John Standing

Actor Aug 16 (age 91) London, England, UK 1956–2025 (69 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Biography

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 Blet…

Known For

Film

V for Vendetta

Lilliman

Film

The Elephant Man

Fox

Film

Chaplin

Butler

Film

Scoop

Garden Party Guest

Film

The Man Who Knew Too Little

Embleton

Film

The Eagle Has Landed

Father Verecker

Film

Gulliver's Travels

Admiral Bolgolam

Film

The Great Escaper

Arthur

Filmography

Acting (124)

Movies (75)

Can You Hear Me?

2025

as Ben

The Great Escaper

2023

as Arthur

6.6

May… I Have This Dance?

2020

as Narrator

A Family Affair

2019

as Bernard

6.0

Churchill and the Movie Mogul

2019

as Additional Voices (voice)

The Happy Prince

as Dr. Tucker

King Lear

as Butler

The Hippopotamus

as Podmore

Churchill's Secret

as Lord Camrose

Queen & Country

as Grandfather George

6.1

The Last Resort

2014

as Mr. Carpenter (voice)

I Want Candy

as Michael de Vere

The Contractor

as Sir Anthony

The Shadow in the North

as Webster Garland

Consenting Adults

as Lord Goddard

V for Vendetta

as Lilliman

Scoop

as Garden Party Guest

Rabbit Fever

as Ally's dad

Lassie

as French

Animal

as Dean Frydman

A Good Woman

as Dumby

Shoreditch

as Jenson Thackery

The Real Jane Austen

as Mr. Austen

The Gathering Storm

as Lord Moyne

The Falklands Play

as Rt Hon William Whitelaw CH MC MP (Home Secretary)

Pandaemonium

as Rev Holland

Witness to a Kill

as Foreign Secretary

Queen's Messenger

as Foreign Secretary

Longitude

as Capt. Proctor

The Calling

as Jack Plummer

Rogue Trader

as Peter Baring

Mad Cows

as Politician

8 ½ Women

as Philip Emmenthal

Mrs. Dalloway

as Richard Dalloway

The Man Who Knew Too Little

as Embleton

The Woman In White

as Mr. Gilmore

Riders

as Malise Gordon

Chaplin

as Butler

The Count of Solar

as Coudray

Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel

as Whitfield

Night of the Fox

as Alan Stacey

The Endless Game

as Belfrage

Chameleons

as Henry

Dark Holiday

1989

as Charnaud

Flapjack Floozie

1988

as Dr. Kipper

Nightflyers

as D'Branin

Visitors

as Jack

To Catch a King

as The Duke of Windsor

4.0

The Biko Inquest

1984

as Van Rensburg

Pygmalion

1983

as Colonel Pickering

8.5

Invitation to the Wedding

1983

Privates on Parade

1983

as Captain Sholto Savory

The Elephant Man

as Fox

The Sea Wolves

as Finley

The Class Of Miss MacMichael

1979

as Charles Fairbrother

The Legacy

as Jason Mountolive

Nanny's Boy

as John Tallwatch

The Sinking of the HMS Victoria

1977

as Captain Winsloe

The Eagle Has Landed

as Father Verecker

Rogue Male

as Major Quive-Smith

Au Pair Girls

as Buster

Zee and Co.

as Gordon

All the Right Noises

as Bernie

Wine of India

as Russ

A Touch of Love

1969

as Roger

6.3

Charley's Aunt

1969

as Jack Chesney

Torture Garden

1967

as Leo Winston (segment 3 "Mr. Steinway")

6.1

Walk Don't Run

1966

as Julius D. Haversack

The Psychopath

as Mark Von Sturm

King Rat

as Daven

Sharp at Four

as Sutcliffe

Hot Enough for June

1964

as Men's Room Attendant

5.7

The Iron Maiden

1963

as Humphrey Gore-Brown

6.4

A Pair of Briefs

1962

as Hubert Shannon

5.7

The Wild and the Willing

1962

as Arthur

5.8

Television (49)

Patrick Melrose

as George Watford

The Crown

as Imbert-Terry

Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife

2012

as Lord George Meriot

Game of Thrones

as Jon Arryn

Borgia

Fallen Angel

as Voice of Francis Youlgreave

The Line of Beauty

as Lord Kessler

King Solomon's Mines

as Dr. Sam Maitland

Keen Eddie

Love in a Cold Climate

as Lord Montdore

In Deep

as Ritchie

Longitude

as Captain Proctor

Joan of Arc

as Archbishop

The Vice

Midsomer Murders

as Charles Rust

Lexx

as Count Dracul

A Dance to the Music of Time

1997

as Nicholas Jenkins (older)

4.3

Gulliver's Travels

1996

as Admiral Bolgolam

7.2

Look at the State We're In!

1995

as Dr Smith

The Choir

1995

as Bishop Robert Young

The Old Boy Network

1992

6.0

Eerie, Indiana

1991

as Professor Nigel Zirchon

7.5

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Colonnel Toby Luttrell

Paddington Bear

as Mr. Brown

The Endless Game

as Belfrage

Murphy's Law

L.A. Law

as Nigel Morris

Lime Street

as Edward Wingate

Murder, She Wrote

as Arthur Constable

Hunter

as George Franklin

Hotel

Shillingbury Tales

as Dick Firman

The Other 'Arf

Hart to Hart

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

1979

7.6

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

as Captain Winsloe

7.0

Jubilee 1977

1977

as John Tallwatch

Beryl Reid

Space: 1999

as Pasc

Van der Valk

as Ehrlich

The Frighteners

as Tony Wardle

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as Lord Amberley

The Main Chance

as Lord Radchester

The First Churchills

as Sidney Godolphin

BBC Play of the Month

as Jack Chesney

The Saint

as Gendarme

The Avengers

Drama 61-67

as Ronald Brook

Armchair Theatre

1956

as Sutcliffe

5.8