Veteran actor admired for his roles as 'Sir' on stage in The Dresser, the freak-show owner in the 1980 film The Elephant Man and Sandy Thomas in TV's EmmerdaleFreddie Jones, who has died aged 91, was the best sort of old-fashioned actor, a comic tragedian, eccentric and full-hearted, with something of both Donald Wolfit and Dickens' Vincent Crummles about him. Indeed, his most famous stage role was that of Ronald Har…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM on July 10, 2019