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