Freddie Jones (born 12 September 1927) is an
English character actor.
Jones was born in the town of
Longton in the city of
Stoke-on-Trent.
[Stoke-on-trent: Freddie of the five towns telegraph 12 Feb 2001] He became an actor after ten years of working as a laboratory assistant with a firm making ceramic products, when his hobby took over. He was trained at the prestigious
Rose Bruford College He became famous for his role as
Claudius in the 1968 British
television series
The Caesars. He tends to play eccentric characters.
He narrated the award-winning video
Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind: Pollination.
[Sexual Encounters Of The Floral Kind: Pollination] He has played the character
Sandy Thomas in
ITV’s
soap opera Emmerdale.
