John Standing Filmography

Outlaw

Actors: Sean Bean, Bob Hoskins, Danny Dyer, Rupert Friend, Lennie James

Synopsis: A handful of men find themselves forced to deal with acts of brutal violence in an increasingly lawless Britain in this hard-hitting crime thriller from writer and director Nick Love. Sgt. Danny Bryant (Sean Bean) comes home injured from a tour of duty in Iraq to find things aren't what they once Read More

I Want Candy

Actors: Tom Riley, Tom Burke, Carmen Electra, Eddie Marsan, Michelle Ryan

Synopsis: Tom Riley, Tom Burke, Carmen Electra and Michelle Ryan co-star in British director Stephen Surjik's smutty sex comedy I Want Candy. The picture concerns two film students Baggy (Burke) and Joe (Riley), enrolled at a university in Leatherhead, England. The pair just recently completed a script that Read More

V for Vendetta

Actors: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt

Synopsis: Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate vision of Britain in which a corrupt and abusive totalitarian government has risen to complete power. During a threatening run in with the secret police, an unassuming young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) is Read More

A Good Woman

Actors: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Mark Umbers

Synopsis: One of Oscar Wilde's most popular plays is given a new screen interpretation in this period comedy. In New York in the early '30s, Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) is a widow who lives comfortably through the largesse of several married men, and when she runs out of wealthy suitors in Manhattan, she Read More

The Line of Beauty

Actors: Dan Stevens, Tim McInnerny, Alice Krige, Hayley Atwell, Alex Wyndham

Synopsis: Award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies adapts author Allan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel for the screen with this three-part saga of love, sex, class, and money set against the backdrop of the Thatcher era. As the conservative government rises to power in the turbulent 1980s and four Read More

Lassie

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, John Lynch, Peter Dinklage, Steve Pemberton

Synopsis: Everyone's favorite collie returns to the screen -- and to her native home back in Britain -- in director Charles Sturridge's faithful adaptation of author Eric Knight's sentimental kid and canine novel Lassie Come Home. When Lassie saves a fox from the hunting hounds of the duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole Read More

King Solomon's Mines

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Alison Doody, Gavin Hood, Roy Marsden, Ian Roberts

Synopsis: This four-hour cable miniseries adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's classic adventure novel King Solomon's Mines dispenses with much of the original story in favor of a standard Indiana Jones-esque melodrama, complete with claim-jumping villains, snarling Russian soldiers, an ancient and deadly Read More

8 1/2 Women

Actors: John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu, Shizuka Inoh, Barbara Sarafian, Toni Collette, Amanda Plummer, Polly Walker

Synopsis: From Peter Greenaway, one of Britain's most controversial directors, 8 1/2 Women is a laconic black comedy that examines the age-old phenomenon of male sexual fantasy, its roots and consequences. A rich businessman from Geneva acquires eight and a half pachinko parlors in Kyoto, Japan. They are Read More

The Calling

Synopsis: Lots of women get the feeling that their boyfriends become different people after they've married them, but one finds herself dealing with a much bigger problem than leaving socks around the house or not taking out the trash in this supernatural thriller. Kristie (Laura Harris) is a sweet but Read More

NYPD Blue: Tea and Sympathy

Synopsis: Reporter Nicole Graf (Elizabeth Berkley), who helped the squad in the Mangrini murder case, makes no secret of her lust for Det. Baldwin Jones (Henry Simmons), but he chastely prefers the traditional courtship approach. Back on the job, retired English detective Jimmy Cheatham (John Standing) Read More

Mad Cows

Actors: Anna Friel, Joanna Lumley, Anna Massey, Phyllida Law, Greg Wise

Synopsis: Mad Cows is a slapstick comedy about sex and the singles scene. Single and confused Maddy has just had a baby. The first day that she goes out with her baby, she gets arrested at Harrods for shoplifting. While in detention at the Holloway Prison's Mother and Baby Unit, she smuggles Jack out in her Read More

Rogue Trader

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Anna Friel, Yves Beneyton, Betsy Brantley, Caroline Langrishe

Synopsis: Based on the tell-all autobiography by Nick Leeson, Rogue Trader tells the true story of how one man managed to bring down England's best respected merchant bank. Ewan McGregor plays Leeson, an ambitious young man from North London who is hired by the Barings Brothers Bank and sent to Indonesia to Read More

The Man Who Knew Too Little

Actors: Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson

Synopsis: Jon Amiel directed this satire on mistaken-identity thrillers and the spy genre, scripted by Robert Farrar, Tim John, and Oliver Butcher from Farrar's unpublished novel, Watch That Man. In the female lead, Joanne Whalley returned to films after a three-year absence, choosing to do so with Read More

Mrs. Dalloway

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves, Michael Kitchen, John Standing

Synopsis: This adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf stars Vanessa Redgrave as Clarissa Dalloway, a woman in her mid-'50s living in London five years after the end of WWI. As Mrs. Dalloway prepares an elaborate dinner party at the home she shares with her husband, a prominent politician, she finds Read More

The Woman in White

Actors: Tara Fitzgerald, James Wilby, Simon Callow, Ian Richardson, Andrew Lincoln

Synopsis: Along a dark country road in Cumberland, England, a ghoulish woman in white steps from the shadows to confront a foot traveler, Walter Hartright (Andrew Lincoln), bound for Limmeridge House three miles off. She asks senseless questions: "You don't suspect me of wrong, do you, Sir? Why do you Read More

A Dance to the Music of Time

Synopsis: Author Anthony Powell's wildly popular series tomes are translated for the small screen in this sweeping miniseries starring Sir John Gielgud and James Purefoy. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Gulliver's Travels

Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Originally aired on the NBC network as a two-part miniseries, this all-star adventure is perhaps one of the most complete and faithful retellings of 18th-century author Jonathan Swift's epic social satire on film. Nine years after he set sail from England, a bedraggled, disoriented Dr. Lemuel Read More

Chaplin

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin Dunn, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, and Chaplin's real-life daughter, Geraldine Chaplin, who portrays his mentally ill Read More

Old Boy Network

Murder, She Wrote: The Sicilian Encounter

Synopsis: Season Six of Murder She Wrote closes with an episode centering around the exploits of Jessica Fletcher's (Angela Lansbury) erstwhile friend, suave British secret agent Michael Haggerty (Len Cariou). On assignment in Sicily, Haggerty poses as a monsignor to crack a case involving a caddish fortune Read More

Chameleons

Actors: Marcus Gilbert, Crystal Bernard, John Standing, Stewart Granger, Terry Kiser

Synopsis: Crystal Bernard stars as a woman searching for answers about her eccentric grandfather's death, in this made-for-television movie. Bernard stars as Shelly, a woman who wants to find out why her grand-dad was killed after she uncovers that he and a partner were secretly masquerading as Read More

Night of the Fox

Actors: George Peppard, Michael York, Deborah Raffin

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Jack Higgins, this WW-II thriller chronicles the daring rescue of a captured American officer who has vital information concerning the upcoming Normandy invasion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Endless Game

Actors: Albert Finney

Synopsis: The "endless game" is espionage, which goes on and on despite government upheavals and changing international attitudes. Albert Finney plays a retired secret agent called back to active duty. Finney is entrusted with the task of finding out why his fellow retirees are being killed off. One of the Read More

Hunter: Naked Justice, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two part story, Hunter (Fred Dryer) is convinced that the murder of a movie star will be solved the moment he catches up with a Bulgarian hit-man in Mexico. Though Hunter's trip South of the Border clears up the mystery as to why the CIA is so interested in the case, the Read More

Hunter: Naked Justice, Part 1

Synopsis: Investigating the murder of a famous movie queen, Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) discover to their surprise that the dead woman had quite a checkered past. Key players in the intrigue that follows are a jealous and covetous sister, a homeless man, and several minions of the CIA. Read More

Jilly Cooper's Riders

Synopsis: Based on the novel by best-selling British author Jilly Cooper, this drama looks at the highly competitive world of equestrian show-jumping. Jake Lovell (Michael Praed), a gypsy half-breed born into poverty, has through hard work and his remarkable skill with horses risen to the top among Read More

Nightflyers

Actors: Catherine Stewart, Michael Praed, John Standing, Lisa Blount, Glenn Withrow

Synopsis: The special effects are the highlight of this routine science fiction saga. A scientific exploration team bound for the planet Volcryn encounter an evil spaceship helmed by the villainous Jon Winderman (Michael Des Barres), who resembles a composite parody of heavy metal rockers. Not so far Read More

Murder, She Wrote: It Runs in the Family

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury once again essays the dual role of Maine-based mystery writer Jessica Fletcher and her colorful cousin, British music-hall headliner Emma MacGill. This time around, Emma is suspected of murder when her fiancé, Viscount Geoffrey Constable (Richard Johnson) expires after consuming Read More

Lime Street

Synopsis: First telecast on September 21, 1985, the 2-hour pilot for the TV series Lime Street stars Robert Wagner as James Greyson Culver, an investigator for a prestigious London insurance company. His assignment is to get to the bottom of a plot to assassinate the royal family of a British principality. Read More

To Catch a King

Actors: Teri Garr, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Teri Garr and Robert Wagner play a cafe owner and nightclub singer who vacation in Lisbon in 1940. They discover and attempt to waylay a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Roger O. Hirson wrote the teleplay, which he adapted from the novel by Harry Patterson (the pseudonym of Read More

The Young Visitors

Actors: Alec McCowen, Carina Radford, Kenny Ireland, Tracey Ullman, John Harding

Synopsis: After a brief introduction by J.M. Barrie (Alec McCowen) and shots of the young Daisy Ashford (Carina Radford) working on a book, this children's fantasy film about the aristocracy in England at the end of the 19th century begins its surreal journey. Comedian Tracey Ullman plays Ethel Monticue, a Read More

Invitation to the Wedding

Actors: Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Paul Nicholas, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Standing, Susan Brooks

Synopsis: Good performances (by Ralph Richardson as a befuddled pastor and Paul Nicholas as David, an unwitting bridegroom) help along this otherwise weak comedy-romance about David, an American who stands in for the groom at a wedding rehearsal -- only to later discover that the wedding was accidentally Read More

Privates on Parade

Actors: John Cleese, Denis Quilley, Nicola Pagett, Patrick Pearson, Michael Elphick

Synopsis: This kooky British comedy chronicles the zany and occasionally dramatic exploits of the Song and Dance Unit, Southeast Asia (SADUSEA, pronounced "sad-you-see") assigned to entertain troops stationed in the Malayan jungle during WW II. It is based on a play by Peter Nichols. The entertainers are Read More

The Sea Wolves

Actors: Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Barbara Kellerman

Synopsis: Set in India during World War II, this fair action drama relies heavily on the good acting talent gathered to convey its slight, uninvolved story. Gregory Peck is Col. Lewis Pugh, backed up by Roger Moore as Capt. Gavin Stewart, David Niven as Col. Bill Grice, Patrick MacNee as Major Crossley, and Read More

The Elephant Man

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller

Synopsis: John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen because of his inability to speak coherently. In fact, he is highly intelligent and sensitive, a fact made Read More

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Actors: Alec Guinness, Michael Aldridge, Bernard Hepton, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston

Synopsis: Living a premature and somewhat humbling retirement, elderly British spy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is abruptly resurrected by his former boss Lacon (Anthony Bate) with an ultra-secret mission: find the double agent in the ranks of the British Secret Service. Is it the pompous head of service Read More

The Class of Miss MacMichael

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Murphy, Rosalind Cash, John Standing

Synopsis: Miss MacMichael (Glenda Jackson) is a dedicated teacher. She needs to be, because her students are delinquents who are barely one step away from prison. She has a boyfriend, Martin (Michael Murphy) who would love to take her away from the chaos and heartbreak of the classroom by marrying her, but Read More

The Legacy

Actors: Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, Hildegard Neil, Ian Hogg, Roger Daltrey, John Standing, Margaret Tyzack

Synopsis: Richard Marquand directed this second-rate retread of Haunted House Horror, with The Devil added to spice up the proceedings. Katharine Ross and Sam Elliot play Margaret Walsh and Pete Danner, a couple of American architects who are inexplicably summoned to the English countryside for an Read More

The Eagle Has Landed

Actors: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: John Sturges directed this taut adaptation of Jack Higgins' suspense novel about an attempted kidnapping of Winston Churchill by the German high command during World War II. When it is discovered that in November 1943 Winston Churchill is scheduled to spend a weekend in a country home in Norfolk Read More

Rogue Male

Synopsis: Based on the film Man Hunt, the BBC-produced Rogue Male stars Peter O'Toole as a British aristocrat who attempts to assassinate Hitler. After he fails, he is hunted down by the German Gestapo. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Legacy

Actors: Joan Hotchkis, George McDaniel, Sean Allan, Dixie Lee

Synopsis: This modestly budgeted feminist feature was written by actress Joan Hotchkis, who also stars. She plays a wealthy young wife who is sick to death of her well-ordered existence. She begins experimenting with any number of aberrations, ranging from bizarre mind games to what used to be called "self Read More

The Au Pair Girls

Actors: Astrid Frank, Gabrielle Drake, Nancie Wait

Synopsis: Val Guest, veteran director of many interesting British films covering a multitude of subjects, joined the nudie-cutie bandwagon of the 1970s with The Au Pair Girls. Anyone who's taken first-year French will probably know that the title refers to young foreign girls living in England who perform Read More

X, Y and Zee

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York, Margaret Leighton, John Standing

Synopsis: More commonly known as Zee & Co., this cautionary tale of extramarital discretions finds a threatened and desperate wife lashing out in order to salvage a faltering marriage. An upper-crust couple living the high-life in post-'60s London, Zee (Elizabeth Taylor) and Robert (Michael Caine) Blakely's Read More

All the Right Noises

Actors: Gareth Wright, Tom Bell, Olivia Hussey, Judy Carne, John Standing, Roy Herrick

Synopsis: Tom Bell plays a disgruntled young Brit who becomes bored by his job and his marriage. Bell impulsively launches an affair with 15-year-old actress Olivia Hussey. But fear not: this isn't going to be "The Joey Buttafuco Story". Rather, both Bell and Hussey are brought to their senses when she Read More

Thank You All Very Much

Actors: Sandy Dennis, Ian McKellen, Michael Coles, John Standing, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Eleanor Bron

Synopsis: Also titled A Touch of Love, this British drama concerns a woman who decides to keep and raise a baby born out of wedlock. Sandy Dennis stars as Rosamund Stacey, a graduate student who has an affair with a television broadcaster, George (Ian McKellen). When she learns that she is pregnant, her Read More

The First Churchills

Actors: John Neville, Susan Hampshire

Torture Garden

Actors: Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing, Michael Bryant

Synopsis: The Torture Garden is an "omnibus" chiller, adapted from four short stories by Robert Bloch (Psycho). Each is introduced by Burgess Meredith, playing a sinister carnival barker by the name of Dr. Diabolo. The doctor's audience consists of five people, four of whom are apprised of their ultimate Read More

Walk, Don't Run

Actors: Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton, John Standing, Miiko Taka

Synopsis: Cary Grant made his last film appearance before retiring from the screen in this agreeable piece of fluff based on the 1943 comedy The More the Merrier, which dealt with the romantic complications inherent in the housing shortage in Washington D.C. during World War II. In Walk, Don't Run, the Read More

The Psychopath

Actors: Patrick Wymark, Margaret Johnston, John Standing, Alexander Knox, Judy Huxtable

Synopsis: Though scripted by Psycho author Robert Bloch, this is neither a sequel nor a variant on the Alfred Hitchcock classic. Instead, we are presented with a more subdued British version of an Italian "giallo" thriller, as interpreted by acclaimed director Freddie Francis. The plot involves a pattern of Read More

King Rat

Actors: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Denholm Elliott, John Mills, Todd Armstrong

Synopsis: James Clavell incorporated a few of his own experiences as a British POW in his novel King Rat. Bryan Forbes' film version stars George Segal as the mastermind of all black market operations in a Japanese prison camp. He is called "King Rat" because of his breeding of rodents to serve as food for Read More

The Swingin' Maiden

A Pair of Briefs

Synopsis: In this drama, two young attorneys working for their uncle, find themselves facing off in court. One of the is defending a wife; the other, her husband who is suing for conjugal rights. As both lawyers are fresh from law school, things in court are often chaotic, and they suffer several fiascoes Read More

Young and Willing

Actors: Virginia Maskell, Paul Rogers, Ian McShane, Samantha Eggar, John Hurt

Synopsis: Also titled The Wild and the Willing, this is a British production about a rebellious young man of the early 1960s. Harry Brown (Ian McShane) is a lower-class troublemaker at an upscale provincial university. He is brilliant but frequently drunk, and he constantly criticizes the elitism of his Read More

Avengers: School For Traitors

Synopsis: Investigating a series of student suicides at a prestigious university, Steed soon discovers that the deaths were all murders. He further learns that the cause of it all is a secret political organization that strong-arms students into joining its ranks. Posing as a coed, Steed's assistant Venus Read More