From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Freddie Jones was an English character actor Jones was born in the town of Longton in the city of StokeonTrent He became an actor after ten years of working as a laboratory assistant with a firm making ceramic products when his hobby of acting took over He was trained at the prestigious Rose Bruford College and became famous for his role as Claudius in the 1968 British television series The Caesars He often played eccentric characters He narrated the awardwinning video Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind Pollination He plays the character Sandy Thomas in ITVs soap opera Emmerdale He was also something of a David Lynch regular appearing in The Elephant Man 1980 Dune 1984 Wild At Heart 1990 his shortlived TV series On The Air 1992 and the short film Hotel Room 1993 Jones was the father of actor Toby Jones He died on the 9th July 2019 following a short illness Description the Wikipedia article Freddie Jones licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia