Frederick Charles Jones[1][2] (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.

[4][5] Jones won a scholarship to the Rose Bruford Training College of Speech and Drama—where he shed his Midlands accent.

[5] According to the theatre critic Michael Coveney, Jones was "immediately one of the ... [RSC's] most distinctive character actors".

[4] 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.

[7] 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).

[7] 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.