Joan Standing

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, 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). She was also the granddaughter of actor Herbert Standing (1846–1923) and cousin to actress Kay Hammond (1909–1980).

As an actress, her first film was The Loves of Letty (1919). Her last film appearance was in Li'l Abner (1940).

Standing married film camera operator Otto Pierce on 26 October 1927 and they had two children. She was widowed on 22 October 1957.

Standing died from cancer on 3 February 1979 in Houston, Harris County, Texas, aged 75. She was cremated at the South Memorial Park Crematory in Pearland, Texas.

Partial filmography

The Loves of Letty (1919) - Slavey The Branding Iron (1920) - Maude Upper Silk Hosiery (1920) - Sophia Black Lorna Doone (1922) - Gwenny Carfax (uncredited) Oliver Twist (1922) - Charlotte Hearts Aflame (1923) - Ginger The Cricket on the Hearth (1923) - Tillie Slowboy Pleasure Mad (1923) - Hulda A Noise in Newboro (1923) - Dorothy Mason Three Weeks (1924) - Isabella Women Who Give (1924) - Sophia Higginboottom Happiness (1924) - Jenny What Shall I Do? (1924) - Lizzie The Beauty Prize (1924) - Lydia Du Bois Empty Hearts (1924) - Hilda, the maid Greed (1924) - Selina The Dancers (1925) - Pringle Faint Perfume (1925) - The Hired Girl Love on the Rio Grande (1925) Ranger of the Big Pines (1925) - Minor Role (uncredited) With This Ring (1925) - Cecilie's maid Counsel for the Defense (1925) - Printer's Devil The Outsider (1926) - Pritchard The Skyrocket (1926) - Sharon's Secretary Memory Lane (1926) - Maid Sandy (1926) - Alice McNeil The Little Firebrand (1926) - Miss Smyth Lost at Sea (1926) - Olga The Campus Flirt (1926) - Harriet Porter The First Night (1927) - Mrs. Miller Ritzy (1927) - Mary The College Hero (1927) - Nellie Kelly Beau Sabreur (1928) - Maudie Riley of the Rainbow Division (1928) - Mabel Home, James (1928) - Iris Elliot The Kid's Clever (1929) - A Girl The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City (1929) - Minor Role (uncredited) My Lady's Past (1929) - Maid Fashions in Love (1929) - Miss Weller The Marriage Playground (1929) - Miss Scopey Street of Chance (1930) - Miss Abrams Hell's Angels (1930) - Roy's Dancing Partner (uncredited) For the Love o' Lil (1930) - Chambermaid Extravagance (1930) - Mary - Maid (uncredited) A Lady's Morals (1930) - Louise Ex-Flame (1930) - Kilmer Dracula (1931) - Nurse Briggs Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931) - Julia Young as You Feel (1931) - Lemuel's Secretary The Age for Love (1931) - Eleanor Possessed (1931) - Whitney's Secretary (uncredited) Emma (1932) - Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited) Broken Lullaby (1932) - Flower Shop Girl (uncredited) Love Affair (1932) - Jim's Secretary (uncredited) American Madness (1932) - Panicked Depositor (uncredited) Goldie Gets Along (1933) - The Mayor's Secretary (uncredited) Private Detective 62 (1933) - Client with Free (uncredited) Jane Eyre (1934) - Daisy Broadway Bill (1934) - Brooks' Phone Operator (uncredited) Behold My Wife! (1934) - Ms. Smith (uncredited) Straight from the Heart (1935) - Mother of Crippled Boy (uncredited) The Headline Woman (1935) - Sadie, Chase's Secretary (uncredited) Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) - Dawson (uncredited) Grand Ole Opry (1940) - Woman (uncredited) Colorado (1940) - Saloon Reader (uncredited) Li'l Abner (1940) - Kitty Hoops