Actor

Freddie Jones

September 12, 1927 · Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK

Frederick Charles Jones (September 12, 1927 – July 9, 2019) 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.

Notable work

8
The Elephant Man (1980)
as Bytes
6.2
Dune (1984)
as Thufir Hawat
7.7
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
as Colonel Villefort
7
Wild at Heart (1990)
as George Kovich
6.4
The Black Cauldron (1985)
as Dallben (voice)
6.3
Firestarter (1984)
as Dr. Joseph Wanless
6.8
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
as Chester Cragwitch
6.1
Firefox (1982)
as Kenneth Aubrey
6
Krull (1983)
as Ynyr
4.5
The NeverEnding Story III (1994)
as Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain
7.5
Midsomer Murders (1997)
as Benbow

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