Cast & creator
Stanley Holloway
Best known for Tony Awards, Tonight Starring Jack Paar, The Ed Sullivan Show
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.
Also known as: Stanley Augustus Holloway , Stanley Augustus Holloway OBE
86
film credits
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television credits
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1929–1975 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (99)
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Tony Awards
Self - Performer
1956
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
1957
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
The Danny Kaye Show
Self
1963
The Bell Telephone Hour
Pooh-Bah
1959The Bell Telephone Hour
Self
1959
DuPont Show of the Month
Self
1957
Brief Encounter
Albert Godby
1945
My Fair Lady
Alfred P. Doolittle
1964
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Bellomy
1951The World of Wodehouse
Beach
1967
Armchair Theatre
Norman Dodd
1956
In Harm's Way
Clayton Canfil
1965
Our Man Higgins
1962
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Gravedigger
1970
Hamlet
Gravedigger
1948
Caesar and Cleopatra
Belzanor
1945
The Lavender Hill Mob
Albert Pendlebury
1951Blandings Castle
Beach
1967
This Happy Breed
Bob Mitchell
1944
Ten Little Indians
Det. William Henry Blore
1965
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Thomas Clark
1951
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Vincent Crummles
1947
On the Fiddle
Mr. Cooksley
1961
Passport to Pimlico
Arthur Pemberton
1949
A Day to Remember
Charley Porter
1953
The Winslow Boy
Comico
1948
The Titfield Thunderbolt
Walter Valentine
1953
No Love for Johnnie
Fred Andrews
1961Hello London
himself
1960
An Alligator Named Daisy
The General
1955
The Way to the Stars
Mr. Palmer
1945
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Mr. Brown
1968
No Trees in the Street
Kipper
1959
The Sandwich Man
Park Gardener
1966
Run a Crooked Mile
Caretaker
1969
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Mr. Vuffin
1970
Journey into Fear
Mr. Mathews
1975
Meet Me at Dawn
Emile Pollet
1947Gunner Sam
Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
1937
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Poole der Butler
1973
Flight of the Doves
Judge Liffy
1971
The Magic Box
Broker's Man
1952
The Way Ahead
Pvt. Ted Brewer
1944
The Beggar's Opera
Mr. Lockit
1953
Sing As We Go
Policeman
1934
Meet Mr. Lucifer
Sam Hollingsworth / Mr. Lucifer
1953
An Arabian Night
Ibrahim
1960
One Night with You
Tramp
1948
Alive and Kicking
MacDonagh
1959
Meet Me Tonight
Henry Gow
1952
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
Self / Alfred P. Doolittle
1962
Major Barbara
Policeman
1941
Target: Harry
Jason Carlyle
1969The Vicar of Bray
The Vicar of Bray
1937
Champagne Charlie
The Great Vance
1944
Up the Front
The Great Vincento
1972
The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
Self
1966Drummed Out
Narrator / Sam Small / Colonel / Colonel's Daughter (voice)
1935
Wanted for Murder
Sergeant Sullivan
1946
The Girl from Maxim's
Dr Mongincourt
1933
One Wild Oat
Alfred Gilbey
1951
D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Sam Small
1935
Play Up the Band
Sam Small
1935
The Perfect Woman
Ramshead
1949Halt, Who Goes There?
Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
1936Halt, Who Goes There?
Writer
1936Thingumybob
1968
The Happy Family
Henry Lord
1952Beat the Retreat
Narrator / Sam Small / Napoleon Bonaparte (voice)
1936Love at Second Sight
1934
Midnight Episode
1950
Snowbound
Joe Wesson
1948Sam and His Musket
Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
1935Sam and His Musket
Writer
1935The Lion and Albert
Narrator (voice)
1937
Cotton Queen
Sam Owen
1937
The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle
Narrator
1947
Albert's Savings
Himself
1940
Sleeping Car
Francois
1933
Fast and Loose
Major George Crabb
1954
Jumping for Joy
Captain Jack Montague
1956The Lion and Albert
1961
Noose
Inspector Rendall
1948Sam's Medal
1936
Another Shore
Alastair McNeil
1948In Town Tonight
Himself
1935
Carnival
Charlie Raeburn
1946
The Fantasticks
Amos Babcock Bellamy
1964
The Mikado
Pooh-Bah
1960Road House
Donovan
1934Three Ha'pence a Foot
Narrator / Sam Small / Noah (voice)
1937
Squibs
Constable Charley Lee
1935
Lancashire Coast
1957
Salute John Citizen
1942Lily of Killarney
Father O'Flynn
1934
The Third Sam
Narrator
1962