Jack Standing
The son of stage actor Herbert Standing and of brother of Wyndham Standing , who also was a famous actor in the early days of film, Jack Standing first appeared in Broadway musicals such as The Belle of New York and Florodora 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 Sigmund 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 magazine, Spare me from being a onetype actor He appeared in more than fifty films. An incomplete print of 1915 Mary Pickford vehicle Fanchon the Cricket, in which Standing costarred, has recently been found. The teenage Fred and Adele Astaire allegedly made their screen debuts in this film. Standings greatest success was the 1916 film Hells Hinges, where he played the weakwilled brother of Clara Williams.
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