John Standing

John Standing was born on Aug 16, 1934 in UK. John Standing's big-screen debut came with Young and Willing directed by Ralph Thomas in 1962, strarring Arthur. John Standing is known for Live and Let Die: The Radio Play directed by Martin Jarvis, Toby Stephens stars as James Bond and Kevin Daniels as Mr. Big. The most recent award John Standing achieved is Grammy Awards. The upcoming new movie John Standing plays is Live and Let Die: The Radio Play which will be released on May 04, 2019.

Sir John Standing is one of England's most respected stage, film and television actors. From a distinguished acting dynasty which includes his great-grandfather Herbert Standing (1846-1923), grandfather Sir Guy Standing (1873-1937) and mother, the actress Kay Hammond, John Robert Leon Standing, born in London on August, 16, 1934, succeeded his father Sir Ronald Leon, as the 4th baronet in 1964.A one-time art student and avid painter, Sir John attended both Millfield Preparatory School and Eton College and made his debut on stage in minor roles in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company's production of "Titus Andronicus." In London from 1959, he worked productively on the London stage (Bristol Old Vic, Chicester, Haymarket, Royal Court) for two decades with a resume that included "The Darling Buds," "The Irregular Verb to Love," "See How They Run," "The Clandestine Marriage," "The Cherry Orchard," "The Fighting Cock," The Beaux' Stratgem," "The Importance of Being Earnest" (as Algernon), "Ring Around the Moon," "The Alchemist," "Arms and the Man, "A Sense of Detachment" by John Osborne, "Saint Joan," "Dead-Eyed Dicks," "Plunder," "The Philanderer" and, most notably, as Elyot Chase in Noël Coward's "Private Lives," co-starring Maggie Smith and directed by John Gielgud, which was taken to Broadway in 1975.Lesser known for his work on the big screen, a few BBC-TV guest parts came to Sir John's way before he entered films in 1962 with featured roles in the light comedy A Pair of Briefs (1962) and romantic drama The Wild and the Willing (1962). Standing followed these with performances in such films as Un Caïd (1965), Poupées de cendres (1966), Rien ne sert de courir (1966), A Touch of Love (1969), All the Right Noises (1970), Une belle tigresse (1972), Au Pair Girls (1972), L'aigle s'est envolé (1976), Psychose phase 3 (1978), Le commando de sa majesté (1980), Elephant Man (1980), Privates on Parade (1983), Nightflyers (1987), Chaplin (1992), Mrs Dalloway (1997), and a starring role as a businessman who opens a brothel with his playboy son after the death of his wife in the dramedy 8 femmes 1/2 (1999).Sir John had more prestigious work come to him on TV. He lightened up at times as he died as a aristocratic politician who falls for a working class model in the British comedy series The Other 'Arf (1980) and a spy partnered with Tom Conti in Old Boy Network (1992), but found more rewarding work in the classic mini-series The First Churchills (1969), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), Mission danger à Bucarest (1988), The Choir (1995), Club V.R. (1996) and Drovers' Gold (1997).In the U.S., he has graced numerous weekly programs including La loi de Los Angeles (1986), Guerres privées (1991), and Arabesque (1984) and co-starred briefly with Robert Wagner and the late Samantha Smith in the action series Le gentleman mène l'enquète (1985), which ended abruptly with the young girl's death in a plane crash. The 13-year-old Smith became an instant celebrity after writing a touching and concerned letter to the then Soviet President Yuri Andropov about the relations between the two dominant powers and being invited to Russia.Into the millennium, the elderly Standing has remained extremely busy playing a number of distinguished lords and higher-ups, especially with British TV appearances ("The Vice," "In Deep," "Keen Eddie," "MidSommer Murders," "Game of Thrones," "The Crown") and in above-par TV movies and miniseries including Longitude (2000), Love in a Cold Climate (2001), The Falklands Play (2002), La tempête qui se prépare (2002), Allan Quatermain et la pierre des ancêtres (2004), La ligne de beauté (2006), Fallen Angel (2007), The Other Wife (2012), Patrick Melrose (2018) and King Lear (2018).Divorced from actress Jill Melford, Sir John's second wife, actress Sarah Forbes, is the daughter of director Bryan Forbes and actress Nanette Newman.