John Standing

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-08-16 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

John Standing

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...

Acting

2006

V for Vendetta

as Lilliman

1999

Rogue Trader

as Peter Baring

1999

8 ½ Women

as Philip Emmenthal

1976

The Eagle Has Landed

as Father Verecker

2002

The Falklands Play

as Rt Hon William Whitelaw CH MC MP (Home Secretary)

1978

The Legacy

as Jason Mountolive

2004

A Good Woman

as Dumby

2006

Rabbit Fever

as Ally's dad

1992

Chaplin

as Butler

1987

Nightflyers

as D'Branin

1966

Walk Don't Run

as Julius D. Haversack

1997

Mrs. Dalloway

as Richard Dalloway

1970

2000

The Calling

as Jack Plummer

2007

The Shadow in the North

as Webster Garland

2000

Longitude

as Capt. Proctor

1983

Privates on Parade

as Captain Sholto Savory

1966

The Psychopath

as Mark Von Sturm

2003

Shoreditch

as Jenson Thackery

1976

Rogue Male

as Major Quive-Smith

1963

The Iron Maiden

as Humphrey Gore-Brown

1990

Night of the Fox

as Alan Stacey

2023

1969

1979

The Class Of Miss MacMichael

as Charles Fairbrother

1992

2002

1984

To Catch a King

as The Duke of Windsor

2007

The Contractor

as Sir Anthony

2014

Queen & Country

as Grandfather George

1967

Torture Garden

as Leo Winston (segment 3 "Mr. Steinway")

1969

Charley's Aunt

as Jack Chesney

2005

Lassie

as French

2007

I Want Candy

as Michael de Vere

1964

Sharp at Four

as Sutcliffe

1987

Visitors

as Jack

2006

Scoop

as Garden Party Guest

2016

Churchill's Secret

as Lord Camrose

2007

Consenting Adults

as Lord Goddard

2002

The Gathering Storm

as Lord Moyne

2001

Pandaemonium

as Rev Holland

2001

Queen's Messenger

as Foreign Secretary

1993

Riders

as Malise Gordon

1972

Au Pair Girls

as Buster

1989

The Endless Game

as Belfrage

2017

2018

The Happy Prince

as Dr. Tucker

1965

King Rat

as Daven

1980

1971

Zee and Co.

as Gordon

2018

King Lear

as Butler

1964

Hot Enough for June

as Men's Room Attendant

1999

Mad Cows

as Politician

1997

The Woman In White

as Mr. Gilmore

1984

The Biko Inquest

as Van Rensburg

2019

A Family Affair

as Bernard

2019

Churchill and the Movie Mogul

as Additional Voices

1989

Dark Holiday

as Charnaud

2005

Animal

as Dean Frydman

1962

A Pair of Briefs

as Hubert Shannon

2014

The Last Resort

as Mr. Carpenter (voice)

1988

Flapjack Floozie

as Dr. Kipper

1977

1989

Chameleons

as Henry

1983

Pygmalion

as Colonel Pickering

2001

Witness to a Kill

as Foreign Secretary

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