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Stanley Holloway
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British actor, singer and comedian (1890–1982)
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Manor Park, London, England, UK
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.…
Known for
- Journey into Fear — Mr. Mathews1975
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Poole der Butler1973
- Up the Front — The Great Vincento1972
- Flight of the Doves — Judge Liffy1971
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes — Gravedigger1970
- The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens — Mr. Vuffin1970
- Target: Harry — Jason Carlyle1969
- Run a Crooked Mile — Caretaker1969
- Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter — Mr. Brown1968
- Thingumybob1968
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Augustus
- Family name
- Holloway
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Littlehampton
- Child
- Julian Holloway
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Conflict
- World War I
- Military branch
- infantry
- Image
- Stanley Holloway.jpg
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- Commons category
- Stanley Holloway
- date of birth
- 1890-10-01
- date of death
- 1982-01-30
- cause of death
- stroke
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Stanley Holloway
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Encyclopedic overview
Holloway in 1974 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.
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