
Stanley Holloway
Acting
🎂 1890-10-01
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.
Cast credits(92)

Self
1948
Self
1957

Self
1963

Self - Performer
1956
Pooh-Bah
1959
Self
1959

Self
1957

Bellomy
1951
1962

Alfred P. Doolittle
1964

Clayton Canfil
1965
1968

Gravedigger
1970

Gravedigger
1948

Albert Godby
1945

Albert Pendlebury
1951

Arthur Pemberton
1949

Broker's Man
1952

Bob Mitchell
1944

Belzanor
1945

Det. William Henry Blore
1965

Pvt. Ted Brewer
1944

Comico
1948

Mr. Mathews
1975

Mr. Palmer
1945

Vincent Crummles
1947

MacDonagh
1959

Walter Valentine
1953

Policeman
1941

Fred Andrews
1961
Donovan
1934

Park Gardener
1966

Mr. Cooksley
1961

Kipper
1959

Poole der Butler
1973

Emile Pollet
1947

Mr. Lockit
1953

Inspector Rendall
1948

Thomas Clark
1951

1942

The General
1955
The Vicar of Bray
1937

Joe Wesson
1948

Judge Liffy
1971

The Great Vincento
1972

Charley Porter
1953

Jason Carlyle
1969

Charlie Raeburn
1946

Henry Lord
1952

Caretaker
1969

Alfred Gilbey
1951

Mr. Brown
1968

Sam Owen
1937

Sam Small
1935

Captain Jack Montague
1956
1929

Sergeant Sullivan
1946

Tramp
1948

The Great Vance
1944

Francois
1933

1934

Dr Mongincourt
1933

Amos Babcock Bellamy
1964

Alastair McNeil
1948
Father O'Flynn
1934

Ramshead
1949

Sam Hollingsworth / Mr Lucifer
1953

Constable Charley Lee
1935
1960

Henry Gow
1952

Major George Crabb
1954

Sam Small
1935
1950

Narrator
1947

Policeman
1934

Himself
1966

Self / Alfred P. Doolittle
1962
1936

Narrator
1962
Himself
1935
himself
1960

1938
Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
1936
Narrator / Sam Small / Colonel / Colonel's Daughter (voice)
1935

1957
Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
1935

Himself
1940
Narrator / Sam Small / Napoleon Bonaparte (voice)
1936
Narrator / Sam Small / Noah (voice)
1937
1961
Narrator (voice)
1937
Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
1937