Freddie Jones
{{short description|English actor (1927–2019)}}
{{other people||Freddie Jones (American football)|Frederick Jones (disambiguation)}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Freddie Jones
| image = FreddieJonesSitting - (cropped).jpg
| caption = Jones sitting for a sculpture by Steven Whyte in 2009
| birthname = Frederick Charles Jones
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1927|9|12}}
| birth_place = Dresden, Staffordshire, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2019|7|9|1927|9|12}}
| death_place = Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
| occupation = Actor
| alma_mater = Rose Bruford College
| spouse = {{marriage|Jennifer Heslewood|1965}}
| children = 3, including Toby Jones
| years_active = 1960–2018
}}
Frederick Charles JonesBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005.; at ancestry.com{{cite web |url=http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Nostalgia-Letter/story-12529277-detail/story.html |title=Nostalgia Letter |first=Alan |last=Myatt |date=22 May 2010 |website=This is Staffordshire |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930233803/http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Nostalgia-Letter/story-12529277-detail/story.html |archive-date=30 September 2012}} (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
Jones was born on 12 September 1927 in Dresden, a suburb of the town of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent,{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/centralengland/721283/Stoke-on-trent-Freddie-of-the-five-towns.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126093838/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/centralengland/721283/Stoke-on-trent-Freddie-of-the-five-towns.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 January 2009 |title=Stoke-on-trent: Freddie of the five towns |first=Brian |last=Pedley |date=28 August 1998 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}} the son of Ida Elizabeth (née Goodwin) and Charles Edward Jones. Charles was a porcelain thrower, Ida a clerk and pub pianist.{{cite news |title=Freddie Jones, one of Britain's most treasured character actors, who played a freak-show proprietor in 'The Elephant Man' and the roguish father of the vicar in Emmerdale – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/07/10/freddie-jones-one-britains-treasured-character-actors-played/ |access-date=11 July 2019 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=10 July 2019}}{{efn|Jones' description of his mother's piano playing was: "She played piano in Longton the way most people play rugby, as though she had a grudge against it."}} He worked briefly at Creda 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.{{cite news |last1=Coveney |first1=Michael |title=Freddie Jones obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/10/freddie-jones-obituary |access-date=11 July 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=10 July 2019}}
Career
Jones won a scholarship to the Rose Bruford Training College of Speech and Drama—where he shed his Midlands accent. He spent time in repertory theatre in Lincoln, before making his London debut in 1962 with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), performing at the Arts Theatre in Afore Night Come. According to the theatre critic Michael Coveney, Jones was "immediately one of the ... [RSC's] most distinctive character actors". In 1963 he played Stanley in the Harold Pinter-directed revival of The Birthday Party in 1963,{{cite news |title= Pinter and Me |first=Tony |last=Jones |work=Sunday Times |date=14 January 2018 |at=Section 8-9}} followed by Maxim Gorky's play Lower Depths at the Aldwych Theatre in 1964. In 1964 he appeared as Cucurucu in the Peter Brook-directed production of Marat/Sade in a production that included Glenda Jackson, Ian Richardson and Patrick Magee. He reprised his role for the Broadway production, and again for the film version (1967).
He became more widely known to British audiences in 1968, after his appearance in the six-episode television series The Caesars, in which he played Claudius. For this role, he won the award for the "World's Best Television Actor of the Year" at the 1969 Monte-Carlo Television Festival. In 1970 he took the eponymous role in Charles Wood's television film The Emergence Of Anthony Purdy Esquire Farmer's Labourer, directed by Patrick Dromgoole for Harlech TV. Other television work included the 1968 BBC three-part adaptation of Cold Comfort Farm (he also appeared in the 1995 film adaptation), the 1978 series Pennies from Heaven and the ITV children's programme The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976–1978). His cinema career developed, with support roles in the Cold War thriller Firefox playing an MI6 spy chief, and in the director David Lynch's films The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984) and Wild at Heart (1990). In the 1980s series, The District Nurse, he played the senior partner in a father-and-son medical practice in 1930s Wales, with the unrelated Nicholas Jones as his son.{{cite book |last1=Lemon |first1=Mark |last2=Mayhew |first2=Henry |last3=Taylor |first3=Tom |last4=Brooks |first4=Shirley |last5=Burnand |first5=Francis Cowley |last6=Seaman |first6=Owen |name-list-style=amp |title=London Charivari |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-BInAQAAIAAJ |year=1987 |publisher=Punch Publications Limited |page=57}}{{cite book |first1=Tise |last1=Vahimagi |first2=Michael |last2=Grade |title=British Television: An Illustrated Guide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SNMaAQAAIAAJ |year=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=292|isbn=9780198159278 }}
In 1980 he appeared as Sir in Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser, first in Manchester, then transferring to the London stage; he later reprised the role on BBC Radio 4's The Monday Play in 1993. Coveney said of Jones in the role: "No subsequent performance in The Dresser – not Albert Finney in the 1983 film, nor Anthony Hopkins on television in 2015, nor Ken Stott in the West End in 2016 – matched the rumbling thunder of Jones". Apart from a brief spell in 2001, Jones retired from stage work in the early 1990s.
Jones had three appearances in Sherlock Holmes adaptations; as Chester Cragwitch in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985),{{cite web|last=Monty|first=Scott|title=Remembering Freddie Jones|url=https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2019/07/remembering-freddie-jones.html|website=I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere|date=11 July 2019|access-date=16 December 2023}} as Inspector Baynes in the "Wisteria Lodge" episode of The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1988), and as a pedlar in "The Last Vampire" episode of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1993).
Jones played the character Sandy Thomas in ITV's Emmerdale from 2005 to 2018, when he left the programme.{{cite web |title=Tributes paid to Emmerdale actor Freddie Jones |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48940202 |website=BBC News |access-date=11 July 2019 |date=10 July 2019}} He said he had been offered a contract extension but he declined as he felt it was the right time to move on.{{cite magazine |title=90-year-old actor Freddie Jones explains why now is the right time to leave Emmerdale |first=David |last=Brown |date=16 February 2018 |magazine=Radio Times |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-02-16/emmerdale-sandy-thomas-leaves-freddie-jones-actor-itv/ |access-date=11 July 2019}}
Jones also performed extensively in radio drama, including:
- "Mr. Pickwick" in the 1977 adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fd0qw|title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers|website=BBC Radio}}
- "The Player" in the 1978 adaptation of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead{{Cite magazine |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b90282445b2d4d0ca3ee441a954c0850|title=Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead|date=24 December 1978 |magazine=Radio Times |issue=2876|page=31|via=BBC Genome}}
- "The Waiter" in the 1971 adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's You Never Can Tell{{Cite magazine |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1ab60263b234448185ae72e564b3aec6|title=Saturday-Night Theatre You Never Can Tell|date=31 July 1971 |magazine=Radio Times |issue=2490|page=17|via=BBC Genome}}
- "Albert Edward, Prince of Wales" in Lydia Ragosin's Bertie{{Cite magazine |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0fbfcb34d4b64271af02b1478e4062e2|title=Saturday-Night Theatre: Bertie|date=15 June 1974 |magazine=Radio Times |issue=2640|page=25|via=BBC Genome}}
- "Rodin" in Jonathan Smith's Abandoned{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07609r8|title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - Jonathan Smith - Abandoned|website=BBC Radio}}
- "The Scribe" in the 1992 adaptation of Bruce Bedford's The Gibson{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d56fd|title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - Bruce Bedford - The Gibson|website=BBC Radio}}
- "Charlie" in A. L. Kennedy's Like An Angel{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003dqz|title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - AL Kennedy - Like An Angel|website=BBC}}
- "Sir Morton Makepeace" in Martyn Read's The Folly{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mz47c|title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - Martyn Read - The Folly|website=BBC Radio}}
- "The Artist" in the adaptations of the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake.
Personal life
Jones married actress Jennifer Heslewood in 1965. They had three sons, including Toby Jones.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/quiet-genius-of-toby-jones-from-the-hunger-games-to-truman-capote-hollywood-cant-get-enough-of-british-actings-most-versatile-talent-9724804.html |last=Walsh |first=John |title=Quiet Genius of Toby Jones: From the Hunger Games to Truman Capote, Hollywood can't get enough of British acting's most versatile talent |work=The Independent |date=13 September 2014 |access-date=15 March 2015}} He was a Stoke City fan.{{cite news |url=http://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/thread/288803/freddie-jones-rip|title=Freddie Jones RIP|publisher=Oatcakefanzine.proboards.com|date=10 July 2019|access-date=2019-12-30}}
Jones died on 9 July 2019, aged 91, in Bicester, Oxfordshire, following a short illness.{{cite news |last1=Stolworthy |first1=Jacob |title=Emmerdale actor Freddie Jones dies aged 91 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/freddie-jones-death-emmerdale-sandy-thomas-actor-age-cause-tributes-a8998781.html |access-date=11 July 2019 |work=The Independent |date=10 July 2019}} Following his death several of the cast members from Emmerdale paid tribute to Jones. On 11 July both episodes of a double-bill of the soap were dedicated to Jones.{{Cite web|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/emmerdale/a28366707/emmerdale-dedicates-episodes-freddie-jones-sandy-thomas/|title=Emmerdale dedicates latest episodes to actor Freddie Jones|first=Megan|last=Davies|date=11 July 2019|website=Digital Spy}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class = "wikitable sortable"
|+ Jones' film credits{{cite web |title=Freddie Jones |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f0b936a |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322162100/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f0b936a |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 March 2016 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=11 July 2019}}{{cite web |title=Freddie Jones |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/freddie_jones |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=11 July 2019 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=AFI Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Person/55675-Freddie-Jones?sid=40409d99-fb30-47e7-b871-842333b3451f&sr=13.117658&cp=1&pos=0&isMiscCredit=false |website=American Film Institute |access-date=11 July 2019}} |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class = "unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1967
| Accident | Man In Bell's Office | |
| 1967
| Cucurucu | |
| 1967
| Cainy Ball | |
| 1968
| Sergeant Dylan | |
| 1968
| Otley | Philip Proudfoot | |
| 1969
| Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | Professor Richter | |
| 1970
| The Emergence of Anthony Purdy Esquire Farmer's Labourer | Anthony Purdy | |
| 1970
| Dr. Harris, The Psychiatrist | |
| 1970
| David Curry | |
| 1971
| Assault | Reporter | |
| 1971
| Horatio Knibbles | The Gamekeeper | |
| 1971
| Cluny | |
| 1972
| Pompey | |
| 1972
| MacNeil | |
| 1973
| The Satanic Rites of Dracula | Professor Keeley | |
| 1974
| The Baron | |
| 1974
| Sidney Buckland | |
| 1974
| Vampira | Gilmore | A.K.A Old Dracula |
| 1975
| All Creatures Great and Small | Cranford | TV movie |
| 1975
| Maestro Lakeyich | Short |
| 1976
| Mr. Rockbottom | |
| 1979
| Bishop Colenso | |
| 1980
| Bytes | |
| 1982
| Firefox | Kenneth Aubrey | |
| 1982
| Captain Stirrick | Mr. Leach | |
| 1983
| Krull | Ynyr | |
| 1983
| Orlando | |
| 1984
| Dr. Joseph Wanless | |
| 1984
| The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood | Orlando | TV movie |
| 1984
| Dune | |
| 1985
| Dallben | Voice |
| 1985
| Chester Cragwitch | |
| 1986
| Comrades | Vicar of Tolpuddle | |
| 1987
| Podtyagin | |
| 1988
| Graham Chumley | |
| 1989
| Harald, The Missionary | |
| 1990
| George Kovich | |
| 1990
| The Official | TV movie |
| 1991
| Karl Rheinberg | |
| 1992
| Spies Inc. | Filatov | |
| 1993
| Sapsea | |
| 1994
| Bjorn | |
| 1994
| The Neverending Story 3: Escape from Fantasia | Mr. Coreander / Old Man of Wandering Mountain | |
| 1995
| Adam Lambsbreath | TV movie |
| 1997
| Seeing Things | Prisoner Park | Short |
| 1998
| Keep in a Dry Place and Away from Children | Voice Over | Short |
| 1998
| Judge Foster | |
| 1998
| The Life and Crimes of William Palmer | Dr. Bamford | |
| 1999
| Reverend Finlayson | |
| 2000
| House! | Mr. Anzani | |
| 2000
| Married 2 Malcolm | Jasper | |
| 2000
| Barkis | TV movie |
| 2002
| Colonel Villefort | |
| 2002
| Puckoon | Sir John Meredith | |
| 2004
| Jan Pendered | |
| 2005
| Betterton | |
| 2008
| Caught in the Act | Collingsworth Jenkins | |
| 2010
| Come on Eileen | Dermot | |
| 2015
| By Our Selves | The Narrator | |
=Television=
| class = "wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class = "unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1960
| Androcles and the Lion | Christian | 2 episodes |
| 1963
| Z-Cars | Craig | Episode: "Pay by Results" |
| 1963
| {{sortname|The|Victorians|nolink=y}} | Maltby | Episode: "The Ticket-of-Leave Man" |
| 1963
| Maupassant | Boissel | Episode: "The Inheritance" |
| 1963-1965
| Benson / George Gregory | 2 episodes |
| 1964
| Festival | Unknown | Episode: "Six Characters in Search of an Author" |
| 1964
| Arthur Lowe | Episode: "Gina" |
| 1965
| {{sortname|The|Wednesday Play}} | Taylor | Episode: "For the West" |
| 1966—1970
| Sweeney Todd / Vaudin / Parkes | 3 episodes |
| 1967
| Ludovic | Episode: "Officers and Gentlemen" |
| 1967
| {{sortname|The|Avengers|dab=TV series}} | Basil / John Steed | Episode: "Who's Who???" |
| 1967
| {{sortname|The|Baron|dab=TV series}} | The Landlord | Episode: "So Dark the Night" |
| 1967
| Half Hour Story | Walter Bishop | Episode: "A Man Inside" |
| 1967-1973
| Fiodor Dostoyevski / John Dolby | 2 episodes |
| 1968
| {{sortname|The|Caesars|dab=TV series}} | Claudius | 5 episodes |
| 1968
| {{sortname|The|Saint|dab=TV series}} | Martin Graves | Episode: "The Time to Die" |
| 1968
| Nana | Count Muffat | 5 episodes |
| 1968
| Urk / Dr. Adolf Mudel | 2 episodes |
| 1969
| 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
| {{sortname|The|Importance of Anthony Purdy Esquire, Farmer's Labourer|nolink=y}} | Anthony Purdy |Television Film |
| 1970
| Germinal | Maheu | 4 episodes |
| 1970
| {{sortname|The|Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens}} | William Shaw | Television film |
| 1970
| Menace | Elystan Griffiths | Episode: "The Straight and the Narrow" |
| 1970
| {{sortname|The|Main Chance}} | Professor Ian Allardyce | Episode: "The Walls of Jericho" |
| 1970
| Uncle Vanya | Episode: "Uncle Vanya" |
| 1970-1971
| The Storyteller | 9 episodes |
| 1971
| Sir Robert Joyce | Episode: "Let's Start at the Beginning" |
| 1971
| Major Rupert Yappe | Episode: "1915: Lola" |
| 1971
| Lester | Episode: "The Shattered Eye" |
| 1971
| {{sortname|The|Misfit|dab=TV series}} | Nitro | Episode: "On Paperback Revolutionaries" |
| 1971
| {{sortname|The|Trouble with Lilian|nolink=y}} | Jack | Episode: "The Long Wash" |
| 1971
| David Llewellyn Griffiths | Episode: "The Admirer" |
| 1971
| Mr. Quirly | Episode: "A Deadly Line in Digits" |
| 1972
| {{sortname|The|Goodies|dab=TV series}} | Mr. Sparklipegs | Episode: "Charity Bounce" |
| 1972
| His and Hers | Tom Waller | Episode: "Driving" |
| 1972
| Mr. Chaffery | 3 episodes |
| 1973
| {{sortname|The|Adventurer|dab=TV series}} | Calloway | Episode: "Mr. Calloway Is a Very Cautious Man" |
| 1973
| {{sortname|The|Protectors}} | Robard | Episode: "The Bodyguards" |
| 1973
| Ooh La La! | General Irrigua | Episode: "Kept on a String" |
| 1973
| Bowler | The Festival Hall Manager | Episode: "On the Fiddle" |
| 1973
| Alice Through the Looking-Glass | Television film |
| 1973
| Witte | 2 episodes |
| 1974
| Baa Baa Black Sheep | Uncle Harry | Television film |
| 1974
| Ethelred | Episode: "The Ceremony of Innocence" |
| 1974
| George Prewett | 2 episodes |
| 1974
| Joe Jones | Episode: "Joe's Ark" |
| 1975
| Lord Londonderry | Episode: "1844" |
| 1975
| Centre Play | Walter / "Tiny" | 2 episodes |
| 1975
| {{sortname|A|Journey to London}} | Lord Loverule | Television film |
| 1975
| Thriller | Arnold Tully | Episode: "A Midsummer Nightmare" |
| 1975
| {{sortname|The|Boy Dave|nolink=y}} | Old Billy | Television film |
| 1976
| Lever | Episode: "A Chance for Mr. Lever" |
| 1976
| Dr. Charles Logan | Episode: "Journey to Where" |
| 1976
| {{sortname|The|Government Inspector|nolink=y}} | The Mayor | 3 episodes |
| 1976
| Brensham People | Mr. Chorlton | Episode: "Master of Many Parts" |
| 1976
| Dai | 5 episodes |
| 1976–1978
| {{sortname|The|Ghosts of Motley Hall}} | Sir George Uproar | 20 episodes |
| 1977
| Sandy Dick | Episode: "William and the Tramp" |
| 1977
| {{sortname|The|Galton & Simpson Playhouse|nolink=y}} | Peter | Episode: "Cheers" |
| 1977
| Mr. Vincent Crummles | 2 episodes |
| 1977
| Professor Stubbs | Episode: "Poor Catullus" |
| 1977
| Joop Pater | Episode: "Accidental" |
| 1977
| Target | Chief Superintendent Neville Clegg | Episode: "Carve Up" |
| 1978
| Hazell | Dobson | Episode: "Hazell Settles the Accounts" |
| 1978
| {{sortname|The|Mayor of Casterbridge}} | Fall | 2 episodes |
| 1978
| {{sortname|The|Nativity|dab=1978 film}} | Diomedes | Television film |
| 1978
| {{sortname|The|Devil's Crown}} | Bertrand de Born | 3 episodes |
| 1978
| The Headmaster | 2 episodes |
| 1978
| Head Maltster, 'Audience' | Episode: "Sorry…" |
| 1978
| Gibbet | Episode: "The Beaux' Stratagem" |
| 1978
| BBC2 Play of the Week | Vollard | Episode: "Renoir, My Father" |
| 1978
| {{sortname|The|Talking Parcel}} | Parrot | Voice, Television film |
| 1978
| {{sortname|The|Dancing Princesses|nolink=y}} | King | Television film |
| 1979
| Effingham | Episode: "Friends in High Places" |
| 1979
| {{sortname|The|Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris|nolink=y}} | Selwyn Raven | 5 episodes |
| 1979
| Of Mycenae and Men | Menelaus | Television short |
| 1979
| 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
| Roger Ackerley / Uncle Bodger | Television film |
| 1980
| {{sortname|The|Greeks: A Journey in Space and Time|nolink=y}} | Socrates | 3 episodes |
| 1980
| Reader | 5 episodes |
| 1981
| Tiny Revolutions | Professor Jan Kalina | Television film |
| 1981
| Theatre Box | Nodding Dog | Voice, Episode: "Marmalade Atkins in Space" |
| 1982
| Constable Reed | Television film |
| 1982
| Eleanor, First Lady of the World | Unknown | Television film |
| 1983
| {{sortname|A|Small Desperation|nolink=y}} | Charles | Television film |
| 1984
| Morgan Rees | Episode: "The Watcher" |
| 1985
| {{sortname|The|Secret Diary of Adrian Mole|dab=TV series}} | 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
| Agejev / Ulick Uniake | 2 episodes |
| 1987
| {{sortname|The|District Nurse}} | Dr. Emlyn Isaacs | 12 episodes |
| 1987
| Engstrand | Episode: "Ghosts" |
| 1987
| Sir Pitt Crawley | 7 episodes |
| 1987
| {{sortname|The|Growing Pains of Adrian Mole|dab=TV series}} | 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
| Dr. Benjamin Barnard Walters | 3 episodes |
| 1989
| Leo | 7 episodes |
| 1989
| Boon | David Tredegar | Episode: "Walking Off Air" |
| 1990
| TECX | Sir Neil Milverton | Episode: "A Soldier's Death" |
| 1990
| {{sortname|The|Paper Man|dab=miniseries}} | Sir Charles Llewellyn | Miniseries |
| 1990
| Dr. Pratt | Episode: "Season Three, Episode Three" |
| 1990
| Politician | Episode: "Shoot the Revolution" |
| 1991
| Harry Field Senior | Episode: "Who Killed Harry Field?" |
| 1992
| Old Squire | Episode: "Adam Bede" |
| 1992
| Stan Tailings | Episode: "Episode 1.4" |
| 1992
| True Adventures of Christopher Columbus | Herald | |
| 1993
| Lou Boca | Episode: "Tricks" |
| 1993
| Lovejoy | Arnold Tapie | Episode: "Goose Bumps" |
| 1993
| {{sortname|The|Casebook of Sherlock Holmes|Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)}} | The Pedlar | Episode: "The Last Vampyre" |
| 1993
| Mr. Wroe's Virgins | Tobias | 4 episodes |
| 1993
| {{sortname|The|Young Indiana Jones Chronicles}} | "Birdy" Soames | Episode: "Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom" |
| 1993–2009
| Howard Druce / Fred Braithwaite / George Woodford / Mr. Parrish | 4 episodes |
| 1994
| {{sortname|A|Pinch of Snuff|dab=TV series}} | Dr. Gilbert Haggard | Television film |
| 1994
| Sir Giles Hampton | Episode: "William and the Great Actor" |
| 1995
| Adam Lambsbreath | Television film |
| 1995
| Tales of Mystery and Imagination | Fortunato | Episode: "The Cask of Amontillado" |
| 1996
| Perce | 2 episodes |
| 1996
| The Earl | 2 episodes |
| 1996
| {{sortname|The|Bill}} | Arthur Gordon | Episode: "Old Codgers" |
| 1997
| French | Episode: "Ruling Passion" |
| 1997
| Drovers' Gold | "Moc" Morgan | Miniseries |
| 1997
| {{sortname|The|Temptation of Franz Schubert|nolink=y}} | Unknown | Television film |
| 1998
| {{sortname|The|Life and Crimes of William Palmer}} | Dr. Bamford | Television film |
| 1998
| Cyril | Episode: "The Spirit of the Deep" |
| 1999
| Sunburn | Mr. Dawson | Episode: "Episode #1.5" |
| 1999
| {{sortname|The|Passion|dab=TV series}} | George | |
| 2000
| Barkis | Television film |
| 2000
| {{sortname|The|League of Gentlemen}} | Dr. Magnus Purblind | Episode: "The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special" |
| 2000
| Casualty | Henry Wallowski | Episode: "Sympathy for the Devil" |
| 2001
| Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | Carodoc Evans | Episode: "Revenge of the Bog People" |
| 2003
| Broken Morning | The Undertaker | Television film |
| 2004
| {{sortname|The|Royal}} | Sebastian Fox-Kirby | 2 episodes |
| 2004
| Benbow | Episode: "The Maid in Splendour" |
| 2004
| Casualty | Iain Roles | Episode: "Passions and Convictions" |
| 2005
| Casanova | Bragadin / Bragani | 2 episodes |
| 2005–2018
| 776 episodes (final appearance) |
Notes and references
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Category:English male film actors
Category:English male soap opera actors
Category:English male stage actors
Category:English male television actors
Category:20th-century English male actors
Category:21st-century English male actors
Category:Male actors from Staffordshire