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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stanley Holloway, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
96 acting credits
Acting · 96
Tony Awards
1956
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
My Fair Lady
1964
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
In Harm's Way
1965
The World of Wodehouse
1967
Armchair Theatre
1956
Brief Encounter
1945
Hamlet
1948
The Way Ahead
1944
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970
This Happy Breed
1944
Major Barbara
1941
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1947
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
The Titfield Thunderbolt
1953
Blandings Castle
1967
Our Man Higgins
1962
Journey into Fear
1975
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
Ten Little Indians
1965
An Alligator Named Daisy
1955
Passport to Pimlico
1949
Lady Godiva Rides Again
1951
No Trees in the Street
1959
The Magic Box
1952
Carnival
1946
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968
The Way to the Stars
1945
Alive and Kicking
1959
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1970
The Winslow Boy
1948
On the Fiddle
1961
The Sandwich Man
1966
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1973
Run a Crooked Mile
1969
No Love for Johnnie
1961
Target: Harry
1969
The Beggar's Opera
1953
A Day to Remember
1953
Noose
1948
Cotton Queen
1937
Meet Mr. Lucifer
1953
Wanted for Murder
1946
Jumping for Joy
1956
Champagne Charlie
1944
Flight of the Doves
1971
One Wild Oat
1951
The Perfect Woman
1949
Sleeping Car
1933
The Happy Family
1952
Meet Me Tonight
1952
The Fantasticks
1964
Thingumybob
1968
Fast and Loose
1954
Hello London
1960
Meet Me at Dawn
1947
Up the Front
1972
Road House
1934
The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
1966
D’Ye Ken John Peel?
1935
Midnight Episode
1950
Snowbound
1948
One Night with You
1948
Lancashire Coast
1957
The Co-Optimists
1929
Another Shore
1948
Sing As We Go
1934
Squibs
1935
The Girl from Maxim's
1933
Albert's Savings
1940
Co-operette
1938
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
1962
Play Up the Band
1935
Love at Second Sight
1934
The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle
1947
The Vicar of Bray
1937
Salute John Citizen
1942
Three Ha'pence a Foot
1937
Lily of Killarney
1934
The Mikado
1960
An Arabian Night
1960
Beat the Retreat
1936
Gunner Sam
1937
Sam's Medal
1936
The Lion and Albert
1937
Sam and His Musket
1935
Drummed Out
1935
In Town Tonight
1935
Halt, Who Goes There?
1936
The Third Sam
1962
The Lion and Albert
1961