Sir John Ronald Leon Standing, 4th Baronet, born John Ronald Leon, is an English actor.
Background
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. 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).
Education
He was educated at Eton College and Millfield School, Somerset, later serving in the King"s Royal Rifle Corps as a second lieutenant, before going to study at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London.
Career
His step-father was actor Sir John Clements. He was nominated for an Olivier award (1979) for Close Of Play at the National Theatre. He made his film debut in The Wild and the Willing (1962), going on to appear in King Rat (1965), The Psychopath (1966), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), The Elephant Manitoba (1980), Nightflyers (1987), Mistress
Dalloway (1997), and A Good Woman (2004).
One of his first major television role was as Sidney Godolphin in the British Broadcasting Corporation twelve part serial, The First Churchills (1969). Other television appearances include Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979).
The Independent Television sitcom The Other "Arf (1980-1984), with Lorraine Chase. The Choir (1995) and King Solomon"s Mines (2004).
In the United States of America, he made guest appearances in numerous weekly programmes including Los Angeles Law, Civil Wars and Murder, She Wrote, and co-starred briefly with Robert Wagner and Samantha Smith in the action series Lime Street (1985).
He appeared in the 1987 film Nightflyers adapted from a short story by George R. R. Martin. In July 2010 it was confirmed that he would be appearing as Jon Arryn in the Home Box Office series Game of Thrones, based on Martin"s A Song of Ice and Fire novels.