Joan Standing

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1903-06-21

Worcestershire, England, UK

Biography

Joan Standing (21 June 1903 – 3 February 1979) was an English actress best known for playing Nurse Briggs in the 1931 horror film Dracula. She appeared in more than 60 films from 1919 to 1940.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {49}

Maid

1931-02-12 7.2

Dracula

British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, ...

Genre :Horror, Fantasy, Romance

Selina

1924-12-04 7.3

Greed

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Kilmer

1930-11-19 0

Ex-Flame

A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from her. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Alice McNeil

1926-04-10 0

Sandy

Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs with a fast young set. An auto breakdown after a party places her in a compromising situation, and sh ...

Genre :Drama

Hilda, the maid

1924-09-15 0

Empty Hearts

Milt Kimberlin is a down-on-his luck horse owner, but Rosalie, a cabaret performer (the lively and engaging Clara Bow), doesn't care -- she turns down the fancy jewelry offered by oily Frank Gorman f ...

Genre :Drama

Hulda

1923-11-05 0

Pleasure Mad

Genre :Drama

Sharon's Secretary

1926-02-14 0

The Skyrocket

In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage. In the story we see Sharon as a young Hollywood st ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

The Hired Girl

1925-06-08 0

Faint Perfume

After a stormy six year marriage, Barnaby Powers divorces his wife Richmiel. She returns home, taking their young son Oliver with her. Barnaby follows her, to ask for custody of the boy, but meets and ...

Genre :Drama

Brooks' Phone Operator (uncredited)

1934-11-30 6

Broadway Bill

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devo ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1932-01-19 7.5

Broken Lullaby

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in Fr ...

Genre :Drama

Mary the Maid (uncredited)

1930-10-09 3.889

Extravagance

Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although Alice's mother has impoverished herself to provide Alice with the luxuries she expects as her right. Mo ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Daisy

1934-08-15 4.9

Jane Eyre

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Miss Abrams

1930-02-08 6.6

Street of Chance

'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Francis), wants to divorce him because of his addicti ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Eleanor

1931-10-17 0

The Age for Love

A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does. ...

Genre :Drama

Mabel

1928-07-15 0

Riley of the Rainbow Division

Two pals enlist in the army during World War I. Just before they complete training camp and are to be sent overseas, they're scheduled to marry their girlfriends. However, they get in trouble and wind ...

Genre :Comedy

Isabella

1924-02-10 0

Three Weeks

A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Charlotte

1922-10-30 6.3

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with ...

Genre :Drama

Maude Upper

1920-10-31 0

The Branding Iron

Pierre Landis is insanely jealous of his beautiful young wife Joan, and his jealousy makes him take a branding iron to her to mark her as his property. ...

Genre :Drama

Roy's Dancing Partner (uncredited)

1930-11-15 6.4

Hell's Angels

When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps. ...

Genre :Drama, War, Action

1932-08-15 6.8

American Madness

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an af ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)

1932-01-02 6.4

Emma

After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Saloon Reader

1940-09-15 5.5

Colorado

Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. Wh ...

Genre :Action, Western

Louise

1930-11-08 4.2

A Lady's Morals

Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs. ...

Genre :Drama, Music

Julia

1931-05-16 4.2

Never the Twain Shall Meet

Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend. As one of his ships returns to San Francisco, Dan learns ...

Genre :Drama

Kitty Hoops

1940-11-09 5.8

Li'l Abner

Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from ...

Genre :Comedy

Nellie Kelly

1927-11-27 4.3

The College Hero

A college football player is injured by a jealous teammate during practice, but comes back unexpectedly to play for his team in the season's key game. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Miss Weller

1929-07-01 0

Fashions in Love

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Music

Woman (uncredited)

1940-06-25 7

Grand Ole Opry

Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Pringle

1925-01-04 5

The Dancers

Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in search of his fortune. He soon becomes the owner of a saloon and dance hall. One of the dancers in his pl ...

Genre :Drama

Jenny

1924-03-09 0

Happiness

The adventures of a young shopgirl who learns that having money is not the key to happiness. ...

Genre :Comedy

Lemuel's Secretary

1931-08-06 0

Young as You Feel

Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, ...

Genre :Comedy

Maudie

1928-01-22 0

Beau Sabreur

The film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the Legion and is then sent on a mission among the Arabs to conclude the signing of a crucial peace treat ...

Genre :Adventure, Romance

Iris Elliot

1928-10-03 0

Home, James

An artistic salesgirl falls in love with a chauffeur not realising he is actually the heir to a huge fortune. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

The Mayor's Secretary

1933-01-27 4

Goldie Gets Along

A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

1929-04-01 0

My Lady's Past

Mamie Reynolds has been engaged to Sam Young for ten years. But when Sam's novel is published after many years of waiting, Sam falls for a gold digger. ...

Genre :Drama

Jim's Secretary (uncredited)

1932-03-17 5.6

Love Affair

Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Pritchard

1926-01-17 0

The Outsider

Leontine Sturdee and her dancing partner Basil Owen tour Hungry. They meet Anton Ragatzy, a mystic faith healer who falls in love with the young woman. When she is injured during an acrobatic dance mo ...

Genre :Drama

Chambermaid

1930-08-29 0

For the Love o' Lil

Directed by James Tinling. With Jack Mulhall, Sally Starr, Elliott Nugent, Margaret Livingston. ...

Genre :Comedy

Harriet Porter

1926-09-18 0

The Campus Flirt

A product of wealth and high society, Patricia Mansfield is sent to Colton College by her father, who hopes to eradicate her snobbish veneer. On the train, Pat meets Denis Adams, a prominent athlete w ...

Genre :Comedy

Client with Free (Uncredited)

1933-06-10 5.913

Private Detective 62

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Slavey

1919-12-07 0

The Loves of Letty

Letty Shell, a clerk in a London brokerage office, is discouraged by her lack of fine clothes and social position. She becomes infatuated with Nevill Letchmere, a debonair idler from a good family, an ...

Genre :Drama

Cecilie's maid

1925-09-05 0

With This Ring

Stranded on a desert isle, Donald and Cecilie become man and wife in the eyes of God. Donald is attacked by a mad Portuguese and is knocked unconscious; Cecilie mistakes him for dead and leaves him be ...

Genre :Drama

Tillie Crotty

1925-11-15 4

The Other Woman's Story

Robert Marshall’s dying utterance seems to point to Colman Colby (Robert Frazer) as his killer. Colby is arrested and at trial all testimony points to his guilt. But as the jury deliberates, the unfai ...

Genre :Drama

Mother of Crippled Boy

1935-03-22 0

Straight from the Heart

In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes a ...

Genre :Drama

Ginger

1923-01-01 0

Hearts Aflame

The son of a retired timber baron meets and falls in love with a Michigan woman who refuses to sell her land unless the buyer promises to replant to replace the trees that are to be cut down. ...

Genre :Drama

Tillie Slowboy

1923-08-11 0

The Cricket on the Hearth

Tells of Caleb Plummer, his son Edward and blind daughter Bertha, and rivalry over neighbor May Fielding. May's friend Dot weds John Peerybingle; they find a lucky cricket in their cottage. A mortgage ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Printer's Devil

1925-12-06 0

Counsel for the Defense

Typhus specialist Dr. David West has fought long and hard for the construction of the new municipal waterworks. Harrison Blake, the town's leading lawyer and banker, conspires to have the waterworks p ...

Genre :Drama

Mary

1927-04-09 0

Ritzy

Touring America as Harrington Smith, the Duke of Westborough visits the Brown Iron Works at Ivor City, and there he is entertained by Nathan Brown and his daughter, Ritzy, who poses as a blasé sophist ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Olga

1926-09-01 0

Lost at Sea

Richard Lane isolates himself in the African interior for 5 years after his sweetheart, Natalie, marries Norman Travers. Travers, who tires of family life and neglects his wife and son, drifts into an ...