Gordon Standing

A member of a well-known British acting family that also included Herbert Standing, Sir Guy Standing and Wyndham Standing, London-born Gordon Standing had appeared in Canadian stock companies, toured South Africa with Leonard Rayne and, according to his official studio biography, had spent three years with the Canadian Mounted Rifles prior to making his Hollywood screen debut with the Triangle company in 1919. Only occasionally seen in films of the 1920s, Standing is perhaps best remembered for playing Elmo Lincoln's nemesis in the 1927 serial King of the Jungle, a sort of ersatz Tarzan adventure. Alas, the title of the first chapter, "A Great Tragedy," proved horribly prophetic when Standing was killed by a rampaging elephant during filming, an accident Lincoln very publicly blamed on the serial's low-budget producer Rayart. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide