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
Complete Filmography
Can You Hear Me?
2024
as Ben
A woman awaiting her brother's return from war falls in love with an allied American soldier.
The Great Escaper
2023
as Arthur
In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Norman...
May… I Have This Dance?
2020
as Narrator
The Backstory of the Original Dancing Queen... as told by Sir John Standing.
A Family Affair
2019
as Bernard
A woman makes a powerful connection with a surprising stranger on her 30th birthday.
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
2019
as Additional Voices
Winston Churchill understood the power of films, but the true extent of his use of cinema as a propaganda tool is rarely explored. In 1934, one of Bri...
King Lear
2018
as Butler
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
The Happy Prince
2018
as Dr. Tucker
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover....
The Hippopotamus
2017
as Podmore
Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
Churchill's Secret
2016
as Lord Camrose
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
The Last Resort
2014
as Mr. Carpenter (voice)
At their isolated hotel in the Canadian Rockies, a pair of teenage twin girls need to get over themselves and work together in order to defeat the mos...
Queen & Country
2014
as Grandfather George
In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle the...
The Shadow in the North
2007
as Webster Garland
Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him...
Consenting Adults
2007
as Lord Goddard
Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homose...
The Contractor
2007
as Sir Anthony
Former CIA Operative James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he...
I Want Candy
2007
as Michael de Vere
Two hopeful lads from Leatherhead trying to break into the movies stumble upon the opportunity of a lifetime. Frustrated by their arty film teacher, w...
Rabbit Fever
2006
as Ally's dad
The Rabbit is the world's belling-selling vibrator. In the past year alone, millions have been sold all over the globe. Now experts are warning the Ra...
Scoop
2006
as Garden Party Guest
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
V for Vendetta
2006
as Lilliman
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive B...
Lassie
2005
as French
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on ...
Animal
2005
as Dean Frydman
The young and promising genetics researcher Thomas Nielsen will stop at nothing to become the first person to identify the elements in man that trigge...
A Good Woman
2004
as Dumby
Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Er...
Shoreditch
2003
as Jenson Thackery
London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging. Run by Thomas (Rich...
The Real Jane Austen
2002
as Mr. Austen
Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen. Actor Anna Chancellor, a distant relative of Jane Austen, discovers the woman behind the acclaime...
The Gathering Storm
2002
as Lord Moyne
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, mo...
The Falklands Play
2002
as Rt Hon William Whitelaw CH MC MP (Home Secretary)
The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Cur...
Witness to a Kill
2001
as Foreign Secretary
The Queen's Messenger is called to convey vital dispatches to a highly secretive conference called to combat the activities of modern poachers who thr...
Pandaemonium
2001
as Rev Holland
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate En...
Queen's Messenger
2001
as Foreign Secretary
By order of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Captain Strong is given a dangerous assignment to deliver a delicate communication to the British Ambassador...
The Calling
2000
as Jack Plummer
On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behav...
Longitude
2000
as Capt. Proctor
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Mad Cows
1999
as Politician
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up...
Rogue Trader
1999
as Peter Baring
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion i...
8 ½ Women
1999
as Philip Emmenthal
Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½.
The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997
as Embleton
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot un...
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
as Richard Dalloway
Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust ...
The Woman In White
1997
as Mr. Gilmore
Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving...
Riders
1993
as Malise Gordon
Arrogant aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black has high social position, women at his feet, money and fame in the world of show jumping. But Rupert has a r...
Chaplin
1992
as Butler
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent per...
The Count of Solar
1992
as Coudray
The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution.
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
1992
as Whitfield
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to ...
Night of the Fox
1990
as Alan Stacey
This classic war mini-series stars George Peppard and Michael York in a gripping tale of danger, intrigue, and a deadly secret that could determine th...
Chameleons
1989
as Henry
Shelley, a slightly-crazy heiress, discovers that her eccentric millionaire uncle Jason Carr was rather more eccentric than even she had thought--he w...
The Endless Game
1989
as Belfrage
A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events fr...
Dark Holiday
1989
as Charnaud
American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she i...
Flapjack Floozie
1988
as Dr. Kipper
A vaudeville star struggles with her addiction to pancakes.
Nightflyers
1987
as D'Branin
A scientific group set out on a journey into space to find a magical creature. What they find is a killer computer on the ship they chartered.
Visitors
1987
as Jack
A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both va...
The Biko Inquest
1984
as Van Rensburg
Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important ...
To Catch a King
1984
as The Duke of Windsor
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap ...
Pygmalion
1983
as Colonel Pickering
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training,...
Privates on Parade
1983
as Captain Sholto Savory
It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the Malay...
Invitation to the Wedding
1983
An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.
The Elephant Man
1980
as Fox
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revea...
The Sea Wolves
1980
as Finley
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to un...
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1979
as Charles Fairbrother
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
The Legacy
1978
as Jason Mountolive
A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of ho...
The Sinking of the HMS Victoria
1977
as Captain Winsloe
Based on a Court Martial held aboard HMS Hibernia in Malta in 1893. The court endeavours to determine why, during fleet manoeuvres, HMS Victoria is su...
The Eagle Has Landed
1976
as Father Verecker
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious sc...
Rogue Male
1976
as Major Quive-Smith
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo ...
Au Pair Girls
1972
as Buster
Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyo...
Zee and Co.
1971
as Gordon
The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistres...
All the Right Noises
1970
as Bernie
A married man with two small children begins an affair with a beautiful young actress which quickly blossoms into a full blown romance, until she tell...
Wine of India
1970
as Russ
In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government cont...
Charley's Aunt
1969
as Jack Chesney
Adaptation of the play by Brandon Thomas.
A Touch of Love
1969
as Roger
Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair w...
Torture Garden
1967
as Leo Winston (segment 3 "Mr. Steinway")
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises t...
Walk Don't Run
1966
as Julius D. Haversack
During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts p...
The Psychopath
1966
as Mark Von Sturm
Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were p...
King Rat
1965
as Daven
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison....
Sharp at Four
1964
as Sutcliffe
Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school.
Hot Enough for June
1964
as Men's Room Attendant
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
The Iron Maiden
1963
as Humphrey Gore-Brown
The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jac...
The Wild and the Willing
1962
as Arthur
Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play '...
A Pair of Briefs
1962
as Hubert Shannon
She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds fi...