John Standing
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.
Fotos
Películas (75)
Can You Hear Me?
2025 · Ben
The Great Escaper
2023 · Arthur
May… I Have This Dance?
2020 · Narrator
A Family Affair
2019 · Bernard
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
2019 · Additional Voices (voice)
King Lear
2018 · Butler
The Happy Prince
2018 · Dr. Tucker
The Hippopotamus
2017 · Podmore
Churchill's Secret
2016 · Lord Camrose
Queen & Country
2015 · Grandfather George
The Last Resort
2014 · Mr. Carpenter (voice)
The Shadow in the North
2007 · Webster Garland
Consenting Adults
2007 · Lord Goddard
The Contractor
2007 · Sir Anthony
I Want Candy
2007 · Michael de Vere
Rabbit Fever
2006 · Ally's dad
Scoop
2006 · Garden Party Guest
V for Vendetta
2006 · Lilliman
Lassie
2005 · French
Animal
2005 · Dean Frydman
A Good Woman
2004 · Dumby
Shoreditch
2003 · Jenson Thackery
The Real Jane Austen
2002 · Mr. Austen
The Gathering Storm
2002 · Lord Moyne
The Falklands Play
2002 · Rt Hon William Whitelaw CH MC MP (Home Secretary)
Witness to a Kill
2001 · Foreign Secretary
Pandaemonium
2001 · Rev Holland
Queen's Messenger
2001 · Foreign Secretary
The Calling
2000 · Jack Plummer
Longitude
2000 · Capt. Proctor
Mad Cows
1999 · Politician
Rogue Trader
1999 · Peter Baring
8 ½ Women
1999 · Philip Emmenthal
The Woman In White
1997 · Mr. Gilmore
The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997 · Embleton
Mrs. Dalloway
1997 · Richard Dalloway
Riders
1993 · Malise Gordon
Chaplin
1992 · Butler
The Count of Solar
1992 · Coudray
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
1992 · Whitfield
Night of the Fox
1990 · Alan Stacey
Chameleons
1989 · Henry
The Endless Game
1989 · Belfrage
Dark Holiday
1989 · Charnaud
Flapjack Floozie
1988 · Dr. Kipper
Nightflyers
1987 · D'Branin
Visitors
1987 · Jack
The Biko Inquest
1984 · Van Rensburg
To Catch a King
1984 · The Duke of Windsor
Pygmalion
1983 · Colonel Pickering
Privates on Parade
1983 · Captain Sholto Savory
Invitation to the Wedding
1983
The Elephant Man
1980 · Fox
The Sea Wolves
1980 · Finley
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1978 · Charles Fairbrother
The Legacy
1978 · Jason Mountolive
The Sinking of the HMS Victoria
1977 · Captain Winsloe
Nanny's Boy
1977 · John Tallwatch
The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Father Verecker
Rogue Male
1976 · Major Quive-Smith
Au Pair Girls
1972 · Buster
Zee and Co.
1972 · Gordon
All the Right Noises
1970 · Bernie
Wine of India
1970 · Russ
Charley's Aunt
1969 · Jack Chesney
A Touch of Love
1969 · Roger
Torture Garden
1967 · Leo Winston (segment 3 "Mr. Steinway")
Walk Don't Run
1966 · Julius D. Haversack
The Psychopath
1966 · Mark Von Sturm
King Rat
1965 · Daven
Hot Enough for June
1964 · Men's Room Attendant
Sharp at Four
1964 · Sutcliffe
The Iron Maiden
1963 · Humphrey Gore-Brown
The Wild and the Willing
1962 · Arthur
A Pair of Briefs
1962 · Hubert Shannon
Series (58)
Patrick Melrose
2018 · George Watford
The Crown
2016 · Imbert-Terry
Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife
2012 · Lord George Meriot
Borgia
2011
Game of Thrones
2011 · Jon Arryn
Fallen Angel
2007 · Voice of Francis Youlgreave
The Line of Beauty
2006 · Lord Kessler
King Solomon's Mines
2004 · Dr. Sam Maitland
Keen Eddie
2003
Trust
2003 · Teresa's Father
In Deep
2001 · Ritchie
Love in a Cold Climate
2001 · Lord Montdore
Longitude
2000 · Captain Proctor
Joan of Arc
1999 · Archbishop
The Vice
1999 · Paul Weir
The Woman In White
1997 · Mr. Gilmore
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997 · Nicholas Jenkins (older)
Lexx
1997 · Count Dracul
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Charles Rust, Will Tunstall
Gulliver's Travels
1996 · Admiral Bolgolam
Look at the State We're In!
1995 · Dr Smith
The Choir
1995 · Bishop Robert Young
The Old Boy Network
1992
Civil Wars
1991 · Terrence Hemnings
Eerie, Indiana
1991 · Professor Nigel Zirchon
Tonight at 8.30
1991 · Toby Cartwright
Paddington Bear
1989 · Mr. Brown
The Endless Game
1989 · Belfrage
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Colonnel Toby Luttrell
Murphy's Law
1988
L.A. Law
1986 · Nigel Morris
Lime Street
1985 · Edward Wingate
Screen Two
1985 · Jack
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Arthur Constable, Chief Daniel Trent
Hunter
1984 · George Franklin
Hotel
1982
Shillingbury Tales
1981 · Dick Firman
The Other 'Arf
1980 · Charles Latimer
Hart to Hart
1979
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979 · Sam Collins
Beryl Reid
1977
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Captain Winsloe
Jubilee 1977
1977 · John Tallwatch
Space: 1999
1975 · Pasc
Van der Valk
1972 · Ehrlich
The Frighteners
1972 · Tony Wardle
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · Lord Amberley
The First Churchills
1969 · Sidney Godolphin
The Main Chance
1969 · Lord Radchester
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Captain Bluntschli
ITV Playhouse
1967
Trapped
1967 · Victor
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Jack Chesney, Cléante
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Russ
The Saint
1962 · Gendarme
Drama 61-67
1961 · Ronald Brook
The Avengers
1961
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Sutcliffe