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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.
The roles that explain the career.
63 credits across 2 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Come on Eileen | Dermot | Film |
| 2008 | Caught in the Act | Collingsworth Jenkins | Film |
| 2005 | Casanova | Bragadin | Film |
| 2004 | Ladies in Lavender | Jan Pendered | Film |
| 2002 | Puckoon | Sir John Meredith | Film |
| 2002 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Colonel Villefort | Film |
| 2001 | David Copperfield | Barkis | Film |
| 1999 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom | Birdy | Film |
| 1998 | What Rats Won't Do | Judge Foster | Film |
| 1995 | Cold Comfort Farm | Adam Lambsbreath | Film |
| 1994 | Prince of Jutland | Bjorn | Film |
| 1994 | The NeverEnding Story III | Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain | Film |
| 1993 | The Last Vampyre | Pedlar | Film |
| 1993 | Hotel Room | Louis "Lou" Holchak | TV |
| 1992 | Adam Bede | Old Squire | Film |
| 1991 | The Last Butterfly | Karl Rheinberg | Film |
| 1990 | Wild at Heart | George Kovich | Film |
| 1989 | Erik the Viking | Harald the Missionary | Film |
| 1988 | Consuming Passions | Graham Chumley | Film |
| 1987 | Ghosts | Jacob Engstrand | Film |
| 1987 | Comrades | Vicar of Tolpuddle | Film |
| 1985 | Young Sherlock Holmes | Chester Cragwitch | Film |
| 1985 | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ | Mr. Scruton | TV |
| 1985 | Silas Marner | Squire Cass | Film |
| 1985 | The Black Cauldron | Dallben (voice) | Film |
| 1984 | The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood | Film | |
| 1984 | The District Nurse | TV | |
| 1984 | Dune | Thufir Hawat | Film |
| 1984 | Firestarter | Dr. Joseph Wanless | Film |
| 1983 | Krull | Ynyr | Film |
| 1983 | And the Ship Sails On | Orlando | Film |
| 1982 | Murder Is Easy | Const. Reed | Film |
| 1982 | Firefox | Kenneth Aubrey | Film |
| 1981 | Can I Help You? | Film | |
| 1980 | The Elephant Man | Bytes | Film |
| 1978 | The Talking Parcel | Parrot | Film |
| 1978 | The Dancing Princesses | The King | Film |
| 1976 | The Government Inspector | Mayor | TV |
| 1976 | The Ghosts of Motley Hall | Sir George Uproar | TV |
| 1976 | Never Too Young to Rock | Mr. Rockbottom | Film |
| 1975 | All Creatures Great and Small | Cranford | Film |
| 1974 | Son of Dracula | The Baron | Film |
| 1974 | Juggernaut | Sidney Buckland | Film |
| 1974 | Romance with a Double Bass | Maestro Lakeyich | Film |
| 1974 | Vampira | Gilmore | Film |
| 1973 | The Satanic Rites of Dracula | Prof. Julian Keeley | Film |
| 1972 | Love and Mr Lewisham | Mr. Chaffery | TV |
| 1972 | Sitting Target | MacNeil | Film |
| 1972 | Antony and Cleopatra | Pompey | Film |
| 1971 | Kidnapped | Cluny | Film |
| 1971 | Mr. Horatio Knibbles | Gamekeeper | Film |
| 1971 | Assault | Reporter | Film |
| 1970 | The Man Who Haunted Himself | Dr. Harris | Film |
| 1970 | Doctor in Trouble | Humphrey, the Master-at-Arms | Film |
| 1970 | The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens | William Shaw | Film |
| 1970 | Goodbye Gemini | David Curry | Film |
| 1969 | Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | Prof. Richter | Film |
| 1969 | Otley | Philip Proudfoot | Film |
| 1968 | The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom | Det. Sergeant Dylan | Film |
| 1968 | The Caesars | Claudius | TV |
| 1967 | The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade | Cucurucu | Film |
| 1967 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Cainy Bell | Film |
| 1967 | Accident | Man in Bell's Office | Film |
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