John Standing — Actor (24)
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A Touch of Love (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
A Touch of Love
director: Waris Hussein actor: Sandy Dennis / Ian McKellen …
other title: L'Histoire d'une femme / Su vida íntima
Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.
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The Endless Game (1989) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Endless Game
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Albert Finney / George Segal …
other title: Gezinktes Spiel
A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them and why.
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To Catch a King (1984) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
To Catch a King
director: Clive Donner actor: Robert Wagner / Teri Garr …
other title: Caccia al re / Jaque al Rey
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.
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Au Pair Girls (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Au Pair Girls
director: Val Guest actor: Gabrielle Drake / Astrid Frank …
other title: The Young Playmates / Au-Pair-Girls …
Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyone else they encounter.
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Rogue Male (1976) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Rogue Male
director: Clive Donner actor: Peter O'Toole / John Standing …
other title: Hunter il selvaggio
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 discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
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8 ½ Women (1999) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
8 ½ Women
director: Peter Greenaway actor: John Standing / Matthew Delamere …
other title: 8 donne e 1/2 / 8 Mulheres e Meia …
After his wife dies, middle-aged 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. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. As a year passes, the women begin asserting their own power.
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The Eagle Has Landed (1976) [Movie] IMDb Skybridge TMDB WikiData
The Eagle Has Landed
director: John Sturges actor: Michael Caine / Donald Sutherland …
other title: La notte dell'aquila / Ørnen er landet …
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
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Torture Garden (1967) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Torture Garden
director: Freddie Francis actor: Burgess Meredith / Jack Palance …
other title: Il giardino delle torture / Der Foltergarten des Dr. Diabolo …
A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to showman Dr Diabolo, to warn people of foreseeable evil. One by one, skeptics stand before the Fate Atropos to preview the greed and violence hiding behind their respectable façades.
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The Legacy (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Legacy
director: Richard Marquand actor: Katharine Ross / Sam Elliott …
other title: Il testamento / Das Haus des Satans …
A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of house guests.
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Visitors (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Visitors
director: Piers Haggard actor: Michael Brandon / John Standing …
A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both vacation with their families at an Italian villa at their employer's expense. The manager's son fantasizes a murderous outcome.
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The Psychopath (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Psychopath
director: Freddie Francis actor: Patrick Wymark / Margaret Johnston …
other title: La bambola di cera / Der Puppenmörder …
Four men involved in the investigation of a German millionaire at the end of World War II are found murdered with tiny dolls beside their corpses.
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Zee and Co. (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Zee and Co.
director: Brian G. Hutton actor: Elizabeth Taylor / Michael Caine …
other title: X Y e Zi / X, Y und Zee …
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.
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The Happy Prince (2018) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
The Happy Prince
director: Rupert Everett actor: Rupert Everett / Colin Firth …
other title: The Happy Prince - L'ultimo ritratto di Oscar Wilde / La importancia de llamarse Oscar Wilde
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.
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King Solomon's Mines (2004) [TV] IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData
King Solomon's Mines
director: Steve Boyum actor: Patrick Swayze / Alison Doody …
other title: King Solomon's Mines - Il tesoro maledetto / As Minas do Rei Salomão …
Renowned safari hunter Allan Quatermain is lured back into the unknown recesses of the African jungles to find a man who disappeared while searching for the fabled King Solomon's Mines — a destination of legendary riches from which no soul has ever returned alive.
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The Gathering Storm (2002) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
The Gathering Storm
director: Richard Loncraine actor: Albert Finney / Vanessa Redgrave …
other title: Guerra imminente / O Encontro …
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
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Nightflyers (1987) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban Skybridge
Nightflyers
director: Robert Collector actor: Catherine Mary Stewart / Michael Praed …
other title: Misteriose forme di vita / Nightflyer …
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.
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Rogue Trader (1999) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rogue Trader
director: James Dearden actor: Ewan McGregor / Anna Friel …
other title: Jogador de Alto Risco / High Speed Money - Die Nick Leeson-Story …
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.