Stanley Holloway
Actor
Born October 1, 1890 in Manor Park, London, England, UK
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.
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
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Mr. Brown
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
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
Self / Alfred P. Doolittle
The Third Sam
Narrator
On the Fiddle
Mr. Cooksley
No Love for Johnnie
Fred Andrews
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
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
Midnight Episode
Passport to Pimlico
Arthur Pemberton
The Perfect Woman
Ramshead
Hamlet
Gravedigger
Another Shore
Alastair McNeil
Noose
Inspector Rendall
The Winslow Boy
Comico
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
One Night with You
Tramp
Snowbound
Joe Wesson
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Vincent Crummles
Meet Me at Dawn
Emile Pollet
The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle
Narrator
Carnival
Charlie Raeburn
Wanted for Murder
Sergeant Sullivan
Caesar and Cleopatra
Belzanor
Brief Encounter
Albert Godby
The Way to the Stars
Mr. Palmer
Champagne Charlie
The Great Vance
The Way Ahead
Pvt. Ted Brewer
This Happy Breed
Bob Mitchell
Salute John Citizen
Major Barbara
Policeman
Albert's Savings
Himself
Co-operette
Cotton Queen
Sam Owen
Play Up the Band
Sam Small
D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Sam Small
Squibs
Constable Charley Lee
Sing As We Go
Policeman
The Girl from Maxim's
Dr Mongincourt
Sleeping Car
Francois