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Name
Stanley Holloway

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1890-10-01

Deathday
1982-01-30 (92 years old)

Place of Birth
Manor Park, London, England, UK

Biography

Stanley Augustus Holloway, OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady. He was also renowned for his recordings of comic monologues and songs, which he performed throughout most of his 70-year career.

Born in London, in his early years Holloway pursued a career as a clerk. He made early stage appearances before infantry service in the First World War. After the war he joined a concert party, "The Co-Optimists", and his career began to flourish. At first he was chiefly employed as a singer, but his skills as an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised. Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbottom, created for him by Marriott Edgar, were absorbed into popular British culture. By the 1930s, he was in demand to star in music hall, pantomime and musical comedy.

In the 1940s and early 1950s, Holloway moved from the musical stage to acting in plays and films. He made well-received stage and film appearances in Shakespeare, and in a series of films for Ealing Studios. In 1956 he was cast as the irresponsible Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady, a role that he played on Broadway, in the West End and later on film, which brought him international fame. In his later years, Holloway appeared in television series in the U.S. and the UK, toured in revue, appeared in stage plays in Britain, Canada, Australia and the U.S., and continued to make films into his eighties.

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Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1973 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Poole der Butler
1945 Brief Encounter as Albert Godby
1949 Passport to Pimlico as Arthur Pemberton
1965 Ten Little Indians as Det. William Henry Blore
1964 My Fair Lady as Alfred P. Doolittle
1948 Hamlet as Gravedigger
1953 The Titfield Thunderbolt as Walter Valentine
1951 The Lavender Hill Mob as Albert Pendlebury
1944 The Way Ahead as Pvt. Ted Brewer
1945 The Way to the Stars as Mr. Palmer
1944 Champagne Charlie as The Great Vance
1972 Up the Front as The Great Vincento
1951 One Wild Oat as Alfred Gilbey
1948 Noose as Inspector Rendall
1946 Wanted for Murder as Sergeant Sullivan
1944 This Happy Breed as Bob Mitchell
1952 The Magic Box as Broker's Man
1971 Flight of the Doves as Judge Liffy
1947 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby as Vincent Crummles
1969 Target: Harry as Jason Carlyle
1948 The Winslow Boy as Comico
1949 The Perfect Woman as Ramshead
1948 Snowbound as Joe Wesson
1968 Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter as Mr. Brown
1954 Fast and Loose as Major George Crabb
1961 On the Fiddle as Mr. Cooksley
1975 Journey into Fear as Mr. Mathews
1953 Meet Mr. Lucifer as Sam Hollingsworth / Mr. Lucifer
1948 Another Shore as Alastair McNeil
1961 No Love for Johnnie as Fred Andrews
1935 Play Up the Band as Sam Small
1953 A Day to Remember as Charley Porter
1955 An Alligator Named Daisy as The General
1959 Alive and Kicking as MacDonagh
1937 The Vicar of Bray as The Vicar of Bray
1948 One Night with You as Tramp
1946 Carnival as Charlie Raeburn
1959 No Trees in the Street as Kipper
1937 Cotton Queen as Sam Owen
1935 Drummed Out as Narrator / Sam Small / Colonel / Colonel's Daughter (voice)
1936 Halt, Who Goes There? as Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
1935 Sam and His Musket as Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
1937 The Lion and Albert as Narrator (voice)
1937 Gunner Sam as Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
1937 Three Ha'pence a Foot as Narrator / Sam Small / Noah (voice)
1936 Beat the Retreat as Narrator / Sam Small / Napoleon Bonaparte (voice)
1950 Midnight Episode
1952 The Happy Family as Henry Lord
1935 In Town Tonight as Himself
1969 Run a Crooked Mile as Caretaker
1935 Squibs as Constable Charley Lee
1962 The Third Sam as Narrator
1938 Co-operette
1934 Road House as Donovan
1951 Lady Godiva Rides Again as Thomas Clark
1947 The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle as Narrator
1964 The Fantasticks as Amos Babcock Bellamy
1934 Love at Second Sight
1961 The Lion and Albert
1933 The Girl from Maxim's as Dr Mongincourt
1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes as Gravedigger
1953 The Beggar's Opera as Mr. Lockit
1934 Lily of Killarney as Father O'Flynn
1960 Hello London as himself
1941 Major Barbara as Policeman
1956 Jumping for Joy as Captain Jack Montague
1966 The Sandwich Man as Park Gardener
1947 Meet Me at Dawn as Emile Pollet
1929 The Co-Optimists
1942 Salute John Citizen
1952 Meet Me Tonight as Henry Gow
1966 The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner as Self
1962 The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe as Self / Alfred P. Doolittle
1933 Sleeping Car as Francois
1936 Sam's Medal
1945 Caesar and Cleopatra as Belzanor
1965 In Harm's Way as Clayton Canfil
1940 Albert's Savings as Himself
1935 D’Ye Ken John Peel? as Sam Small
1957 Lancashire Coast
1960 An Arabian Night as Ibrahim
1934 Sing As We Go as Policeman
1960 The Mikado as Pooh-Bah
1970 The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens as Mr. Vuffin

1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Bellomy
1962 Our Man Higgins ( 31 episodes )
1968 Thingumybob ( 8 episodes )
1957 Tonight Starring Jack Paar ( 4 episodes ) as Self
1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
1957 DuPont Show of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Self
1959 The Bell Telephone Hour ( 1 episode ) as Pooh-Bah
1959 The Bell Telephone Hour ( 1 episode ) as Self
1963 The Danny Kaye Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
1967 The World of Wodehouse ( 6 episodes ) as Beach
1967 Blandings Castle ( 6 episodes ) as Beach
1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Norman Dodd
1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Performer
1967 Before the Fringe ( 1 episode )

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