About
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...
Known for
The Bell Telephone HourSeries • 1959
My Fair LadyMovie • 1964
Brief EncounterMovie • 1945
In Harm's WayMovie • 1965
The Private Life of Sherlock HolmesMovie • 1970
Caesar and CleopatraMovie • 1945
HamletMovie • 1948
The Lavender Hill MobMovie • 1951
Passport to PimlicoMovie • 1949
This Happy BreedMovie • 1944
The Titfield ThunderboltMovie • 1953
Ten Little IndiansMovie • 1965
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas NicklebyMovie • 1947
The Way AheadMovie • 1944
The Winslow BoyMovie • 1948
The Magic BoxMovie • 1952
Major BarbaraMovie • 1941
The Way to the StarsMovie • 1945
Wanted for MurderMovie • 1946