Guy Standeven

Guy Standeven (1928-1998) was a British actor who alternated between minor film and TV speaking parts and extra work over a long career. He appears in The Great Muppet Caper, with lines, as the British gentleman who Miss Piggy pushes into the Battersea Park pond.Tweet by Marcus James Heslop, author of Standeven's biography Who's That Guy? (2020).
Standeven acted on stage beginning in the 1940s, and was heard periodically on BBC Radio in the 1960s and narrating industrial films or documentaries. His credited speaking parts, mostly on TV, included BBC educational programming, multiple John le Carré spy miniseries, Dixon of Dock Green, Rumpole of the Bailey, Yes, Prime Minister, Maigret, the 1985 Bleak House, Poirot, and Matlock. One of his few regular TV gigs was on the 1980s children's gameshow Knightmare (in which child and teen contestants explored a fantasy dungeon). He was in the first two series as the voice of two talking walls and on-camera as a troll.
In film, he was credited in the children's film The Sky Bike (1967), The Partner (with Helen Lindsay), Sweeney 2 (as a bank manager) and had unbilled speaking bits in Road to Hong Kong (with Bob Hope) and others. However, most of his film work, and remaining TV work, was as an extra, including The Man Who Knew Too Much, Return of the Jedi (as a rebel dignitary in the briefing room), the Carry On movies, A Hard Day's Night, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the first three Superman movies, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, A Fish Called Wanda, and King Ralph (with John Goodman). TV extra work included The Avengers, The Prisoner, Danger Man, Jeeves and Wooster, Columbo, and many others.
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*Aveleyman - roles with photos
*IMDb
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