John Standing

Oyuncu Doğum: 1934-08-16 • London, England, UK

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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.

John Standing

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Wine of India

Paddington Bear

Pygmalion

The Real Jane Austen

The Frighteners

Game of Thrones

The Main Chance

The Crown

Herkül Puaro

Love in a Cold Climate

Fil Adam

Dark Holiday

In Deep

The Choir

Keen Eddie

V for Vendetta

The Avengers

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote

Visitors

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Eerie, Indiana

Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

Patrick Melrose

Chaplin

Longitude

The Saint

Churchill and the Movie Mogul

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Shillingbury Tales

Uzay: 1999

Hunter

Hain Kral

Screen Two

Lexx

The Falklands Play

The Count of Solar

To Catch a King

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Chameleons

L.A. Law

Murphy's Law

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Longitude

ITV Playhouse

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Tonight at 8.30

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The Line of Beauty

Kartal Kondu

The Gathering Storm

Hotel

The Great Escaper

The Shadow in the North

The Iron Maiden

A Touch of Love

The Woman In White

Jeanne D'arc

Scoop

Walk Don't Run

Rogue Male

Trust

The Other 'Arf

The Psychopath

Lassie

Az Şey Bilen Adam

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Churchill's Secret

The Endless Game

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King Solomon's Mines

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