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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
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 0.7
- info Birth Place London, England, UK
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by John Standing
7.9
V for Vendetta
2006-02-23
8.1
The Elephant Man
1980-10-09
6
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
0
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
3
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
6.6
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
0
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
0
Can You Hear Me?
2024-06-14
5.8
The Wild and the Willing
1962-10-16
0
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
0
Charley's Aunt
1969-11-23
6.4
Lassie
2005-12-16
5.1
I Want Candy
2007-03-23
0
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
0
The Biko Inquest
1984-11-01
6
A Family Affair
2019-06-20
7.3
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
2019-01-24
0
Dark Holiday
1989-05-01
0
May… I Have This Dance?
2020-01-18
4.9
Animal
2005-01-11
5.7
A Pair of Briefs
1962-03-01
0
The Last Resort
2014-10-24
0
Flapjack Floozie
1988-06-17
0
The Sinking of the HMS Victoria
1977-10-12
0
Chameleons
1989-12-20
8.5
Pygmalion
1983-12-31
4.9
Witness to a Kill
2001-11-08
7.5
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
6.9
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
0
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
8.3
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
0
Beryl Reid
1977-12-12
6.3
King Solomon's Mines
2004-06-13
7.6
Eerie, Indiana
1991-09-15
7.5
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