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