Guy Standing

Sir Guy Standing KBE 1 September 1873 24 February 1937 was an English actor Standing served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve throughout the First World War reaching the rank of commander He was seconded to MI6 but transferred to the Ministry of Information in December 1917 In 1918 he was part of the British War Mission to the United States For this service he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE in 1918 and raised to Knight Commander KBE in 1919 After becoming a noted actor in British and American theatre he moved to Hollywood in the early 1930s appearing in Paramount films His bestknown role is probably that of Colonel Stone in Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935 biography excerpted from Wikipedia