John Standing
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 16, 1934 (age 92)
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
Biography
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). One of his first major television roles was as Sidney Godolphin in the BBC twelve-part serial, The First Churchills (1969). Other television appearances include Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979); the ITV sitcom The Other 'Arf (1980–84), with Lorraine Chase; The Choir (1995) and King Solomon's Mines (2004). In the United States, he made guest appearances in numerous weekly programmes including L.A. Law, Civil Wars and Murder, She Wrote, and co-starred briefly with Robert Wagner and Samantha Smith in the action series Lime Street (1985). In 1976, he also appeared opposite Peter O'Toole in the little-seen BBC thriller film, Rogue Male, directed by Clive Donner. He appeared in the horror film Nightflyers (1987) adapted from a short story by George R. R. Martin. In 2002, he had a speaking credit on Lost Horizons, the second studio album from the British electronic duo Lemon Jelly. On track 1, "Elements", he lists the basic “elements" that make up the world: ash, metal, water, wood, fire and sky. On track 3, "Ramblin' Man", Standing reads a long list of various locations around the world, ranging from small Sussex villages to major world capitals. In July 2010, it was confirmed that he would be appearing as Jon Arryn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, based on Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels.
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Filmography
Can You Hear Me?
Movie · as Ben
The Great Escaper
Movie · as Arthur
May… I Have This Dance?
Movie · as Narrator
A Family Affair
Movie · as Bernard
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Movie · as Additional Voices (voice)
The Happy Prince
Movie · as Dr. Tucker
King Lear
Movie · as Butler
Patrick Melrose
TV · as George Watford · 2 eps
The Hippopotamus
Movie · as Podmore
Churchill's Secret
Movie · as Lord Camrose
The Crown
TV · as Imbert-Terry · 1 ep
Queen & Country
Movie · as Grandfather George
The Last Resort
Movie · as Mr. Carpenter (voice)
Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife
TV · as Lord George Meriot · 2 eps
Game of Thrones
TV · as Jon Arryn · 1 ep
Borgia
TV · 1 ep
The Shadow in the North
Movie · as Webster Garland
The Contractor
Movie · as Sir Anthony
I Want Candy
Movie · as Michael de Vere
Consenting Adults
Movie · as Lord Goddard
Fallen Angel
TV · as Voice of Francis Youlgreave · 3 eps
V for Vendetta
Movie · as Lilliman
Rabbit Fever
Movie · as Ally's dad
Scoop
Movie · as Garden Party Guest
The Line of Beauty
TV · as Lord Kessler · 2 eps
Lassie
Movie · as French
Animal
Movie · as Dean Frydman
A Good Woman
Movie · as Dumby
King Solomon's Mines
TV · as Dr. Sam Maitland · 2 eps
Shoreditch
Movie · as Jenson Thackery
Keen Eddie
TV · 1 ep
Trust
TV · as Teresa's Father · 1 ep
The Falklands Play
Movie · as Rt Hon William Whitelaw CH MC MP (Home Secretary)
The Real Jane Austen
Movie · as Mr. Austen
The Gathering Storm
Movie · as Lord Moyne
Pandaemonium
Movie · as Rev Holland
Queen's Messenger
Movie · as Foreign Secretary
Witness to a Kill
Movie · as Foreign Secretary
In Deep
TV · as Ritchie · 2 eps
Love in a Cold Climate
TV · as Lord Montdore · 2 eps
The Calling
Movie · as Jack Plummer
Longitude
Movie · as Capt. Proctor
Longitude
TV · as Captain Proctor · 1 ep
Rogue Trader
Movie · as Peter Baring
8 ½ Women
Movie · as Philip Emmenthal
Mad Cows
Movie · as Politician
Joan of Arc
TV · as Archbishop · 2 eps
The Vice
TV · as Paul Weir · 1 ep
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Movie · as Embleton
Mrs. Dalloway
Movie · as Richard Dalloway
The Woman In White
Movie · as Mr. Gilmore
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Charles Rust, Will Tunstall · 1 ep
A Dance to the Music of Time
TV · as Nicholas Jenkins (older) · 4 eps
Lexx
TV · as Count Dracul · 1 ep
The Woman In White
TV · as Mr. Gilmore · 2 eps
Gulliver's Travels
TV · as Admiral Bolgolam · 2 eps
The Choir
TV · as Bishop Robert Young · 5 eps
Look at the State We're In!
TV · as Dr Smith · 1 ep
Riders
Movie · as Malise Gordon
Chaplin
Movie · as Butler
The Count of Solar
Movie · as Coudray
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
Movie · as Whitfield
The Old Boy Network
TV · 7 eps
Eerie, Indiana
TV · as Professor Nigel Zirchon · 1 ep
Civil Wars
TV · as Terrence Hemnings · 1 ep
Tonight at 8.30
TV · as Toby Cartwright · 1 ep
Night of the Fox
Movie · as Alan Stacey
The Endless Game
Movie · as Belfrage
Dark Holiday
Movie · as Charnaud
Chameleons
Movie · as Henry
Paddington Bear
TV · as Mr. Brown · 13 eps
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV · as Colonnel Toby Luttrell · 1 ep
The Endless Game
TV · as Belfrage · 2 eps
Flapjack Floozie
Movie · as Dr. Kipper
Murphy's Law
TV · 1 ep
Nightflyers
Movie · as D'Branin
Visitors
Movie · as Jack
L.A. Law
TV · as Nigel Morris · 1 ep
Lime Street
TV · as Edward Wingate · 8 eps
Screen Two
TV · as Jack · 1 ep
To Catch a King
Movie · as The Duke of Windsor
The Biko Inquest
Movie · as Van Rensburg
Hunter
TV · as George Franklin · 2 eps
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Arthur Constable, Chief Daniel Trent · 1 ep
Privates on Parade
Movie · as Captain Sholto Savory
Invitation to the Wedding
Movie
Pygmalion
Movie · as Colonel Pickering
Hotel
TV · 1 ep
Shillingbury Tales
TV · as Dick Firman · 1 ep
The Elephant Man
Movie · as Fox
The Sea Wolves
Movie · as Finley
The Other 'Arf
TV · as Charles Latimer · 27 eps
Hart to Hart
TV · 1 ep
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
TV · as Sam Collins · 1 ep
The Legacy
Movie · as Jason Mountolive
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Movie · as Charles Fairbrother
The Sinking of the HMS Victoria
Movie · as Captain Winsloe
Nanny's Boy
Movie · as John Tallwatch
Beryl Reid
TV · 1 ep
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV · as Captain Winsloe · 1 ep
Jubilee 1977
TV · as John Tallwatch · 1 ep
The Eagle Has Landed
Movie · as Father Verecker
Rogue Male
Movie · as Major Quive-Smith
Space: 1999
TV · as Pasc · 1 ep
Au Pair Girls
Movie · as Buster
Zee and Co.
Movie · as Gordon
Van der Valk
TV · as Ehrlich · 1 ep
The Frighteners
TV · as Tony Wardle · 1 ep
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV · as Lord Amberley · 1 ep
All the Right Noises
Movie · as Bernie
Wine of India
Movie · as Russ
A Touch of Love
Movie · as Roger
Charley's Aunt
Movie · as Jack Chesney
The First Churchills
TV · as Sidney Godolphin · 12 eps
The Main Chance
TV · as Lord Radchester · 1 ep
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV · as Captain Bluntschli · 1 ep
Torture Garden
Movie · as Leo Winston (segment 3 "Mr. Steinway")
ITV Playhouse
TV · 1 ep
Trapped
TV · as Victor · 1 ep
Walk Don't Run
Movie · as Julius D. Haversack
The Psychopath
Movie · as Mark Von Sturm
King Rat
Movie · as Daven
BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Jack Chesney, Cléante · 1 ep
Sharp at Four
Movie · as Sutcliffe
Hot Enough for June
Movie · as Men's Room Attendant
The Wednesday Play
TV · as Russ · 1 ep
The Iron Maiden
Movie · as Humphrey Gore-Brown
The Wild and the Willing
Movie · as Arthur
A Pair of Briefs
Movie · as Hubert Shannon
The Saint
TV · as Gendarme · 1 ep
The Avengers
TV · 1 ep
Drama 61-67
TV · as Ronald Brook · 1 ep
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Sutcliffe · 1 ep