John Standing Movies and Career Information

Sir John Ronald Leon Standing, 4th Baronet (born 16 August 1934) is an English actor. Standing was born John Ronald Leon in London, the son of Kay Hammond (née Dorothy Katherine Standing), an actress, and Sir Ronald George Leon, a stockbroker. He is from a distinguished acting dynasty which includes his great-grandfather Herbert Standing (1846-1923) and his grandfather Sir Guy Standing (1873-1937). He was educated at Eton College and Millfield School, Somerset. He then served in the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant, before going to study at the Byam Shaw School of the Arts, London. Standing has worked productively on both the London and New York stage, with leading parts in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Ring Around the Moon, A Sense of Detachment by John Osborne, and Noel Coward's Private Lives, with Maggie Smith. He made his film debut in The Wild and the Willing (1962), going on to appear in King Rat (1965), 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 role was as Sidney Godolphin in the BBC twelve part serial, The First