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