Freddie Jones obit

Actor Freddie Jones, known for Dune and Krull, dead at 91

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Freddie Jones, an accomplished actor of stage and screen, has died at the age of 91, per The Guardian

A kind of old-fashioned thespian, Jones graced the screen as a number of memorable characters in genre. He worked with filmmaker David Lynch a number of times over his career, first as the cruel freakshow owner Bytes in 1980's The Elephant Man (pictured above). Their collaboration continued when Jones portrayed Thufir Hawat in the 1984 adaptation of Dune, where he (and his eyebrows) managed to steal almost every scene he was in. He also appeared in Lynch's feature Wild at Heart, as well as the short-lived, and utterly indescribable TV series On the Air.

Jones also appeared 1983's swashbuckling fantasy Krull as Ynyr, the Old One, who tells Prince Colwin about the existence of the mythical Glaive. He gave similar sage-like advice as the Old Man of Wandering Mountain in The Never-Ending Story III. He dabbled in horror as well, appearing in Hammer's The Satanic Rites of Dracula in 1973, the same year he portrayed Humpty Dumpty in the TV movie Alice Through the Looking Glass.

The actor was also no stranger to the world of Sherlock Holmes, appearing in a number of projects over the years, including the 1985 feature The Young Sherlock Holmes, as well as two TV series, The Return of Sherlock Holmes and The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes.

Born Frederick Charles Jones in Dresden, Germany back in 1927, he spent 10 years working in a lab assistant at the British Ceramic Research Association before leaving the job to pursue his hobby of stage-acting as a career. It was a decision that clearly worked out well for him, as he was a member of esteemed theatre troupes like The Royal Shakespeare Company, among others.

Jones is survived by his wife of 54 years, Jennie Heslewood, and their three sons, Toby, Rupert, and Casper.

Filmography

Film

Jones' film credits 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      The Man Who Haunted Himself Dr. Harris, Psychiatrist   

1970      Goodbye Gemini              David Curry        

1971      Assault Reporter             

1971      Horatio Knibbles               Gamekeeper     

1971      Kidnapped          Cluny    

1972      Antony and Cleopatra    Pompey              

1972      Sitting Target     MacNeil              

1973      Son of Dracula   The Baron           

1973      The Satanic Rites of Dracula         Professor Keeley             

1974      Juggernaut          Sidney Buckland              

1974      Vampira               Gilmore                A.K.A Old Dracula

1975      All Creatures Great and Small      Cranford              TV movie

1975      Romance with a Double Bass       Maestro Lakeyich             Short

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      Krull       Ynyr      

1983      And the Ship Sails On      Orlando               

1984      Firestarter           Doctor Joseph Wanless

1984      The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood        Orlando                TV movie

1984      Dune     Thufir Hawat     

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      Wild at Heart     George Kovich  

1990      Dark River           The Official         TV movie

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         TV movie

1997      Seeing Things     Prisoner Park     Short

1998      Keep in a Dry Place and Away from Children         Voice over           Short

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      Married 2 Malcolm          Jasper  

2000      David Copperfield            Barkis    TV movie

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     Narrator              

Television

Jones' television credits 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      I Am ... John Clare          

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 Soames     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 and 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   776 episodes (final appearance)