It seems that the veteran actor of stage and screen, Gerard Sanders, will be playing Tony Stark's father in Jon Favreau's Iron Man. Comics2Film found this news in the program for A Night of Vignettes directed by Sal Landi which is now running in London.

Within the program, Sanders' description reads:

Gerard Sanders can be seen in Paramount Pictures Iron Man as Robert Downey Jr.'s father, to be released May 2008.

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Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges and Gwynth Paltrow flies into theatres on May 2, 2008.