Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 01, 1890
Died
Jan 30, 1982
Place of Birth
Manor Park, London, England, UK
Credits
96 titles
Stanley Holloway
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stanley Holloway, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Journey into Fear
Mr. Mathews
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Poole der Butler
Up the Front
The Great Vincento
Flight of the Doves
Judge Liffy
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Gravedigger
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Mr. Vuffin
Run a Crooked Mile
Caretaker
Target: Harry
Jason Carlyle
Thingumybob
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Mr. Brown
The World of Wodehouse
Beach
Blandings Castle
Beach
The Sandwich Man
Park Gardener
The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
Self
Ten Little Indians
Det. William Henry Blore
In Harm's Way
Clayton Canfil
My Fair Lady
Alfred P. Doolittle
The Fantasticks
Amos Babcock Bellamy
The Danny Kaye Show
Self
Our Man Higgins
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
Self / Alfred P. Doolittle
The Third Sam
Narrator
On the Fiddle
Mr. Cooksley
The Lion and Albert
No Love for Johnnie
Fred Andrews
Hello London
himself
An Arabian Night
Ibrahim
The Mikado
Pooh-Bah
Alive and Kicking
MacDonagh
No Trees in the Street
Kipper
The Bell Telephone Hour
Pooh-Bah
DuPont Show of the Month
Self
Lancashire Coast
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
Armchair Theatre
Norman Dodd
Tony Awards
Self - Performer
Jumping for Joy
Captain Jack Montague
An Alligator Named Daisy
The General
Fast and Loose
Major George Crabb
Meet Mr. Lucifer
Sam Hollingsworth / Mr Lucifer
A Day to Remember
Charley Porter
The Beggar's Opera
Mr. Lockit
The Titfield Thunderbolt
Walter Valentine
Meet Me Tonight
Henry Gow
The Happy Family
Henry Lord
The Magic Box
Broker's Man
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Bellomy
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Thomas Clark
The Lavender Hill Mob
Albert Pendlebury
One Wild Oat
Alfred Gilbey