Cast

Stanley Holloway

Acting

Cast

Stanley Holloway

Known for

Acting

Born

1890-10-01

From

Manor Park, London, England, UK

Died

1982-01-30

Also known as Stanley Augustus Holloway , Stanley Augustus Holloway OBE

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.

Stanley Holloway

Stanley Holloway

Biography

My Fair Lady

Brief Encounter

In Harm's Way

Hello London

The Lavender Hill Mob

Hamlet

Caesar and Cleopatra

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Meet Me at Dawn

Ten Little Indians

This Happy Breed

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Journey into Fear

The Winslow Boy

Meet Me Tonight

No Trees in the Street

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

The Way to the Stars

The Way Ahead

An Arabian Night

No Love for Johnnie

One Night with You

Passport to Pimlico

The Magic Box

The Sandwich Man

An Alligator Named Daisy

The Titfield Thunderbolt

A Day to Remember

The Beggar's Opera

On the Fiddle

Meet Mr. Lucifer

Gunner Sam

The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Up the Front

The Perfect Woman

Albert's Savings

Target: Harry

Drummed Out

In Town Tonight

Champagne Charlie

Road House

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

Halt, Who Goes There?

Flight of the Doves

Alive and Kicking

Run a Crooked Mile

Jumping for Joy

The Fantasticks

Wanted for Murder

The Lion and Albert

Sing As We Go

Carnival

Another Shore

Noose

Squibs

Sam and His Musket

The Happy Family

The Vicar of Bray

Sam's Medal

One Wild Oat

Major Barbara

The Girl from Maxim's

Lily of Killarney

D’Ye Ken John Peel?

Play Up the Band

Fast and Loose

The Mikado

Snowbound

Cotton Queen

Love at Second Sight

Beat the Retreat

The Third Sam

The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle

Co-operette

The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner

Sleeping Car