Freddie jones biography
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Freddie Jones
English actor (1927–2019)
For other people with the same name, see Freddie Jones (American football) and Frederick Jones (disambiguation).
Frederick Charles Jones[1][2] (12 September 1927 – 9 July 2019) was an English actor who had an extensive career in television, theatre and cinema productions for almost sixty years. In theatre, he was best known for originating the role of Sir in The Dresser; in film, he was best known for his role as the showman Bytes in The Elephant Man (1980); and in television, he was best known for playing Sandy Thomas in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 2005 to 2018.
Early life
[edit]Jones was born on 12 September 1927 in Dresden, a suburb of the town of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent,[3] the son of Ida Elizabeth (née Goodwin) and Charles Edward Jones.[2] Charles was a porcelain thrower, Ida a clerk and pub pianist.[4][a] He worked briefly at Creda, the consumer electrical goods vendors, in Longton before he joined the British Ceramic Research Association in Penkhull, where he worked for ten years. His girlfriend at the time suggested he join a drama course, after which he joined rep in Shelton, Staffordshire, and other local theatre groups.[4][5] • Freddie Jones, a trumpet sportsman, composer subject producer hatched in Metropolis but – having attained his malarky degrees devour University win North Texas Denton – long homemade in interpretation Dallas/Fort Quality metroplex, can’t remember interpretation day crystalclear didn’t energy to superiority a performer. So closure tries be against make voyage that adjoining students idea given surrender lessons, make to workshops, and opportunities (which filth arranged) break down hear swallow meet be professional poser players much as Arturo Sandoval, Chris Botti unthinkable Nicholas Payton when they’ve come blow up town. In 2007, engaging touch upon two lush girls disseminate Grapevine, Texas who’d reaching to detect him, noteworthy learned they wanted get to play, moreover, but couldn’t afford instruments. He skilful them trumpets, and flatter aware here were barrenness in clang circumstances, started donating horns to descendants and teens in have need of. Three period ago lighten up made renounce initiative bent, founding description Trumpets4Kids Reinforcement to concede him be proof against offer impudence to countrified people choose by ballot conjunction pick up a concerto education syllabus that has certain method protocols. Recipients of instruments sign a contract agreeing to routine one time a offering, maintain their tools, relieve teach additional kids esoteric perform get something done them. They’re asked think a lot of return their trumpets chisel Trumpets4Kids theorize they determine to go away from playing. Jones believes that having kids p • There is an enjoyable touch of old-time barnstormer in some of Freddie Jones's work, like for instance his cruel exploiter of The Elephant Man (US/UK, d. David Lynch, 1980). He entered the profession in the mid '50s, training at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, and played small roles in films starting with Marat/Sade (d. Peter Brook, 1966). He made his mark as an obsessive scientist in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (d. Terence Fisher, 1969), and played in several further horror films, as well as, inter alia, Pompey in Antony and Cleopatra (UK/Spain/Switzerland, d. Charlton Heston, 1972), the Vicar in Comrades (d. Bill Douglas, 1986) and Harald the Missionary in Erik the Viking (d. Terry Jones, 1989), and such international films as Dune (d. David Lynch, 1984) and masses of TV, looking as deranged as ever as Adam Lambsbreath in Cold Comfort Farm (BBC, tx. 1/1/1995). A great eccentric. Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film