Wyndham Standing

Personal Info

Birthday

August 22, 1880

Day of Death

1963-02-01

(82 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Also Known As

Charles Wyndham Standing

Wyndham Standing

Biography

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

Known For

Dracula

The Man in the Iron Mask

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Pride and Prejudice

Madame Curie

Waterloo Bridge

A Study in Scarlet

Design for Living

Filmography

1947
Lured
as Assistant Medical Examiner (uncredited)
Ivy
as Assistant Chief Justice (uncredited)
The Sea of Grass
as Gambler (uncredited)
1946
The Secret Heart
as Butler
The Locket
as Butler (uncredited)
1945
Week-End at the Waldorf
as Literary Type (uncredited)
1944
The Woman in the Window
as Man at Club (uncredited)
1943
A Guy Named Joe
as English Colonel (uncredited)
Madame Curie
as King Oscar (uncredited)
1942
Laugh Your Blues Away
as Mr. Jamison
This Above All
as Doctor
1941
They Dare Not Love
as Cafe Patron
1940
The Son of Monte Cristo
as Chamberlain
The Long Voyage Home
as British Naval Officer
Pride and Prejudice
as Committeeman
Escape to Glory
as Man
Waterloo Bridge
as Toff (uncredited)
1939
The Night of Nights
as Naval Commander (uncredited)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
Rulers of the Sea
as Banker (Uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Senator Ashman (uncredited)
They Shall Have Music
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Doctor
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
as Ambulance Doctor
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
as Wedding Master of Ceremonies
1938
Kidnapped
as Clansman
Law of the Underworld
as Mr. Wilson, Rogers' party guest
1936
Beloved Enemy
as Thornton
1935
East of Java
as Hunter
1934
Limehouse Blues
as Assistant Commissioner Kenyon
Imitation of Life
as Beatrice's Butler Jarvis
Sadie McKee
as Alderson’s Butler (uncredited)
1933
Design for Living
as Max's Butler
A Study in Scarlet
as Capt. Robin S. Pyke
1932
The Silent Witness
as Sir John Lawson--Barrister
1931
Dracula
as Surgeon (uncredited)
1930
Hell's Angels
as RFC Squadron Commander
Such Is the Law
as Doctor
Billy the Kid
as John W. Tunston
1928
Widecombe Fair
as The Squire
The Port of Missing Girls
as Mayor McKibben
1927
The City Gone Wild
as Franklin Ames
White Heat
as Gilbert Gillman
1926
The Canadian
as Ed Marsh
1925
The Unchastened Woman
as Hubert Knollys
The Dark Angel
as Gerald Shannon
The Teaser
as Jeffry Loring
The Reckless Sex
as Carter Trevor
The Early Bird
as George Fairchild
1924
Flames of Desire
as Daniel Strathmore
Vanity's Price
as Richard Dowling
The Rejected Woman
as James Dunbar
1923
The Gold Diggers
as Stephen Lee
Daytime Wives
as Elwood Adams
Little Johnny Jones
as The Earl of Bloomsburg
1922
Smilin' Through
as John Carteret
The Bride's Play
as Sir Fergus Cassidy
1921
The Iron Trail
as Murray O'Neil
A Modern Salome
as Harry Torrence
The Marriage of William Ashe
as William Ashe
1920
Earthbound
as Richard Desborough
Lifting Shadows
as Hugh Mason
My Lady's Garter
as Bruce Calhoun
1919
The Isle of Conquest
as John Arnold
The Witness for the Defense
as Henry Thresk
A Temperamental Wife
as Senator Newton
The Hushed Hour
as Lord George Daw
Eyes of the Soul
as Larry Gibson
The Marriage Price
as Frederick Lawton
The Woman on the Index
as David Maber
Paid in Full
as Jimsy Smith
Out of the Shadow
as Richard Steel
1918
The Hillcrest Mystery
as Hugo Smith
1917
Exile
as Vincento Perez
Law of the Land
as Richard Harding
The Waiting Soul
as Dudley Kent
1916
Redeeming Love
as Hugh Wiley
The Wolf Woman
as Franklin Walden
The Beggar of Cawnpore
as Capt. Guy Douglas
Bullets and Brown Eyes
as Count Michael
1915
A Mother's Atonement
as Wilbur