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John Standing

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Known For

90 Years Old

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.

Born

London, England, UK on 16th August 1934

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