Freddie Jones:
† Sep 12 1927-July 9 2019
The prince of wild-eyed bluster and choleric
charm, Mr Jones has a CV as long as Gazza's psychiatric notes and has
appeared in many classic and not-so-classic films, including 'Accident' (1967), 'Otley' (1969), 'Zulu
Dawn' (1979), 'Dune' (1984), 'Marat/Sade' (1967), David Lynch's 'Wild At Heart' (1990), 'The Elephant Man' (1980) and 'The
Satanic Rites Of Dracula' (1973). His TV work is even more extensive, from 'The
Avengers', 'Randall & Hopkirk Deceased' (both series), 'The Ghosts of Motley Hall' and 'Jason
King', to 'Vanity Fair', 'Lovejoy', and 'The League Of Gentlemen'. A
gold-standard character actor. Trivia point: He is the father of the highly-regarded actor Toby Jones, who has received far too much recent publicity and too many critical accolades to qualify for inclusion here himself.
Freddie Jones - imdb profile
Freddie began at the FOSECO drama Club, in Drayton Bassett, a village close to Tamworth, in Staffordshire.
ReplyDeleteOne of the best character actors of all time. I first saw him in Children of the stones, I cannot recomend that programme highly enough.
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