John Standing

All Movies of John Standing

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  6.0
  The Great Escaper
  Bernard Jordan escapes from his care home to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France.
   2023

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  5.3
  King Lear (TV)
  An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one. Set in the fictional present and starring Anthony Hopkins, the 80 year-old King Lear divides his kingdom ...
   2018

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  6.1
  The Happy Prince
  It centers around the final three years of Oscar Wilde (1897–1900). Wilde (Rupert Everett), sequestered at a remote seaside hotel in France by faithful friends (Edwin Thomas and Colin Firth), is soon restlessly traversing Europe...
   2018

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  Agatha Christie's Poirot - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (TV)
  An ailing Poirot returns to Styles with Hastings nearly three decades after solving their first mystery there in order to prevent a serial killer from claiming more victims.
   2013

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  5.0
  The Shadow in the North (TV)
  Character: Webster Garland

   2007

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  Fallen Angel (TV Miniseries)
  Character:  The Voice of Francis Youlgreave 2 episodes, 2007

   2007

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  6.0
  Before the Rains
  A English spice baron settles in South India during the waning years of the Raj.
   2007

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  6.0
  A Good Woman
  A seductress steals away the husband of a younger woman. Inspired by the Oscar Wilde play "Lady Windermere's Fan".
  Character: Dumby

   2004

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  Queen's Messenger
  By order of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Captain Strong is given a dangerous assignment to deliver a delicate communication to the British Ambassador in Kazakhstan. As the senior officer for the elite Queen's Messenger corps, Cap...
  Character: Foreign Secretary

   2001

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  6.3
  Pandaemonium
  The story of the creative friendship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, which began in 1795, when the two poets, both unknown, were united in political action inspired by the events of the French Revolution.
   2000

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  7.4
  Longitude (TV Miniseries)
  In the 18th century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West Indies or the Americas. Observing the sun or stars would give you the latitude,...
  Character: Capt. Proctor

   2000

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  4.2
  The Calling
  Character: Jack Plummer

   2000

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  4.5
  8½ Women
  After his wife dies, 55-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight and a half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. E...
  Character: Philip Emmenthal

   1999

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  6.4
  The Man Who Knew Too Little
  Murray is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assasinate international leaders at a banquet.
  Character: Gilbert Embleton

   1997

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  6.0
  Mrs. Dalloway
  Vanessa Redgrave (Howard's End) plays Clarissa Dalloway, an MP's wife, whose life is thrown into crisis when a lover she rejected 30 years ago makes an unexpected appearance at a party she is hosting at her elegant London home, pr...
   1997

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  7.1
  The Woman in White (TV)
  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 around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, lov...
  Character: Mr. Gilmore

   1997

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  The Endless Game (TV Miniseries)
  A British agent must examine events in his past to determine who killed his former and mistress and why.
   1990

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  7.0
  Night of the Fox (TV Miniseries)
  An American officer on a Landing Craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in Normandy takes part on landing maneuvers, his craft was attacked and sunk by German EBoats. and he finds himself on German occupied Jersey ...
   1990

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  4.6
  Nightflyers
  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.
  Character: Michael D'Brannin

   1987

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  8.0
  To Catch a King (TV)
  Two Americans (Robert Wagner, Teri Garr) attempt to thwart a plot to kidnap the Duke of Windsor (John Standing) during a visit to Windsor.
   1984

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  6.0
  Rogue Male (TV)
  Early 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 and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discov...
   1977

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  6.5
  The Eagle Has Landed
  1943, The war is entering its final stages and Germany is teetering on the brink of defeat. An increasingly unhinged Hitler, orders a mission to have British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill kidnapped and brought to Germany. T...
   1976

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  5.3
  Zee and Co.
  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 mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.
  Character: Gordon

   1972

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  The Millstone
  Miss Rosamund Stacey joyfully announces the birth of her baby. With grateful acknowledgements to everyone who helped make it such a beautiful event.
   1969

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  The First Churchills (TV Miniseries)
   1969

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  6.6
  Torture Garden
  A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to the showman Dr. Diablo, to warn people of evil in their futures. The skeptical customers are shown the greed and violence they're hiding.
  Character: Leo Winston (segment 3 "Mr. Steinway")

   1967

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  5.9
  Walk Don't Run
  Cary Grant arrives in Tokyo early during Olympic week. With no hotel rooms anywhere, he pulls a card from the embassy bulletin board and talks his way into Samantha Eggar's flat. Later finding Jim Hutton, an architecture student a...
  Character: Julius D. Haversack

   1966

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  7.1
  King Rat
  George Segal is 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 his emaciated fellow prisoners. British officer Jam...
  Character: Daven

   1965

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  The Iron Maiden
  An American airline firm plans to buy a new British passenger plane, but the deal hits trouble when the plane's designer, Jack Hopkins (Michael Craig), and Kathy Fisher (Anne Helm), the daughter of the Airline owner, take an insta...
   1963

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  The Wild and the Willing
  Harry Brown (Ian McShane in his introductory film role) is a somewhat rough student (the wild) at Kilminster University, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil (John Hurt) who doesn't play 'rugger' ...
  Character: Arthur

   1962

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  A Pair of Briefs
   1962