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