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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 1, 1890
Died
January 30, 1982
Place of Birth
Manor Park, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Stanley Augustus Holloway
- Stanley Augustus Holloway OBE
Stanley Holloway
0.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.6
Mr. Mathews
Journey into Fear
1975
5.9
Poole der Butler
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1973
4.2
The Great Vincento
Up the Front
1972
5.8
Judge Liffy
Flight of the Doves
1971
6.8
Gravedigger
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970
🎬
0.0
Mr. Vuffin
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1970
8.0
Caretaker
Run a Crooked Mile
1969
5.6
Jason Carlyle
Target: Harry
1969
🎬
0.0
Thingumybob
1968
4.5
Mr. Brown
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968
Credits
Journey into Fear
as Mr. Mathews
1975
5.6
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Poole der Butler
1973
5.9
Up the Front
as The Great Vincento
1972
4.2
Flight of the Doves
as Judge Liffy
1971
5.8
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
as Gravedigger
1970
6.8
🎬
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
as Mr. Vuffin
1970
0.0
Run a Crooked Mile
as Caretaker
1969
8.0
Target: Harry
as Jason Carlyle
1969
5.6
🎬
Thingumybob
1968
0.0
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
as Mr. Brown
1968
4.5
🎬
Blandings Castle
as Beach
1967
0.0
🎬
The World of Wodehouse
as Beach
1967
0.0
The Sandwich Man
as Park Gardener
1966
6.1
The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
as Self
1966
0.0
Ten Little Indians
as Det. William Henry Blore
1965
6.2
In Harm's Way
as Clayton Canfil
1965
6.6
My Fair Lady
as Alfred P. Doolittle
1964
7.5
The Fantasticks
as Amos Babcock Bellamy
1964
6.0
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
6.3
🎬
Our Man Higgins
1962
6.0
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
as Self / Alfred P. Doolittle
1962
0.0
The Third Sam
as Narrator
1962
0.0
On the Fiddle
as Mr. Cooksley
1961
5.3
🎬
The Lion and Albert
1961
0.0
No Love for Johnnie
as Fred Andrews
1961
6.2
🎬
Hello London
as himself
1960
5.0
🎬
An Arabian Night
1960
0.0
The Mikado
as Pooh-Bah
1960
0.0
Alive and Kicking
as MacDonagh
1959
6.9
No Trees in the Street
as Kipper
1959
5.8
The Bell Telephone Hour
as Pooh-Bah
1959
7.3
The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self
1959
7.3
DuPont Show of the Month
as Self
1957
6.8
Lancashire Coast
1957
7.0
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer
1956
5.9
Jumping for Joy
as Captain Jack Montague
1956
6.5
An Alligator Named Daisy
as The General
1955
6.2
Fast and Loose
as Major George Crabb
1954
6.3
Meet Mr. Lucifer
as Sam Hollingsworth / Mr Lucifer
1953
5.1
A Day to Remember
as Charley Porter
1953
6.9
The Beggar's Opera
as Mr. Lockit
1953
4.1
The Titfield Thunderbolt
as Walter Valentine
1953
7.0
Meet Me Tonight
as Henry Gow
1952
6.7
The Happy Family
as Henry Lord
1952
7.2
The Magic Box
as Broker's Man
1952
6.4
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Bellomy
1951
8.6
Lady Godiva Rides Again
as Thomas Clark
1951
5.8
The Lavender Hill Mob
as Albert Pendlebury
1951
7.2
One Wild Oat
as Alfred Gilbey
1951
4.5
🎬
Midnight Episode
1950
0.0
Passport to Pimlico
as Arthur Pemberton
1949
6.9
The Perfect Woman
as Ramshead
1949
6.0
Hamlet
as Gravedigger
1948
7.4
Another Shore
as Alastair McNeil
1948
5.5
Noose
as Inspector Rendall
1948
5.1
The Winslow Boy
as Comico
1948
6.9
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
One Night with You
as Tramp
1948
6.5
Snowbound
as Joe Wesson
1948
5.9
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
as Vincent Crummles
1947
6.5
Meet Me at Dawn
as Emile Pollet
1947
7.0
The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle
as Narrator
1947
0.0
Carnival
as Charlie Raeburn
1946
7.6
Wanted for Murder
as Sergeant Sullivan
1946
6.4
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Belzanor
1945
6.2
Brief Encounter
as Albert Godby
1945
7.7
The Way to the Stars
as Mr. Palmer
1945
6.0
Champagne Charlie
as The Great Vance
1944
5.6
The Way Ahead
as Pvt. Ted Brewer
1944
6.5
This Happy Breed
as Bob Mitchell
1944
7.2
Salute John Citizen
1942
0.0
Major Barbara
as Policeman
1941
6.7
Albert's Savings
as Himself
1940
0.0
Co-operette
1938
0.0
🎬
Gunner Sam
as Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
1937
0.0
Cotton Queen
as Sam Owen
1937
5.3
🎬
The Vicar of Bray
as The Vicar of Bray
1937
5.5
🎬
Three Ha'pence a Foot
as Narrator / Sam Small / Noah (voice)
1937
0.0
🎬
The Lion and Albert
as Narrator (voice)
1937
0.0
🎬
Halt, Who Goes There?
as Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
1936
0.0
🎬
Sam's Medal
1936
0.0
🎬
Beat the Retreat
as Narrator / Sam Small / Napoleon Bonaparte (voice)
1936
0.0
Play Up the Band
as Sam Small
1935
6.0
D’Ye Ken John Peel?
as Sam Small
1935
5.5
Squibs
as Constable Charley Lee
1935
4.6
🎬
Drummed Out
as Narrator / Sam Small / Colonel / Colonel's Daughter (voice)
1935
0.0
🎬
In Town Tonight
as Himself
1935
0.0
🎬
Sam and His Musket
as Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
1935
0.0
🎬
Road House
as Donovan
1934
5.5
Sing As We Go
as Policeman
1934
5.7
Love at Second Sight
1934
0.0
🎬
Lily of Killarney
as Father O'Flynn
1934
4.0
The Girl from Maxim's
as Dr Mongincourt
1933
0.0
Sleeping Car
as Francois
1933
4.0
🎬
The Co-Optimists
1929
0.0