Stanley Holloway
Acting • Born 1890-10-01 – Died 1982-01-30
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.
Filmography
95 credits
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie • 1973
Poole der Butler
Brief Encounter
Movie • 1945
Albert Godby
Ten Little Indians
Movie • 1965
Det. William Henry Blore
Passport to Pimlico
Movie • 1949
Arthur Pemberton
My Fair Lady
Movie • 1964
Alfred P. Doolittle
Hamlet
Movie • 1948
Gravedigger
The Titfield Thunderbolt
Movie • 1953
Walter Valentine
The Lavender Hill Mob
Movie • 1951
Albert Pendlebury
The Way Ahead
Movie • 1944
Pvt. Ted Brewer
The Way to the Stars
Movie • 1945
Mr. Palmer
Champagne Charlie
Movie • 1944
The Great Vance
Up the Front
Movie • 1972
The Great Vincento
One Wild Oat
Movie • 1951
Alfred Gilbey
Noose
Movie • 1948
Inspector Rendall
Wanted for Murder
Movie • 1946
Sergeant Sullivan
This Happy Breed
Movie • 1944
Bob Mitchell
The Magic Box
Movie • 1952
Broker's Man
Flight of the Doves
Movie • 1971
Judge Liffy
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Movie • 1947
Vincent Crummles
Target: Harry
Movie • 1969
Jason Carlyle
The Winslow Boy
Movie • 1948
Comico
The Perfect Woman
Movie • 1949
Ramshead
Snowbound
Movie • 1948
Joe Wesson
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Movie • 1968
Mr. Brown
Fast and Loose
Movie • 1954
Major George Crabb
On the Fiddle
Movie • 1961
Mr. Cooksley
Journey into Fear
Movie • 1975
Mr. Mathews
Another Shore
Movie • 1948
Alastair McNeil
Meet Mr. Lucifer
Movie • 1953
Sam Hollingsworth / Mr Lucifer
No Love for Johnnie
Movie • 1961
Fred Andrews
Play Up the Band
Movie • 1935
Sam Small
A Day to Remember
Movie • 1953
Charley Porter
An Alligator Named Daisy
Movie • 1955
The General
Alive and Kicking
Movie • 1959
MacDonagh
The Vicar of Bray
Movie • 1937
The Vicar of Bray
One Night with You
Movie • 1948
Tramp
Carnival
Movie • 1946
Charlie Raeburn
No Trees in the Street
Movie • 1959
Kipper
Cotton Queen
Movie • 1937
Sam Owen
Sam and His Musket
Movie • 1935
Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
Drummed Out
Movie • 1935
Narrator / Sam Small / Colonel / Colonel's Daughter (voice)
Halt, Who Goes There?
Movie • 1936
Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
Beat the Retreat
Movie • 1936
Narrator / Sam Small / Napoleon Bonaparte (voice)
The Lion and Albert
Movie • 1937
Narrator (voice)
Three Ha'pence a Foot
Movie • 1937
Narrator / Sam Small / Noah (voice)
Gunner Sam
Movie • 1937
Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
Midnight Episode
Movie • 1950
The Happy Family
Movie • 1952
Henry Lord
In Town Tonight
Movie • 1935
Himself
Run a Crooked Mile
Movie • 1969
Caretaker
Squibs
Movie • 1935
Constable Charley Lee
The Third Sam
Movie • 1962
Narrator
Co-operette
Movie • 1938
Road House
Movie • 1934
Donovan
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Movie • 1951
Thomas Clark
The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle
Movie • 1947
Narrator
The Fantasticks
Movie • 1964
Amos Babcock Bellamy
Love at Second Sight
Movie • 1934
The Lion and Albert
Movie • 1961
The Girl from Maxim's
Movie • 1933
Dr Mongincourt
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Movie • 1970
Gravedigger
The Beggar's Opera
Movie • 1953
Mr. Lockit
Lily of Killarney
Movie • 1934
Father O'Flynn
Hello London
Movie • 1960
himself
Major Barbara
Movie • 1941
Policeman
Jumping for Joy
Movie • 1956
Captain Jack Montague
The Sandwich Man
Movie • 1966
Park Gardener
Meet Me at Dawn
Movie • 1947
Emile Pollet
The Co-Optimists
Movie • 1929
Salute John Citizen
Movie • 1942
Meet Me Tonight
Movie • 1952
Henry Gow
The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
Movie • 1966
Self
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
Movie • 1962
Self / Alfred P. Doolittle
Sleeping Car
Movie • 1933
Francois
Sam's Medal
Movie • 1936
Caesar and Cleopatra
Movie • 1945
Belzanor
In Harm's Way
Movie • 1965
Clayton Canfil
Albert's Savings
Movie • 1940
Himself
D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Movie • 1935
Sam Small
Lancashire Coast
Movie • 1957
An Arabian Night
Movie • 1960
Sing As We Go
Movie • 1934
Policeman
The Mikado
Movie • 1960
Pooh-Bah
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Movie • 1970
Mr. Vuffin
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Bellomy
Our Man Higgins
TV • 1962
Thingumybob
TV • 1968
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
DuPont Show of the Month
TV • 1957
Self
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV • 1959
Pooh-Bah
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV • 1959
Self
The Danny Kaye Show
TV • 1963
Self
The World of Wodehouse
TV • 1967
Beach
Blandings Castle
TV • 1967
Beach