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