8.0
8.0
Run a Crooked Mile
1969
as Caretaker
Stanley Holloway
Acting
N/A
CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
Stanley Augustus Holloway (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English actor, comedian, singer 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 comic monologues and songs, which he performed and recorded throughout most of his 70-year career. Born in Essex, Holloway pursued a career as a clerk in his teen years. He made early stage appearances before infantry service in the First World War, after which he had his first major theatre success starring in Kissing Time when the musical transferred to the West End from Broadway. In 1921, he joined a concert party, The Co-Optimists, and his career began to flourish. At first, he was employed chiefly 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, and Holloway developed a following for the recordings of his many monologues. By the 1930s, he was in demand to star in variety, pantomime and musical comedy, including several revues. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Holloway made short propaganda films on behalf of the British Film Institute and Pathé News and took character parts in a series of films including Major Barbara, The Way Ahead, This Happy Breed and The Way to the Stars. In the decade after the war, he appeared in the film Brief Encounter and made a series of films for Ealing Studios, including Passport to Pimlico, The Lavender Hill Mob and The Titfield Thunderbolt. In 1956 he was cast as the irresponsible and irrepressible Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady, a role that he played on Broadway, the West End and in the film version in 1964.
Filmography (82 movies)
7.7
7.7
Brief Encounter
1945
as Albert Godby
7.6
7.6
Carnival
1946
as Charlie Raeburn
7.5
7.5
My Fair Lady
1964
as Alfred P. Doolittle
7.4
7.4
Hamlet
1948
as Gravedigger
7.2
7.2
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
as Albert Pendlebury
7.2
7.2
The Happy Family
1952
as Henry Lord
7.2
7.2
This Happy Breed
1944
as Bob Mitchell
7.0
7.0
Meet Me at Dawn
1947
as Emile Pollet
7.0
7.0
Lancashire Coast
1957
7.0
7.0
The Titfield Thunderbolt
1953
as Walter Valentine
6.9
6.9
A Day to Remember
1953
as Charley Porter
6.9
6.9
The Winslow Boy
1948
as Comico
6.9
6.9
Passport to Pimlico
1949
as Arthur Pemberton
6.9
6.9
Alive and Kicking
1959
as MacDonagh
6.8
6.8
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970
as Gravedigger
6.7
6.7
Major Barbara
1941
as Policeman
6.7
6.7
Meet Me Tonight
1952
as Henry Gow
6.6
6.6
In Harm's Way
1965
as Clayton Canfil
6.5
6.5
The Way Ahead
1944
as Pvt. Ted Brewer
6.5
6.5
One Night with You
1948
as Tramp
6.5
6.5
Jumping for Joy
1956
as Captain Jack Montague
6.5
6.5
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1947
as Vincent Crummles
6.4
6.4
Wanted for Murder
1946
as Sergeant Sullivan
6.3
6.3
Fast and Loose
1954
as Major George Crabb
6.2
6.2
Ten Little Indians
1965
as Det. William Henry Blore
6.2
6.2
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
as Belzanor
6.2
6.2
No Love for Johnnie
1961
as Fred Andrews
6.2
6.2
An Alligator Named Daisy
1955
as The General
6.1
6.1
The Sandwich Man
1966
as Park Gardener
6.0
6.0
The Way to the Stars
1945
as Mr. Palmer
6.0
6.0
The Fantasticks
1964
as Amos Babcock Bellamy
6.0
6.0
The Perfect Woman
1949
as Ramshead
6.0
6.0
Play Up the Band
1935
as Sam Small
5.9
5.9
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1973
as Poole der Butler
5.9
5.9
Snowbound
1948
as Joe Wesson
5.8
5.8
Flight of the Doves
1971
as Judge Liffy
5.8
5.8
No Trees in the Street
1959
as Kipper
5.8
5.8
Lady Godiva Rides Again
1951
as Thomas Clark
5.7
5.7
Sing As We Go
1934
as Policeman
5.6
5.6
Journey into Fear
1975
as Mr. Mathews
5.6
5.6
Champagne Charlie
1944
as The Great Vance
5.6
5.6
Target: Harry
1969
as Jason Carlyle
5.5
5.5
D’Ye Ken John Peel?
1935
as Sam Small
5.5
5.5
Another Shore
1948
as Alastair McNeil
5.5
5.5
The Vicar of Bray
1937
as The Vicar of Bray
5.5
5.5
Road House
1934
as Donovan
5.3
5.3
On the Fiddle
1961
as Mr. Cooksley
5.3
5.3
Cotton Queen
1937
as Sam Owen
5.1
5.1
Meet Mr. Lucifer
1953
as Sam Hollingsworth / Mr Lucifer
5.0
5.0
Hello London
1960
as himself
4.8
4.8
Noose
1948
as Inspector Rendall
4.6
4.6
Squibs
1935
as Constable Charley Lee
4.5
4.5
One Wild Oat
1951
as Alfred Gilbey
4.5
4.5
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968
as Mr. Brown
4.2
4.2
Up the Front
1972
as The Great Vincento
4.1
4.1
The Beggar's Opera
1953
as Mr. Lockit
4.0
4.0
Sleeping Car
1933
as Francois
4.0
4.0
Lily of Killarney
1934
as Father O'Flynn
The Girl from Maxim's
1933
as Dr Mongincourt
Midnight Episode
1950
Salute John Citizen
1942
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
1962
as Self / Alfred P. Doolittle
The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
1966
as Self
The Mikado
1960
as Pooh-Bah
Sam's Medal
1936
Albert's Savings
1940
as Himself
An Arabian Night
1960
Sam and His Musket
1935
Writer
Drummed Out
1935
as Narrator / Sam Small / Colonel / Colonel's Daughter (voice)
Halt, Who Goes There?
1936
Writer
Beat the Retreat
1936
as Narrator / Sam Small / Napoleon Bonaparte (voice)
The Lion and Albert
1937
as Narrator (voice)
Three Ha'pence a Foot
1937
as Narrator / Sam Small / Noah (voice)
Gunner Sam
1937
as Narrator / Sam Small (voice)
Co-operette
1938
Love at Second Sight
1934
The Third Sam
1962
as Narrator
The Lion and Albert
1961
In Town Tonight
1935
as Himself
The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle
1947
as Narrator
The Co-Optimists
1929
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