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 family on his mother's side, including his great-grandfather Herbert Standing (1846–1923) and his grandfather, Sir Guy Standing (1873–1937).
He was educated at Eton College...
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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 family on his mother's side, including 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, later serving in the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant, before going to study at London's Byam Shaw School of the Arts.
Standing began as an extra in Peter Brook’s 1955 production of Titus Andronicus starring Laurence Olivier and wife Vivien Leigh and later played 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),...
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