as Headmaster - 'Audience'

Renoir, My Father

1978

as Vollard

The Dancing Princesses

1978

as The King

Never Too Young to Rock

1976

as Mr. Rockbottom

4.7

Snooker

1975

as Tiny

All Creatures Great and Small

1975

as Cranford

6.6

A Midsummer Nightmare

1975

as Arnold Tully

Juggernaut

1974

as Sidney Buckland

6.2

Item

1974

as Mr Fisher

Son of Dracula

as The Baron

Vampira

as Gilmore

Romance with a Double Bass

1974

as Maestro Lakeyich

5.7

Joe's Ark

1974

as Joe

The Satanic Rites of Dracula

1973

as Prof. Julian Keeley

5.6

Russian Roulette

1973

as Fiodor Dostoyevski

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Antony and Cleopatra

as Pompey

Sitting Target

as MacNeil

Kidnapped

as Cluny

Assault

as Reporter

Mr. Horatio Knibbles

as Gamekeeper

John Clare: "I Am"

as John Clare

Goodbye Gemini

1970

as David Curry

4.5

The Man Who Haunted Himself

1970

as Dr. Harris

6.1

Sweeney Todd

1970

as Sweeney Todd

Doctor in Trouble

1970

as Humphrey, the Master-at-Arms

4.6

The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

1970

as William Shaw

Uncle Vanya

as Vanya

Otley

as Philip Proudfoot

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

1969

as Prof. Richter

6.3

You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It

1969

as Wilfred Eames

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

1968

as Det. Sergeant Dylan

6.5

Accident

1967

as Man in Bell's Office

6.3

Far from the Madding Crowd

as Cainy Bell

Marat/Sade

as Cucurucu

A Man Inside

as Walter Bishop

Television (70)

Casanova

2005

as Bragadin

7.1

The Royal

2003

as Sebastian Fox-Kirby

7.6

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Midsomer Murders

as Benbow

Dalziel & Pascoe

Neverwhere

as The Earl

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

1995

as Fortunato

5.0

Hotel Room

1993

as Louis "Lou" Holchak

Mr. Wroe's Virgins

as Tobias

Heartbeat

as Mr. Parrish

The Paper Man

as Sir Charles Llewellyn

TECX

Sob Sisters

Inspector Morse

as Harry Field Senior

7.9

Vanity Fair

1987

as Sir Pitt Crawley

Casualty

as Henry Wallowski

Lovejoy

as Arnold Tapie

Bulman

Theatre Night

as Jacob Engstrand

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾

as Mr. Scruton

Sherlock Holmes

as Inspector Baynes

Travelling Man

as Morgan Rees

The District Nurse

Strangers

as Effingham

Hazell

as Dobson

The Mayor of Casterbridge

as Fall

Pennies from Heaven

as Headmaster

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

as Vollard

7.0

Target

1977

as Det. Chief Supt. Neville Clegg

6.3

Nicholas Nickleby

1977

as Vincent Crummles

5.5

Children of the Stones

1977

as Dai

6.6

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

1977

as Peter

The Duchess of Duke Street

1976

as Professor Stubbs

8.0

The Ghosts of Motley Hall

1976

as Sir George Uproar, 'Sir Richard'

6.8

The Ghosts of Motley Hall

1976

as 'Sir Richard'

6.8

The Government Inspector

1976

as Mayor

Space: 1999

as Charles Logan

Fall of Eagles

as Witte

Thriller

as Arnold Tully

Centre Play

as Tiny

Emmerdale

as Sandy Thomas

Van der Valk

as Joop Pater

The Protectors

as Robard

The Adventurer

as Calloway

Jason King

as Mr. Quirly

Six Dates with Barker

Play for Today

The Goodies

as Mr. Sparklipegs

Menace

The Misfit

as Nitro

Germinal

1970

5.0

The Main Chance

1969

as Professor Ian Allardyce

7.7

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

as James McAllister

The Roy Hudd Show

Ooh La La!

Cold Comfort Farm

as Urk Starkadder

The Caesars

as Claudius

Nana

as Count Muffat

Sword of Honour

1967

as Ludovic

Mystery and Imagination

1966

as Parkes

5.5

The Liars

1966

as Frank Brinton

BBC Play of the Month

as Vanya

Out of the Unknown

as Lester

The Wednesday Play

Theatre 625

as Ludovic

Festival

The Saint

as Martin Graves

The Avengers

as Basil / John Steed

7.7

Androcles and the Lion

1960

as Christian

Armchair Theatre

1956

as John Dolby

5.8