Freddie Jones obituary by Michael Coveney

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…

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