
Stanley Holloway
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.
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Acting (66 movies)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1973

Brief Encounter
1945

Ten Little Indians
1965

Passport to Pimlico
1949

My Fair Lady
1964

Hamlet
1948

The Titfield Thunderbolt
1953

The Lavender Hill Mob
1951

The Way Ahead
1944

The Way to the Stars
1945

Champagne Charlie
1944

Up the Front
1972

One Wild Oat
1951

Noose
1948

Wanted for Murder
1946

This Happy Breed
1944

The Magic Box
1952

Flight of the Doves
1971

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1947

Target: Harry
1969

The Winslow Boy
1948

The Perfect Woman
1949

Snowbound
1948

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968

Fast and Loose
1954

On the Fiddle
1961

Journey into Fear
1975

Another Shore
1948

Meet Mr. Lucifer
1953

No Love for Johnnie
1961

Play Up the Band
1935

A Day to Remember
1953

An Alligator Named Daisy
1955

Alive and Kicking
1959

One Night with You
1948

Carnival
1946

No Trees in the Street
1959

Cotton Queen
1937

The Happy Family
1952

Run a Crooked Mile
1969

Squibs
1935

The Third Sam
1962

Co-operette
1938

Lady Godiva Rides Again
1951

The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle
1947

The Fantasticks
1964

Love at Second Sight
1934

The Girl from Maxim's
1933

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970

The Beggar's Opera
1953

Major Barbara
1941

Jumping for Joy
1956

The Sandwich Man
1966

Meet Me at Dawn
1947

Salute John Citizen
1942

Meet Me Tonight
1952

The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
1966

The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
1962

Sleeping Car
1933

Caesar and Cleopatra
1945

In Harm's Way
1965

Albert's Savings
1940

D’Ye Ken John Peel?
1935

Lancashire Coast
1957

Sing As We Go
1934

The Mikado
1960
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Sam and His Musket | 1935 | Writer |
| Halt, Who Goes There? | 1936 | Writer |