Freddie Jones

Frederick Charles Freddie Jones is an English character actor. He currently plays Sandy Thomas in Emmerdale.

Jones was born in the town of Longton, StokeonTrent, the son of Ida Elizabeth and Charles Edward Jones. 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 awardwinning role as Claudius in the 1968 British television series The Caesars.

Source: Wikipedia