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Joan Standing

{{short description|English actress (1903–1979)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Joan Standing

| image = Joan Standing Photop.jpg

| caption = Joan Standing, 1927

| birth_date = {{birth date|1903|6|21|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Worcestershire, England, UK

| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|2|3|1903|6|21|df=yes}}

| death_place = Houston, Texas, U.S.

| yearsactive = 1919–1940

| occupation = Actress

| spouse = Otto Pierce (m. 1927, died 1957)

| children = 2

| relatives = Herbert Standing (grandfather)
Wyndham Standing (uncle)
Sir Guy Standing (uncle)
Percy Standing (uncle)
Jack Standing (uncle)
Kay Hammond (cousin)
John Standing (first cousin once removed)

}}

Joan Standing (21 June 1903 – 3 February 1979) was an English actress,{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba963dae2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819123027/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba963dae2|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 August 2016|title=Joan Standing|work=BFI|accessdate=26 March 2018}} best known for playing Nurse Briggs in the 1931 horror film Dracula. She appeared in more than 60 films from 1919 to 1940, with the majority under contract with Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios.

Biography

Standing was born into the acting Standing family on 21 June 1903 in Worcestershire, England. She was the niece of the actors Guy Standing (1873–1937), Wyndham Standing (1880–1963) and Percy Standing (1882–1950).{{Cite book |last=Wilson |first=Scott |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA709&dq=Joan+Standing+actress&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjByqjNp-GMAxXwTkEAHWZ3CXUQ6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=Joan%20Standing%20actress&f=false |title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. |date=2016-09-05 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-7992-4 |pages=709 |language=en}} She was also the granddaughter of actor Herbert Standing (1846–1923) and cousin to actress Kay Hammond (1909–1980)."Noted Film Actor Dies". The Los Angeles Times. 25 February 1937. p. A1.

As an actress, her first film was The Loves of Letty (1919). Her last film appearance was in Li'l Abner (1940).{{Cite book |last=Kear |first=Lynn |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wzi1QjokREkC&pg=PA259&dq=Joan+Standing+1979&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3usvcqeGMAxWKUEEAHccGKn4Q6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=Joan%20Standing%201979&f=false |title=The Complete Kay Francis Career Record: All Film, Stage, Radio and Television Appearances |last2=Rossman |first2=John |date=2016-03-30 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0287-5 |pages=259 |language=en}}

Standing married film camera operator Otto Pierce on 26 October 1927 and they had two children. She was widowed on 22 October 1957.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=COjHsiMDlOMC&q=Joan+Standing+actress&dq=Joan+Standing+actress&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjB5cDgqOGMAxV3YEEAHTfZDDc4ChDoAXoECAoQAw |title=Daily Variety |date=1957 |publisher=Daily Variety Limited |volume=97 |pages=10 |language=en}}

Standing died from cancer on 3 February 1979 in Houston, Harris County, Texas, aged 75.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/joan-standing/ |title=Joan Standing |access-date=2025-04-18 |via=Classic Movie Hub (CMH)}} She was cremated at the South Memorial Park Crematory in Pearland, Texas.

Partial filmography

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  • {{IMDb name|0822061}}

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Category:1903 births

Category:1979 deaths

Category:English film actresses

Category:English silent film actresses

Category:English expatriate actresses in the United States

Category:Actresses from Worcestershire

Category:20th-century English actresses

Category:Standing family