John Standing
Actor
Born August 16, 1934 in London, England, UK
Sir John Ronald Leon, 4th Baronet (born 16 August 1934) is an English actor and baronet who is known as John Standing. He is the stepson of John Clements. Standing was born in London, the son of Kay Hammond (née Dorothy Katherine Standing), an actress, and Sir Ronald George Leon, 3rd Baronet, a stockbroker descended from Sir Herbert Leon, the builder of Bletchley Park. He succeeded his father as the 4th baronet in 1964, but does not use the title. The Leon family were, until 1937, owners of Bletchley Park, the country house in Buckinghamshire used in the Second World War as a code-breaking centre. He was educated at Eton College and Millfield School, Somerset. He served in the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a second lieutenant, before going on to study at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London Standing began his career in Peter Brook's 1955 production of Titus Andronicus starring Laurence Olivier and wife Vivien Leigh and later played leading parts in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Christopher Fry's Ring Round the Moon, A Sense of Detachment by John Osborne, and Noël Coward's Private Lives, with Maggie Smith. He was nominated for an Olivier award (1979) for Close of Play at the National Theatre. He made his film debut in The Wild and the Willing (1962), going on to appear in King Rat (1965), Walk, Don't Run (1966), The Psychopath (1966), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), The Elephant Man (1980), Nightflyers (1987), Mrs Dalloway (1997) and A Good Woman (2004).
Filmography
Can You Hear Me?
Ben
The Great Escaper
Arthur
May… I Have This Dance?
Narrator
A Family Affair
Bernard
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Additional Voices (voice)
King Lear
Butler
Patrick Melrose
George Watford
The Happy Prince
Dr. Tucker
The Hippopotamus
Podmore
The Crown
Imbert-Terry
Churchill's Secret
Lord Camrose
Queen & Country
Grandfather George
The Last Resort
Mr. Carpenter (voice)
Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife
Lord George Meriot
Borgia
Game of Thrones
Jon Arryn
The Shadow in the North
Webster Garland
Consenting Adults
Lord Goddard
The Contractor
Sir Anthony
I Want Candy
Michael de Vere
Fallen Angel
Voice of Francis Youlgreave
Scoop
Garden Party Guest
The Line of Beauty
Lord Kessler
V for Vendetta
Lilliman
Lassie
French
Animal
Dean Frydman
A Good Woman
Dumby
King Solomon's Mines
Dr. Sam Maitland
Shoreditch
Jenson Thackery
Keen Eddie
Trust
Teresa's Father
The Real Jane Austen
Mr. Austen
The Gathering Storm
Lord Moyne
The Falklands Play
Rt Hon William Whitelaw CH MC MP (Home Secretary)
Witness to a Kill
Foreign Secretary
Pandaemonium
Rev Holland
Queen's Messenger
Foreign Secretary
In Deep
Ritchie
Love in a Cold Climate
Lord Montdore
The Calling
Jack Plummer
Longitude
Capt. Proctor
Longitude
Captain Proctor
Mad Cows
Politician
Rogue Trader
Peter Baring
8 ½ Women
Philip Emmenthal
Joan of Arc
Archbishop
The Vice
Paul Weir
The Woman In White
Mr. Gilmore
The Woman In White
Mr. Gilmore
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Embleton
A Dance to the Music of Time
Nicholas Jenkins (older)
Mrs. Dalloway
Richard Dalloway
Lexx
Count Dracul
Midsomer Murders
Charles Rust
Gulliver's Travels
Admiral Bolgolam
The Choir
Bishop Robert Young
Riders
Malise Gordon
Chaplin
Butler
The Count of Solar
Coudray
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
Whitfield
Eerie, Indiana
Professor Nigel Zirchon
Night of the Fox
Alan Stacey
Chameleons
Henry
Paddington Bear
Mr. Brown
The Endless Game
Belfrage
The Endless Game
Belfrage
Dark Holiday
Charnaud
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Colonnel Toby Luttrell
Murphy's Law
Flapjack Floozie
Dr. Kipper
Nightflyers
D'Branin
Visitors
Jack
L.A. Law
Nigel Morris
Lime Street
Edward Wingate
Screen Two
Jack
The Biko Inquest
Van Rensburg
Murder, She Wrote
Arthur Constable
Hunter
George Franklin
To Catch a King
The Duke of Windsor
Pygmalion
Colonel Pickering
Privates on Parade
Captain Sholto Savory
Invitation to the Wedding
Hotel
Shillingbury Tales
Dick Firman
The Elephant Man
Fox
The Sea Wolves
Finley
The Other 'Arf
Hart to Hart
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Sam Collins
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Charles Fairbrother
The Legacy
Jason Mountolive
Beryl Reid
The Sinking of the HMS Victoria
Captain Winsloe
BBC2 Play of the Week
Captain Winsloe
The Eagle Has Landed
Father Verecker
Rogue Male
Major Quive-Smith
Space: 1999
Pasc
Van der Valk
Ehrlich
The Frighteners
Tony Wardle
Au Pair Girls
Buster
Zee and Co.
Gordon
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Lord Amberley
All the Right Noises
Bernie
The First Churchills
Sidney Godolphin
A Touch of Love
Roger
The Main Chance
Lord Radchester
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Captain Bluntschli
Torture Garden
Leo Winston (segment 3 "Mr. Steinway")
ITV Playhouse
Walk Don't Run
Julius D. Haversack
The Psychopath
Mark Von Sturm
King Rat
Daven
BBC Play of the Month
Jack Chesney
The Wednesday Play
Russ
Hot Enough for June
Men's Room Attendant
The Iron Maiden
Humphrey Gore-Brown
The Wild and the Willing
Arthur
The Saint
Gendarme
A Pair of Briefs
Hubert Shannon
The Avengers
Armchair Theatre
Sutcliffe