Freddie Jones

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Sep 12, 1927 (97 years old)
Death date
Jul 09, 2019

Freddie Jones

Known For

By Our Selves
1h 20m
Movie 2015

By Our Selves

Andrew Kötting's film retraces John Clare's journey from Epping Forest to Northamptonshire accompanied by a straw bear.

Casanova
0h 58m
TV Show 2005

Casanova

Castle Dux, Bohemia, 1798. Casanova, now a penniless librarian in his seventies, tells Edith, a young kitchen maid in the castle, his remarkable life story, and about falling in love with Henriette.

Cold Comfort Farm
1h 35m
Movie 1995

Cold Comfort Farm

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

A Pinch of Snuff
Movie 1994

A Pinch of Snuff

Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showing adult entertainment movies. Shorter is convinced that one particular scene in a movie he recently saw was too realistic to have been staged with fake blood, but when Pascoe and his bluff superior Andy Dalziel starts investigating, they soon comes across the actress in question, Linda Abbott, who obviously didn't suffer from any harm and assures Pascoe that the concerns are unnecessary.

Prince of Jutland
1h 47m
Movie 1994

Prince of Jutland

A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1h 52m
Movie 1993

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.

Mr. Wroe's Virgins
3h 48m
TV Show 1993

Mr. Wroe's Virgins

Based on the novel by Jane Rogers, the series follows the stories of seven young women who came to live and serve in the household of 19th century cult leader John Wroe.

Hotel Room
1h 39m
TV Show 1993

Hotel Room

The lives of several people spanning from 1936 to 1993 are chronicled during their overnight stay at a New York City hotel room.

Shoot the Revolution
Movie 1990

Shoot the Revolution

During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a member of the Securitate. His brother Octavian was the girl's teacher who "filled her head with the ideas of truth". The question isn't how did she die, but why?

The Paper Man
TV Show 1990

The Paper Man

The Paper Man is a 1990 mini series about a fictitious media mogul.

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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