Joan Standing

Biography

Joan Standing was a pioneering English actress born into an acting family in Worcestershire, England. She began her career in film with the 1919 silent romance "The Loves of Letty" and went on to appear in over 60 films from 1919 to 1940, including the iconic role of Nurse Briggs in the 1931 horror classic "Dracula." Standing's personal life was marked by marriage to camera operator Otto Pierce and a later widowhood, before she passed away at 75 in Houston, Texas.