Freddie Jones

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Frederick "Freddie" Charles Jones (born September 12, 1927 in Stoke-on-Trent , United Kingdom ; † July 9, 2019 ) was a British actor , subscribed to shady roles.

Life

Jones began his career as a laboratory assistant in the pottery industry in his hometown of Stoke-on-Trent in northwest England. He had already passed the age of 30 by the time he decided to change his profession, trained as an actor and acted on a scholarship at London's Rose Buford College. From 1963 he was regularly seen in television productions, and three years later he was given his first film role in the ambitious theatrical version of the famous play The Persecution and Murder of Jean Paul Marat by the acting group of the Charenton Hospice under the guidance of Mr de Sade by Peter Weiss .

Weird and bizarre types became his preferred role subject. In some important films he was given significant roles, which were particularly well remembered due to their eccentricity: In the passenger ship thriller 18 Hours to Eternity , he played Richard Harris , who planted a number of bombs on an ocean liner, and the shipping company blackmailed for millions. Five years later Jones was given the role of the greasy and greedy exploiter of a deformed creature struck by fate and a terrible disease in David Lynch's The Elephant Man . He later made the films Der Wüstenplanet and Wild at Heart with Lynch . In 1982, Federico Fellini hired the stocky artist for the Orlando in his film Fellini's Ship of Dreams . Almost at the same time, Jones was seen heavily masked with a shaggy beard as Ynyr in the fantasy film Krull . In 1990 he played the camp Kapellmeister Rheinberg in the concentration camp drama The Last Butterfly .

In addition to his cinema activities, Jones did not neglect the stage and also worked in a number of television productions such as Adam Bede , Hotel Room and Cold Comfort Farm . One of his last roles was that of Sandy Thomas in the British soap opera Emmerdale from 2005 until his retirement in 2018.

His oldest son is the actor Toby Jones , with whom he last appeared in front of the camera in 2015 in the movie Be Our Selves . Freddie Jones died in July 2019 at the age of 91.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. Revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen. New York 2001, p. 709

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacob Stolworthy: Freddie Jones death: Veteran actor who starred in Emmerdale and Dune this, aged 91. In: The Independent . July 10, 2019, accessed on July 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Freddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Frederick Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Stoke-on-Trent , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2019