John Standing

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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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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1934-08-16
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  • school Known for: Acting
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7.9

V for Vendetta

2006-02-23

8.1

The Elephant Man

1980-10-09

5.9

Rogue Trader

1999-06-25

5.6

8 ½ Women

1999-05-22

6.6

The Eagle Has Landed

1976-12-24

6.4

The Man Who Knew Too Little

1997-11-14

7.4

The Falklands Play

2002-04-10

5.4

The Legacy

1978-09-29

6.3

A Good Woman

2004-09-15

5.8

Rabbit Fever

2006-09-22

7.5

Chaplin

1992-12-17

5.8

All the Right Noises

1970-10-16

4.4

Nightflyers

1987-10-23

6.4

Walk Don't Run

1966-06-29

5.6

Mrs. Dalloway

1997-09-01

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Wine of India

1970-04-15

4.9

The Calling

2000-12-21

6.7

The Shadow in the North

2007-09-15

7.3

Longitude

2000-01-02

4.7

Privates on Parade

1983-03-18

6.4

The Psychopath

1966-02-04

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Shoreditch

2003-11-28

6.5

Rogue Male

1976-09-22

6.4

The Iron Maiden

1963-06-07

6

Night of the Fox

1990-11-27

6.5

The Great Escaper

2023-10-06

6.4

A Touch of Love

1969-09-01

5.8

The Class Of Miss MacMichael

1979-01-27

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The Count of Solar

1992-02-02

8.5

The Real Jane Austen

2002-12-30

4

To Catch a King

1984-01-20

5.5

The Contractor

2007-07-10

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Can You Hear Me?

2024-06-14

5.8

The Wild and the Willing

1962-10-16

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Invitation to the Wedding

1983-01-01

5

Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel

1992-01-19

6

Queen & Country

2014-09-14

6.1

Torture Garden

1967-11-01

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Charley's Aunt

1969-11-23

6.4

Lassie

2005-12-16

5.1

I Want Candy

2007-03-23

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Sharp at Four

1964-01-12

6

Visitors

1987-02-22

6.6

Scoop

2006-07-27

6.4

Churchill's Secret

2016-02-29

5.7

Consenting Adults

2007-09-04

6.6

The Gathering Storm

2002-04-22

5

Pandaemonium

2001-06-29

4

Queen's Messenger

2001-05-02

3.5

Riders

1993-05-01

4.6

Au Pair Girls

1972-07-01

6

The Endless Game

1989-08-20

6.4

The Hippopotamus

2017-03-08

6.3

The Happy Prince

2018-04-12

7

King Rat

1965-10-27

5.9

The Sea Wolves

1980-07-03

5.8

Zee and Co.

1971-07-01

6.1

King Lear

2018-05-28

5.9

Hot Enough for June

1964-01-01

3.6

Mad Cows

1999-10-29

6.7

The Woman In White

1997-01-01

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The Biko Inquest

1984-11-01

6

A Family Affair

2019-06-20

7.3

Churchill and the Movie Mogul

2019-01-24

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Dark Holiday

1989-05-01

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May… I Have This Dance?

2020-01-18

4.9

Animal

2005-01-11

5.7

A Pair of Briefs

1962-03-01

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The Last Resort

2014-10-24

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Flapjack Floozie

1988-06-17

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The Sinking of the HMS Victoria

1977-10-12

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Chameleons

1989-12-20

8.5

Pygmalion

1983-12-31

4.9

Witness to a Kill

2001-11-08

7.6

Midsomer Murders

1997-03-23

7.1

L.A. Law

1986-09-15

8.4

Keen Eddie

2003-06-03

7.8

The Avengers

1961-01-07

6.8

Hotel

1982-08-21

6.8

Hart to Hart

1979-09-22

7.3

The Saint

1962-10-04

7.2

Hunter

1984-09-18

5.8

Van der Valk

1972-09-13

5.5

Lime Street

1985-09-21

7.3

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

1971-09-20

6.3

The First Churchills

1969-09-27

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The Other 'Arf

1980-05-30

5.3

A Dance to the Music of Time

1997-10-09

5

Murphy's Law

1988-11-02

6

The Vice

1999-01-04

6

Old Boy Network

1992-02-16

7.5

Patrick Melrose

2018-05-12

7.6

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

1979-09-10

7.7

The Main Chance

1969-06-18

8.5

Game of Thrones

2011-04-17

7.1

Lexx

1997-04-18

10

In Deep

2001-02-19

7.3

Borgia

2011-10-10

6.8

Shillingbury Tales

1980-01-06

8.2

The Crown

2016-11-04

6.5

Joan of Arc

1999-05-16

8.3

Paddington Bear

1989-12-02

6.6

The Line of Beauty

2006-05-17

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Beryl Reid

1977-12-12

6.3

King Solomon's Mines

2004-06-13

7.6

Eerie, Indiana

1991-09-15

7.6

Midsomer Murders

1997-03-23

0

The Choir

1995-03-19

4.5

Fallen Angel

2007-03-11

7.1

Gulliver's Travels

1996-02-04

7.8

Love in a Cold Climate

2001-02-04

8.2

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989-01-08

7.1

Space: 1999

1975-09-04

7.5

Murder, She Wrote

1984-09-30

7.5

Murder, She Wrote

1984-09-30

7

Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife

2012-12-23

5.8

Armchair Theatre

1956-07-08

8.5

The Frighteners

1972-07-07