John Standing
Acting
Born August 16, 1934 · London, England, UK
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 Bletchley Park, the country house in Buckinghamshire used in the Second World War as a code-breaking cen…
Known For · 40 titles
Game of Thrones
Midsomer Murders
Hunter
Agatha Christie's Poirot
The Avengers
Murder, She Wrote
The Crown
BBC Play of the Month
Screen Two
The Saint
The Wednesday Play
L.A. Law
Hart to Hart
ITV Playhouse
Lexx
BBC2 Play of the Week
Hotel
Space: 1999
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
V for Vendetta
Drama 61-67
Van der Valk
The Main Chance
Civil Wars
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
The Vice
Borgia
Patrick Melrose
Eerie, Indiana
The Elephant Man
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Contractor
Jubilee 1977
Chaplin
A Dance to the Music of Time
King Solomon's Mines
Gulliver's Travels
The Frighteners
Joan of Arc
In Deep