Wyndham Standing

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Wyndham Standing
Standing in The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
Born	(1880-08-23)23 August 1880 London, England
Died	1 February 1963(1963-02-01) (aged 82) Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1915–1948
Spouse(s)	Winifred

Wyndham Standing (23 August 1880 – 1 February 1963) was an English film actor.

Biography

Standing appeared in 131 films between 1915 and 1948. A popular and much beloved leading man in the silent film era, he starred and co-starred along many famous names of the day, both men and women. He and Ronald Colman were the stars of the now lost classic The Dark Angel (1925). Standing delivered a memorable performance in Hell's Angels (1930) as the commanding officer who gets fed up with the cowardly antics of Ben Lyon and James Hall just before sending them off on a deadly bombing mission.

He was born Charles Wyndham Standing^[1] in London, England and died in Los Angeles, California. He was the son of veteran actor Herbert Standing (1846–1923) and the brother of actors Jack Standing, Sir Guy Standing, Herbert Standing Jr. and Percy Standing. He was also the uncle of Joan Standing and Kay Hammond.^[2]

Selected filmography

A Mother's Atonement (1915)
The Law of the Land (1917)
To the Death (1917)
The Glorious Adventure (1918)
Rose of the World (1918)
The Witness for the Defence (1919)
The Isle of Conquest (1919)
My Lady's Garter (1919)
Earthbound (1920)
Smilin' Through (1922)
The Hypocrites (1923)
The Lion's Mouse (1923)
The Rejected Woman (1924)
The Teaser (1925)
The Dark Angel (1925) - Gerald Shannon
If Youth But Knew (1926)
The Canadian (1926)
Widecombe Fair (1928)
Power Over Men (1929)
The Flying Squad (1929)
Hell's Angels (1930)
Such Is the Law (1930)
Dracula (1931) - uncredited, as a surgeon
Design for Living (1933)
A Study in Scarlet (1933)
Imitation of Life (1934)
Smilin' Through (1941) - uncredited cameo

References

↑ Silent Film Necrology, 2nd Edition by Eugene Michael Vazzana, c. 2001 page 497
↑ "Biography for Wyndham Standing". IMDb.com.

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Persondata
Name	Standing, Wyndham
Alternative names
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	23 August 1880
Place of birth	London, England
Date of death	1 February 1963
Place of death	Los Angeles, California, USA

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