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Stanley Holloway
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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 chara…
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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.
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1975
Journey into Fear
Movie Mr. Mathews
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1973
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie Poole der Butler
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1972
Up the Front
Movie The Great Vincento
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1971
Flight of the Doves
Movie Judge Liffy
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1970
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Movie Gravedigger
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1970
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Movie Mr. Vuffin
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1969
Run a Crooked Mile
Movie Caretaker
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1969
Target: Harry
Movie Jason Carlyle
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1968
Thingumybob
TV show
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1968
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Movie Mr. Brown
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1967
The World of Wodehouse
TV show Beach
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1967
Blandings Castle
TV show Beach
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1966
The Sandwich Man
Movie Park Gardener
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1966
The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
Movie Self
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1965
Ten Little Indians
Movie Det. William Henry Blore
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1965
In Harm's Way
Movie Clayton Canfil
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1964
My Fair Lady
Movie Alfred P. Doolittle
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1964
The Fantasticks
Movie Amos Babcock Bellamy
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1963
The Danny Kaye Show
TV show Self
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1962
Our Man Higgins
TV show
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1962
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
Movie Self / Alfred P. Doolittle
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1962
The Third Sam
Movie Narrator
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1961
On the Fiddle
Movie Mr. Cooksley
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1961
The Lion and Albert
Movie
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1961
No Love for Johnnie
Movie Fred Andrews
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1960
Hello London
Movie himself
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1960
An Arabian Night
Movie Ibrahim
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1960
The Mikado
Movie Pooh-Bah
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1959
Alive and Kicking
Movie MacDonagh
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1959
No Trees in the Street
Movie Kipper
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1959
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV show Pooh-Bah
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1957
DuPont Show of the Month
TV show Self
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1957
Lancashire Coast
Movie
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1957
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV show Self
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1956
Armchair Theatre
TV show Norman Dodd
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1956
Tony Awards
TV show Self - Performer
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1956
Jumping for Joy
Movie Captain Jack Montague
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1955
An Alligator Named Daisy
Movie The General
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1954
Fast and Loose
Movie Major George Crabb
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1953
Meet Mr. Lucifer
Movie Sam Hollingsworth / Mr. Lucifer
