Jack Standing was an English actor.

The brother of Wyndham Standing

Wyndham Standing

Wyndham Standing was an English film actor. He appeared in 131 films between 1915 and 1948. A popular and much beloved leading man in the silent film era, he starred and costarred along many famous names of the day, both men and women. He and Ronald Colman were the stars of the now lost classic...

 (1880–1963), who also was a famous actor in the early days of film, Jack Standing had first appeared in Broadway musicals such as The Belle of New York and Floradora before he went to the Biograph company in 1909. Because he was a handsome young man, he was quickly offered many roles and signed a contract with Lubin in 1911. Like many others from the silent film, Standing was asked to play quite everything from passionate lovers to villains or old men. In 1915, he told the Moving Picture World

The Moving Picture World

The Moving Picture World was an influential early trade journal for the American film industry, from 1907 to 1927. By 1914, it had a reported circulation of approximately 15,000.The publication was founded by James Petrie Chalmers, Jr...

magazine: “Spare me from being a one-type actor!”

Standing's greatest success was the 1916 film Hell's Hinges

Hell's Hinges

Hell's Hinges is a 1916 American Western silent film starring William S. Hart and Clara Williams. Directed by Charles Swickard, William S. Hart and Clifford Smith, and produced by Thomas H. Ince, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.-Plot:...

where he played the weak-willed brother of Clara Williams

Clara Williams

Clara Williams was an American silent film actress. Along with Louise Glaum and Dorothy Dalton, she was one of the principal leading ladies at Inceville, one of the first motion picture studios to make feature films in Los Angeles...

.

On October 25, 1917, Standing died of pneumonia at the age of 31; he had played in more than fifty films, and an early death had set a premature end to a much-promising career. Much of his family were in the theatre or motion pictures including his father Herbert Standing

Herbert Standing

Herbert Standing was a British stage and screen actor and the patriarch of the Standing family of actors. He was the father of numerous children who many of them had careers in the theatre and/or in cinema...

(1846-1923) and brothers Wyndham

Wyndham Standing

Wyndham Standing was an English film actor. He appeared in 131 films between 1915 and 1948. A popular and much beloved leading man in the silent film era, he starred and costarred along many famous names of the day, both men and women. He and Ronald Colman were the stars of the now lost classic...

, Herbert Standing, Jr., Sir Guy Standing

Guy Standing

Commander Sir Guy Standing KBE RNVR was an English actor.-Biography:Standing served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve throughout the First World War, reaching the rank of Commander. In 1918, he was part of the British War Mission to the United States...

 and Percy Standing

Percy Standing

Percy Standing was an English film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 42 films between 1913 and 1934. He was the son of Herbert Standing...

. Also Herbert Jr.'s daughter Joan Standing

Joan Standing

Joan Standing was an English actress. She appeared in 63 films between 1919 and 1940.She was the daughter of Herbert Standing Jr. and granddaughter of Herbert Standing . Her uncles were Wyndham Standing, Sir Guy Standing, Percy Standing, Jr. and Jack Standing...

 and Sir Guy's daughter Kay Hammond.

The 1915 Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

 vehicle "Fanchon The Cricket" has recently been found though incomplete. Standing is her leading man in this film. The teenage Fred

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...

 and Adele Astaire

Adele Astaire

Lady Charles Cavendish , better known as Adele Astaire, was an American dancer and entertainer. She was Fred Astaire's elder sister. Her birthdate was often given as 1897 or 1898, but the 1900 U.S...

 allegedly made their film debuts in this film.

Personal

Standing was married and had a son Jack Standing, Jr. (1914-?) who apparently appeared in early silent movies as a child.

Selected filmography

• With Hoops of Steel (1918)
• The Curse of Eve (1917)
• The Amazons (1917)
• The Innocent Sinner (1917)
• The Price of Her Soul (1917)
• One Touch of Sin (1916)
• Civilization's Child (1916)
• Hell's Hinges
  Hell's Hinges
  Hell's Hinges is a 1916 American Western silent film starring William S. Hart and Clara Williams. Directed by Charles Swickard, William S. Hart and Clifford Smith, and produced by Thomas H. Ince, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.-Plot:...
  
  (1916)
• The Evangelist (1916)
• Blindness of Devotion (1915)
• The Son (1915)

External links

• Standing family at ThePeerage
• film strip with frame of Jack Standing and Louise Glaum
  Louise Glaum
  Louise Glaum was an American actress. Best known for her role as a femme fatale in silent era motion picture dramas, she was credited with giving one of the best characterizations of a vamp in her early career....
  
   in center from Hell's Hinges
  Hell's Hinges
  Hell's Hinges is a 1916 American Western silent film starring William S. Hart and Clara Williams. Directed by Charles Swickard, William S. Hart and Clifford Smith, and produced by Thomas H. Ince, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.-Plot:...
  
  
• studio portrait of Jack Standing from silentladies silentgents