Freddie Jones

Frederick Charles Jones[1][2] (born 12 September 1927) is a retired English actor, perhaps best known for playing Sandy Thomas in Emmerdale from 2005 until 2018.
== Life and career ==
Jones was born in the town of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent,[3] the son of Ida Elizabeth (née Goodwin) and Charles Edward Jones.[2] He became an actor after 10 years of working as a laboratory assistant with the British Ceramic Research Association in Penkhull, leaving (according to him) because of a 'ban on beards'.[citation needed] He then pursued his hobby of acting on a full-time basis. He was trained at the Rose Bruford College and amongst other roles played Stanley in the Pinter-directed revival of The Birthday Party in 1963.[4] He became famous for his award-winning role as Claudius in the 1968 British TV series The Caesars.[citation needed]
He appeared in David Lynch's films The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984) and Wild at Heart (1990), as well as the short-lived TV series On the Air (1992) and the short film Hotel Room (1993).
Jones created the part of Sir in the original production of The Dresser by Ronald Harwood at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.
He narrated the award-winning video Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind: Pollination.[5]
He played the character Sandy Thomas in ITV's Emmerdale. On 6 February 2018 it was confirmed that Jones had filmed his final episode, due to air in the same month February 2018. Jones reported that he had been given a contract expansion but declined as he felt his character had reached the end since John Middleton left and that he had also opted to retire from acting.
Actor Toby Jones is the eldest of the three sons of Freddie Jones and his wife Jennifer (née Heslewood).[6]
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1967	Accident 	Man in Bell's Office 	
1967	Marat/Sade 	Cucurucu 	
1967	Far from the Madding Crowd 	Cainy Ball 	
1968	The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom 	Det. Sgt. Dylan 	
1968	Otley 	Philip Proudfoot 	
1969	Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 	Professor Richter 	
1970	Doctor in Trouble 	Master-at-Arms 	
1970	Goodbye Gemini 	David Curry 	
1970	The Man Who Haunted Himself 	Dr. Harris, Psychiatrist 	
1971	Horatio Knibbles 	Gamekeeper 	
1971	Assault 	Reporter 	
1972	Antony and Cleopatra 	Pompey 	
1972	Sitting Target 	MacNeil 	
1973	Kidnapped 	Cluny 	
1973	The Satanic Rites of Dracula 	Professor Keeley 	
1974	Son of Dracula 	The Baron 	
1974	Juggernaut 	Sidney Buckland 	
1974	Romance with a Double Bass 	Maestro Lakeyich 	Short film
1974	Vampira 	Gilmore 	A.K.A Old Dracula
1975	All Creatures Great and Small 	Cranford 	
1976	Never Too Young to Rock 	Mr. Rockbottom 	
1979	Zulu Dawn 	Bishop Colenso 	
1980	The Elephant Man 	Bytes 	
1982	Firefox 	Kenneth Aubrey 	
1982	Captain Stirrick 	Mr. Leach 	
1983	And the Ship Sails On 	Orlando 	
1983	Krull 	Ynyr 	
1984	Dune 	Thufir Hawat 	
1984	The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood 	Orlando 	
1984	Firestarter 	Doctor Joseph Wanless 	
1985	The Black Cauldron 	Dallben 	Voice
1985	Young Sherlock Holmes 	Chester Cragwitch 	
1986	Comrades 	Vicar of Tolpuddle 	
1987	Maschenka 	Podtyagin 	
1988	Consuming Passions 	Graham Chumley 	
1989	Erik the Viking 	Harald the Missionary 	
1990	Dark River 	The Official 	
1990	Wild at Heart 	George Kovich 	
1991	The Last Butterfly 	Karl Rheinberg 	
1992	Spies Inc. 	Filatov 	
1993	The Mystery of Edwin Drood 	Sapsea 	
1994	Prince of Jutland 	Bjorn 	
1994	The Neverending Story 3: Escape from Fantasia	Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain	
1995	Cold Comfort Farm 	Adam Lambsbreath 	
1997	Seeing Things 	Prisoner Park 	
1998	Keep in a Dry Place and Away from Children 	Voice over 	Short film
1998	What Rats Won't Do 	Judge Foster 	
1998	The Life and Crimes of William Palmer 	Dr. Bamford 	
1999	My Life So Far 	Reverend Finlayson 	
2000	House! 	Mr. Anzani 	
2000	David Copperfield 	Barkis 	Television film
2002	The Count of Monte Cristo 	Colonel Villefort 	
2002	Puckoon 	Sir John Meredith 	
2004	Ladies in Lavender 	Jan Pendered 	
2005	The Libertine 	Betterton 	
2008	Caught in the Act 	Collingsworth Jenkins 	
2010	Come on Eileen 	Dermot 	
2015	By Our Selves 	 	
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1960 	Androcles and the Lion 	Christian 	2 episodes
1963 	Z-Cars 	Craig 	Episode: "Pay by Results"
1963 	The Victorians 	Maltby 	Episode: "The Ticket-of-Leave Man"
1963 	Maupassant 	Boissel 	Episode: "The Inheritance"
1963, 1955	Our Man at St. Mark's 	Benson / George Gregory 	2 episodes
1964 	Festival 	Unknown character 	Episode: "Six Characters in Search of an Author"
1964 	ITV Play of the Week 	Arthur Lowe 	Episode: "Gina"
1965 	The Wednesday Play 	Taylor 	Episode: "For the West"
1966—1970 	Mystery and Imagination 	Sweeney Todd / Vaudin / Parkes 	3 episodes
1967 	Sword of Honour 	Ludovic 	Episode: "Officers and Gentlemen"
1967 	The Avengers 	Basil / John Steed 	Episode: "Who's Who???"
1967 	The Baron 	Landlord 	Episode: "So Dark the Night"
1967 	Half Hour Story 	Walter Bishop 	Episode: "A Man Inside"
1967, 1973	Armchair Theatre 	Fiodor Dostoyevski / John Dolby 	2 episodes
1968 	The Caesars 	Claudius 	5 episodes
1968 	The Saint 	Martin Graves 	Episode: "The Time to Die"
1968 	Nana 	Count Muffat 	5 episodes
1968 	Cold Comfort Farm 	Urk / Dr Adolf Mudel 	2 episodes
1969 	ITV Playhouse 	Wilfred Eames 	Episode: "You've Made Your Bed: Now Lie in It"
1969 	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 	James McAllister 	Episode: "For the Girl Who Has Everything"
1970 	Germinal 	Maheu 	4 episodes
1970 	The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens 	William Shaw 	Television film
1970 	Menace 	Elystan Griffiths 	Episode: "The Straight and the Narrow"
1970 	The Main Chance 	Prof. Ian Allardyce 	Episode: "The Walls of Jericho"
1970, 1978	BBC Play of the Month 	Gibbet / Vanya 	2 episodes
1970—1971 	Jackanory 	Storyteller 	9 episodes
1971 	Doctor at Large 	Sir Robert Joyce 	Episode: "Let's Start at the Beginning"
1971 	Six Dates with Barker 	Major Rupert Yappe 	Episode: "1915: Lola"
1971 	Out of the Unknown 	Lester 	Episode: "The Shattered Eye"
1971 	The Misfit 	Nitro 	Episode: "On Paperback Revolutionaries"
1971 	The Trouble with Lilian 	Jack 	Episode: "The Long Wash"
1971 	For the Love of Ada 	David Llewellyn Griffiths 	Episode: "The Admirer"
1971 	Jason King 	Mr. Quirly 	Episode: "A Deadly Line in Digits"
1972 	The Goodies 	Mr. Sparklipegs 	Episode: "Charity Bounce"
1972 	His and Hers 	Tom Waller 	Episode: "Driving"
1972 	Love and Mr Lewisham 	Mr. Chaffery 	3 episodes
1973 	The Adventurer 	Calloway 	Episode: "Mr. Calloway Is a Very Cautious Man"
1973 	The Protectors 	Robard 	Episode: "The Bodyguards"
1973 	Ooh La La! 	General Irrigua 	Episode: "Kept on a String"
1973 	Bowler 	Festival Hall Manager 	Episode: "On the Fiddle"
1973 	Alice Through the Looking Glass 	Humpty Dumpty 	Television film
1973 	Fall of Eagles 	Witte 	2 episodes
1974 	Baa Baa Black Sheep 	Uncle Harry 	Television film
1974 	ITV Sunday Night Drama 	Ethelred 	Episode: "The Ceremony of Innocence"
1974 	Marked Personal 	George Prewett 	2 episodes
1974 	Play for Today 	Headmaster - 'Audience' / Joe Jones 	2 episodes
1975 	This Week 	Lord Londonderry 	Episode: "1844"
1975 	Centre Play 	Walter / Tiny 	2 episodes
1975 	A Journey to London 	Lord Loverule 	Television film
1975 	Thriller 	Arnold Tully 	Episode: "A Midsummer Nightmare"
1975 	The Boy Dave' 	Old Billy 	Television film
1976 	Shades of Greene 	Lever 	Episode: "A Chance for Mr. Lever"
1976 	Space: 1999 	Dr. Charles Logan 	Episode: "Journey to Where"
1976 	The Government Inspector 	Mayor 	3 episodes
1976 	Brensham People 	Mr. Chorlton 	Episode: "Master of Many Parts"
1976 	Children of the Stones 	Dai 	5 episodes
1976—1978 	The Ghosts of Motley Hall 	Sir George Uproar 	20 episodes
1977 	Just William 	Sandy Dick 	Episode: "William and the Tramp"
1977 	The Galton & Simpson Playhouse 	Peter 	Episode: "Cheers"
1977 	Nicholas Nickleby 	Mr. Vincent Crummles 	2 episodes
1977 	Duchess of Duke Street 	Professor StubEpisode: "Cheers" 	Episode: "Poor Catullus"
1977 	Van der Valk 	Joop Pater 	Episode: "Accidental"
1977 	Target 	Det. Chief Supt. Neville Clegg 	Episode: "Carve Up"
1978 	Hazell 	Dobson 	Episode: "Hazell Settles the Accounts"
1978 	The Mayor of Casterbridge 	Fall 	2 episodes
1978 	The Nativity 	Diomedes 	Television film
1978 	The Devil's Crown 	Bertrand de Born 	3 episodes
1978 	Pennies From Heaven 	Headmaster 	2 episodes
1978 	BBC2 Play of the Week 	Vollard 	Episode: "Renoir, My Father"
1978 	The Talking Parcel 	Parrot (voice) 	Television film
1978 	The Dancing Princesses 	King 	Television film
1979 	Strangers 	Effingham 	Episode: "Friends in High Places"
1979 	The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris 	Selwyn Raven 	5 episodes
1979 	Of Mycenae and Men 	Menelaus 	Television short
1979 	In Loving Memory 	Jeremiah Unsworth 	Episode: "In Loving Memory"
1979 	Screenplay 	Richard Morrison 	Episode: "The Sound of Guns"
1979 	Brecht and Co 	Member of Brecht's company / Azdak 	Television film
1979 	Secret Orchards 	Roger Ackerley / Uncle Bodger 	Television film
1980 	The Greeks: A Journey in Space and Time	Socrates 	3 episodes
1980 	Spine Chillers 	Reader 	5 episodes
1981 	Tiny Revolutions 	Prof. Jan Kalina 	Television film
1981 	Theatre Box 	Nodding Dog (voice) 	Episode: "Marmalade Atkins in Space"
1982 	Murder Is Easy 	Constable Reed 	Television film
1982 	Eleanor, First Lady of the World 	Unknown character 	Television film
1983 	A Small Desperation 	Charles 	Television film
1984 	Travelling Man 	Morgan Rees 	Episode: "The Watcher"
1985 	The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole 	Mr. Scruton 	4 episodes
1985 	Bulman 	Victor Garforth 	Episode: "Another Part of the Jungle"
1985 	Lost in London 	Leo Porter 	Television film
1985 	Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe 	Squire Cass 	Television film
1986, 1990	Screen Two 	Agejev / Ulick Uniake 	2 episodes
1987 	The District Nurse 	Dr. Emlyn Isaacs 	12 episodes
1987 	Theatre Night 	Engstrand 	Episode: "Ghosts"
1987 	Vanity Fair 	Sir Pitt Crawley 	7 episodes
1987 	The Growing Pains of Adrian MolE 	Mr. Scruton 	6 episodes
1988 	The Return of Sherlock Holmes 	Inspector Baynes 	Episode: "Wisteria Lodge"
1988 	Room at the Bottom 	Andre Shepherd 	Episode: "The Chef"
1988 	How to Be Cool 	Dr. Benjamin Barnard Walters 	3 episodes
1989 	Sob Sisters 	Leo 	7 episodes
1989 	Boon 	David Tredegar 	Episode: "Walking Off Air"
1990 	TECX 	Sir Neil Milverton 	Episode: "A Soldier's Death"
1990 	The Paper Man 	Sir Charles Llewellyn 	Miniseries
1990 	Hale and Pace 	Dr. Pratt 	Episode: "Season Three, Episode Three"
1990 	Screenplay 	Politician 	Episode: "Shoot the Revolution"
1991 	Inspector Morse 	Harry Field Senior 	Episode: "Who Killed Harry Field?"
1992 	Screen One 	Old Squire 	Episode: "Adam Bede"
1992 	On the Air 	Stan Tailings 	Episode: "Episode 1.4"
1992 	True Adventures of Christopher Columbus	Herald 	
1993 	Hotel Room 	Lou Boca 	Episode: "Tricks"
1993 	Lovejoy 	Arnold Tapie 	Episode: "Goose Bumps"
1993 	The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes 	Pedlar 	Episode: ""The Last Vampyre""
1993 	Mr. Wroe's Virgins 	Pedlar 	4 episodes
1993 	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 	Birdy 	Episode: "Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom"
1993–2009 	Heartbeat 	Howard Druce / Fred Braithwaite / George Woodford / Mr. Parrish	4 episodes
1994 	A Pinch of Snuff 	Dr. Gilbert Haggard 	Television film
1994 	Just William 	Sir Giles Hampton 	Episode: "William and the Great Actor"
1995 	Cold Comfort Farm 	Adam Lambsbreath 	Television film
1995 	Tales of Mystery & Imagination 	Fortunato 	Episode: "The Cask of Amontillado"
1996 	No Bananas 	Perce 	2 episodes
1996 	Neverwhere 	The Earl 	2 episodes
1996 	The Bill 	Arthur Gordon 	Episode: "Old Codgers"
1997 	Dalziel and Pascoe 	French 	Episode: "Ruling Passion"
1997 	Drovers' Gold 	Moc Morgan 	Miniseries
1997 	The Temptation of Franz Schubert 	Unknown character 	Television film
1998 	The Life and Crimes of William Palmer 	Dr. Bamford 	Television film
1998 	Duck Patrol 	Cyril 	Episode: "The Spirit of the Deep"
1999 	Sunburn 	Mr. Dawson 	Episode: "Episode #1.5"
1999 	The Passion 	George 	
2000 	David Copperfield 	Barkis 	Television film
2000 	The League of Gentlemen 	Dr. Magnus Purblind 	Episode: "The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special"
2000, 2004	Casualty 	Iain Roles / Henry Wallowski 	2 episodes
2001 	Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) 	Carodoc Evans 	Episode: "Revenge of the Bog People"
2003 	Broken Morning 	Undertaker 	Television film
2004 	The Royal 	Sebastian Fox-Kirby 	2 episodes
2004 	Midsomer Murders 	Benbow 	Episode: "The Maid in Splendour"
2005 	Casanova 	Bragadin / Bragani 	2 episodes
2005–2018 	Emmerdale 	Sandy Thomas 	579 episodes